Last time as you may or may not recall, it was on this strange alien patchwork world that we left Will, Penny, and Barry along with their pets, helping to save a teenage boy of another universe, only to find they are right smack in the middle of a war between the cold, relentless Sea Devils and the ugly faced Klingons, who have only just encountered humans for the first time when...
An explosion blasted the cliffside and knocked several Klingons off of it; Korgar fell near the children. Penny ran in one direction away from both the cliffside and the beach front. The boys followed, Will helping Barry with holding Adric between them.

Sea Devil humanoids, snout turtle faces, fired cannon bazookas from the beach front. Sprays of hot yellow light blasted from the large nozzles. More and more Klingons flew off the cliff. If any of the kids had been in a laughing mood they might have said that the Klingons couldn't cling on to the side of a cliff but they weren't. A few Klingons who were behind the others on the cliff, began firing phaser rays, causing Sea Devils on the beach to shimmer away in a blue haze, turning the reptiles to nothingness. Other Sea Devils kept firing cannon blasts; a tree was blasted in two near Penny and the boys! Chipper ran ahead of Penny, barking furiously. More explosions rained behind the children and blue lines of phasers shot overhead. The noises from these weapons was deafening. Barry yelled, "We have to get out...!"

Penny screamed. Suddenly, the way they were running seemed to shift. Ahead was a valley of pure stone and in it was a mouth of pure death. Long rows of sharp teeth set in a massive skull over four foot long. Each tooth was saw edged and about six inches long. All Penny could see as it loomed an entire face at her. Attached to it was a bulky body 40 feet long and 20 feet high with three foot long arms and tiny "hands" or claws dangling uselessly from it. The well muscled jaw opened as it sprang down at the four humans and the alien space monkey. A Tyrannosaurus Rex!

None of them stood a chance against this monster of devouring menace until something as bulky but closer to the ground slammed into the side of the giant dinosaur. A thing with two large horns and a point like a sword on its nose. Barry and Will, as younger children, used to play with models and toys of dinosaurs and recognized this one as a Triceratops, an adult of an over 30 foot length. The three foot long horns slammed painfully into the Tyrannosaur, knocking it over a bit but it was quick to regain its footing.

Penny saw why the thing saved them. Not far from the foursome was a nest of eggs. "It's a mother," she said over the din but couldn't be heard, "...or a father..."

If the noise from the battling Sea Devils and Klingons was loud, this was ear splitting. The children wondered if they would ever hear again after this...but that hardly mattered when two massive forms were knocking the life out of each other so close to you.

The din awoke a dazed Adric, who tired, heard the roars. Through it all he was able to hear a familiar wheezing and groaning sound. "Over there!" He pointed. On the grassy rock in the canyon, an object slowly came into view. With a grinding sound and the ending sound of a settling house, it stopped. A rectangular blue box upright and with a flashing light on top of it. "It's safety! We can get inside!"

"He's crazy!" Barry spouted.

"Let's try it and find out!" Will yelled.

They rushed toward the London Police Box while the roaring dinos battled closer and closer to it, the Triceratops, primarily a herbivore, protecting her young by moving the T-Rex far from its eggs...and closer to the TARDIS.

The three Earth teenagers pulled Adric behind the box as the monsters towered on the other side, the T-Rex getting speared by the horns in its sides. It kept trying to turn to bite the Triceratops' back but the thing kept turning it using its horns.

Penny read the sign on the blue box, "Police Public Call Box...free for use of public advice and assistance obtainable immediately. Officers and cars respond to urgent calls. Pull to open. Pull?"

Adric grew irritable but almost conked out again. He was trying to say something. Penny opened a square where the message she just read was. Inside was handle and a phone. She pulled the handle, "Nothing." From the rocks overhead, Penny saw more Sea Devils approaching while from the left side of a grove of stones a contingency of Klingons came. A T-Rex tail swung over the TARDIS top and above the heads of the four teens. Penny banged on the box and tried the door handle, pulling it in. Suddenly, it opened inward and two strange men stepped out.

One wore a velvet red jacket and a blue lined cape with a white ruffled shirt, neat and elegant. This tall man had white hair and seemed rather royal if somewhat grandfatherly or like a strong willed uncle, not at all fragile in any sense. He grabbed the falling Adric, who tumbled from a weakening Barry and Will.

The other man was obviously a Navy Officer of some kind, "I'm Doctor Harry Sullivan, quick inside," he said rather cheerily for this situation.

"Doctor?" murmured Adric. The first man pulled Adric into the police box while Harry ushered Penny, Will, and Barry inside while Chipper and Debbie sprang in through the doors around them all. The doors slammed shut just as a phaser bolt hit it--with no effect or damage.

In a large white control room humming with superior technology and filled with odd devices was a tiny girl in a brown puffy Royal dress of another planet, called Traken. She pulled a lever which ended with a red ball like object on it, down, "Closed, Doctor." She stared at Adric as the white haired man carried past and handed over to a younger man, a blond in a yellow jacket with a celery stalk on its lapel .

A curly haired man said, "Well done, Nyssa, well done, well done, well done!"

Nyssa turned to the blond man, "Doctor, it's..."

"I know, Nyssa, I know," the blond man took Adric through a door out of the console room.

"But..."

"Nyssa, not now, not now!"

Penny, Will, and Barry looked around. The room was full of people, mainly normal in facial appearance and human or humanoid but their outfits were outlandish, anachronistic, old fashioned and somewhat futuristic at times. Around the central control column where Nyssa stood was another girl, tinier than even Nyssa and with a pug nosed elfish face. This girl said, "Grandfather, I'll take us out of here."

