And so it came to pass, on Wilfred Mott birthday, that the human race did cease to exist. But even then, the man had no concept of his greater role in events. For this was far more than humanity's end.
This day was the day upon which the whole of creation would change forever. This was the day the Time Lords returned.
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It showed them all in the council chambers the Diamond missing now it had been thrown into the schism.
"For Gallifrey." Shouted the Head of the council
"For Gallifrey!" Shouted all the Timelords
"For victory!" Spoke the man again with more power in his voice
"For victory!" They all shouted again
"For the end of time itself!" he shouted out himself
"For the end of time itself!" Replied everyone there even the other main councillors.
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The TARDIS jumped back in time to ten minutes ago and above the Earth, once they were in space, they found the reclamation ship and soon were inside of it. The two Vinivocci appeared on their ship
"How did you beat up here you were surrounded by guards" Spoke the Female, she seemed to be the one in charge.
"Never mind that where is your control centre?" Demanded the Master
"We don't need to worry were one hundred thousand miles from earth."
"And he has all the governments and private security able to look out and launch weapons at us!" Pointed out the Master in his you are thick voice.
"Good point, this way" Spoke the female again and they were all running along the ship to the control room, soon the Doctor had all the power off by blowing the main circuit to say the woman wasn't impressed was an understatement, the others were all sat down while the Master and the Doctor worked on the ship.
"Doctor? Harry? Hello? Hello? Is that you? Doctor? Anyone? Anyone? Oh, I think I'm lost" Spoke Wilfred while he walked along a corridor with tubing on the walls and smoke coming out of certain places to be removed
"And yet you are found. Events are closing. The day is almost upon us. But tell me, old soldier. Did you take up arms?" Asked the woman that Wilfred kept seeing
"I brought this. But what am I supposed to do?"
"This is the Doctor's final battle. At the end of his life, he must stand at arms, or lose himself and all this world, to the End of Time." Spoke the woman gently
"But he never carries guns. He doesn't do. Who are you?" Spoke Wilfred looking confused at the woman
"I was lost, so very long ago". She answered before disappearing, Wilfred stared for a few seconds and then carried on his way
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"Aye, aye. Got this old tub mended?" Was what he first asked of the three Timelords
"Just trying to fix the heating."
"Oh. I've always dreamt of a view like that. Hee, hee. I'm an astronaut. It's dawn over England, look. Brand new day. My wife's buried down there. I might never visit her again now. Do you think he changed them, in their graves?"
"I'm sorry." Spoke the Master
"No, it's not your fault."
"Isn't it?" asked the Master
"Oh, 1948, I was over there. End of the Mandate in Palestine. Private Mott. Skinny little idiot, I was. Stood on this rooftop, in the middle of a skirmish. It was like a blizzard, all of them bullets in the air. The world gone mad. Yeah, you don't want to listen to an old man's tales, do you?"
"I'm older than you" spoke the Doctor joining him.
"Get away."
"I'm one thousand and twenty five years old, The Master is older than me!"
"What, really, though? I thought Harry was joking"
"Yeah. Harry's now between sixty and seventy"
"A thousand years old, we must look like insects to you." Spoke Wilfred in shock
"I think you look like giants." Rebutted the Doctor
"Listen, I, I want you to have this. I've kept it all this time, and I thought!" Wilfred showed him the revolver trying to pass it over to the Doctor
"No." spoke the Doctor without hesitation
"No, but if you take it, you could" tried Wilfred again
"No. You had that gun in the mansion. You could have shot Mr. Naismith there and then."
"Too scared, I suppose…Oh, come on, don't start. But you said, you were told he will knock four times and then you die. Well, that's him, isn't it? Mr Naismith. That noise in his head? That's him isn't it he's going to kill you?
"Yeah"
"Then kill him first." Spoke Wilfred with conviction
"And that's how the noise all started. It's not like I'm an innocent. I've taken lives. I got worse. I got clever. Manipulated people into taking their own. Sometimes I think a Time Lord lives too long. I can't. I just can't."
"If the real Mr. Naismith dies, what happens to all the people? Demanded Wilfred
"I don't know" Answered the Doctor
"Doctor, what happens?" Asked Wilfred with intensity
"The template snaps." Explained the Master
"What, they go back to being human? They're alive, and human. Then don't you dare, sir. Don't you dare put him before them. Now you take this. That's an order, Doctor. Take the gun. You take the gun and save your life. And please don't die. You're the most wonderful man and I don't want you to die"
"Never."
