This story/episode is based on the charity anthology: Seasons of War

Fictions Mentioned: Doctor Who/Faction Paradox, The Works of Stephen Baxter, Star Wars Franchise

Episode 9 - Seasons of War

OP Song:

Mother - YU-NO: Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shoujo(Opening 2 Full w/ Lyrics & Subs in English)[4K]

Somewhere in the corners of The Known and Unknown Multiverse, a fabled and legendary battle had erupted in The Warisia System.

Multiple wreckage of space-time ships where seen in the blurring background of the swirling Ancient Time Vortex.

Wreckage of Space-Time Venator Class Star Destroyers. Wreckage of ARC-170 Star Fighters. Wreckage of X-Wing Class Star Fighters. Wreckage of Space-Time Dalek War Saucers. Wreckage of TPA (Temporal Powers Alliance) Member Ships of many alien designs.

The battle appears to be intense.

Multiple colors of many varieties that were being shot from the multi-purpose turrets from multiple space-time ships were raining down heavily across The Time Vortex from multiple angles of direction in space-time.

Dalek War Saucers, ARC-170 Star Fighters, and X-Wing Class Star Fighters were all engage in aerial vortex dogfights in space-time as each pulls complicated forms of maneuvers at each other from multiple directions.

A battered, old TARDIS sails the Time Vortex, buffeted and tossed by the winds of time amidst the chaos… but it's not that TARDIS that is well known among The Higher Races, The Temporal Powers, The Multiple Pantheons, and everyone else throughout The Known and Unknown Multiverse.

This is The Type-28 TARDIS known as The Battered Bride, and it is in the possession of The Time Lord called The Corsair. With him—and hanging on for dear life—rides The Time Lord once known in many Meta-Lifetimes as The Doctor.

Accompanied with them are The Space-Time Venator Class Star Destroyers, ARC-170 Star Fighters, and X-Wing Class Star Fighters of The 501st Legion and The 7th Sky Corps of The STARS (Spatio-Temporal Armed Forces) under the command of Clone Commander Rex of The 501st Legion (STARS) and Clone Marshall Commander Cody of The 7th Sky Corps (STARS), The Doctor's seconds in command.

The Corsair believes that they are headed for Dark Horizon to meet with The TPA (Temporal Powers Alliance) Member War Fleet, but the former Doctor tells him the truth: they are all headed for a system called Warisia. It's a name that makes even the reckless, fearless Corsair blanch with fear; with many of the Clones shaking in their armored boots as they all heard of this name, for who hasn't heard of it at this point.

Warisia is the location of a fabled and legendary battle, called The Battle of Infinite Regress, also known—as The Corsair points out—as The Slaughter Repetition. It's a battle where the atrocities perpetrated by The Time Lords will increase through continuous loops of time, until The Warisians, the natives of the planet, are so weary that they will accept even The Daleks as their rulers. Gallifrey has known about it for years—and now, it's about to begin…again.

The Battle of Infinite Regress had become the talk of the town among The Senate as of late, with many Members protesting at The Time Lord's various war crimes against the people of Warisia.

The Doctor of War and his men of The 501st and The 7th Sky Corps have been fighting this battle, again and again, and this is not the first time The Doctor had ridden to battle with The Corsair and The Battered Bride.

The Type-28 TARDIS itself knows the truth; long ago, when it's faulty empathy circuits came online, it fled Gallifrey—eloped, really—with a Type-26, and spent three thousand Meta-Years on "honeymoon" in The Vortex. However, it was caught in The Early Days of The War, and it's love was lost; and somewhere, before The Doctor found it and brought it home, it's coordinates were set for Warisia.

The Corsair feels betrayed by The Doctor at first due to learning of the truth, until he realizes that they were destined to come here—but they are not destined to lose.

