Fictions Mentioned: Doctor Who/Faction Paradox, A Certain Magical Index, The Works of Stephen Baxter, Star Trek, The SCP Foundation, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Episode 2 - Bedtime Story
OP Song
Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shoujo - YU-NO (Opening Full w/ Lyrics & Subtitles in English/Español)
Location:
Multiverse Cluster: Kamachi Verse
Universe: Toaru Verse
Flashforward:
Beginning:
It was in the darkness of the night, where a certain House was standing in which a certain family lived and where all of its inhabitants were sound asleep.
Well, all except one.
Young Touma Kamijou was in his bed while The Doctor, who was also awake at this point in time, began to tell him a certain story that concern a certain race from a certain red orange planet.
Yes, you all heard it right, the young child is being told by the man known as The Doctor a Bedtime Story which concerns His Own People.
Now you are all probably wondering to yourselves on why would The Doctor do that, you might asked, because considering The Doctor and his history with his people along with the guilt of The Time War and his secretive nature, you would think that he of all people would not just tell anyone just immediately about his very own past and His People even with a child, barring possible exceptions such as Martha Jones, and let's not get into the fact that young Touma Kamijou knows that The Doctor is not even human and not even from this universe.
But the main question you should all be asking right about now is this.
What the heck is The Doctor still doing in the Toaru Verse?
Well actually, it had been a few months to years now since the Kamijou family was saved by The Doctor, with The Doctor having to stay for these past few months to years as a lot of things have happened since then, and the bedtime story here in question is not a story about The Time War, but is something else entirely.
While The Doctor began to tucked Touma to sleep and with pleasant dreams, saying, "Good Night, Touma."
Before The Doctor leaves the bedroom, Touma begins to call out to him as he reaches the door.
"Doctor?"
The Time Lord with fatherly old eyes turn towards him and spoke with a paternal voice.
"Yes, Touma?"
Touma asked him with a curious expression that was on his face, a certain question that has been in his mind.
"Do you think that magic exists?"
The Doctor begins to blink at that Certain Question that was directed towards him while having a concerned expression that was on his face as he begins to ask.
"Why do you say that, Touma?"
The young Touma Kamijou answered in a low voice towards him.
"Well its just, knowing how my life has been going on all this time and with everything that has happened and on what I've seen and with actual aliens thrown into the mix of my misfortune, I thought that it might have something to do with it, and that when I thought about it, maybe, just maybe, anything and everything is possible."
The Doctor then showed a caring and understanding face considering everything that has happen in the past few months to years of his stay with The Kamijou Family as well as The Doctor's complete awareness of the young boy's misfortune due to having seen it first hand throughout his stay for many years and then began to say with good-natured humor and with care that was on his voice.
"Now that's a frighteningly mature amount of thought coming from someone your age, but I can assure you Touma that MAGICK had nothing to with it."
Touma couldn't helped but noticed the cautionary and deliberate tone when The Doctor began to say the word, MAGICK, not magic, as if it were completely different, as if it were a very forbidden and dangerous word to use, and it is because of this that he couldn't helped but feel a strange sense of unease because of the strange sensation of wonder and dread that he felt when the word MAGICK began to be said, and that was when he realized that this MAGICK felt far too different from that of the magical girl shows he has seen that comes out every weekend on TV, or anime in general, or if possible, maybe even magic itself, if it exists.
There was a story behind all of that and all because he couldn't helped but asked about himself and his situation. And the ancient beings that were locked inside The Imagine Breaker knew about that story as well and couldn't help but wince and shudder at the mention of the WORD, for everyone of The Higher Species, The Multiple Pantheons, and The Ancient Civilizations knew of it since The Days of Old and what untold power it has been and could have been wielded, were it to fall on the right hands and the wrong hands, to prosperous and devastating results.
It was then that young Touma Kamijou began to ask with a look that denotes curiosity and his growing desire to learn about this strange unease.
"What do you mean by MAGICK? Is there something different about it than regular magic?"
The Doctor smiled proudly and paternally due to the fact that the boy had noticed that little slip-up that he had made purposefully.
And it was right then and there that the man known as The Doctor began to tell him the story of Ages Past and began with these very words.
"Alright, Touma, Let me tell you a story."
Insert Song: Start
This Is Gallifrey: Our Childhood. Our Home
And as The Doctor began to look for a chair, found one and began to sit down as he placed the chair at the right side of the bed, while the young boy was in his bed, with his attentive ears trying to listen in as The Doctor begins his bedtime story that concerns the likes of which no one that has, can, and ever will know, for it was more than just a simple story, for it was the story, The Beginning of All of Creation, The Original Dark Times. And all because Young Touma Kamijou had just asked a simple question which sounds childish and foolish in hindsight but after everything that he had just seen for the past few months to years, he can be excused about these ridiculous thoughts and just had to know on what was egging on the back of his mind.
"Once upon a time… that's a good way to start the story. Once upon a time, Long before your time, before any time that you could measure, before any time that anyone can measure, before your universe or any other universe that may have come to be in the past, present, and future. There was The Old Dark Times, Where there were unicorns and bread-and-butterflies, planets like giant apples and suns like red balloons. A place of endless miracles, non? No harsh sciences here, no mundane little laws of physics, no guiding principles. NO RULES. There was just possibility. An infinity of possibility. But since no sentient life had yet evolved, there was no one to take notice on whether or not they were impossible or not, so no one really minded."
Then The Doctor began to utter the name of his species that was born in this Time of Chaos.
"And then came along The Time Lords of The Planet Gallifrey (Homeworld), The Shining World of The Seven Systems."
Touma begins to listen more attentively, partly as a result of a feeling of intimidation and intrigue at the mention of The Doctor's species as if you must pay attention to them at all times, and partly because of the unknown power and divinity that was somehow felt when their name and their homeworld was mentioned.
The ancient beings who were locked inside The Imagine Breaker began to tremble and cower in fear at the very mention of their name and homeworld for who in their right ancient mind has not heard of them for they and many countless others have heard and have seen their myths and legends first hand.
There is an unspoken rule that was written throughout the known and unknown multiverse.
There is an unspoken rule that was followed by The Higher Species.
There is an unspoken rule that was followed by The Multiple Pantheons.
There is an unspoken rule that was followed by The Temporal Powers Alliance (TPA).
Whenever one has a close encounter or is in the presence of The Time Lords, show the proper respect that is due.
Whenever one has a close encounter or is in the presence of The Time Lords, show the proper courtesy that is due.
Whenever one has a close encounter or is in the presence of The Time Lords, show the proper politeness that is due.
Whenever one has a close encounter or is in the presence of The Time Lords, show the proper attitude that is due.
Whenever one has a close encounter or is in the presence of The Time Lords, do not antagonize lest you will be dealt with swiftly.
Whenever one has a close encounter or is in the presence of The Time Lords, do not antagonize lest you will be dealt with harshly.
Whenever one has a close encounter or is in the presence of The Time Lords, do not antagonize lest you will be dealt with effectively.
Whenever one has a close encounter or is in the presence of The Time Lords, do not antagonize lest you will be dealt with efficiently.
For many gods, monsters, and demons have seen their very last when they fight against The Time Lords.
The Doctor begins to describe his race to him in a divine tone that sets the mood of the rest of the story.
"My people, who were known during that time as The Watchmakers, was one of The First Great Races in all of existence. We were beings of extraordinary power. Perhaps more power than we could ever truly realized. We were grim-faced men in robes of grey, with our hands busy at the machines, turning handles and pressing switches. We looked ordinary. We looked drab. Logical, masculine creatures. We rejected the possibility, and denied the world of wonders. It scared us, not because we were powerless against it, far from it, but because we knew of the dangerous chaotic potential it could be wielded by anyone and anything without a sense of morality, ethics, or responsibility. For this was a "time", if you could call it that as time as you or anyone else in existence who knew or understand it or it's concept didn't exist yet, when you couldn't breathe for gods and super races."