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"A star fell from the sky. Don't you want to know where from? Because now it makes sense," Spoke Mr. Naismith
"It's an open broadcast. Don't reply, or he'll know where we are." Spoke the female
"The whole of my life. My destiny. The star was a diamond. And the diamond is an eight point Star. And I have worked all night to sanctify that gift and allow me to speak with the advanced race that sent me the message to get in touch with them now with billions of people the same as me I can hear the noise and it comes from the skies it came from that diamond" Spoke Mr Naismith
All three Timelords looked shook up
"It should have only affected the Master, how's it affecting him?" asked Harry
"No…..He couldn't have been so stupid, they were ramblings of the drums, he's a top
business man!" spoke the Master shocked and worried.
"What Master?" asked Harry
"The year that never was, in case I lost in the build up to it I had written the Saxon gospels as I had named them, I left written books that would allow someone to resurrect me, but they would have needed my old ring for that, what if he's tried it thinking he was bringing back someone powerful only for it to latch onto him as well. I never thought about them again, they were mad ramblings and there were only a few copies ever made." Spoke the Master subdued.
"So we've got six billion humans all with the drums in their head hearing it's sending them into further madness, he's going to build a portal with the diamond, to pull Gallifrey out of the Time Lock, but they don't realise it will release everything." Spoke Harry looking worried so were the other Timelords. Suddenly the Doctor snatched the gun off Wilfred.
"Then they are in for a fight, Harry I need you to keep them in the lock until they pull the drums out of the Master, Master you stand ready near me so we can get them removed then I'll send them back into the Time lock hopefully that will all work out."
"Oh yes and how to you intend to do that?" Asked the Vinivocci female.
"We're going to use you as a distraction, you're going to fly into the Earths atmosphere heading straight for the mansion, the Master and Harry will take our ship and meet me there. I will tell you when to set off which will let the other two know as they can see outside of even here."
"We are not using this ship, as soon as everything is prepared were going home, were a salvage crew we're not getting messed up in this." Spoke the Female in no uncertain terms.
"We need your guns to shoot all the missiles down, now male vinivocci you and Wilfred into the gun emplacements, its easy Wilfred just line up and shoot. Lady you're with me so you can take over piloting, once I leave the craft." Spoke the Doctor with conviction in his eyes, the oncoming storm was starting to brew. Harry grabbed the Master and they left for the TARDIS once they were inside, they watched both the control room and the outside of the ship they had landed on as it was brought to full power, once the Timelords made it to the edge Harry would have to do everything because it was so hard to read his timeline it would make the council dizzy trying to decipher what he was going to do next, plus he knew stories were still talked about how there use to be psionics within the Timelords.
There must have been fifty missiles sent at them that had to be destroyed before they could damage the ship. As they saw the Doctor hanging through a hatch and watching where they were going they waited, as soon as he let go Harry took the brakes off and hit the leaver to move them, three seconds later they were coming back into phase within the main hall of the mansion, where the machine processor would be.
"Stop this, please stop this" begged The Doctor once he regained his balance after falling through the domed glass roof. Gun in his hand.
"This is Destiny, we will take the world into a new era an enlightened human race. I want nothing more than to give my daughter immortality and this is the first step. These are an ancient society to allow us to commune with them just through a diamond and the beat to ensure the directions were followed"
"Please don't, turn that device off, you have no idea what you are doing! It won't get you want you want." Begged the Doctor they were surrounded by soldiers and scientist all looking the same
"You weren't there in the final days of this civilisations War. You never saw what was born. But if the Timelock's broken, then everything's coming through. Not just the Daleks, but the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could-have-been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres. The War turned into hell. And that's what you've opened, right above the Earth. Hell is descending."
"Just listen! Because even the Time Lords can't survive that." spoke Harry stepping out of the TARDIS with the Master
"We will initiate the Final Sanction. The end of time will come at my hand. The rupture will continue until it rips the Time Vortex apart." Spoke the high chancellor coming into view with others behind him
"That's suicide." Spoke the Master this is what the drums were for.
"We will ascend to become creatures of consciousness alone. Free of these bodies, free of time, and cause and effect, while creation itself ceases to be."