The Warrior, it seems, is getting better at his job; and this time, he has diverted over seven hundred and counting Battle TARDISES, War TARDISES, Xeelee Nightfighters, and many countless TPA (Temporal Powers Alliance) Member Ships at Dark Horizon, to tip the balance of the scales, engaging The Dalek War Saucers, The Photino Birds, and many countless Axis Member Ships, and cause The Battle of Infinite Regress to never begin at all.

Together alongside the men of The 501st and The 7th Sky Corps, they ride into battle…with a final warning from The Warrior on not to call him "Doctor".

"He's been fighting. Forever. From long before I was born. Fighting for all of us. The greatest of all warriors. A Renegade to his own People. But to us... A Hero. Our Protector. On this and a thousand worlds."

There was a fierce battle that was happening throughout the sandy beaches, large holes from the sandy ground is apparent everywhere, as the dust of the sand begins to blow from multiple directions due to the multiple staser bolts that were being fired through multiple directions. Men clad in white Phase II armor that sported the colors of blue and orange that denote those who belong to The 501st Legion and The 7th Sky Corp of The STARS where firing in continuous barrage with their advanced DC-15 Omega Stasers Rifles in multiple directions in order to hit The Dalek War Drones and The Skaro Degradations which are composed of Spiders and Gliders. Omnidirectional Energy Blasts from the DC-15 Omega Staser Rifles were scorching through The Dalek War Drones and The Skaro Degradations like bread and butter.

"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"

"Move it! Move it! Let's go! Let's go!"

"Watch your six! Watch your six!"

"Spiders, from the north!"

"Gliders, up above! Take them down! Take them down!"

As this fierce battle was happening, somewhere in the background of the sandy desert, the young Doctor of War alongside his second's in command, Commander Rex and Commander Cody, and some Clone Troopers of The 501st and The 7th Sky Corps were all striding up to the beach as they head towards the outskirts of the Warisian villages that appeared to be covered in black smoke if the orange fires were anything to go by, with The Doctor stopping only to use his Dalek-eyestalk telescope that he got from another Space-Time Battle which he had modified for the purpose of reconnaissance as he watches the battle with a bird's eye view with interest, with his Clone Commanders and Clone Troopers guarding him from multiple angles.

The Doctor spots a certain position from his modified telescope that was perfect for an ambush as he begins to give his orders to some of his Clone Troopers of The 501st, more specifically The Torrent Company, via comlink who were stationed in the southern trenches to take the southern flank from their 60 second mark in order to give a surprise attack to The Daleks, with them obeying straight away as they followed their orders to the letter.

"Sergeant Appo, take your men and flank The Daleks from the south on your 60 second mark. We're going to give them a little rude awakening."

"Sir, yes, sir. You heard him, men. Push forward."

The Clones begin to push forward to the south at a 60 second mark through the rough terrain of gunstick hail fire, and after a few struggles, had managed to succeed in their efforts as they begin to shoot down The Dalek War Drones and a few Spiders and Gliders of The Skaro Degradations, who were caught by surprise at their sudden attack.

Somewhere away from the heavy fighting, in A Certain Warisian Village, which had multiple scorch marks from various buildings that were caused by DC-15 Omega staser bolts and Dalek gunstick bolts that appears to be littered throughout the area as a constant reminder and a constant shadow to The War, with many Clones of The 501st and The 7th Sky Corps dutifully guarding the village under orders from The Doctor, a young girl and her family where living in their home as they were having their family meal.

The food that is present at the dinner table appears to be rice, cheese, and other simple foods of the sort, with The Corsair joining them as he begins to drink his cup which has some unknown type of wine from his wine bottle casing that he mixed with water.

The young girl was making a gift which was a homemade bracelet that is composed of a white string, with a few gray colored metal, and with the colors of blue, green, and yellow plastic beads of many varieties.

"I'd live my whole life in the shadow of the war. An ever present companion grown used to. It's face reflected in acts of courage or kindness. And all too often, war would reveal it's other face to those fighting and remind them and us of it's true nature, however hard we tried to forget. None of this mattered to a child. My only thought was that he was coming. And finally I would get the chance to see him and give him my own thanks."