"When Monday was The Great Old Ones devouring a civilization or two, When Tuesday was The Time Lords fighting The Great Vampires of Old (Yssgaroth) for the total control of physics and for the safety of all sentient life. When Wednesday was when the war between The Carrionites and The Hervoken was nearly blowing up the universe until The Eternals locked them down into The Deep Darkness. When Thursday was when The Kotturuh was bringing the Gift of Death to so many species and civilizations. When Friday was a serious bust up when entire galaxies and universes went bye bye for one reason or another. And the less that was said about Saturday and Sunday the better."
The Doctor and Touma had a good-hearted laugh on that due to The Doctor making a joke about weeks to lighten the mood with a little good humor while also treating the subject with simplicity for the sake of the child as he continues on with the story.
"Now were was I, Oh yes, that's right, My people wanted all of existence to be precise, to be mechanical, so that they could live their very own lives to a solemn timetable. They wanted to understand the universe in the same way you might understand a piece of clockwork. As a cold machine. No room for cities of brass or dragonfly-gods. We invented the rules, and we tied all of creation down to these rules. We were in a sense, the very first Lawmakers and Scientists, to put it simply."
The young boy's eyes widened at that statement as he realize little by little on what was being told to him. The Doctor took noticed of his expression immediately as he affirmed what the young boy was beginning to understand.
"Yes. That's right, Touma. We considered ourselves Beings of Reason. We proved that horses couldn't fly, so horses didn't fly. We proved that cities couldn't dream, so cities didn't dream. My people, The Time Lords, took away the glamours and the mysteries, then built machines in their places. We became The Kings of Reason. The Masters of Space, The Lords of Time. We were the first to evolve in our universe, back then, when we were known as The Shadow People, caught between the warm dark of MAGICK and the cold light of SCIENCE. MAGICK predominated for a very long, long time."
"It was due to all of these reasons that The Ancient Time Wars, The First War in Heaven, began."
Young Touma Kamijou begins to pay even more attention at the very mention of The Ancient Time Wars, for he felt as if this was no ordinary conflict that could be describe perfectly in the terminology of humanity.
The beings who were locked in The Prison Domain of The Imagine Breaker felt extreme fear and extreme dread at the mention of these wars that was fought among gods.
The Doctor describes to young Touma Kamijou about this ancient conflict.
"The Ancient Time Wars were an ancient contradictory era of history marked by numerous conflicts wherein my people ensured their full supremacy, eradicating all other lifeforms with the potential for time travel. The Ancient Time Wars lasted for at least 30,000 meta-years on over 1000 planets, becoming a 'nightmare of contradiction, paradox, and death'."
"Campaigns of The Ancient Time Wars period included for example, The Black Sun War, The Eternal War, and The Racnoss Wars."
"The Black Sun War was a campaign fought between my people and The Order of the Black Sun, based thirty thousand meta-years in Gallifrey's future."
"The Eternal War, also known as The Vampire Wars, or The Great War, was a protracted and bloody campaign that my people fought against The Great Vampires (Yssgaroth) of Old early in our meta-history."
"The Racnoss Wars were a campaign that fought between my people and The Fledgling Empires, against The Empire of The Racnoss. A species of cannibals that consume everything in their path. I would personally described this conflict as a long and bloody affair."
"Ultimately, The Ancient Time Wars ended in Time Lord victory. These conflicts had helped to lay the foundations for what was to become of creation."
Then The Doctor said with a tone of reverence and a tone of divine fear that was present in both of his hearts.
"For when finally, when all of this inconsistency and contradiction was said and done, Rassilon and Omega, two of The Founding Fathers of Time Lord Society, made their ultimate and final decision."
"The Creation of The Eye of Harmony."
Flashback:
Location:
The Whoniverse
Era: The Dark Times
Scene 1:
They had turned their backs on one hundred billion stars. The Gallifreyan fleet had left its home galaxy and was deep in intergalactic space. Now the ships slowed down as they approached their destination, dropping out of vworp drive and proceeding at near‐light speed towards the target co‐ordinates. Omega had no need to look back. The galaxy behind him was a vast spiral, a hundred thousand light years from one side to the other. It was too far away now to make out any but the crudest of features. Within that mass was Gallifrey's sun, along with every star that could be seen in the night's sky of his homeworld.
There were two generations of stars. The spiral arms were filled with the youngest suns, which scientists designated Population I. Gallifrey's sun was a typical example, hot, rich in elements heavier than helium and hydrogen, surrounded by a planetary system. Towards the galactic core were clusters of older, larger, redder stars, those of Population II. They had formed before the heavy elements, indeed they were the nuclear factories in which the heavy elements had been forged. As Population II stars died they exploded, seeding the galaxy with heavier elements, the process that had brought the Population I stars into being many billions of years ago.
But even the Population II stars contained traces of metals and other complex molecules that could only have been created in the hearts of stars. Long ago, long before even the first galaxy had formed, there must have been another type of star. These Population III stars were supermassive, far brighter and hotter than their modem equivalents. Gallifrey's sun had been shining for around three billion years, and‐even without the assistance of a solar engineer – would do so for twice as long again. The processes within a Population III star were so intense that they would have burned out three or four hundred times faster. The typical Population III star lived for ten million years before going supernova. In the early days of the universe these short‐lived, vast stars had been the fuel for the newborn galaxies, filling them with riches. All the Population III stars were long dead, either vanished altogether or become vast black holes. All but one.
Qqaba was the last in the universe, of that Omega was certain. It had barely survived this long, sustained by a drip feed of interstellar matter from the intergalactic nebula that partially obscured it. Even so, it had been teetering on the brink of death for aeons when Omega had found it. He had reconfigured the star, kept it alive. If he had discovered the star a week later, it would have been too late. Qqaba would have died, and so would have Gallifrey.
Now they had returned to Qqaba to destroy it.
A dying star.
No doubt there were writers capable of capturing the waning majesty of such a thing, or its sheer scale. A poet might be able to sum up a man's feelings as he saw such a spectacle, find words for the new emotions that welled up in its presence. Perhaps he would fall back on physical description of the mundane surroundings of the observation bay, and note that everything was transformed by the evening starlight, becoming either harsh crimson light or sharp black shadows. There might be room for philosophical or moral instruction in that imagery, Omega thought. He didn't know. He was an engineer, not a poet, and he was here to do a job.
Scene 2:
"They could see the effect the singularity was having on space and time. It was like a hammer smashing against thick glass, or a block of ice. Cracks developing, growing together into a network of lines. The universe was a block of stone before, now it was being chipped away to reveal the sculpture that had always lain within it. Spacetime is shattering, the laws of physics have been repealed. Rassilon was panicking. Rassilon would not let it happen. Omega could feel Rassilon's mind once again. He lifted his head, strained to hear the voice far above him. But the mind wasn't speaking to him, it was speaking to the black hole, encompassing it, manipulating it. By sheer force of will, Rassilon passed a new law of physics. He struck up equilibrium, established beautifully elaborate equations. A surface appeared upon the darkness, a surface from which the escape velocity was exactly the speed of light. The naked singularity was covered, the hole in the universe was sealed over, and outside the storm was subsiding. The universe was safe. Nothing can ever be allowed to escape from the darkness."
