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Chapter 11 – Tragic new beginnings…

Some hours past but Rani had yet to emerge from her lab in her Tardis, assembling the clues that they had

David had followed her and her posse back to the Tardis where they let him inside and he marvelled at its splendid interior and said that they world they come from must be truly wondrous indeed, Rani when she had heard that she fell into a sorrowful silence. She was not relishing the idea of having to tell Susan what had happened to Gallifrey and the part she had played.

She and the Doctor both found out about the 'Ultimate Sanction', the plan to wipe out all reality to ascend to beings of pure consciousness. The way the war had been turning and the plan of the now mad Timelords had left them and a small group of still sane Timelords to come up with their own plan to save all of time, to lock the war in a time lock forever. She devised the plan and the means herself and taught them to the Doctor who at wars end had had no option to deploy them on his own. While she and he had escaped the rest of their allies had been trapped on Gallifrey and their faces haunted both her and the Doctor everyday

But with the new treatment and Susan there was hope that maybe the Timelords would be reborn as they were before, watchers and sometimes guardians of the universe

She had within a few hours decoded the note, it was made of a special paper made only in the Coastolo Islands and there were traces of ash from a volcano that was on the largest island Mildrosa. The islands were formed in the early part of the 22nd Century when a chain of underwater volcanoes erupted and formed a new group of islands in the Mediterranean. Due to their rocky state they had largely left alone as they were unfit for habitation. But after the invasion of the Daleks, a group of scientists using captured Dalek technology to create a viable eco system on the islands and started a community there.

But there were still places on the islands where humans did not venture like the peak of the volcano so it was the likely that it was the place.

Rani walked out of her lab with the single minded purpose, getting her granddaughter back; there was no emotion behind it, just the focus on that task. Her eyes gained a kind of fire, the eternal flame of cold hard power that only really old and powerful beings could attain, the intenseness of the gaze put others back a step as an instinctive fear from the core of their being gripped them.

When she came into the control room to meet her crew of Miles, Sally and Lucy, with David as their guest, they all saw the look in her eyes and tensed

Rani walked to the control console and set the coordinates

No-one said a word


Rani's Tardis soon landed seconds later and Rani pulled out a box from the draw on her console, she opened it and inside was five laser pistols

She took one at a time and tossed one to each of them, keeping the last for herself

"Right" she said presenting the pistol "The pistol has a stun and kill setting, the default setting is stun, if you need to change it flip the switch on the end of the barrel" she indicated the switch in question

"Now" Rani said before anyone could ask a question "Let's go get Susan"

She walked towards the door of her Tardis, the others following nervously in her wake


A cultist was meditating at the edge of Volcano ravine when he heard the sound of a great wind; he turned quickly to see what appeared to be a large rock form out of thin air. He stared at the rock for a few minutes before the entrance opened and white light beamed

He shielded his eyes from the strong light while a figure appeared, framed by the light

But before the cultist could make out any features of the figure, he felt something hit him in the chest, like a tennis ball hit him, before his mind exploded in a rush of sound and he fell into unconsciousness


An hour later the cultists were largely beaten, lying unconscious and bound all over the place. The few that remained were scattered but the cult leader was still uncounted for, and Susan

Rani had separated from her team and made her way to the edge of the top of the volcano. The volcano's lava was although hot was not showing any abnormal activate, staying in a relative state of dormancy but still could easily erupt

The Cult Leader was standing on the edge nearby with a bound and gagged figure at his feet. The short dark bob of hair and the pixie like looks which she could make out as she got closer, it was Susan alright

The Cult leader was about the kick Susan into the lava, Rani ran towards them and judged the distance, they were out of range of her pistol and there was not way she could reach them in time.


David had just reached the top of the lava pit edge and was much nearer to the leader, he saw the leader about to kick Susan into the pit and time seemed to stop as terror grabbed his soul

Moments flashed before his eyes, the way he and Susan had met, the adventures they had, the good times, the bad times, but always her smiling face filled him with sun light.

In that same second he began to move without thinking, running straight at the cult leader.

He tackled the masked man clad in his rich red and gold robes, sending them tumbling into the fiery pit, his thoughts as he fell were

'I love you my Susan'


Both Rani and Susan saw David tackle the cult leader and fall into the pit

Susan yelled "DAVID!" as she saw him fall; Rani ran up to her Granddaughter and pulled her into her arms and rocked her slowly as tears poured from Susan's eyes and from her came sounds of anguished cries

Susan felt like her heart had been ripped out and sobbed, the comforting arms around her rocked her gently and made soothing sounds

She stopped sobbing after ten minutes and looked up, the eyes told her exactly who it was

"Grandmother"


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