Standing near a scanner on the left side of the immense room was a crotchety old man with ripped fingers on his gloves, holding a cane, and wearing a Victorian outfit. He practically yelled at the girl, "Yes do so, Susan! We should have, moments ago. But you all insisted on picking up these hitch hikers."

The other man, the curly haired one, tall, over 6 feet, with long brown curls all over his head, a long multi colored scarf, high ankled boots, and a brown tramp like jacket, put his hand on the old man's shoulder, smiling, "Now you wouldn't have wanted us to leave the young ones out there, would you have?" The old man looked at the hand on his shoulder as if he wanted to smack it. The curly haired man smiled a toothy grin, "No, of course not, Doctor."

"I suppose you're correct, young man!" He chucked or cockled, "I sometimes feel I'm not in control of my own TARDIS." He laughed.

Will, Barry and Penny stood by two huge doors and saw other doors and other people. Near a hat stand was a man in a green uniform, obviously military. This was Alistare Lethbridge Stewart and with him were two other military men under his command, Sergeant John Benton and Captain Mike Yates. The tall white haired man stood behind Susan with another girl. A very short blond girl who wore a very short aqua marine vinyl mini skirt of pink and yellow polka dots all over it. The girl said, "Really, Doctor, do tell them what's going on. I think it's only fair. And while you're on about it all, perhaps you'll let me in on it all, too."

"My dear Jo," the white haired man said, "They're safe for now, that's fair, also. The main thing now is to try to leave."

Outside, the Triceratops had the T-Rex flopped on the ground and rolled over it with its horns locked. The police box slowly vanished from the view of the Sea Devils, the Klingons, and the Triceratops. The T Rex didn't notice as it was dead now. The Sea Devils and Klingons were firing on one another, obliterating their groups of scattered forces.

In the TARDIS, were two school teachers, Ian Chesterson and Barbara Wright, a man with a sailor's hat on named Ben Jackson who stood near a tall, long haired and lanky bodied blond girl who also wore a short mini skirt, Polly. Approaching them was a man in a skirt, too. He was obviously Scottish and he introduced himself as "Jamie."

Another girl wearing a bright colored jumpsuit came over next to Penny and Harry, "Hi, I'm Sarah Jane Smith. Welcome to the TARDIS. You are safe here." She had this way of making everything she said seem warm. "I know this must seem overwhelming."

A short man in a what appeared to be a tramp's outfit with a recorder flute sticking out of one pocket and a blue handkerchief from another, came out of the back door with the blond man who also wore a cricket sweater to go with his yellow jacket and pants. A girl in a purple stewardess outfit came up to the young man who exited just behind this bohemian tramp like man. "He should be all right Tegan."

"But Doc, that's..."

"I now, brave heard, Tegan...we'll get to the bottom of it. Just that he's alive."

"I don't understand," was all she could muster through some sort of shock.

"I want to have a word with those three teenagers though," the young man said and rushed up behind Harry and Sarah.

Penny was trying to understand, "This is TARDIS?"

"Yes, my dear girl," the old man joined them, "THE TARDIS, you see," he mumbled and then got a bit giddy at the next thought he expressed, "I bet none of you can understand why it is bigger on the inside than on the out," he chuckled.

Susan gave him an eyeful, "Grandfather..."

Will frowned, "Of course I can. I've seen alien ships like this before. Dimensionally transcendental."

With that the old man lost his giddy attitude and seemed taken back almost mad. He frowned and puffed out while also grabbing his own lapels with his hands and looked his chin upward. The curly haired man came up behind Will and patted him on the back, "Good, good, good. And you and your sister here are two of the Robinsons, I trust?"

"Yes, but...how did you know?" Will wondered.

"Oh, nothing much. I just met you before."

"But we don't..." Will thought for a moment, then pondered the idea, "...I mean we haven't met you."

The Doctor smiled another toothy grin, "It hasn't happened yet."

The white haired man came closer, hardly bending as the other Doctors might have and this time Will noticed he talked with a bit of a lisp, "Don't listen to him, he'll only try to confuse it or do so even if he doesn't confuse it."

"Well, I always do what I'm best at," the Fourth Doctor said.

The young blond smiled, "Look, this is a lot to take in all at once but listen to me the rest of you. Don't crowd them. Would you three like something to eat?"

Barry nodded, "Yes, please, we are kind of hungry."

Everyone moved back as the trio went with the young one to a round white table and sat in a large straw chairs around it. The blond turned to Harry, "Uh, Harry..."

Harry turned to Tegan, "Food machine...?"

Tegan shrugged, "Well, don't look at me."

Susan and Nyssa decided that they would handle the food getting. Harry relieved at their good natures was sure they would bring some hot meal and drink for the guests...and maybe himself, too.

Later, after the meal, Will finished, "Okay, so I understand you're a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey and all that but why are there five of you all called Doctor?"

The curly haired Doctor said seriously, "Well, actually there are eight of us at the moment but we have no idea if our, let me see what they are, sixth, seventh, and eighth selves were saved from whatever this thing is that is taking everyone out of space and time. They might have succumbed."

The little man with bangs ignored him and put his hands in his long pockets, "We're all the same Doctor. We regenerate into a new form in times of danger."

The old man laughed, "Or when we get too old."

Tegan stood behind Penny's chair, "I'd like to know how you came to find Adric."

"We were being chased by these things that looked like, oh, I don't know...," Barry floundered.

"Sea devils," Harry said, "I saw them as we crated these three inside."

"Sea Devils," the Third Doctor lisped, "Good heavens. It's worse than I thought."