Present Meta-Day
"This "Invention" murdered untold trillions upon trillions of lives and was such a devastating blow that it actually affected our universe's multiverse cluster, spreading like an impossible wave of imperious temporality. With its creation along with The Anchoring of the Thread and The Web of Time (The Spiral Politic) along with The Imposition of The Time Vortex, the world solidified all around us, like water turning to ice. Squeezing out The MAGICK. Everything strange and magical dropped out of the universe. My people held all of creation in a hard grey fist and squeezed it dry. We sucked all of the glamour and the strangeness from its bones. The monsters and angels and impossible things, retreating into the darkness, vanishing into the whirlpools of our eyes.. The shadeling gods, the children of the Pythia... one by one, they all died, pushed out of a cosmos that was too rational to let them live."
"Oh, yes, there were those of The Old Time who escaped. A handful of baby godlings and 'great intelligences'... but they were very unimaginative creatures and were all to ready to obey My People's Order. Too ready to give themselves up to Reason."
"But, like an ice cube, there were little cracks and bubbles. Psi was the last MAGICK to survive, perhaps because it was the least impossible, the closest to SCIENCE. The residue of psi became a network of ley lines, stretching through the universe in improbable directions. My people were well and truly aware of the ley lines even before The Ancient Time Wars began. We'd chosen to make the universe rational. Its irrational citizens objected. So we turned the psi lines into weapons. A distant early warning line that stretched throughout the galaxy, studded with receivers the size of mountains or even small moons, parabolic dishes disguised as craters. Listening for eruptions of psi power beyond Gallifrey."
"And that is The End of The Story for Now."
Insert Song: End
Touma said with the amazement of a child who has been told a good story.
"Wow."
Touma was silent for a few minutes while trying to process the story that was told to him which amazes him with a contemplative wonder and a child like curiosity at The Time Before Time and all the things that have happened in that "Time" along with all the various beings and pantheons and gods that have existed way back then which excites his imagination and intelligence for it was something that he never really found in any form of entertainment that he watched on the television screen and the available literature that he had managed to get a glimpse on which are usually just books for children with bedtime stories of a once upon a time and a happily ever after.
The story that The Doctor told to him was far too different.
It spoke of a time before his time.
It spoke of a time before anyone and everyone's time.
It spoke of a time before his universe and countless others.
It spoke of The Time Before Time.
It spoke of a time when magic and science was but an afterthought and MAGICK reigned supreme and unchallenged with the many unlimited numbers of horrors that were created and spawned with letters and numbers of contradiction.
It spoke of the various gods, monsters, and demons which were not just the things of myth and legend but rather actual beings of ancient power and divinity.
It spoke of the awesome power of The Lords of Time and the vast accomplishments and contributions that they have made to all of creation.
All of these and so much more began to excite him with a childlike wonder as he began to reflect on all of these things with a contemplative look.
After the next few minutes have passed, he began to ask a question regarding the ley lines as was mentioned in The Story and whether or not they exist on his planet while the Doctor who was pleased with the question, answered like a teacher who was pleased with his student.
"Doctor, are there any of these ley lines on my Earth?"
"Yes, Touma! As a matter of fact they are. They are, to give you a comparison, a pipeline for the distribution of mana, which is a form of energy that exists in all forms of life throughout your universe, this type of energy is being used by the various magicians of this world to carry out certain big national projects in accordance with their goals and many of these ley lines are actually located in many famous historical places such as Avignon in France and The Vatican in Rome."
Touma looks towards his right hand and begins to ask another question regarding on whether or not The Imagine Breaker may be effective against ley lines.
"Doctor, Does my Imagine Breaker negate these ley lines?"
The Doctor answers immediately in the negative.
"No, Touma, it does not."
Touma then looks at The Doctor with a surprise face while the Doctor began to explain his answer.
"Ley lines fall under one of the natural laws of your own universe and their are many different types of ley Lines in the multiverse which serve similar or different purposes for the regulation of mana."
"To explain what I mean, think of a ley line as like the electrical wiring around your own home which is your universe."
"Each home or universe in this case typically have several different kinds of home wiring of the ley lines, including the wiring for the mana distribution, permanently installed in each strategic point around the universe to which is found among the many various and diverse historical structures and prominent landmarks that seem to be centered around the given planets of origin."
"Safety regulations for the wiring installation of the ley lines vary widely around the multiverse, with the given rules of each local universe that depends upon the rules that were set up by the locals in what amounts to it's cause and it's effect. Some places in the local universe allow the homeowner who is the magician or the scientist in question to install some or all of the wiring in the given home universe while other jurisdictions of the local authority of said universe require the wiring of the ley lines to be installed by licensed professionals only to which my people were one of them."
"They are one of the many laws that The Time Lords control, operate, and regulate, no matter what universe or multiverse it originated from, and they have built in safety protocols in the event of the ley lines becoming corrupted by inside or outside forces no matter what universe or multiverse the threat originated from."
"Your Imagine Breaker can negate many things and powers Touma; However, there are certain things and powers that you cannot and will not be able to negate."
"The Natural Order and The Laws of The Time Lords being two of them."
Touma took a minute or two to reflect and process on that considering that in all of his life for as long as he can remember, his Imagine Breaker has negated anything and everything around him and now the Doctor tells him that there are certain things and powers that his right hand cannot negate. If that were true, what were these things and powers and why did it feel like a very ominous foreboding and foreshadowing of his own unknown future.
And while he was thinking all of these deep thoughts of reflection; The Doctor begins to speak to him while standing from his chair.
"Alrighty then! That's enough storytelling and history lessons for tonight, young man, since you need to be getting some good night's rest. You have a very big important day tomorrow, don't you remember?"
Touma remembered alright, considering that tomorrow was his elementary graduation and the day after that was the day when his parents would finally send him to Academy City, a city of science and espers, devoid of superstitious and religious beliefs.
On the plus side, He wasn't about to be sent to that place alone all by himself, for his parents had asked The Doctor to take care of him and The Doctor promised that he would while allowing him to call his parents every now and then to ease their worries. Now, as he went to sleep, he began to dream of the things that The Doctor spoke about in his bedtime story and what lies ahead in his future to come concerning the world of tomorrow, not knowing that this was the just the beginning of an adventure of a lifetime.
Ending:
Flashback:
Beginning:
On the very same day, when The Doctor saved the Kamijou family from the bankrupt disheveled businessman from earlier, the police was called in immediately due to the intervention of A Certain Bystander which resulted in the business getting arrested for attempted murder and assault.
Touya Kamiou and Shiina Kamijou were eternally grateful for what The Doctor had done for their son so they wanted to repay him for his kindness by any means that could be provided in their income, but The Doctor politely refuse the offer, saying that he was just a simple traveller who just so happened to stumble into a bad situation unexpectedly and did what anyone with a good heart would do. That, and he was a parent himself once so he understands how they truly feel. The Kamijou parents took note of the term "once" as they realize what he actually means by that due to the tone of sorrow that was present in his voice and as a result, they looked at him anew with sympathetic and empathetic eyes but didn't asked on how and why was he a parent "once" in order to respect his privacy but managed to offer their condolences, to which The Doctor accepted graciously and with gratitude.
But the Kamijou parents simply refused to just give up and insisted to The Doctor to at the very least, stay for the rest of the day and helped himself with a Kamijou traditional family meal, to which The Doctor, who was a little hesitant at the offer that was given to him, considering that for one, he was still in his self imposed loneliness and exile after losing Donna Noble, and two, he was already risking the timeline from changing further than intended because of his actions regarding that business man with a knife earlier and managed to diverge slightly the establish events considerably and in his eyes, it was definitely worth the risk, and was just about to politely refuse the offer and go on his merry way as always.
When suddenly, The Doctor found himself in an empty blank space devoid of anyone and the surrounding area.
In this strange and bizarre situation, most ordinary and normal people would react in confusion, surprise, and completely panic as they begin to ask themselves questions such as but not limited to:
Where were they actually are?
How did they ended up here?
But The Doctor was anything but ordinary and normal.
