Null walked away from them and asked the man who had first kneeled to stand and introduce himself telling everyone else to stand also and that his fathers would be there at least thirty minutes what shocked him was the TARDIS and SATURN both altered two words for him, so they came out making sense to the residents. Quickly getting over that, he asked what the people did including the ones with Zorel as he learnt the first man's name was. The group with the guards offered to show him around the main centre telling him he was welcome back to look more in-depth once his fathers had agreed on a course of action, Null didn't correct him when he thought both men where his parents, in a sense they were. Just over thirty minutes later Null arrived back at the TARDIS to see both the Master and the Doctor obviously looking for him. He waved at them and then ran over to them.
"Are we all ready to go then? Now dads finished his tantrum because he hates feeling indebted to organisations? I've got to admit I'm intrigued, although has dad ever been wanted by them? If so, we need to sort that out first before just arriving, although I can see our reception will be well taken at first." Asked and explained Null with a checky smile for the both of them.
"Come on then Son get into the TARDIS and well sort this mess out" Spoke the Doctor referring to his public name rather than his private one.
"Yes Doctor, come on Master, let's get this over with these people need help and are putting their hopes on you!" Spoke Null as he walked past his dad and grabbed him by the hand, so he had to follow. He grumbled the whole way into the TARDIS but Null knew he wasn't having a go at him or the Doctor just at the situation he was now in. He grumbled that the chameleon circuit no longer worked or they would have the most advanced battle ship than anywhere else in the universe but because of the broken piece of equipment now he was having to go outside of the three of them for help. It took two hours before the Shadow Proclamation agreed their treaty had been broken and decided to send their troops in to protect the planet Procule as well as detain the worlds of the Asperians ensuring all their ships with damage had chance to evacuate and for the others to get to transports and such once they were sure the entire fleet was clear, their different fleets of all of the Asperians we destroyed all in one go.
It took another week for the Asperians to get home and then the Shadow Proclamation gave them the terms of their surrender. Unless they wanted their planet as it was and left alone, unlike destroying it with exact weapons with what they did to the people on Procule, going into detail of what they would do only much worse. For now they had been told any hint of wrong doing and they would be totally restricted to their planets never again to travel in space, the only reason it hadn't already been done was because they hoped some could be redeemed eventually. Null and Koschei both didn't think that would happen again but the trust and faith they had built around his dad grew even more because of how easily they had dealt with the problem, Koschei became uncomfortable and so Null decided they would go and visit the other settlements but on the down low not taking the TARDIS so no one knew who they were and they could walk around mostly unencumbered. They were two special forces officers trailing them, taught how to blend in as well as spot danger, it seemed that Zorel didn't want them unescorted but wanted to give them their freedom, as they visited each settlement, they had two extra private special forces following them from a distance it was nice to know that even though they must have known they were in the settlement that they wanted privacy. And so, the leaders of the settlement had kept quiet only informing the guards they sent out to protect them. Then they would wait until they had left and then they spoke to their people to find out what they knew and what was asked it mainly gave them nothing 'are you happy here' or 'Would you rather return to the surface if you could' it confused the leaders immensely! However, they had made the questions the same two they had been asking in each settlement and none of the leaders understood just what they were really looking for in the answer to those two questions.
They spent the week looking through the settlements before returning to the central one, it seemed each settlement worked on a specific aspect of living even though all settlements held hydroponics and fake daylight with UV assistance as well as the aqua tanks there was a main settlement for growing food, another one housed all wildlife including that which was eaten another worked on technology and future discoveries and one worked on teaching, then the central hub was where everything was sorted out. The five councils in charge knew they had to work together to carry on living and so they did. They didn't always agree but they really worked to help the people living under there care and anyone could move from one settlement to the other depending on where their interests took them.
The three Timelords knew why they were asking the two questions one to make sure stagnation had not settled in and to see whether they would want to re-live on the surface once it was cleaned up. The settlements had the technology they just wouldn't use it because of the Asperians. Now with that threat neutralised and the Shadow Proclamation stating the terms for the Asperians to live, they wanted to find out what Procule wanted now before the Shadow Proclamation came and gave them the terms of the Asperians surrender.
Koschei was shocked the more he walked around he had made this possible and the looks he got from the central settlement made him want to cringe at times, but he could see the pride in his son's eyes when walking around the other settlements, maybe even though they had been set back Procule was still beautiful even with a ruined surface. And it was only because of him they lived happily still, they had even been regaled with stories of the lord Master and how he had saved them all.
The Doctor just looked around with a look of peace in his eyes to see what the Master had done even with the drums in his head was nice for him it let him know that at times the Koschei he knew as a child playing in the red field at home was still in there buried under those bloody drums. He could admit it himself now what the council had done to him was horrendous and should never have been allowed to happen, the council and rest of the Timelords should have not allowed it to happen. What worried him though was why they had done it, there was a reason as Null had stated if they had done it after he took The Moment then they had obviously come up with a way to get out of the time lock, but if they did, so would everything else.
Maybe Null was right and he should let the Master see the war from his point of view so that if the Timelords ever did break the seal then all three would be ready for them. He had caught Null in the library reading the history of the Time War he was first shocked that Null would do this but then after talking to the TARDIS before having a real go at Null he realised he wouldn't show him the time war neither would his father, so he decided to read about it instead. Null now knew about all the horrors but only in an abstract way not in a seeing them at their worst sort of way.
Null it had to be said inherited his dad's smarts as well as his mums from what he had been told, he was a fast learner and loved reading however he didn't like the swimming pool being in the library and had said so on too many occasions to him, but it was his TARDIS and he liked it there it added character or so he told himself. The last few years had been strange for all three of them seeing Koschei once more as himself only as an adult and more assured, yet still vulnerable at times wondering if he really had helped when the drums quieted a little or if he had just dominated in another way, Theta knew that it plagued him but things like this seemed to be helping. Maybe after this trip they should go back to earth for a bit to decompress and let everyone relax for a bit.
Today was the day the representatives of the shadow proclamation arrived, the tunnels to the outside were opened from the main centre and they waited for them to come through the airlocks to get out of the destroyed atmosphere on the planet. All the five councils where there to welcome them with the three timelords in the middle, the Doctor had spoken to the Shadow Proclamation allowing himself to be indebted to them rather than the Master who really didn't want to and Null was too young to ask for help off them and be taken seriously.
It took yet another week for final decisions to be made and then it was put to a vote by everyone as to what course of action they would follow. In the end they would reclaim the surface but not live on it full time only re-seed animal and plant life on there, and Shepperd its growth. They knew now that they could begin to expand again, now they weren't restricted to space, they could live outside of the settlements if they wanted although it was agreed another new settlement would be built to allow for the growth of population still had somewhere safe to retreat to if needed.
After that they stayed around for another month helping them get started, the Doctor decided it was time to leave, they had done enough and with an offer of shelter and care if or when they came back the last was said with hope to Koschei, they loaded back into the TARDIS and the Doctor sent them off into the time vortex.
"So, after we get changed where are we off to next?" asked Null with excitement in his voice.
"Actually, I thought we could return to earth for a week stay at yours and Sirius' and just decompress a bit." Spoke Theta looking between the other two.
Null looked at his dad while he looked at him no choice was made in the timeline and Null realised, they were both actually waiting on him. Even SATURN agreed they should go he should see Sirius.
"Okay but no trouble please and you have to keep Sirius off my back he doesn't know I've been away for so long and I don't want him finding out he will worry I'll disappear on him for good" Null agreed laying out his terms.
He didn't know it but he should have looked past his immediate time line. Sirius was going to find out and it was not going to be pretty.