Will drank some soda through a swirly straw, "What is? Do you know what's going on, on this planet, Doctors?"

A sudden flurry of excuses filled the air until the moustached Brigadier stepped in, "Doctor! Doctors! Please! One at a time. Excuses I mean."

Doctor 1 started, "First of all, lad, this is not a planet. It is a number of planets of different times and places put together to form a desired universe."

Doctor 2 picked him up, "You may have noticed all the stars have vanished from real space. All the known planets have been collected and put in some kind of device that can jumble them together at will."

Penny and Will looked up at Doctor 3 as he started, stepping on Doctor 2's lines, "...so that this is some type of experiment---someone is watching the result of putting different times together. I realized this as it was happening of course and picked up as many of my friends as I could. Something has to be done about all this though."

Penny nodded, "What does whoever did this hope to gain by all this testing?"

Having sat next to them, Doctor 4 took a sip of tea from a glass on the table, "Very good question. What they have already gained is the entire sum of all the universe--all existence at their beck and call---to be moved about and played with," he sounded much more grim than he did before and much more grim than all the others, "...oh, they'll soon grow bored with it. They are not just trying to play God..." He made his voice rise at that point but then lowered it and whispered the next bit, "...they already are."

Just then, Leela, a savage girl in a leather skin outfit, came in and drew her knife, "Doctor!" She spoke out to the Fourth Doctor, "Romana said the boy is coming around."

Doctor 4 sprang up, "Good, good. And do put that knife away!" Penny, Will and Barry jumped p with him.

"Well, I don't trust them," Leela said in defense of her knife being out.

Doctor 4 took the knife out of her hand, "Don't be silly. They were with my friend Adric."

"I don't trust him, either. Something about his eyes I don't like."

"Nonsense," Doctor 5, the blond, pushed past Leela toward the back door from which a small girl in a beach outfit and a straw hat emerged from.

"Doctor," Romana II called, "Hurry! What's keeping you up?" Doctor 5 frowned and moved around her.

"Come on, Romana," Doctor 4 said and started after. Penny, Will, and Barry followed him and the dark tanned girl Leela until he abruptly stopped, causing all of them to bump into his back and each other. Doctor 4 turned to a tall raven haired woman with a long white flowing robe, "Romana, you take care of the console."

"Yes, Doctor, I already am," she raised her head from under the console, "It's in perfect shape...well at least for this type."

"Type?" The Fourth Doctor shouted, "Type is my 40."

"40 is your type, you mean," the straw hatted girl corrected, "Can we go now please?"

"Oh, well, then carry on, Romana," the Doctor started out again.

Penny tugged on his long scarf and stopped the entourage, "Doctor? You just called that girl in the console room Romana...?"

"Yes, what of it," the Doctor pulled his scarf upward toward his neck and wrapped it, then started leading them toward the other room through a TARDIS hall.

"Well," Penny hurried after him again, "The girl we're following was Romana. Do they have the same name?"

"No," the Doctor opened a door, "The same life."

As he bundled inside, Penny said absently, "Oh..." As if she understood but really didn't.

They were in Adric's old room. Romana was looking over him when they came in. Penny was still confused but kept quiet now. Nyssa and Tegan came in behind them. Doctor 5 stood in a corner quiet and mysterious, wondering.

Barry tugged Nyssa's hanging sleeve, "What's the big mystery now?"

Nyssa could hardly say it, "Adric, well, he...he died."

"He was," Tegan began, "Blown up...saving Earth from a Cyberman trap in the prehistoric past that would have wiped out all history and all mankind."

Adric's eyes opened and he saw both Doctors he knew, "Doctor. Doctors. It...It's you," he spoke slowly. "But how did I get...oh yes, you three." He tried to lean up but fell back but his attempt allowed him to see, "Nyssa! Tegan!" The two girls came to his bedside, one on either side and Tegan touched his arm. Nyssa touched his shoulder. "It is good to see you both again. I didn't think I ever would...I...I don't understand."

Doctor 5 came between Romana II and Tegan, "Nor do we, Adric. We thought you had died."

"Doctor, I...I don't know...I can't remember. Nothing from...the last thing...the very last thing...was those dreadful caves. I hate caves so. We...landed in caves."

Doctor 5 smiled, "You're safe now. That's what matters."

Romana looked at everyone, "He does need his rest though."

"There is something," Adric started just as everyone turned to go and he thought he would rest his head, "If only..."

Doctor 4 ushered Leela, Penny, Will, and Barry out of the room anyway, "Don't worry, old boy, you'll remember."

Tegan had tears in her eyes, "Yes and do get some rest." Adric blinked at her.

Romana took Tegan by the arm, "Come on." Doctor 5 and Nyssa followed them outside. Adric's eyes closed slowly and he fell asleep.

Leela was going on outside in the hallway, "I tell you, Doctor, leave someone with him!" They all walked into the control room as she kept warning them. "I sense something bad!"

Tegan snapped at her, "There's nothing bad about Adric!"

Leela stood close to her, "I am a warrior of the Sevateem tribe and my instincts tell me there is something about that boy..."

"Enough of this bickering!" Doctor 1 yelled, "We have to get to the problem at hand!"

"Hey, where's Chipper?" Barry turned to see Chipper putting his nose up to a mechanical dog called K-9. A nose nozzle came out of K-9's head at the nose and Chipper jumped back. Debbie, the monkey, sat on K-9's back.

K-9 spoke in a mechanical, soft but male voice, "Master, please."

"Debbie," Penny lightly scolded and pulled her off.

"K-9, you do behave now," Romana II was saying in a semi-sarcastic tone as if she didn't really believe he was being bad..