He wasn't really surprise all things considered, considering that for one, he has a lot of experience with these unordinary things before especially with dabbling in the psychic and dream realms throughout the meta-centuries, and two, he has already known and was completely aware of what was truly inside Young Touma Kamijou's Imagine Breaker and its secrets and its lore which were known only to a very select few people in and out of universe since he, being a Time Lord, should know about them considering that he and his People were The Experts in all matter of Ancient Lore, and the vital information of The Imagine Breaker was a well kept guarded secret to many, and it didn't really help the people who tried to attempt to search for it considering the vast and diverse number of possible interpretations that had past on over the centuries.
For the power of The Imagine Breaker was one of the most mysterious objects to most peoples of this universe and many countless others.
But not to the likes of The Time Lords.
While The Doctor was deeply thinking inside his complex mind with a million plans in the making to assess the correct path and the correct route to follow in this strange situation for the past few hours of his stay here in this dimension, suddenly someone spoke with a familiar snake-like ancient voice throughout this blank and dark void.
"YOU SHOULD NOT BE HERE."
The Doctor, once he had heard the snake-like ancient voice, knew immediately on who was actually speaking, for he had deduced that it was one of the many countless denizens who were locked and dwelled inside The Prison Domain of The Imagine Breaker. That and well, he has met him before and was on quite familiar terms with IT. The Doctor turned from his back and saw what would be describe as a giant blue yellow dragon who then took the form of The Young Touma Kamijou, with the only difference being the eyes which were like those of a snake.
Then the Doctor finally said with a sigh of relief.
"Finally! Someone that I am actually quite familiar with that I can talked too in this prison dimension."
IT said once again.
"YOU SHOULD NOT BE HERE."
The Doctor who is a little annoyed at this point and with a slight sarcastic voice said. "Yes, IT, I heard you the first time. And by the way, that was very rude of you, considering you and I have known each other for centuries by now." Then he pouted. "I thought you would have at the very least missed me."
IT ignored The Doctor's pouting as it asked a certain question.
"WHY ARE HERE, LORD OF TIME?"
The Doctor snorted and said with an exasperated voice and with his one right index finger pointing against IT.
"That's what I like to know, honestly, considering the predicament you put me in, and I was just about to leave mind you, when suddenly you pulled me into this prison dimension."
Then IT said.
"YOU HAVE SLIGHTLY INTERFERED IN THE ESTABLISH EVENTS, LORD OF TIME, FOR I FEEL THE FLOW OF "THE ORIGINAL EVENT" SWERVING IN A MULTITUDE OF FLUX DIRECTIONS. YOUR ACTIONS IN SLIGHTLY INTERFERING WITH THE BOY'S DESTINY WHEN YOU HAVE STOP THE ASSAILANT FROM SCARRING THE BOY HAS NOW GAVE RISE TO A VAST NUMBER OF INFINITE AND UNKNOWN POSSIBILITIES AND TO THE POSSIBILITY OF OPEN INTERFERENCE OF OUTSIDE AND UNKNOWN FORCES THAT ARE NOT OF THIS UNIVERSE."
The Doctor, who was listening with attentiveness to this whole conversation in utter divine seriousness, crossed his arms and spoke in his defense in a careful and serious tone.
"In my defense, this type of thing has been happening all over countless multiverses currently as we speak, already as of late."
Then IT, who was confused for the very first time since this Certain Conversation took place begins to ask everyone's favorite Time Lord on what could he possibly mean by that.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, LORD OF TIME?"
The Doctor has his ancient eyes downcast as he spoke with a low tone of sorrow and regret.
"You have been out of the loop for too long old friend, not surprising considering the state you are in."
Then after a deep breath, The Doctor said all of this with a tinge of sadness and regret.
"The Time Lords are NO MORE (The War Doctor Echoes), Gallifrey was burned in The Final Days of The War. Leaving no survivors. Thought The Daleks were gone too in the blink of The Moment, though apparently some have slipped, then they tried to bombed Reality, but I stopped them and I have been searching for any Dalek remnants that might be around ever since.
"Without my people to keep The Law and The Order, along with the destruction of many of The Temporal Powers and The Higher Species of my multiversal clusters throughout The War, a power vacuum was eventually created, and as a consequence, the multiverse is in complete and utter chaos, with many countless events in the histories of the past, the present, and the future becoming far too easy to change or rewrite when no one was looking, with many countless factions and countless species sprouting up here and there, trying to take advantage of all of this chaos according to their ambitions, interests, and goals, and so many of them were trying way to hard to move up to the level where my people used to be, but ultimately, it was futile, to paraphrase The Borg, as you and I both know, not just anyone can become Lords of Time, and there is also the problem of many various and diverse scattered weapons from The War, were shady people from all shady foregrounds and backgrounds would have the nefarious intention to keep selling them to the spatio-temporal black market, and the less that was said about Faction Paradox, the better.
"Well, luckily enough for all of us, there were a large number of Temporal Powers that were still remaining from the other multiverses after The War such as The Xeelee and The Downstreamers being one of countless many, as they had manage to keep peace and order between the various multiversal clusters. But even then, The After Effects of The War have stretched so far into Infinity and Eternity that it would take a very, very long meta-time for the multiverse to heal, and considering that my home multiversal clusters (The Whoniverse) was The Ground Zero of the Fighting because it was The Origin Point of The Time War, well, in this case, my home needed a serious house cleaning and conditioning, and with The Time Lords gone, multiversal travel in my home multiverse became much more difficult, if not impossible, due to no one keeping an eye on the train tracks, with the stations being completely empty and devoid of personnel, to put it more simply."
"Luckily enough for me, I managed to get around all of that by doing a few experiments of my own and while I cannot easily cross multiversal distances in my home multiverse, I can still travel to other multiverses with no connection to my own with ease, with some of them, more or less difficult, depending on the situation, so yeah, that's all there is to it and that's all I have to say on the matter. "
It was only after when The Doctor said these words, that IT's reaction was that of someone somewhat greatly terrified, greatly saddened, and greatly concerned because IT knew that while The Time Lords were corrupt (in some eras more than others), it cannot be denied that they were the ones who were keeping everyone and everything in check and The Law and The Order abides throughout the multiverse because of them.
They had Great Authority in Inter-Universal Spacial and Temporal Affairs and were what you may consider as The Bureaucrats of The Multiverse or The United States of America of The Multiverse to put it more simply.
Now that they were gone because of The Time War (to which IT was well aware of, for he had heard of whispers and rumors as well as felt the spatio-temporal shockwaves that ensued that was felt even in this certain universe, scaring IT and the other dragons and beings of this prison dimension, but it wasn't exactly aware of what actually happened in The Final Days of The War, with only rumors of nightmarish beings and eldritch horrors coming out of the woodwork being one of those rumors), a multitude of problems could arise if left unchecked, and then after IT had gathered its thoughts, IT finally asked a certain question which was on its ancient mind as IT said with a careful and solemn tone.
"THE LORDS OF TIME ARE NO MORE! BUT IF THAT IS TRUE, THEN, ARE THERE ANY OTHER SURVIVORS, OR ARE YOU THE ONLY ONE WHO SURVIVED?"
The Doctor begins to think deeply regarding that Certain Question considering that as far as he was aware, with one Time Lord (The Master) being dead, all the while holding out some linger of hope that there were others out there that were alive such as his family (Susan, Irving Braxiatel, etc.), friends (Romana, Corsair, etc.), or even alternate/parallel/divergent versions of His People, one of whom he knows is technically still alive (Iris Wildthyme), but at the end of the day or the year or the century or the millennia, he was by all rights and purposes, The Last of The Time Lords, and with the heaviness of his hearts, he said with a sorrowful voice that was full of sadness, regret, and resignation.
"Yeah, I am."