"That's what they were planning in the final days of the War. I had to and have to stop them. They can't come through you know this. Master and I can't see another way." spoke the Doctor to the Master tenderly, he couldn't see the full timeline it was the only option he could see
"But Naismith is to blame, not me. Oh, the link is inside my head. Kill me, the link gets broken, they go back….Go on the do it. But promise me you will look after Harry no matter what you will always be there for him give me that and I will pass." At the mention of Harry The Doctor aimed at the Lord President again.
"Exactly. It's not just me, it's him. He's the link. Kill him!"
"The final act of your life is murder. But which one of us?" Demands Rassilon. Behind the Lord President, the Woman lowered her hands and looks over the Doctor's shoulder. He turned back to face the Master.
"Get out of the way." Demanded the Doctor of the Master
The Master moved and the Doctor shot the diamond in its gizmo.
"Now you two get out of MY way." Spoke Harry to both his dads and they moved aside for him. Harry stepped forward so far gone unseen and suddenly his probe was out and the Timelords were caught behind it.
"I think before we go any further Rassilon WE should talk. I am The Son a psionic Timelord the last and highest form of evolution for our race before ascension. You're trying to look through my timeline to get to me, but you won't and do you know why? Ask the question lord president, after what you have done to MY LADY you will have to ask!"
"The son of who?" ground out Rassilon
"I am the son of DEATH and you have pissed both me and HIM off. Remove the drums from the Master's head NOW!" demanded Harry of him he saw Rassilon hold out his metal hand and say something in high Gallifreyan
"Now we will address the final sanction IT WILL NOT HAPPEN I will run everyone one on Gallifrey through all your regenerations at once before I allow that but instead, you're going back into the timelock set down as my punishment for four point six billion children burning because of YOUR WAR!" and with that he used all his power to push them back into the lock and closed it slowly.
"The link is broken. Back into the Time War, Rassilon. Back into hell." Spoke the Doctor
"Gallifrey falling! Gallifrey falls!" Screamed the seer in the background
"You'll die with me, Doctor." Shouted Rassilon
"I know." Was the simple answer off the Doctor
Rassilon aimed his gauntlet at the Doctor. But before he could do anything The Time Lords disappeared in a bright light and Gallifrey started to fade away from the sky above going back into the time lock.
"I'm alive. I've. But there was. I'm still alive." Spoke the Doctor shocked
"Knock, knock, knock, knock. Knock, knock, knock, knock. Knock, knock, knock, knock. Knock, knock, knock, knock…..They gone, then? Yeah, good-o. If you could let me out?"
"Yeah" spoke the Doctor looking shocked and upset both Harry and the Master saw in the timeline what was going to happen.
"Only, this thing seems to be making a bit of a noise." Spoke Wilfred worriedly
"Mr. Naismith left the Nuclear Bolt running. It's gone into overload"
"And that's bad, is it?"
"No, because all the excess radiation gets vented inside there. Vinvocci glass contains it. All five hundred thousand rads, about to flood that thing."
"Oh. Well, you'd better let me out, then".
"Except it's gone critical. Touch one control and it floods. Even this would set it off." Spoke the Doctor showing his sonic screwdriver.
"I'm sorry."
"Sure." Spoke the Doctor sad knowing the prophecy was coming to pass.
"Look, just leave me."
"Okay, right then, I will. Because you had to go in there, didn't you? You had to go and get stuck, oh yes. Because that's who you are, Wilfred. You were always this. Waiting for me all this time."
"No really, just leave me. I'm an old man, Doctor. I've had my time."
"Well, exactly. Look at you. Not remotely important. But me? I could do so much more. So much more! But this is what I get. My reward. And it's not fair! Oh. Oh. I've lived too long. "
"No. No, no, please, please don't. No, don't! Please don't! Please!"
"Pere let me do It I have unlimited regenerations"
"No this is the prophecy we knew this would happen!...Wilfred, it's my honour…Better be quick. Three, two, one." The Doctor quickly went into the open booth and unlocked Wilfred's side. Wilfred ran out and red light flooded the Doctor's booth. It hurt a lot. The Doctor had curled up into a ball. Then the power shut down. After a few moments, the Doctor got up.
"What? Hello" Shouted Wilfred through the glass the other two Timelords looked heartbroken.
"Hi." Replied the Doctor
"Still with us?" Asked Wilfred not knowing what was going on
"The system's dead. I absorbed it all. Whole thing's kaput. Oh. Now it opens, yeah"
"Well, there we are, then. Safe and sound. Mind you, you're in hell of a state. You've got some battle scars there." Spoke Wilfred looking relived he couldn't see the look on the
Masters and Harry's faces the Doctor rubbed his face and the cuts vanished
"But they've. Your face. How did you do that?" Asked Wilfred really confused
"It's started…We need to get you home and the Vinivocci to collect their equipment come on you three into the TARDIS."