"Yes, Mistress," K-9 squawked, "I will try." K9's nose nozzle moved back in and Chipper promptly licked K-9's nose.

Turning toward a bemused Ian and Barbara, Doctor One yelled, "I'm running a circus!"

Sarah Jane, not far from them, couldn't stifle a laugh.

In his room, on his bed, Adric's eyes popped open quickly and widely. He sat bolt upright.

Dan Erickson and Mark Wilson were walking through wet grass. On either side of them huge moss covered rocks stretched for mile ahead. Dan puffed, "No sign of Barry, Will, or Penny."

Mark was aggravated, something he hadn't been in a long time, "Yeah, not to mention Chipper and Debbie. How'd we end up in this place anyway?" The two men walked on past more solid rocks and the walls of the rocks grew larger as if this was once some riverbed. "I'm not even sure we can find our way back to the Spindrift."

Dan turned around, "Well, it's off that..." He looked behind them, "Hey, where did that forest come from?"

"Ahh, this planet's nuttier than the one we were on," Mark spouted, meaning the Land of the Giants. He moved ahead of Dan, leaving him behind.

Dan started to follow him but it began to rain. The rain began lightly but in seconds fell heavily onto them both and soon the puddles at their feet gave way into the ground. Dan and Mark soon found themselves running through mud. Ahead a huge wall of water splashed down the rock canyon walls at them. The sky instantly darkened as the whole area was cast into a cloud. Mark was thrown against the wall of some rocks which soon melted into mud. More water hit him. Dan fell into a patch of mud, drenched, and unable to see, "Mark! Where are you?"

"Over... here," the other man gurgled. Water filled the area between the rocks and rose up to the waists of both of them. Mark tried to pull his leg out of a slop of gluey mud, "Dan, I'm stuck!"

"So am I!" Dan squinted through watery eyes and saw a new spot of action. A tiny whirlpool opened up and near Mark and the water began to drain down it. "Mark, lookout! Mudhole!"

Mark felt a tug on his leg and instantly like a wet rag he spun into the mudhole and was gone! Dan yelled but a new splashing hit him and he was also washed down into the mudhole.

The SnowCat tractor ventured from Seaview into a raging white blizzard. Admiral Harrimin Nelson and Valerie Scott sat in the front seats, wearing parkas and hoods with snow clothes. Robot was standing in the compartment just behind them. To Nelson's right, Val was fooling with a roughly made computer map. "So Admiral, you are sure where we're heading."

"No," Nelson said absently, trying to keep his mind on driving, "No, I'm not." He was tried to focus his attention to the white inferno outside. Valerie tossed the map behind her, not mindful and unaware it covered the Robot's voice box. Val looked up at a huge snow covered mountain range. Picking up binoculars, she spotted something on top the mountain. Nelson noticed this, "What is it, Miss Scott?"

Val smiled, so formal these military men. "Valerie, please," she smiled, "It looks..." She put her eyes back to the binoculars, "...like a kind of vehicle. Could be some more survivors." She turned back to him and put the binoculars down after he refused to take them.

Nelson stopped the Snow Cat. Well, Val thought, he trusted me. Soon the pair hopped out onto the treads. Nelson peered up, "I'll go up and have a look."

"Good, so will I," Valerie jumped off the treads.

Nelson frowned, "Should I argue?"

Robot flung the map to the floor of the Snow Cat, the door still open, "Do not ask a mechanical man what is perfectly obvious."

"Good advice, stay here and scout the general area around the Snow Cat," Nelson ordered, "But not too far from it."

"Affirmative."

Valerie was wandering under an entire section of ice trees. Nelson began to run after her in his white-yellow down jacket with parka over it, "Slow down and stop running like that!"

"Why? The snow is packed," she tripped as she said this. Val fell on her stomach and her face was an inch away from a number of razor sharp ice stalks, once plants on the ground.

"Because, these ice trees could slice your head off in seconds," called Nelson, not yet quite reaching her and unaware of her near fatal accident.

Slowly, Val inched her face away from the ice stalks, "Now he tells me." She stood up just as Nelson finally joined her.

"Now where did you see this thing?" He rubbed his gloves together.

"There," she pointed up a hill where the snow still fell. The two moved that way.

The room was dark and antiquated. Wooden. Part of the TARDIS which hadn't been in use for a few years and for decades before that. This was the old original control room area---dark and wooden structures with a smaller central column than the white control room. The console here was of a hexagonal shape with some kind of mirror on the center stalk. Colored portholes were on the wall, unlike the roundels of the rest of the TARDIS. These looked almost like stained glass windows in a church. A creaky door opened from the inner hall and Adric stepped inside. He moved to the console and opened a panel on the side of it.

Leela, the savage warrior, looked into Adric's room and found the bed empty. She cocked her head as if a dog hearing a loud noise, sensing something, trying to locate the boy's smell. Leela left the room and walked past another roundel covered wall of another hallway.

In the new control room, Doctor One snapped, "We're in time now but not space."

Doctor 4 frowned, "...and we can't get past this barrier into this unknown area."

Sarah Jane moved between Doctor 4 and Doctor 2, "Is that where these people or whatever they are, well, are?"

"It are," Doctor 4 smiled a tooth grin at her, bending down to the smaller woman, who was about 5'4.

"I would have killed that one," huffing at him and impatient, Tegan pushed past Nyssa and Susan to look at the console with Doctor 5 and the two Romana girls, "What's the problem then, Docs? Why is this barrier too strong for the TARDIS?"

"Docs?" Doctor One stammered, "I thought I told you never to call me that again!"