The two beings then stood still for a few moments of divine silence out of respect for The People of Gallifrey, especially the children (2. 47 billion) who had perished in The Final Days of The War.
After those few moments of sacred and respectful silence, IT spoke once again in haste and concern.
"LORD OF TIME, IF IT DOES NOT BOTHER YOU SO, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A CERTAIN REQUEST OF YOU."
The Doctor looked back to IT with his ancient eyes and with a voice full of confidence he said.
"Name it."
And so IT began to name its certain request and The Doctor wholeheartedly agreed to it and the matter was settled.
Then after a certain conversation had ended, The Doctor was sent back to his original surroundings, with the Kamijou family in his ancient sight, and began to say that he had officially changed his mind and begins to accept their gracious and polite offer, on the condition that he could probably stay for a few months, because he gave the explanation that he wanted to take in the sights and wonders of Japanese Culture, and he wanted to take a little break from travelling for a little while, plus not really having any place to stay at the moment, and so they agreed to let him stay for a few months and then after that certain conversation, they began to show him their house which was quite large, and their backyard (where The Doctor began to park The TARDIS in secret when no one was looking), and other places of interest such as the basement and the attic.
As Touya was showing The Doctor each part of the house, The Doctor begins to notice a certain picture located in a certain desk. As he moves towards the desk and draws near, he sees a certain picture that portrays the Kamijou parents and the young Touma Kamijou who was still an infant that was being carried by his mother. He carries it in his left hand, examining the certain precious object with his ancient eyes that was glimmering in little droplets of tears as he begins to recall and reminiscence his younger days as a father and a grandfather and on how he had lost them all because of The Time War. After a few minutes of deep reflection and deep reminiscence, he begins to put the certain picture frame gently back into its proper place with proper care and attentiveness as he moves along to catch up to Touya, who begins to call him, as he notices that The Doctor had somehow lagged behind him without him noticing it.
As evening draws near, due to the sun that was setting, Shiina was the one who went to the kitchen and cooked dinner for them, which was a Traditional Japanese Meal and The Kamijou's and The Doctor said the Traditional Words before ("Itadakimasu") and after ("Gochisousama") eating out of respect and then they decided to tucked in for the night, with Touya showing the Doctor his extra room ( although truth be told, The Doctor didn't need one considering he has The TARDIS, but couldn't refused due to polite etiquette and the respect that he feels that is due to their hospitality ) which was a large room with a white bed, with two pillows and a simple blanket, along with a large rectangle table that has a lampshade and an alarm clock on it.
The Doctor thanked Touya and wished him a pleasant evening and while Touya was heading back towards his room with his wife in order to get a good night's rest, The Doctor went into the backyard of the house and began to use his Sonic Screwdriver to call the TARDIS to this set location and coordinates. After this, he made a full scan of the entire house, surrounding area, and the entire neighborhood for any traces of an unknown type of probability wave (Touma's Misfortunate Luck) and disarmed it by reversing the polarity of the wave equation.
When that was done, he tucked in for the night, in the room that was given to him by Touya, although he never really needed much sleep due to Time Lord Biology.
Then in the next few days to weeks to months to years that had followed, the Kamijou family's lot in life, especially that of Touma, was somewhat improved and alleviated, with The Doctor's presence being the general factor as well as keeping a very close watch on Touma due to The Doctor having senses above the average human, partly because of the accordance with the agreement that he had made with IT and partly because he grew to care for the boy as if he were his own son as the boy reminded him too much of himself in his younger days before The Time War, all the while helping the Kamijou parents to easing their burdens a little as Touya was too busy with his work as an international travelling business man, as he was off too different countries from time to time, as well as Shiina who was also quite busy with her work in paragliding and was rather famous throughout the neighborhood for it, and whenever he wasn't in The TARDIS in secret doing who knows what like for example gathering known and unknown information on the various and diverse players on the universal/multiversal chessboard, he began to make himself busy by doing household work and taking care of Touma wherever and whenever he is not out doing business as usual as he was trying to stay ahead of the times as a way of earning one's keep, as he says so eloquently, all the while keeping a lookout for any signs of trouble and one would feel as if things were finally starting to settle in and on to normalcy, peace, and quiet.
However, when The Doctor is always around; expect the unexpected, with the concepts of normalcy, peace, and quiet being thrown right out of the window of reality.
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Blondie - One Way or Another (Lyrics)
One time, when The Doctor, along with the Kamijou parents, visited Touma Kamijou's Kindergarden School due to the "Bring Your Parent to School" event. The Doctor introduce himself as Dr. John Smith to the staff and to the students, and that he was a family friend to The Kamijou's, to which at this point is all to true, and made a bunch of simple and complicated plans that resulted in a Prank War with the parents caught in the crossfire and had gotten to the point were the teachers had to hold the children down to prevent them from escaping all the while The Doctor, with his 3-D glasses on and holding and eating popcorn, and Touma, who was just tearfully laughing to no end at this point, were just siting in their chairs in the sidelines as they watch and enjoy the scene of chaos that was right in front of them. The Doctor had succeeded in one of his many plans to dispel the notion and utterance of the word "God of Pestilence" and other such nonsense among the children, the parents, and the teachers.
Another time, The Doctor brought another secret surprise for Touma, his family, the neighborhood, and by extension all of Japan, by stashing in a couple of special fireworks that he personally crafted in The TARDIS for the upcoming New Years that was coming up on the very short notice, which on the plus side to The Doctor's surprise plan, the effects of the specially crafted fireworks dispels the unknown probability waves (Touma's Misfortunate Luck) that would ensure the positive energy to increase while the negative energy decreases. Well, that and The Doctor always wanted to go out with a big bang every new year, letting it loose on the calm evening of the night of about 12:00 A.M when the official countdown went to 0, accurately assessing when at the precise coordinates at the specific time and place was ready and set upped, with a little help and courtesy of The TARDIS, and when the clock strikes at 12:00 A.M., the specially crafted fireworks were launched towards the night sky, and reaching the coordinates that was assigned and programmed to them, were set to explode in a multitude of beautiful and diverse rainbow colors of all shapes and sizes and directions across all of Japan while waking and exciting the local populace and made the Japanese children of all ages jump for joy while the adults remained awed at this elegant display of the fireworks that is being performed and had definitely made the talk of the news for the rest of January.
Another time, during Touma's birthday party, The Doctor made and prepared various plans for the various foods, games, entertainment, etc... for the special event that only happens once every year, as well as made the various specialized gadgets in The TARDIS such as a multi-colored disco ball that hovers in the air while setting up the dance floor, and needless to say, it ended with having the whole neighborhood dancing to the tune of the music.
Another time, The Doctor was minding his own business reading a certain book (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) with his glasses on while walking with Touma on the sidewalk as he was holding him with his right hand when suddenly they heard from some random bystander shout about a certain random fire in some random part of the suburban area with people there who were trapped in the flames and could not escape due to the size of said flames which causes The Doctor and Touma to look at each other in a second of bewilderment, and after that second of bewilderment, without wasting a single second, The Doctor tucked in his book into his bigger on the inside pocket, took off his glasses and place it on his bigger on the inside pocket, and then carried Touma with his hands behind in his back as he ran with full speeds and sprung into action towards the location where there was a building in flames. The Doctor and Touma manages to dispel the large flames faster without casualties and fatalities with two sonic water guns that the Doctor pulled from one of his bigger on the inside pockets and manages to save the people who were trapped from the burning building. While this was happening, the populace was utterly dumbfounded and speechless with bewilderment and amazement because many of them recognize one of the two random saviors as "The God of Pestilence", and within the next few seconds, when the flames die out completely, they all shouted with praises and thanks at their two saviors who literally came out of nowhere at the right place at the right time (to their perspective anyway).