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Once they landed on the opposite side of the street to where Wilfred lived they noticed his daughter running over to them smiling.
"Oh, she's smiling. As if today wasn't bad enough. Anyway, don't go thinking this is goodbye, Wilfred. I'll see you again, one more time."
"What do you mean? When's that?"
"Just keep looking. I'll be there."
"Where are you going?"
"To get my reward." Was the Doctors cryptic response. Before he turned around and shut the TARDIS door behind him.
"I've got about six hours I can hold this off for do you mind if I visit some friends? One last goodbye from me?" The Doctor asked with a vulnerability in his voice.
"Of course we can, where do you want to go." Spoke the Master gently
"First let's check the drums are really gone, Null tie your dad to the railing please then lift your ward from around his head….Koschei drop your occlumency shields and let Null look into your mind" Spoke the Doctor while walking over to the control console and inputting the right time date and area.
"They are gone completely, dad I would suggest making a new watch as soon as possible please along with a new hair follicle that has been previously pulled from the same place."
The Doctor looked over and nodded then sent the TARDIS off while Harry replaced the ward
and untied his dad with a swish of his probe using it as a wand, he had worked out that extending it gave him access to more of his power but he was powerful enough that it didn't need to be extending unless he was doing something very magically taxing.
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Martha and Mickey Smith were running from explosions.
"I told you to stay behind." Spoke up Mickey
"Well, you looked like you needed help. Besides, you're the one who persuaded me to go freelance." Spoke up Martha.
"Yeah, but we're being fired at by a Sontaran. A dumpling with a gun. And this is no place for a married woman."
"Well then. You shouldn't have married me." Was her reply. A Sontaran - Commander Jask, apparently – was on a catwalk behind them with a clear shot, when the Doctor hit him on the probic vent with a hammer, in the back of his neck.
"If we go in here and down to the factory floor, and down past that corridor, then he won't know that we're here." Explained Mickey
"Mickey." Shouted Martha and pointed up to where she saw the Doctor on the catwalk with a rubber hammer in his hand.
"Mickey" She hit him again while pointing only to look at him then back where she was pointing and found the Doctor gone.
"Hey!" mickey shouted out. They hugged to the sound of the TARDIS dematerialising.
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Young Luke Smith was on the phone.
"That was the maddest day ever, Clive. Mum still doesn't know what happened. She got Mister Smith to put out this story saying that Wi-Fi went mad all across the world, giving everyone hallucinations. I mean, how else do you explain it? Everyone with a different face!" Luke spoke as he crossed the road without looking, and the Doctor dragged him away from being run down.
"Doctor what are you doing here? Do you need mum?" But the Doctor didn't answer Luke he just walks back to the TARIDS
"Mum! Mum!"
"What? What is it?"
"It's him. It's the Doctor." Spoke Luke while pointing and there at the door to the TARDIS with the doctor in the front were the three timelords the Doctor just waved goodbye.
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"No, it's not just a story, no. Every word of it's true. I found my great grandmother's diary in the loft, and she was a nurse in 1913, and she fell in love with this man called John Smith. Except he was a visitor from another world. She fell in love with a man from the stars. And she wrote it all down." Spoke Verity, she signed the book for the young man. A Journal of Impossible Things, by Verity Newman, who was the spitting image of her great-grandmother Joan Redfern
"Thank you."
The next book was presented for signing.
"And who's it for?" asked verity nicely.
"The Doctor."
"To the Doctor. Funny, that's the name he used." She looked up at him.
"Was she happy in the end?"
"Yes. Yes, she was. Were you?" she asked him he just nodded his head and walked away talking hold of Harrys hand the Master already holding his other one
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They arrived outside a church traveling back from thirty years in the past, on purpose for this reunion. The bells were ringing for the end of a wedding ceremony. Donna and Shaun were officially married.
"You look lovely. Come here" Said Wilfred he kissed them both.
"Everybody, three cheers. Hip, hip" Shouted Wilfred after moving away from Donna and Shawn
"Hooray!"
"Hip, hip"
"Hooray!"
"Hip, hip."
"Hooray!"
