CHAPTER 37
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Omega, after a long and arduous struggle, had managed to turn a star a couple of light years away into a singularity without any trouble. He then quickly and successfully created a new Eye of Harmony and placed it back under the Panopticon where the old one had been. The quantum forcefield and the transduction barrier were now both back up again giving them protection against their enemies.
He had done the job completely and successfully without any problems. Well, there was one problem.
He wouldn't shut up about it! He just kept talking about it over and over and over again! He just kept bragging about it on and on until Rose almost wanted to drop him back into the Antimatter Universe again.
"I can see why Rassilon tried to kill him!" Rose muttered to herself during another bout of Omega's boasting.
"Yes, good friends, the Eye of Harmony is restored once more! Only I could have done it! Only the great and mighty Omega would have had the skill and the knowledge to do such a thing properly! Even The White Guardian herself told me as much!" Omega shouted at the top of his lungs for the hundredth time that day.
Rose rolled her eyes and began to rub her throbbing head. She needed some aspirin. Unfortunately, that would kill her now since she was a Time Lady. She considered taking some anyway. She would do anything to keep from listening to that man for one more second.
Omega was still yelling away.
"I, Omega, deserve to be placed at the top of the list of Gallifrey's greatest heroes. In fact, I should be worshipped as a god! All lesser beings should bow down and admire the magnificence that is Omega! Entire galaxies should be named after me and sing praises to my brilliance! You will all tell stories to your grandchildren one day of the day that you were there when great and powerful Omega brought about the Golden Age of the universe!" Omega continued to rant.
Rose wanted so very badly to disintegrate the man! So, so badly!
The Doctor was actually laughing at the homicidal expression on her face.
He thinks that this is hilarious, huh? Rose thought. Let's see how funny he finds it later when I ask the TARDIS to hide all of his fish fingers and custard and only leave apples, bacon, and beans in the refrigerator!
The Doctor's face fell quickly as his smile morphed into a look of sheer terror. He had heard her thoughts just like she knew that he would.
You wouldn't actually do that, would you? He asked her telepathically, almost shaking in fear.
She almost laughed out loud, but she kept up her angry appearance just to mess for him.
Not if you get rid of him for me. Please! I don't care how you do it, just do it! I'll do anything if you do! Rose almost shouted into his mind.
Anything? The Doctor asked with a raised eyebrow and a creepy smile on his face.
Hello, Jack! Have you seen my husband? I was just talking to him a second ago. Where could he have gone off to? Rose thought with a grin.
Don't worry. I'll get rid of him somehow The Doctor thought.
"Hey, Omega! You know what would build your legend even more? If you go on and perform other great deeds for your chroniclers to record, that will help to spread your legend even further. You owe it to all of your soon to be legions of fans to have as many stories as possible for them to listen to and venerate," The Doctor said.
Omega seemed to have a revelation at his words, and said, "Yes! You're right. I must have as many new inventions and accomplishments to my name as possible for my followers to worship me over. I owe to the future! The future!"
The windbag of a Time Lord then ran off to his newly acquired lab and began to write down idea after idea as he thought up ways to increase the Time Lords' technology and power.
The Doctor smiled in triumph, and Rose gave him a quick kiss to thank him.
"I'll do a lot more than that later," She told him with a wink as he blushed.
It was just when Rose's head seemed almost back to normal again that Jenny entered the room and began to loudly tell her about how great a day she had had.
Rose had to restrain herself with all of her willpower to keep from yelling at her to stop talking so loudly. Jenny wouldn't realize that it really wasn't directed at her, and she didn't want to hurt her feelings.
"Sweetheart, your poor old mum has a very bad headache right now so could you please tone your voice down a couple of notches?" Rose said as nicely as she could. Her voice still had an element of anger and irritation in it though that she winced at.
Jenny seemed to know that her mother's anger wasn't directed at her, though. She looked at her with a sympathetic expression on her face as she asked, "Omega, again?"
"Yes! That man is driving me crazy!" Rose exclaimed as she sighed in relief that Jenny hadn't taken her tone to heart. She didn't want to be one of those mothers that yelled a lot at her daughter.
"Do you want me to shoot him?" Jenny asked with a grin.
"Don't even joke about it!" The Doctor said severely.
Jenny just laughed as Rose leaned over to her conspiratorially and whispered, "We'll talk more about it later."
The two Time Ladies both giggled at that as The Doctor, having heard Rose, suppressed a smile.
Romana came into the room, and asked Rose, "Susan said that you wanted to ask me something?"
"Yes. I wanted to offer you a job," Rose said.
The Doctor looked at her blankly. She hadn't told him about this. As he looked at her face though, he could tell that this was one of the times that she was keeping a secret from everyone until she could blurt it out in some dramatic reveal. She was so much like him sometimes it was scary.
"What job?" Romana asked.
"How would you like to be Lord President again? The Doctor told me that you made a good one and from what I've seen of you I believe it. We need leadership like yours in order to rebuild Gallifrey and make it a universal power again," Rose said earnestly.
"My reign did end rather badly thanks to Rassilon overthrowing me. I would love to make up for that. It would be nice to have a second chance. Yes, I'll do it," Romana said.
Rose smiled at that. That was what all of this had been about since she first became The White Guardian. A second chance! Everyone who deserved one would get one if she had her way.
"Great! Now I know that things will be in good hands," Rose said.
"A brilliant idea! Romana was one of the best Presidents that we ever had. She's just who we need to start things up all over again," The Doctor agreed.
"We also need something else. We need Time Lords. Thankfully though someone took care of that one for us already," Rose said mysteriously.
"What are you talking about?" The Doctor asked. Rose just kept pulling out the surprises today.
"The Biodata Archive and the Matrix were both copied and saved by your brother, Doctor," Rose said.
"What?!" Both The Doctor and Romana shouted at her at once.
"Your brother, Braxiatel, stored a copy of the Biodata Extract of every Time Lord and the Matrix in a safe and secure place outside of Gallifrey just before the Time War. He knew that there was a possibility that the Time Lords might lose so he wanted there to be a way to bring them all back," Rose said.
"What is the Biodata Extract and the Matrix?" Jenny asked her.
"Biodata is a Time Lord's temporal DNA. It stores all of their history and timelines for each of their incarnations. A Biodata Extract used to be kept for every living and dead Time Lord here in the capital. The ones for the dead Time Lords were kept in the Matrix, a computer that stored all of their knowledge in a large database and was used to learn the past and predict the future. It contained most of the knowledge and secrets of the Time Lords. If we find both of them, then we can bring them all back and have all of the old wisdom of Gallifrey returned to us!" Rose said with a grin to grin smile.
The Doctor reeled from this revelation. They could all come back! The Time War could be undone!
Rose was so happy for him because she knew the guilt that he had carried all of these years because of the Time Lords all having died.
"Where are these copies?" Romana asked.
Rose's smile dimmed somewhat at that.
"That's the hard part of all of this. The copies used to be in a safe place but they aren't any more," Rose admitted.
"I knew it! There's always a complication," The Doctor said with a downcast face.
"So where are they?" Romana asked again.
"They're on Skaro!" Rose said as her face turned deadly serious.
Next: The fledgling Time Lords launch a daring mission to rescue the Biodata Archive and the Matrix from the heart of the Dalek Empire. Plus Davros! I had to put him in sooner or later.