Another time, The Doctor was invited to a game of soccer by Touya and a certain few people from the neighborhood and well, the results were certainly expected (The Doctor winning the match by his lonesome while Touma and Shiina was cheering him and Touya on) and unexpected (Touya accidentally falls towards another woman with the result of his head being hit by the soccer ball that was caused by a fellow team member and lands towards a random woman's breast, with the woman herself in question blushing while Touya, who begins to be aware of where he landed, was now also blushing and was now apologizing to her sincerely out of embarrassment, to which the random woman accepted while still blushing and says not to worry about it, and Shiina who was watching all of this was now glaring at him with a thick mark appearing on her head and with a scary voice, with closed eyes, and with a scary and nasty aura that began to leaked through her began to ask Touya if he was cheating on her and whether or not he was at it again to which Touya sweats and trembles in fear as he turns towards her with an apologetic expression and also began to apologize to her as well, with The Doctor giving him a sympathetic and understanding look while Touma, who was just sitting in the sidelines of the match, tilts his head in confusion and ask The Doctor on what is happening and why is his mother angry at his father, to which The Doctor responded with a sweat drop expression and tells Touma that he would understand when he was older).
And other plans and counter plans with the hijinks associated with them along with expected and unexpected situations ensued within the following months to years that it would be far too impossible to count, that cause most people (children, teenagers, and adults) of the suburban neighborhoods in the different parts of Tokyo to loosen up a bit and have with time, changed and rendered them to have a rather positive view in regards to Touma (especially) and his family and of course a Certain Time Lord (who has become popular among the suburban neighborhoods, especially with the ladies). While these things were happening, it seems that Lady Luck herself has now sided with Touma Kamijou as well as his life was beginning to look up again thanks to the storm of positivism that seem to lack in his life and would have in his other life (timeline).
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I Am The Doctor
But apparently as usual, all good things must come to an end once again as always, as Lady Fate herself manages to strike misfortunate trouble once again that has managed to stir up once more, to the ire of the Kamijou family, and because of this misfortunate trouble, The Doctor has to stop two simultaneous plots from coming into fruition.
One of the countermeasures of The Doctor was by sabotaging a certain TV station (without diverging the timeline too much) that has been trying to cover the incidents of a Certain Imagine Breaker and his family in live television, and their deliberate violation of privacy for the family notwithstanding, in order to boost the ratings and gain followers of all sorts from all platforms of social media which would have made things more complicated for the Kamijou family, which was actually all part of a deliberate side plot for another plot which was surprising in and of itself, especially to The Doctor considering the timeline, the TV station was somehow hijacked and made a part of a conspiracy plot made by some group of inter-dimensional aliens that are not natives of this universe that are called The Flagitium who's species come from the planet Vexillum that resides in the Kakia Universe who are well renowned throughout the multiverse, with their ability to manipulate the concept of politics, economics, social issues, scandal, especially political and social scandal, espionage and intrigue in order to conquer the entire world with hidden eyes on the prize all the while setting their alien sights on a certain moment in the history of this universe that is far to important to be tampered with and gained that power for themselves.
Because The Doctor knew that this was the certain moment that was coming, were a certain history was decided that it was at this very moment were Touma Kamijou was to be sent to Academy City, despite The Doctor moving and delaying the event for how many months to years now and that the TV station (to The Doctor's great displeasure) was a part of these original events but now as they say "canon is officially going off the rails" because these scandalous alien idiots (The Flagitium) are not just content with just doing what the TV station did in the original timeline which was just releasing images of The Young Imagine Breaker without consent.
Now The Doctor has deal with a live broadcast on an international scale because these aliens became intrigue of the political scandal that would emerge from the resulting political fallout between the various nations, with The Imagine Breaker being revealed to the public much earlier than intended and by proxy, the magic (A Certain Archbishop) and science (A Certain Chairman, emphasis especially on The Kihara Family) side organizations will figure out the location of The Kamijou Family much more quickly which would put them in grave danger and a target from multiple directions would be painted on their backs, all the while triggering World War III much earlier than it was intended, making The Flagitium even stronger because they draw their power from it.
So by the end of these events, The Doctor manages to stop them both with a certain plan ("Keikaku") by canceling out the TV stations throughout the nation of Japan with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) burst from The TARDIS all the while confiscating any image, file, or material related to The Imagine Breaker and his family, with The Doctor apparently manipulating the circumstances to have a warrant of arrest from The Tokyo Police Department to arrest all of those who are associated with a certain TV station in violation of privacy law, and while that arrest was going down, The Doctor manages to catch the aliens by surprise by infiltrating their base and manages to deactivate all of their weapons that were trained on him and by the end of the confrontation, he had them all arrested as well with the help of a certain organization (The SCP Foundation) that was well infamous throughout the multiverse, who have sent a Mobile Task Force (at the personal request of The Doctor) to apprehend the aliens and face trial in an inter-universal court of law.
To those of you who don't know what is going on and what is happening and with a multitude of questions such as:
Why are The SCP Foundation here?
How does The Doctor know them?
Why does The Doctor work for them?
There's a simple explanation for that.
Basically what so many people don't know is that The Doctor was The Chief Scientific Advisor (which wasn't just UNIT mind you) for The SCP Foundation and also The Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer in The Ethics Committee and this was a very well guarded secret even among the many members of the Foundation, which would be shocking to many due to the infamous reputation of The Foundation's many questionable and rumored methods that were spread in whatever mode of information that you can find, but The Real Truth behind it all was that The SCP Foundation (more specifically The O-5 Council ) deliberately approved and allowed the various interpretations (otherwise known as "The Truth and False Strategy") of their organization that runs rampant throughout the Inter-Universal Web (IUW) and other known and unknown sources of information, in order to combat and dissuade more effectively and efficiently the many threats of the multiverse through the illusion of fear and intimidation tactics (otherwise known as "The Batman Strategy") that resulted in an easier surrender and round up among the various enemies, groups, and factions that they have come across due to The Foundation's ability to weaponize the various interpretations to their advantage.
Now how did The Doctor became The Chief Scientific Advisor and The Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer for The SCP Foundation?
Well, that's a story for another time.
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In the meantime, The Doctor went back to the Kamijou's, all the while discussing the events to the Kamijou Parents on everything that has happened in these past few days while Touma was in his room sleeping soundly with pleasant dreams.
Such as the fact that the Kamijou family figuring out that actual aliens actually exist and that their only son was targeted by them due to a plot about taking over the world, as cliche and unbelievable as it sounds, or the fact that The Doctor was actually an alien who travels through time and space and showed them The TARDIS which was parked in their backyard as proof of that, which amazed them to no end due to the size of The TARDIS as they commented on how bigger on the inside it was to which The Doctor took that in pleasure and stride as he has been expecting that comment from a mile a way, or the fact that their son was actually a part of a series of a random set of predetermined events which could determine and intersect with the fate of so many people, the world, and the entire universe as they know it.
Understandably, they were upset and saddened about all of this due to the fact that even if Touya and Shiina did send their son to Academy City, which they were planning to do anyway in order to protect their son, even if their bonds become severed, because it was a place where many gifted people could live free from superstition and that Touma could be safe there and have an ordinary normal life. The Doctor however explained to them that one way or another, Touma Kamijou, in most if not all timelines, will truly never have an ordinary normal life, even if it is only temporary, in this universe or others connected to this multiversal cluster and will be involved in so many dangerous incidents and crisis events that they cannot protect him from and that he is destined to save as many people as possible, all the while showing them undeniable and concrete proof, not just from the present moment of this timeline but from the past and also the future of these possibilities and how it can go all along from the beginning, the middle, and the end.