Doctor 2 embarrassingly looked down, waving his short arms around, "Well, my dear, you see the arc of the spatial coordinates vary inversely with the time elements within which our TARDIS cannot materialize its present copit..."

Tegan frowned and interrupted, looked at her Doctor 5 and said, "He sounds like you."

Barry stood from his seat, "Look, you people do a lot of talking but we have to find a way in."

Doc 3 rubbed the back of his neck, "That's the difficult bit really."

Polly spoke up, "And it sounds like the dangerous bit, too. Why can't we just stay in the TARDIS. We're safe here, I mean, after all...right."

Leela rushed into the old control room and saw the teen, "What are you doing?" She grabbed Adric away from the console but he had managed to press five square buttons. Leela twisted his arm, making him gasp, "What have you done?"

In the room, several large hard reptilian forms appeared, bulky and barrel chested - Ice Warriors in green armor. A man with large talons and an Oriental face mask Leela recognized at once as Weng Chiang, really Magnus Greel, a war criminal from the far future also appeared, his long cape flowing. In his hands was the pig faced midget doll like servant, Mister Sin, a homunculus, with the spinal cord of a pig and mechanical parts. Large slow moving mollusk monsters with antennas, called Tractators appeared along with fish amphibian Marsh men---what Adric's people evolved from, small hooded crusty faced Exxilons and other various figures from all over time and space. Leela grabbed Adric and hurled him out the door, following him and slamming it closed. "Doctor! Oh! Doctor! Doctors!"

Doctors 3 and 4 came running into the hallway near her. 4 yelled, "Leela let him go!"

"Doctor, in there," Leela yelled.

"Great balls of fire," Doctor 3 saw a snout faced Kraal, with stone features, open the door. He had a small ray gun but Doctor 3 kicked it from its hand using his Venusian karate. A crystallized man, bulky and covered with diamond like shapes all over his body came out from behind the Kraal. Doctor 3 said, "Let's get outta here!" The four ran down the hall toward the white control room. Leela was practically dragging Adric.

Doctor 4 opened the door to the white room, "Come on everyone," he said in his best serious tone, "...we have to get out of here."

Leela said, "The Doctor's right. We will be trapped in here if..."

The Brigadier marched up to them, "Why Doctor? What's wrong?" He asked this to Doctor 3, the one he worked with the most, although he worked with all the Doctors at one time or another.

Doctor 3 puffed, "A whole army of monsters is inside the TARDIS. My TARDIS! As if this isn't bad enough having all of you...anyway, now all of you...down this corridor!"

Barbara, Ian, Polly and Ben went out first. Leela still held Adric's arm, "Shall I kill him now, Doctor?" She asked of Doctor 4.

"Leela please," Doctor 4 stammered, 'He must have correlated the TARDIS memory cell to bring them to life."

Jo Grant, Nyssa, Tegan, Barry, Will, and Penny followed the two Romanas out into the hallway.

The Third Doctor headed them, "This way and hurry!"

Doctor 5 and Susan helped Doctor 1 out into the hallway where Leela had Adric with Doctor 4 and Sarah Jane. The Brig, Mike, and Benton pulled out revolvers to fire on the monsters. An explosion blasted above Doctor 1 and Susan's heads, causing them to duck. Doctor 5 says, "I think we can reverse it!" Something was turning a corridor and wheeling down on them.

Doctor 1 yelled, "Think, my boy? You should know! I mean I should know!"

A large file cabinet shaped box with tubes holding a glass casing on the upper surface held within this transparent fishbowl a shrunken, mutated head. Doctor 5 recognized it, "Arcturus!"

The voice box came out of the speaker on the front, "Doctor! I will have my revenge on you! Five times over!"

Leela sprang into action. She shoved Adric to Benton's arms and moved into a run, diving over Arcturus, evading his spray of blasts, drawing his fire from her friends and Doctors. Arcturus turned his box body to fire at her but found himself facing a party of advancing Ice Warriors. Arcturus was mad, insane now, 'Leave me alone girl! I want to destroy you and all of your friends!"

"Susan," Doctor 1 called to her and they ran down the hall, taking Leela's diversion.

Leela scooted behind the alien box and sent it crashing into the Ice Warriors, both they and the box firing blindly. Arcturus exploded into the Ice Warriors as Leela ran back to the four military men, "We must reach a more fortified barrier!"

"I'll say," the Brig shot as Mr. Sin but the pig faced doll only laughed at him. "Come on, Doctor, never changes with you, does it?"

Doctor 2 didn't leave the console room. He was instead, working on it furiously, also furiously ignoring all around him. Jamie stood behind him, watching the door, listening to the attacks outside, and then turning back, nervously. He had brawn and strength but he had seen too many of the Doctor's adversaries to think that would be enough. Doctor 2 moved from foot to another and like a child, cried out in glee, "There Jamie, you see, I've done it!"

Jamie grabbed his arm and pulled him, "Oh Doctor, come on!"

They ran into the hallway where giant vampire stone slabs called Ogri glowed red with inner blood. The stones were big and bulky but moved fast, making terrible power drawing sounds. A few remaining Ice Warriors were not far from them and an insect like creature with dangling leaf like arms. Doctor 2 merely laughed, rubbing his hands together, "They can't hurt us!"

"Tell that to them, please," the Brig shot some more but soon realized it was useless work. An Ogri and other monster approached the group. "Time to draw back!" The Brig, Jamie, Doctor 2, Leela, Mike, and Benton left the area just behind Harry.

As they moved, the Doctor Two kept babbling to the Brig and Jamie, "There is only one drawback."

"To what, Doctor, for heaven's sake?" The Brig said, "I knew this contraption of yours would someday be my undoing."