At night, the young child was getting ready for bed as she sets an intruder alarm in her beloved teddy bear before going to bed as she tucked in for the night.

"It was said that he knew the enemy better than themselves because he'd been fighting them all his life. To win and him becoming worst than they could ever be."

In the early morning, The Doctor and his men of The 501st and The 7th Sky Corps comes through the Warisian Village, emerging victorious in their fierce ground battle with The Daleks, as all of the Warisian people came out from their homes in order to cheer for their Hero and Savior, with all of them waving their flags that has unknown symbols belonging to their native lands.

"And doing far worst things."

The young girl was in the cheering crowd as she begins to raise her left hand that carries her homemade bracelet that she had prepared very delicately and very diligently in order to bring it to The Doctor's wrist, to which she succeeded in her efforts as The Doctor suddenly stopped for a very long moment, feeling the gift that he had just been given on his wrist, with Rex, Cody, and the other Clone Troopers stopping from their walk as well as they all turned around and begin to notice that their General has stopped walking, with all of them looking at the important scene that was right before them with interest and intrigue. The Doctor's ancient eyes begins to soften, with a hidden smile of gratitude on his ancient face, which denotes that he accepts the gift that was given to him as he finds the gifts from young children far more precious than petty victories.

After a few moments, he resumes his walk, with a few Clone Troopers resuming their walk and following their General at every step of the way.

Before resuming their walk, Rex and Cody made a grateful nod and a grateful smile on their war-weary faces towards the young girl, who notices as she begins to smile happily at being recognized by The Doctor's own men as they were appreciating her kind gesture towards their General.

Rex, Cody, and the rest of the men of The 501st and The 7th Sky Corps thought that their General could use some form of kindness in this War that has been raging for Eternity and the young girl provided him just that.

After their grateful expressions, Rex and Cody begin to resume their walk in full haste in order to catch up to their General.

"In that moment, I knew the man before me. He would never pause to celebrate victory or mourn defeat. And always be alone."

As The Doctor was walking amidst the cheering crowd, Rex and Cody managed to catch up with him, with Rex to his right side and with Cody on his left side.

"Permission for us to speak sir." Rex said.

"Speak."

"That was really sweet of that girl, giving you that homemade bracelet." Cody said.

The Doctor made a smile as said with a tone of agreement while looking towards the homemade bracelet.

"Yes, I suppose it is. And I intend to take great care of it."

Many years of relative time had pass by as The War moved on from Warisia. The young girl who is now older and has become an accomplished young artist, sits at a table, sketching the man who led their liberation.

"His struggle robbed him of his youth and so much else. Many seasons pass. The War moved on... Leaving us shattered in it's wake. Peace had finally returned to our world and then one day so did he."

At that moment, after so long, The Doctor returns. Standing by her door. The young girl notices immediately as The Doctor's shadow was covering her artwork that depicts him in his younger days. She begins to come closer towards him, observing him with curious eyes.

"He was old, battle-weary, ashamed of his actions, unworthy of our gifts."

The Doctor begins to return the homemade bracelet that she had given him all those Meta-Millennia ago.

"I stared into his eyes and saw only emptiness. Who knows what they had witness? We knew better than to ask for his Name. Instead, I asked what had he'd been before The Conflict and I felt a lifetimes regret in his reply."

"I was a kind of healer once... But NO MORE. NO MORE."

ED Song:

Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU NO Ending 2 Full

Characters:

The War Doctor - A: John Hurt

Unknown Girl (Narrator)

Corsair

Commander Rex (STARS) - A: Temuera Morrison

Commander Cody (STARS) - A: Temuera Morrison

Sergeant Appo (STARS) - A: Temuera Morrison

501st Clone Troopers (STARS) - A: Temuera Morrison

7th Sky Corps Clone Troopers (STARS) - A: Temuera Morrison

The Daleks - A: Nicholas Briggs

This story/episode is based on this video that is part of the charity anthology:

Doctor Who - Seasons of War - An unofficial short film