The Doctor also began to show them the many, many, many atrocities and crimes against humanity that was committed in Academy City alone, in the name of Science, with Dark Side Organizations, along with their hit assassination attack squads, mad scientists such as the Kihara Family, etc. and nefarious conspiracies such as the cloning of one young girl who would one day be known as a Certain 3rd Rank Level 5 Esper (Mikoto Misaka) in order to make an army of Level 5 espers who are technically a little more than a year old all the while being led to the slaughter to a Certain 1st Rank Level 5 Esper (Accelerator) who was a teenager with major issues, which was a major understatement, as his main objective for doing this was to try to reach the theoretical "Level 6" in order to not let anyone get hurt anymore because of the nature of his power and that no one would ever have to challenged him to a fight while hurting themselves ever again. The Doctor also showed them the secret shadow war that was happening all around the world at this point in time between The Magic Side and The Science Side which shocks and surprises the Kamijou parents since they have just been shown that magic actually exist in their world.
When The Doctor was explaining all these things to them with a clear tone of warning and seriousness, this causes both of the Kamijou parents to realize that they themselves and many, many, many parents like them were and have been duped into sending their own children to an experimental death trap that may or may not leave them alive or left unscathed which causes them immense grief as they begin to ask themselves on what they have just done, to which The Doctor tried to comfort and reassure them while saying that it was never their fault or anyone else's fault to begin with and that the people who run Academy City were just that good at fooling people into thinking that the city itself was rather harmless and a place of safe haven for espers but as it turns out, it's really not, and the worst part was that The Doctor pointed it out to them that Academy City, at this point in time, just so happens to be the safest place on Earth for their son despite all of the pain and suffering that entails for him in the not too distant future.
Because for one, it lies under the domain of The Science Side and is its center of operations, and many magicians would not want to instigate a potential political fallout at this point in time or at the very least until a few years down the line especially considering the cities advancement in military technology to boot along with the possibility of an all-out global conflict that would be triggered in the not too distant future and two, the only reason Academy City even exists is not because of science which was actually a means to an end in and of itself, but it is because of their son, more specifically their son's right hand and the man who built the damn city was trying to draw him out on to the open so that he may use him for his hidden plans.
But then just as all hope seems to die out among the Kamijou Parents, The Doctor then proposes a simple solution to their problem while also keeping the timeline mostly in tact.
By Playing The Role of The Editor of The Story (timeline).
"Listen. The both of you. What if I told you both that if you were to decide to send the boy to Academy City, I promise you in my name that I would look after him, teach him everything that he needs to know on how to be safe, on how to survive, and on how to save people, all the while letting him have a break or two by travelling with me throughout the multiverse, as he gets to call you every now and then in order to ease your worries a bit and ensure that he was truly alright, because as of this very moment, Aleister Crowley, the chairman of Academy City, is looking for your son, and one way or another he will get what he wants, with or without you. Your son getting involve in his plans has stretched all the way back into The 20th Century. He has been planning all of this for a very long time now, with various contingency plans within contingency plans to boot. He was considered in history to be one of the few most dangerous humans to walk on this very earth. I've been aware of his plans for centuries now (aware since his seventh incarnation) and I have made my own counter-contingency plans within counter-contingency plans in the event when I would have to face this one day. They don't call me the Ultimate Chess Master for nothing back in the day."
The Doctor began to look at them both with his ancient pleading eyes as he said in a solemn tone of the divine.
"Please, I beg of you, let me take care of your son, and I promised you in my name that no harm will come to him or to anyone he loves or to anyone he saves and if that were to happen, they would have go through me first. I will handle Academy City and it's bleak and terrible darkness to offer, for I have fought so many monsters throughout the years that hid in that same darkness before and in the end, I always ended up having to drag them back out into the light, by force if necessary."
The Kamijou Parent's were in awe, wonder, and relief at The Doctor when he spoke with such authority such as back when they first met him, they have always had a strange feeling that The Doctor was not an ordinary person.
Now looking back at it, with the number of months to years that followed, and seeing The Doctor with their very own eyes as he spoke with such authority that was almost that of a kami, they saw a man who has seen so much horror and death and destruction on a level that they could barely comprehend, and yet at the same time was so kind and compassionate to everyone, especially towards children and that he would fight to his very last breath to keep Touma safe and the rest of the children of Academy City safe whenever possible.
For as it is written in his future to come, demons run when a good man goes to war.
And it was on that day that the Kamijou Parent's worries were dispelled as they entrusted their son to the man who would keep him safe for the light days and for the dark days to come.
ED Song:
YU-NO Anime Ending Full : Shinri no Kagami, Ken no you ni - Konomi Suzuki
Characters:
The Tenth Doctor - A: David Tennant
Touma Kamijou (young) - VA: Abe Atsushi
Touya Kamijou - VA: Nomura Kenji
Shiina Kamijou - VA: Inoue Kikuko
Flashback:
Rassilon
Omega
Timeline:
Doctor Who: Tenth Doctor - Post-Journeys End, Pre-The Next Doctor
Era: Post-Time War Era, Pre-Day of the Doctor changes
Flashback Era: The Dark Times
A Certain Magical Index: Pre-Biohacker, Pre-Index
DW TV/EU Reference:
** So Vile a Sin (novel)
** Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)
** Forever Autumn (novel)
** Time Lord Victorious (series)
** The Infinity Doctors (novel)
** The Day of the Doctor (TV story)
** Journey's End (TV story)
** Last of the Time Lords (TV story)
** Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor - Weapons of Past Destruction (comic story)
** The Lodger (comic story)
** A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)
Doctor Who Lore Trivia: The Dark Times
Regarding Doctor Who ( being pure science ) and not magic and supernatural, well that's not exactly true because back during The Dark Times when the Whoniverse was basically the Suggsverse were nothing absolutely made sense, when Magick ( which was far too different from the magic of Toaru and other magic in anime and fiction in general and can be explained by Time Lord Science since it has rules ( such as ley lines which the Time Lords used as a magic detection system and as weapons during The Time Wars of the Dark Times ) ), while Magick does not have rules ( understatement of the millennia as to give a comparison is like the Warp from Warhammer 40k ), was very much a thing and the universe or multiverse of the Whoniverse as we understood it didn't exist yet because there was no laws or physics or any science of any sort you could possibly think of. Just random possibility and impossibility all at the same time that you could possibly or impossibly think of while saying screw the rules I make my own and anyone and anything goes, along with the various gods, monsters, demons, angels, eldritch abominations, etc... of all shapes and sizes and strength and known and unknown description along with known and unknown powers and abilities that lived in those times and many of them were not benevolent such as The Great Vampires / Yssgaroth. Then the Time Lords being the first sentient beings who were known during those times as " The Watchmakers " came to be and then when they saw all this madness and chaos, dedicated themselves fully to the task of wiping the slate clean and to the task of founding and establishing the concepts of reason under The Leadership of The Founding Fathers of Gallifrey ( Rassilon, Omega, The Other ) and began to Retcon Magick because it was too dangerous ( not to the Time Lord's themselves ) and downright messy and chaotic and can be exploited by anyone and anything with no morals or ethics or responsibility, while establishing the law and the order, the laws of physics, the laws of space and time, Science with all it's branches, subjects, and topics, rationalized bits of magic such as psychic powers, Creating the Eye Of Harmony with the Anchoring of the Thread and the Web of Time ( Spiral Politic ) along with the Time Vortex, etc. and Retconned the Whoniverse into the one we all know and love today.
At least that is how I understand it when I read Doctor Who Lore as described from the Whoniverse experts here on Spacebattles.
Confirmation from SpaceBattle Experts:
Controller:
Yep, that's more or less how it went down. A lot of people misinterpret it as just the Time Lords having sticks up their butts and getting rid of magic because they hate fun, but really, Whoniverse Magick (of that specific kind, anyway) was pretty much the Warp from WH40K, I've made that comparison myself in the past. "Orderly" magic like in, say, Harry Potter, they wouldn't have an issue with.