Doctor 2 ignored him, "I've realigned the timal rectifier so their weapons cannot harm us," the tiny Doctor laughed, "But as I've said, there's only one drawback..."

Jamie asks, "Aye, what's that?"

"Our weapons cannot hurt them," Doctor 2 frowned and looked down sheepishly.

"What? Oh that makes things much more comforting," he looked back at the others, who were more worried from approaching Ogri.

Dan and Mark feel and fell and fell and fell...into a deep underground canyon! Mud and water rained down with them and they landed in a rushing river in a long cavern. The river began to carry them off. Two fins seemed to be also speeding at them from behind and going with the river. Dan bopped his head above water, "Sharks!" Mark's head went underwater as he passed out. A bluish shark rose up a bit from the raging surface. To Dan's relief and also horror, he saw the shark was not a shark from Earth but a shark man! The face was elongated with a large mouth of razor sharp teeth, but with just enough slight human overtones, to make it real creepy. Another of these grabbed Dan, swimming as a missile from the other and arching around to Dan's back. Dan wanted to struggle but the raging sea had him and now this shark being did. If death didn't already come by now, he imagined these beings were taking him and Mark for questioning. Not unlike the giants, he mused. Dan relaxed from fighting the sea. The sharkmen were more fish-like than human. They had arms and legs with fin shaped endings which they used to carry the two men.

In TARDIS, the first five of eight Doctors, a host of some of their companions, Penny, Barry and Will raced into a large lounge which abounded with cushion chairs, a colorful built in swimming pool, large potted plants and trees, some of the plants hanging from the ceiling. Sarah caught her breath and held her stomach, "Where do we go? Those things will be all over the TARDIS!"

The Brig took a look at her, "Miss Smith, why are you dressed like Andy Pandy?"

"Not now, Lethbridge," Doctor 3 smiled. He rubbed his neck, "I have a plan but it would mean going back to the earlier console room."

The Fourth Doctor said, "I know you plan and I'll go with you."

Sarah protested, "Oh no Doctor, you can't go anywhere near there. That's where they're coming from. The area will be literally crawling with your worst enemies."

Leela, watching the door, turned back in, "Doctors, your enemies are approaching."

The 5th Doctor waved his arms at Tegan and Nyssa, "If all of you can keep them busy we might be able to reach the antiquated control room."

Doctor One took exception to that, "Antiquated indeed."

Susan smiled, "Grandfather, he is you, so it is you saying that."

"Indeed it is not," the Doctor One folded his arms in a huff.

Tegan had a hold of Adric, taking him, protectively from Benton. After all, she knew him better than most, if not all, of these others. "What about Adric?"

"We'll find out later," Doctor 5 yelled as he struggled to open a dark doorway, behind a curtain and out of place in this white and cheerful room. "C'mon, someone help me!"

Doctor 1 waved his cane, "I believe we can reach it if we go that way, Doctors."

Harry turned to the 4th Doctor, "You're all going?"

Leela yelled, "Hurry, those things are almost here!"

The five Doctors slipped out the back way while the Brig opened the white, regular room doorway, "We will lead them out this way---away from the Doctors."

"They deserting us," Adric murmured.

Nyssa was close by, "Adric, you know that's not true."

"Look out," screamed Penny.

Three orange blob men came rampaging in from the first door. Jo Grant shrieked, "Axons!" The stringy bodies of the blob men moved in and from each came long tentacles. One struck out and grabbed Tegan around the waist, pulling her. Adric fell out of her grabbed and into a chair. Penny and Barry grabbed at the tentacle while Leela tried to cut it with her knife. Jo told them, "They are part of the same creature--Axos!"

"I don't care what it is a part of," Leela sneered at it.

"Tegan!" Nyssa was caught unaware as another tentacle from another Axon caught her around the arm and pulled her toward it. Susan, next to Nyssa, screamed loudly. The Brig, Harry, Mike and Benton tried to free Nyssa.

"Brigadier, Ice Warriors!" Sarah Jane yelled. One moved at her. Jamie tried to pull it back from Sarah but he was slammed into by a rugged shell like arm and was knocked to the floor! Sarah backed into a wall as the Ice Warrior proceeded at her, "Doctor!"

Outside, a raging blizzard hampered Valerie and Nelson's climb up to the silver rocket ship. Using a rope with an attached hook from Nelson's gear, they had made their way up an icy slope with dangerous footing. The pair managed to go under the rocket on top the cliff---with enough room between the ground and the rocket for them to stand, the rocket on top icy rocks and not flat ground. Hard rocks had tilted the rocket to a slant.

Val saw it first, "Admiral, a door."

Nelson lifted her up to a square hatch and she opened it using a small handle on the outside. As it opened, a ladder slowly came down on automatic. They walked carefully out of the biting wind into the shelter of the strange spaceship.

They found themselves walking cautiously through a single control area that spread almost the entire length of the rocket. Around one circular control panel were numerous devices but the rest of the ship was bare, devoid of humanly comforts. There was one lone chair, metal like all else on this ship. A long haired boy sat in it. A boy with brown hair and he was slumped over, obviously tied. They couldn't see his face. He had on simple Earth clothes---a checkered shirt and bell bottom pants, Valerie winced. He must be from the 1970s, she thought. She also noticed a strange metallic band around his ample locks of hair. Nelson started to approach the chair. He turned to the redheaded girl, "Uh, uh---come on."

"Be careful, Admiral," Valerie followed slowly. This smelled like a baited trap of some kind.

Nelson went up to the boy and looked back at the girl as he shook him. He turned to the boy, "Son? Son, can you hear me?" Nelson moved the head up. The face, almost girlish, was of a pale white boy, "Son?"

