"We'll do it!" shouted the Doctor with the bowl cut as the three Doctors surrounded the Dalek, threatening it with Matt.

Matt stood near the Dalek as he leaned forward, mucus running down his nose.

He's thankful his mum didn't see him do this, she'd whack him upside his head for doing it, even if it's for the good of humanity.

"Cease!" screeched the Dalek as it couldn't escape the Doctors as they surrounded it.

"You know how to stop this," the Doctor with the cape told it.

The Dalek refused to tell them where the others were and Matt felt another sneeze coming, his nose twitching.

The Dalek shrieked as Matt sneezed loudly.

He tried to cover his mouth but his spit sprayed the Dalek's eye stock and recoiled as he held up a tissue to his nose.

"I suggest you start talking, Dalek, else I'll play every rendition of Bach I can think of with my flute," threatened the Doctor with the bowl cut.

The Doctor with the cape leaned on the threat by saying, "He'll do it, he's crazy!"

Bullying a Dalek to tell them where the others' were wasn't something Matt thought would've happened to him, but yet, here he was, and he's just as confused as anyone else.

All he wanted to do was return Starlight and go back to his flat before Ripley got back. Judging from the fact the two Doctors forced him to help them with this, Ripley's returning to an empty flat or a flat with only Jodie and no Matt.

All he knew from this, he'll be in trouble with Ripley, and if he knew her, she'll forcibly cuff him to his bed.

Well, that wouldn't bother him so much…

No, no, Ripley won't make it out as fun and punish him for breaking his promise.

"I will not heed!" the Dalek shrieked in agony as the Doctor with the bowl cut started playing his flute directly near the Dalek's robotic shell, causing it pain.

The three Doctors continued to bully the Dalek until Matt did something that irrefutably broke the Dalek.

Let's just say he did what any man would in a situation where he's faced with a stubborn alien that wouldn't tell him what he needed to know.

"Ex-terminate me!" the Dalek begged as it felt utterly disgusted by what Matt did.

Even the two Doctors looked at him questionably and he reminded the men that they wanted answers and he got them their answers.

Forcibly, the Doctors got the Dalek to talk and it told the men exactly where the other Daleks were. Sobbingly, the Dalek begged for extermination, as it not only betrayed the others, Matt covered it's eye socket with mucus!

With the valuable information, the three Doctors left the Dalek to sob for extermination as they went to speak with the Brigadier and there, Matt learned what UNIT was and what it meant for him as the Doctor.

"Are you positive?" Brigadier Tom Basil looked between the men with his hazel eyes.

Nodding, the Doctor with the bowl cut stated that they found where the other Dalek hid and that he and the other Doctors intend on chasing them off for good.

"Yes, and we'll need you to put some pressure on them," the Doctor with the cape mentioned that they needed to push against the Dalek as the Doctors worked to undermine the invasion.

The Brigadier looked at them wearily as the two Doctors told him that he needed to send his men to the front line while the Doctors snuck in the Dalek's defenses through the back.

"But Doctor, they've must've had fifty thousand soldiers, we don't have that many men!" Tom protested at the plan.

The Doctor with the bowl cut stressed that they needed Tom's army to push against the Daleks so they didn't see the Doctors coming. It's a risk, but they couldn't simply "walk in through the door."

"What if your plan doesn't work?" Tom brought up as he crossed his green army sleeved arms.

The Doctor with the cape explained that it's a plan and that's all they have. If they don't do something within a few hours, the compound's bound to overrun with Daleks, none too happy to see the Doctors.

Matt watched the scene unfold and as it ended, the Doctor with the bowl cut came up to him and asked him for his aid.

"I really don't know how good I am to you. I can barely breath through my nose and I'm not even sure what's in my throat," Matt insisted that he isn't fit for whatever plans the two Doctors had for the Daleks.

The Doctor with the bowl cut patted his shoulder and told him that he'll power through his cold. He's stuck here with them until this issue's resolved and none of the men were willing to risk leaving the UNIT compound until the Daleks were dealt with.

While it's unfair for Matt, the Doctor with the bowl cut stated that's the life of the Doctor.

Sick, depressed, angry, everything, won't stop the Doctor, and it can never stop the Doctor, because the universes at large, need their Doctors.

Even if Matt didn't feel capable, he's as capable as the two older Doctors, and that's good enough.

"How many of us are there?" Matt wanted to know more about the Doctors.

He watched the Doctor with the bowl cut frown as he sighed. He responded to Matt's question with sadness as he told Matt that he's not sure.

"Some of us either die, get lost, quit, or just lose hope," the Doctor with the bowl cut hesitated at the end as he felt the weight on him.

It's not an easy job and rather, it's a life, and that life's harsh with grim realities, with a chance that even if Matt did everything right, something or another ensured that it won't be as clean.

"Pompeii could blow and that's fine. Stop it and it's destroyed by the whims of man," the Doctor with the bowl cut heavily sighed as he told Matt the harsh realities of being the Doctor.

No matter what, events happen, whether they like it or not.