The Quote From Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)
There was a city, buildings carved into gigantic tusks of ivory that sprouted from the ground and formed arches a mile high, great arcs laced with crystalline clouds. The streets were made of cobweb, glittering pathways spun by mechanical spiders, and between them hung enchanted gardens tended by men of
stone. Down on the ground walked the skeletons of mammoths, their ribcages stuffed with steam-powered engines, scholars and philosophers riding on their backs.
Chris had seen enough in his travels to know that a great many unlikely things were possible. Aliens could look like pixies, bio-machines could be made to resemble dragons, cities could be built out of sound... but there were things in this place he couldn't even name, things he had no experience of, that seemed at odds with even the most exotic of alien technologies. Things that were impossible. Yeah. Impossible. Things even the Doctor couldn't have shown him.
He was seeing it all in the face of the Carnival Queen.
– Once upon a time, she said, this was your universe. Long before your time, before any time that you could measure. A place of endless miracles, non? No harsh sciences here, no mundane little laws of physics, no guiding principles. There was just possibility. An infinity of possibility. Now. Look.
Chris wasn't watching the city any more. There was a different world etched into the Carnival Queen's expression now, a world inhabited by people; people he could recognize as people, not monsters or automatons. The cities were just as large, but there were less of the impossible things. The planet looked... well, reasonable. Sort of.
– This was the world of the Watchmakers, Christopher. One of the first Great Races. Things of extraordinary power. Perhaps more power than they ever realized. See?
Chris concentrated on her smile, and focused on the Watchmakers in their cities; grim-faced men in robes of grey, their hands busy at machines, turning handles and pressing switches. They looked ordinary. They looked drab.
– The Watchmakers. Logical, masculine creatures. They rejected the possibility, and denied the world of wonders. Perhaps it scared them. They wanted existence to be precise, to be mechanical, so that they could live their lives to a solemn timetable. They wanted to understand the universe in the same way you might understand a piece of clockwork. As a cold machine. No room for cities of brass or dragonfly-gods. They invented rules, and tied creation down to those rules.
'Rational,' Chris heard himself say.
– Yes. They were beings of Reason. They proved that horses couldn't fly, so horses didn't fly. They proved that cities couldn't dream, so cities didn't dream. The shadeling gods, the children of the Pythia... one by one, they all died, pushed out of a cosmos that was too rational to let them live. The Watchmakers took away the glamours and the mysteries, then built machines in their places. They became kings of Reason. Masters of space, lords of time
And there they all were, in the folds of her face. The monsters and angels and impossible things, retreating into the darkness as Chris watched, vanishing into the whirlpools of her eyes. Everything strange and magical dropped out of the universe. The Watchmakers held creation in a hard grey fist and squeezed it dry.
The Watchmakers. Something clicked in Chris' head.
'Wait a minute,' he said. 'What did you call the Watchmakers? Masters of space and lords of -'
But then the Carnival Queen changed her expression, and Chris was looking into a vast hall, a throne-room painted in the dull grey of eternity. There was a man seated in the hall, a large, powerful man, his face wreathed by a great white beard and moustache, his head topped by a conical crown. His throne was made out of the crushed bones of things that looked suspiciously like gigantic bats.
Two other men sat at his side. One carried the tools of an engineer; the other's position was less obvious.
'I dreamed about this place,' breathed Chris. 'I was looking for Roz, and... I mean, how? How could you know about this?'
– Been there, done that.
'Now, See What We Have Created,' the bearded man said, and his voice was living thunder. 'We Have Built A World Of Reason Triumphant. And It Is Good.'
– The greatest of all the Watchmakers, said the Carnival Queen. The first King of the Majestic Clockwork. Watch.
So Chris watched. Watched as the man lifted an arm, placed a hand against his chest. Watched as he sank his hand deep into his own body, and pulled something out from his torso. Chris thought it might be his heart, but then he saw the thing, wriggling in the man's hand; it was shadow-coloured, slippery, its shape changing from second to second.
The other two men in the hall reached into themselves as well, and pulled out similar objects. Chris took a step back. Across the planet of the Watchmakers, grey people in grey robes were reaching into their bodies and pulling out their...
... their what?
– Nobody is entirely rational, Christopher. Not even the Watchmakers. They wanted a universe of Reason, but to get it, they had to give something up. Those little irrational parts of themselves. Those small corners of their souls that believed in the superstitions, that wanted the world of wonders back. The mutable parts. The changeable parts.
Across the Watchmaker world, the people were grasping their irrational shadows and hurling them away. The shadows shrieked into the sky, screaming, crying. Forsaken. They congregated in the upper atmosphere, becoming one great cloud of unreason.
'Go,' said the King.
And the cloud went. It shrieked across the skies, exiled from its homeworld. It screamed through galaxies, unwanted and alone, until the rational universe opened up and it vanished into the darkness on the other side of existence.
'There,' said the Watchmaker King. 'Now We Are Things of Reason Absolute. Our... Demons... Are Safely Confined, Beyond The Reach Of Man Or Machine. We Are Perfect. We Are Whole.'
Chris let his attention wander across the galaxies, briefly wondering how much of this was supposed to be real and how much of it was just a fairy-tale. He found the point where the great shadow had vanished. There. There, in a little corner of creation cut off from the rest of the universe, in the dark places on the other side of Reason. The shadow had been trapped there, in the prison-realm of the Watchmaker King, for... for how long, now? How long since the time of the Watchmakers?
– About three-and-a-half billion years, said the shadow. Chris jumped. He tried to focus, tried to pin his attention down, but all he could see was the Carnival Queen's face.
'It's you,' Chris said. 'It's you.'
– Who else? said the Carnival Queen.
It was hard to know what to say, really.
'You're the one the Watchmakers... I mean, you're the thing that...'
– That they couldn't live with. They don't remember me at all now, and don't even let themselves dream of me. On their homeworld, buried in the deepest archives, there are books that only the Highest of the High are ever allowed to read. The only books that describe the old time before the days of the clockwork universe, locked away from the eyes of the world.
There's one in particular...
The book opened up in front of Chris, and he wondered whether it was really there or just an illusion written across Marielle's face. The pages shone like glass, and one paragraph, penned in ink the colour of rust, had been underlined.
'For there was Time before this; and there was Being before this; and there was Space before this. And there were Things Damned in that place, and there were Things Remarkable.'
– The Watchmakers, being rational monsters, never understood that passage properly. They take it all very literally, these days. They think it means that there was
another universe before this one, and that it was destroyed in the Big Bang. Ask the Doctor, and that's what he'll tell you. Naturellement, it isn't true. The 'Space before this' was just this universe, before the Watchmakers sucked all of the glamour and the strangeness from its bones. Ohh, yes, there were those of the old time who escaped. A handful of baby godlings and 'great intelligences'... but they were such weak, unimaginative creatures. Too ready to obey the Watchmakers' order. Too ready to give themselves up to Reason.
– Not like me. Not like me at all.
Chris gawped. Tried to say something. Gawped some more. Then he looked around, at the desert, at the sky full of unlight.
'And this is your prison? This is where you've been trapped all this time?'
– My prison. My home. But not for much longer, Christopher.
And across her face, aeons of history played themselves out. On Minyos, the heliomancers were cast out of society, the machines of the Watchmakers replacing them and turning the planet to cinders. On the fringes of the Scrampus Federation, the Witches of Enderheid were tried, sentenced, and burned at the stake. On planets whose names had long been forgotten, whole races tried to master the sciences of the older races, turning themselves into sick things with sick ambitions... and the curse of the Watchmakers touched every corner of creation.