"Right, come on then, you lot. This photo is just with friends. Come on. And I want all of you in it. Come on. That's it. Well, friends, and Nerys. Oh, I'm only joking. Oh, look at her." Shouted Donna in her normal way
"You made me wear peach." Spoke the woman mentioned in annoyance.
"That's because you are a peach. Furry skin, stone inside, going off."
"Okay, smile." Shouted the photographer
"Cheese!" Shouted everyone there
"How about it, Wilfred?" Asked Minnie who he had taken as his plus one.
"Eh?" Asked Wilfred not totally understanding
"Well, it's never too late."
"Will you behave, Minnie. Honestly." Laughed Wilfred
"I'm going to catch that bouquet." She announced then wandered off
"Oh, dear". Donna's mother saw the Doctor and the TARDIS just outside the lych gate. The other two with him were stood by the TARDIS across the road,
"Dad." Said his daughter while pointing to the TARDIS, they spotted the Doctor just past the gate and went out to him.
"And here you are, eh? Same old face. Didn't I tell you you'd be all right? Oh! They've arrested Mister Naismith. It was on the news. Crimes undisclosed. And his daughter. Both of them, locked up. But I keep thinking, Doctor, there's one thing you never told me. That woman. Who was she?"
"I just wanted to give you this. Wedding present. Thing is, I never carry money, so I just popped back in time, borrowed a quid off a really lovely man. Geoffrey Noble, his name was. Have it, he said. Have that on me." Explained the Doctor, Donna's mother was nearly in tears.
"Smile!" shouted out again the photographer, Wilfed gave the envelope to Donna.
"Oh, don't tell me, it's a bill. Just what I need, right now. A lottery ticket? What a cheap present. Who was that? Still, you never know. It's a triple rollover this week. I might get lucky. Oi, Shaun! Come on, we're on a tight schedule. Oxtail soup at two thirty." Spoke Donna with her old attitude back full force Wilfred looked at his daughter in shock then turned around and saluted the Doctor and the two waiting at the door for him, before they left.
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They went into the vortex and appeared above the earth.
"After all this time getting to know Koschei again and getting a son in Null I don't want this to end" Spoke the Doctor upset
"You know we will love you no matter what, at your core you will be the same and that is the man we love not your name or what you can offer just you, me as a son to his Pere and dad loves you, you know that, or he wouldn't keep coming on your mad adventures with you!"
"But it won't be me!" He had actual tears in his eyes
"Pere I can't stop you transforming but I can provide the energy for you as well as allow you to pull a few more out of me if not completely fill up your reserves. As we won't have to worry about you changing shape." Explained Harry taking his hand seeing the gold light start to appear. Quickly stepping away and cutting his own wrist he pushed all the regeneration energy for eight lives into the Doctor the man he now called Pere. Suddenly the Doctor burst out with light his hands flying up to be level with his shoulders and his head leaning back as he screamed as the energy did its work and changed him completely on a microscopic level.
Unfortunately, the Doctor had pulled a lot of energy off Null a lot more than the eight he was planning on giving and the rest was sent flying out of the Doctor, it caused the console to explode and caused a hole through the back wall which led to the library with the pool in it.
All the light went out in the control room then only the red emergency lighting was on and that was flashing. The two fine Timelords ran towards it and tried to use it to get the ship under control, but Harry could see in the timeline they would crash, so he quicky accessed the shields and boosted them up to maximum.
"He took too much of my regeneration energy I had only accounted for giving him back eight lives that would give him twelve again, but he took a lot more and that overspilled."
"Which is now causing us to crash. Grab a hold of something I can't slow her down…. IN FACT, Into the pool it has a gravity wave over it to keep it in, help me with Theta." Spoke the Master annoyed but quickly, they were going down fast. They had just got into the pool soaking themselves through and were holding onto the stepping bars for dear life when the TARDIS bounced and then fell to her side rolling before coming to a complete stop with the door pointing upwards.
"I hate this bloody pool!" spoke Harry still holding on
The Doctor had changed but was releasing a lot of energy into the TARDIS, luckily this time she was containing it. He looked around the same age as he had been, but he had longish dark hair and what seemed to be slight chubby chin, he looked in good condition and all his lives were topped off. He looked also very thin in this reincarnation; they had, had to wait to see what he would look like they couldn't see into the TARDIS but this was the best place to stay after a regeneration until all the energy had finished escaping. An hour later and the Doctor was coming around. Harry was just happy the pool was heated.