"I'll untie him," Valerie started on the ropes.

Nelson examined the controls as she did so. He came back to the boy by the time she finished, "He seems to be passed out or...now what is this?" Nelson reached for the band on the boy's head but it glowed red as he touched it. The boy screamed, fully awake! He jolted out of the chair, screaming and then fell silent!

In TARDIS' lounge, Sarah Jane Smith was choking at the rigid hand of an Ice Warrior who held her whole frame up against the wall with one arm as it choked her with the other. "I'm choking! I...can't...breath!" Jamie was trying to pull it away from her but it just knocked him down with a swat of the free arm.

Another Ice Warrior picked up a pot and stood above Adric, who, dazed, was on the couch. Leela succeeded in cutting an Axon tentacle with her knife and freed Tegan. Tegan went spiraling into the wall and Leela saw a new Ice Warrior threatening Adric, over the couch. She ran to it and knocked it aside with all her might. The Brigadier pulled Nyssa away from the Axon mass. Adric was pulled up by Leela. "You...you helped me."

"You are the Doctor's friend," Leela spurted, "...and his judgement is what counts." She pulled him away with her as Benton grabbed a pedestal and hit the Ice Warrior that held onto Sarah. The Ice Warrior fell away and Sarah fell straight down the wall. Benton helped her up. She rubbed her neck.

Benton pulled her arm, "We have to get out of here, Miss. If you're okay?"

"Yes, half choked, falling all over the place, just like day to day with the Doctor."

"Let's move," one of the companions said. And they did.

"Mr. McCrimmon," the Brig helped him up as Nyssa, Jo Grant, Tegan, and Penny ran out the back way, following Leela and Adric. Blocking their way this time were a group of half naked green skinned savages with dreadlocks hair. The first Romana ran up behind the others, "They're called Swampies in unpolitically correct terms." She sounded smug but didn't mean to be.

"There are too many of them," Penny noted. "We'll never get past."

"We shall see," Leela threw herself at them on an angle, almost horizontally, taking down four of them. She kicked her way up and downed two more. Then she took two of the green men and hit their heads together before they could recover from her first assault. "We are still outnumbered!"

"Voords!" Susan ducked as a huge, black rubber like thing threw a spiraling spiked wheel. It hit a wall behind her head. Five more of these things were behind it. They had fish like triangular topped heads and a shark like beak. The Voord and the Swampies seemed to regroup as one mass.

The first Romana whispered to the second, "What are the Doctors doing?"

The second Romana put her head next to her, "Improvising."

Tegan said, "They'd better do something more than that---fast!"

Susan nodded to them, "I know the little Doctor said they can't hurt us but...the look of them makes me wonder!"

The Brig, Will, Barry, Jamie, Benton, and Mike came running to them. Barry looked back at huge black Mandrels which had foamy stringy mouths and large feet. The monsters were moving up on them, 8 feet of black bodied terror, big flower like mouths and yellow eyes. Their gorilla like bodies were covered in hair. Benton, Mike, and Harry began to help Leela fight the Swampies off, who were limp dolls before them, poor fighters it would seem, or was this just the projection the TARDIS had of the green aliens from Delta Magna? The warriors were easily overtaken by a barrage of kicks, flips, punches, and jabs. Voords approached from one side. One in front, yakked, "I, Yartek, want to question you humans---before you die."

The Mandrels moved in closer to the Brig, Jamie, Will and Barry. The four urged the others away. A Mandrel swished a claw at the Brig who ducked. Barry fell and another Mandrel lifted a chair over his head. Will pulled Barry's arms, "Look out!" He pulled the boy away just as the chair hit.

Voords removed spike frisbees from their rubber suits. Nyssa gasped, "Come on Doctors! Do something!"

The five Doctors were running down a hallway almost in order of their regeneration's. 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st Doctors rushed past fuming Krynoid plant monster and into the Old Wooden Control Room. Inside, a number of greenish globs of what used to be men were moving around. The Five Doctors pushed past them. The 3rd Doctor called to the 4th and 5th, "Try reversing the polarity of the neutron flow! It's the only way!"

The 1st Doctor hit a hooded Exxilion with his cane, "But match this console with the new console. It will negate the memory inducer!"

In the hallway, a Mandrel grabbed Jamie's sides and seemed intent on squeezing the life out of the boy.

The 5th Doctor yelled as they all worked on the console as feverishly as they could, "Punch in the sequence!"

"I am," the 4th Doctor snapped.

A Voord pulled Susan and Nyssa with one hand on both their own hands while a Swampie leveled a spear at Adric's stomach.

The 4th Doctor was at the console and was being pulled by a green bug monster Wirn, a giant wasp like entity, "I am finding this rather difficult an atmosphere to think in."

"My, my, I am not what I used to be when I was young like myself here," the old looking Doctor, actually the youngest, smiled and laughed.

"I do wish you'd stop saying things like that," the 4th snapped, "I mean I do wish I would stop saying things like that about myself!" More Wirn attacked him from behind.

"Doctor, lookout," the 2nd Doctor yelled above the din the monsters around them all were making.

"No need to shout," the 4th Doctor said, "There!" The Doctors grinned as the Wirn vanished.

Adric watched the Swampie vanish just as the spear was thrust at his stomach. The Voord holding Nyssa and Susan was gone. The Mandrels vanished. Everyone laughed in a release of tension and began to calm down.

The TARDIS materialized in a nice smelling pine forest. Penny Robinson, Will Robinson, and Barry Lockridge came out of the double doors and bid a farewell to the Doctors and companions. Will looked at Doctor 1, "You still think whoever is behind this is a Time Lord, like yourself? One of your own people?"

