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Time Scoop.
By TimeTraveller-1900.
When the Doctor saw Whittaker's Time Scoop, several thoughts filled his mind.
He had found Whittaker's time technology which was bringing in the dinosaurs, which had been used by the conspirators to make Operation Golden Age possible (truthfully he didn't understand the logic; why couldn't they have just triggered off their plan without that fact? Or was it a trial run of the technology?)
Whittaker was quite a brilliant temporal physicist. The Time Scoop was primitive and far ahead of its time (pun unintended).
It would be easy to stop them.
Lastly, he could make use of it.
The Doctor was still exiled to Earth by the Time Lords, and aside from the last time he had travelled in the TARDIS, which was with Sarah-Jane Smith to the middle ages to stop the Sontaran Linx from changing history by introducing guns to a time where they were not ready from them, he was still stuck. The TARDIS was still immobilised aside from whenever the Time Lords wanted to send him off to one of their little missions, but while he knew the Time Scoop was useless in its current form, he could perhaps make use of it one day in the future.
If he could get hold of the plans and documents behind Whittaker's research which made the Time Scoop possible, he might rework the designs and not only rediscover some of the knowledge the Time Lords had taken from him when they exiled him and forced him to regenerate, then he could build a time corridor and leave for a different time period like he had tried to do with that Time Bridge he had created using the Time-Space Visualiser.
But when Whittaker and Grover froze the world, the Doctor's natural immunity allowed him to reverse the polarity, but he took the opportunity to read Whittaker's mind and understand his time machine.
He knew he would have to sabotage the device to defeat the two masterminds behind Operation Golden Age. The humans' mind was full of bitterness for how his theories and the results of his work were ridiculed and he felt his contempt for the scientific community which had made him easy to use by Grover, but what interested the Doctor the most was his temporal knowledge.
Whittaker was good but by Time Lord's standards, he knew the human scientist still had a vast amount to learn. Whittaker had apparently found out about time eddies and similar phenomena using radios and other devices which gave him something to work with, and from them, he discovered a great deal about time travel and how time actually worked before he began building devices which relied on them. Time Lords might be contemptuous of someone using something no different from a time contour to move objects and people back and forth through time before being concerned about the potential damage they could cause.
But the Doctor was more interested in what the device could do for him. Time travellers came to the Earth every year, the Doctor and the Master and other Time Lords were proof of that. If he could find a time traveller, then he could persuade them to take him to an age where time travel technology was more commonplace, so he could make use of it himself.
But if he encountered a time traveller who was as bad as the Master, or had stolen it to meddle in history as the Monk did on a regular basis, then he wouldn't have a problem taking it from them…of course, that left the obvious problem of what would happen to them then, but he could always cross that bridge when he came to it.
The Doctor built a second Time Scoop in Cardiff - the original Time Scoop had been sent back in time when Grover and Whittaker both fought over the controls since the scientist had been smart enough to know precisely what he had done - because of the presence of the Cardiff Rift, which was larger and considerably more powerful than a Time Eddy. He had been waiting for a long time for this moment, and he refused to make any kind of mistake.
The work on the Time Scoop, which he liked to see as the Mark 2, took about three months to work on. He had needed to call in some leave and he had travelled to Wales to install the Time Scoop after he had teleported the TARDIS to a house he was letting in Cardiff. The Doctor had improved on Whittaker's initial design by installing the TARDIS console which he had removed again as he had during the early days of his exile, and with the power of the TARDIS and the rift, the Time Scoop should work.
Unfortunately, his problems began at once.
As he looked through the Time Scoop, using the TARDIS's records and the temporal detectors which would pick up another time machine quickly, the Doctor hit a snag quickly.
He couldn't steal the Master's TARDIS. Not only would his old enemy become desperate enough to get it back in all the times and opportunities that the Doctor could have taken the TARDIS away, but he would need to find a different time machine to prevent the Master from becoming desperate enough to make things worse.
Whenever the Master had come to Earth, the Doctor had been tempted to just steal the other time machine, and use it to regain his freedom. Unfortunately, the Master had learnt his lessons the first time around, and so he had since gone to great lengths to hide his TARDIS after losing the dematerialisation circuit.
The Monk was a possibility. The Doctor had met the other Time Lord who had a hobby of meddling in history twice since his exile, and while he was sure the Monk was simply skipping over the Doctor's timeline, it was plausible for him to steal the Monk's TARDIS and free himself that way.
Or what about the Dimension hopping ship belonging to Callandra? The Doctor and Jo who had been there at the time had been transported away before the Doctor could even see if he could take hold of the dimension-hopping ship, and it was still a possibility.
The 70s regressed into the 60s. The Dalek Time Machine which had taken Ian and Barbara home was a possibility. With the Time Scoop, it would be possible to pluck the machine away and shut down the destruct countdown, like with an extraction chamber, but he would have put the Dalek Time Machine back where and when he found it, and restart the destruct countdown.
To the Doctor's surprise, the next image the Time Scoop screen showed were Daleks in an area he recognised instantly as Shoreditch. Daleks? What were they doing there? To his horror, he saw them with the Hand of Omega casket he had prepared for burial. He had known since that visit to the 60s when he had dealt with WOTAN that the Hand was no longer around, but he hadn't expected this. But there was nothing he could do, not until he could find a time machine.
To his relief, the next time machine the Time Scoop detected was a vortex manipulator and easier to access. Sadly, he quickly saw the tall man with the beard wearing the 50s-style leather jacket it was worn by was in 1955, and with some adjustments the Doctor could see that the time traveller was there to send Rosa Parks back through time, changing history completely.
The Doctor selected the time traveller and brought him to the 1970s right after he had materialised in 1955.
The man looked around the room in surprise. "What-?" He blinked before he turned to the Doctor, and then his expression became ugly. "Where am I? Did you bring me here?"
"Obviously and answering your next question, you are in the 1970s. I brought you here because I wanted that vortex manipulator to leave this time," the Doctor said. "I used this Time Scoop to bring you here, and I saw your attempts to change history. Why would you meddle in the events of Rosa Parks?"
"She messed everything up. They should have been kept in their place!" The man spat angrily.
"By them, I take it you mean black people?" The Doctor realised who and what he was dealing with. A racist bigot.
The man lifted his wrist, only to jump back when the Doctor whipped out his sonic screwdriver and made him wince at the hypersonic shriek that made him back up and cover his ears desperately to block the sound out before the Doctor raced over and applied a Venusian aikido move that knocked him out. The Doctor bent down and read his mind, quickly becoming disgusted as he went through the man's mind - Krasko - and saw that Krasko had once committed mass murder and spent a lengthy period of time in Stormcage prison. But while he had received a neural restrictor in his head, he was unrepentant and he was a real racist. He had gotten the idea in his head that if he changed history by sending Rosa Parks back into the past, then the Civil Rights movement would never happen, never understanding they would have started regardless, but Rosa Parks was who history recorded being the catalyst.
Disgusted the Doctor came to a swift decision. He took off the vortex manipulator and took the case with the temporal disruptor Krasko planned to use, and he put them somewhere to the side while he shut down the neural restrictor and he grabbed the disruptor and got to work on it. After five minutes the Doctor stood up and pointed the disruptor at the unconscious Krasko, and triggered the device. Krasko vanished in a haze of light.
The Doctor had just sent him back in time to Ancient Africa. He felt terrible that some people would likely die, but after searching him and discovering Krasko didn't have any other weapons, the Doctor knew he wouldn't be a threat for long.
But as he picked up the vortex manipulator and stared at it in wonder, the Doctor knew that soon everywhere was open to him. He would have to clear the Time Scoop and the console away before he could leave.
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