Prologue
Hello all! This is a taster of my first crossover fanfic. If you like it, I will continue with the story...
Just so you know, this story features my own OC take on the Doctor as a future incarnation.
I hope you enjoy!
The Doctor slammed the TARDIS door, sealing himself within the protected confines of the spacecraft. A violent shaking nearly knocked him off his feet as he darted over to the control console and began activating a complex array of levers and buttons. An alarm began to beep on his monitor, warning of rising environmental temperatures and the disaster he had to yet escape from. He watched the time rotor begin to slowly pump up and down as that familiar warping noise signified a gradual lift off.
The Dalek's ship was on the verge of detonation just as the Doctor arrived back at the TARDIS. Their makeshift time vortex was deteriorating, and it was going to destroy their ship with it. It had been one of the toughest challenges the Doctor had faced. They had intended to use him as further fuel for their evolution experiments after they had caught him invading the ship. His Time Lord gift of regeneration offered the perfect power source they had been seeking for the prolonged durability of their kind. Their ambition had been to develop a new, highly advanced race of Dalek, unlike anything seen by any species in the universe. This time, they would be indestructible, unstoppable, too powerful against any foe to be overruled. Dalek DNA from the past and future promised a revolutionary combination once the process was tested and completed. This is why they had returned to Skaro recently; all that stolen Time Lord technology offered them the chance to construct their own isolated ruptures in time.
However, their development was something the Doctor vowed he would never allow to happen, even if it potentially cost him his life. In order to destroy their time breaches, he had reluctantly allowed himself to absorb all the built-up time energy within the core hub of their interlinked portals. After he had banished the summoned Daleks back into the time pockets they had opened, it had reversed every bit of progress the Daleks had made. And all the disrupted events from the opened areas of time had been restored to the correct progression. With their progress in ruins, the Doctor had decided to leave the newly ambitious Daleks to their deserved fate in the destruction of their ship. Only now, it threatened to destroy the Doctor as well due to the eventual combustion of a damaged time vortex. It was about to destroy the isolated craft.
During the defeat of the Daleks however, the Doctor had suffered the inevitable consequences. Similar to the fate his ninth incarnation had gone through during that past conflict with the Daleks when he and Rose Tyler had confronted the Dalek Emperor. The overload of time energy was once again killing off the cells in his body.
He had removed the TARDIS from the doomed ship just before it was obliterated. He watched the crippled craft grow smaller and smaller on his monitor. Suddenly, it erupted into a blinding ball of fire. Soon followed by a piercing explosion which sent an immensely powerful shockwave discharging out into space.
Even with the moderate distance that the TARDIS had gained, it still took a severe pummelling from the released energy. The discharge threw the Doctor to the floor when the TARDIS had also inadvertently overloaded its system with the additional time energy embedded in the explosion.
Sparks and balls of fire burst into the control room from all directions. The console also began to smoke as the effects of the sudden overload began to take its toll on the TARDIS. Soon the Doctor would lose complete control. He cursed as he fought to steady the stricken ship. Grabbing the console monitor, he studied the statistics of the TARDIS's engine. His heart sank when it informed him of the threat of a meltdown within the metaphysical power source; the engine core that enabled the ability to travel through time and physical reality. The Doctor knew the catastrophic outcome if the engine was allowed to overload. The engine would implode, and as a result, tear a hole directly through the space-time continuum. The released energy would begin to dissipate anything in its path: stars, planets, galaxies themselves…
He noticed a faint golden glow beginning to emit from the veins in his hands as he hurriedly programmed the TARDIS's emergency homing protocol. It would lock the TARDIS onto the nearest landing opportunity so that he could shut down the system and get the time vortex under control before the meltdown could worsen.
His eyesight was beginning to mist over just as he finished the programming sequence on the barely functional console. Stumbling backwards when an explosion of sparks momentarily blinded him, he gripped onto one of the surrounding guard rails and slid slowly to the floor. The console abruptly burst into flames. The Doctor watched the control room begin to fill with smoke as he felt his eyes begin to weigh down.
That familiar screechy warping sound was just audible when the Doctor finally gave in and blacked out...
There's the prologue complete! Tell me what you think in the reviews. But please go easy, I'm rather new to writing anything sci fi related...
Thanks :)