"Yes, I do, young whipper snapper," the 1st Doctor snorted, "There are many that have strayed."

The 3rd smiled, "Yes, like us, unfortunately." He rubbed the back of his neck.

"The Monk, Omega," the 1st Doctor went on.

"Another escaped a long time ago," pondered Doctor 2, "We have forgotten his name. I think he called himself a doctor, too. Nothing like us, though."

"Be on your guard," Doctor 3 warned, "We'll try to find a way in from our TARDIS."

Penny smiled, "And we have to keep looking for our family and friends. Thank you for your help and for the offer to stay."

Leaving the TARDIS the three children turned to see it slowly vanish. Someone was watching them from a dark, black area. Someone who laughed sinisterly. "Oh, Doctor, you are a fool now. I have you all. Ever the fool I have you."

In Adric's room, the 5th and 4th Doctor were with Tegan as Adric lay on his bed. Leela walked in, "How is he now, Doc..."

"Shh, shh," the 4th Doctor waved his hand, "Shh. Good, good. He's unhypnotized."

"Hypnotized?" Leela rolled her eyes.

"Who did that to him?" Tegan asked, leaning on the 4th Doctor's back.

"Only Adric can tell us now," the 5th Doctor said from the other side of the bed.

"Well," the 4th Doctor stared at Adric, "Adric. Can you?"

Adric seemed uneasy. Tegan was springing to his defense. "Please, Doctor, Doctors," she puffed, looking at both of them, "He's been through a lot."

"Doctor," Adric's eyes widened as he sat up, "I remember. I was on the freighter. I...I was going to die. A...a TARDIS appeared. Your TARDIS. Shaped like a police box. I called to you, warning. There was no time left to save me. The door opened..." He stuttered. "I ran inside. The door shut and we took off. The freighter blew up."

Tegan gulped, "We thought you were on it."

"It would have been better had I been," he buried his face in his hands.

"Why?" The 5th Doctor, bright and cherry, blond, frowned at him.

"It was his TARDIS, The Master!"

"The Master," the 3rd Doctor came into the room again, "Don't tell me, he's here." Jo was at his side.

"He brought me here---to find...and kill you, Doctor," Adric put his head on the pillow now, leaning back again, "...and...and I would have."

Little Jo Grant pushed past Doctor 3 and 4 and Leela and put her hands on Adric's hands near his stomach, "Oh don't you worry about it. Why that dirty neck Master did the same thing to me once."

"Why yes, that's right, Jo," the 3rd Doctor agreed, "Why, my memory is getting terrible." He snickered.

"He did?" Adric sat up, a bit more cheerfully.'

"Yes, caused me to almost kill the Doctor," Jo laughed, looking back at the 3rd, "But I didn't. Just like you didn't. So don't worry." She took his hands and shook them. He felt lots of rings on her fingers.

Adric's smile dropped suddenly, "Doctor," he looked up at the 4th, "I just remembered something else. The Master had a back up plan. He's..." Adric jumped up suddenly and out of bed, sprang out the door before anyone could stop him.

Jo frowned, "Well, he seems better."

"Metabolism," the 5th Doctor moved away from the bed, "Faster than Earth humans, humanoids." He went to the door, "Come on!" He ran out as suddenly as Adric had. They all ran after him to the newest control room where they found Sarah Jane, Jamie, Susan, and Doctors 1 and 2 staring at the scanner.

Adric was trying to override the controls. Doctor 4 looked at him, "What did you do?"

Jo frowned, "Doctor!"

"I mean," the 4th Doctor looked at her and smiled, then dropped the smile as he looked back at Adric, "...what did he make you do?"

"From the other console room, I've set a fixed course...when we materialized and then dematerialized--we activated it..." Adric stopped.

Sarah nodded, "Doctors, look at the scanner!"

"It's him," Jo said, "A little different but he...he's the Master, isnnhe?"

"My dear Miss Grant, how nice of you to remember me. Of all the Doctors' companions, it is you I admire the most, although why I have no idea. It is Adric's skill I have been able to use time and time again, so to speak." The dark suited, black beared goatee wearing Master was in his own more bleak TARDIS, "My dear Doctors, how nice to see all of you again. Face to faces."

"Well, you managed to bungle it again," The 3rd said, "This is not all of us."

The 1st Doctor tried to stop him from telling that, "No, young man...do not..." He merely nodded now.

The Master mockingly said, "Oh really. In the time I came from, I only knew five of you. So there are more of you, huh? Just how many I wonder."

"Oh get off it," the 2nd Doctor said.

The 3rd added, "Yes, and just get round to telling us what you've done now."

"He will, don't worry," Tegan said, "He loves this part."

"Very well," The Master grinned from the scanner, "Through the brilliance of the boy, I have made it impossible for you to appear any where, any time. You're on a fixed trajectory---in an endless circle. You are all locked inside that hut of a so called TARDIS forever!" The Master laughed at them all in one long hideously sinister and mocking laugh.

"It's true," Adric puffed.

"Doctor," Tegan closed her eyes and then recalled, "Doctors...as much as I like the TARDIS..."

"You'll all have long lives," chuckled the Master, "Possibly forever eternal but you will never get outside the TARDIS again. Just try. Well, I must be going. People to kill and places to burn. And three very unsuspecting children, two Robinsons and one Lockridge, birds I think they are, to abuse. Enjoy your prison! You all deserve it and each other! Farewell!"

The Master laughed over and over and over again and again...they couldn't shut the scanner on him so had to tolerate it until he left them...forever