Even if it's illogical, heartless, and heartbreaking, it's the way of the universe's rules, and it's the Doctor's job to skirt around it, only if necessary.

"You can't change fate," the Doctor with the bowl cut told Matt. "Even if we'd like to."

It sounded like the Doctor with the bowl cut had something tragic happen to him in the past that he wanted to change, but evidently, he lost that fight, as expectant.

Matt frowned as he asked what'll happen to the TARDIS if something happened to him and his friends.

The Doctor with the bowl cut told him that the TARDIS will simply move on and find another.

"That's why we don't tell others our names, always act like we're one and the same, it makes them think we're eternal. It's the only thing keeping their hope alive," he summed.

Most of the Doctors have been human, maybe some were alien, but fleshy creatures who're subjected to the whims of time as anyone else.

However, there must always be a Doctor.

No matter creed, gender, race, whatever nonsense created by man, a Doctor is a Doctor, nothing more.

As for how many there are active, the Doctor with the bowl cut didn't know for certain, but they're doing their part and trying to cling on to whatever keeps them going.

Frustration's the normal feeling they'll feel and hopelessness a close second.

Deaths and deceit, the two major things the Doctors face, always and inevitably.

"The only thing I can say to you, my boy, is that regardless of how you may feel, even if they lose faith in you, you must never lose faith in them," the Doctor with the bowl cut stressed.

A Doctor without faith in humanity's doomed to commit sinful deeds that forever follow the others. As they're trying to keep the ideal alive, they're forced to assume the sinful deeds as their own, even if they had no part in it.

"Remember, my boy, for every mistake you make, we must carry on as if it were our own," the Doctor with the bowl cut's voice low at the end.

Matt quietly listened to him and when he finished, he frowned as he rubbed his nose with a tissue.

The life of a Doctor wasn't as glamorous as some Doctors might make it. They're forced to do things that haunt them so, because history demanded it, and forcing its hand resulted in sins that the others were forced to carry.

"But I stress wholeheartedly, that even if it's a harsh sentence, you're doing good, and there's people you can count on to help you along the way," the Doctor with the bowl cut added.

Even if it's harsh, Matt had his friends, family, and he's doing good by helping people that he can. As small as saving a town from gunslingers to something big as world ending, Matt's garnering a reputation for himself.

The other Doctors'll pick up on his good and bad deeds and sprinkle them along during their own journeys. Even when he's dead, the next Doctor will talk about a deed he did years ago.

"Alright, enough chinwag, shall we take care of our little problem?" Matt heard the Doctor with the cape coming towards them as he yanked on his sleeves.

The Doctor with the bowl cut nodded and Matt gestured weakly.

Nodding, the Doctor with the cape walked with the two towards the exit door and opened it. He led them outside into a bayside area with seagulls flying above.

"An invisible force field, what do you think?" the Doctor with the cape looked between Matt and the Doctor with the bowl cut.

The Dalek didn't tell them much other than it's invisible to their scanners and that it's hidden away in a fashion nobody could've easily discover it.

When they found it, it'll be a matter of how to disarm it for the UNIT soldiers to take action. Without the other Daleks knowing it's them doing it and sending soldiers to get them.

"What's the one place nobody's looked?" Matt felt the mucus running down his throat and he coughed heavily towards the end of his sentence.

The two Doctors looked at each other before concluding that outside the sea, which the Daleks hated, they weren't particularly sure.

"Has to be somewhere," the Doctor with the cape scratched his chin.

The Doctor with the bowl cut pattered his fingers against his black flute as he pondered before suggesting they look at the obvious.

Sometimes the obvious place's the place nobody expected.

The three men walked, the Doctor with the cape easily towered Matt and Matt towered over the Doctor with the bowl cut.

Walking side by side, they walked towards a mountainous range nearby where any alien would've taken it over, even burrowing through the rocks, and noticed no invisible force field.

Matt felt like a billy goat climbing far up in the mountains with the other Doctors and they checked the crags, but there's none.

"Okay, now what?" Matt looked between the men.

The invisible force field isn't here, evidently, and there's no sign the Daleks came this way, so that'd mean they needed to keep looking.

The Doctor with the bowl cut suggested they look for it in the fields of flowers further from the compound.

Walking down the side of the range, Matt dug his feet deep as he narrowly walked down, attempting to avoid breaking his ankle or worse.

As he came to the end and felt the grass crunching under his feet, he exhaled sharply, and the Doctors gestured for him to follow.

Following the men, Matt looked around, the skies blue and there's barely any cloud, warmth on the top of his head, and the breeze salty.

He didn't pay any attention and fell backwards after walking into something.

Staring up at the skies above, Matt saw both Doctors on opposite sides, looking down at him.

"Are you alright?" the Doctor with the bowl cut asked Matt.

Matt replied as he blinked, "I'm not sure, anymore."

Helping him up, the Doctor with the bowl cut helped pat him down, removing the dirt and grass from him.

Crossing his arms, the Doctor with the cape called to them.

Looking towards him, the two noticed, rather interestingly, remnants of mucus suspended in midair near a pond.

"Huh," Matt blinked.