A Time Lord And Lady
Two days later, and a full twenty four hours of Mickey tempting to kill Jack later, the Doctor set the coordinates for their next adventure.
Mickey commented "where exactly are we going, not that I mind of course?" he added "please just don't take us some where Jack has an excuse to insult the natives."
Jack sighed "oh honestly, how hell was supposed to know that their species looked like that and weren't horribly disfigured due to a war?"
Rose snorted and said "well, in any case thanks to you, I really got a good bout of excise in since I changed."
The Doctor rolled his eyes and quipped sarcastically "oh yeah sure Jack, and the fact the children looked just like the adults only smaller. Do you really honestly think that the children would have also fought in a war?"
Jack winced and looked sheepish, as he realised the Doctor had a valid point there. He blushed slightly and shook his head holding his hands up in defeat.
Just as the Doctor gave Jack one last affectionately exasperated roll of his eyes, and was about to switch on the TARDIS'S engines, a loud piercing siren went off wailing, as a light on the main console flashed rapidly.
Mickey startled as he asked "what going on? Is there something the matter with the TARDIS?" The Doctor shook his head, his brows furrowed.
"It's a distress signal, someone is calling for help" the Doctor told him, as he checked the coordinates and the message that the TARDIS was picking up on.
The Doctor's frown deepened as he mumbled "no, it is not possible, it can not be." Rose placed a hand on her mates back in comfort and asked what was wrong, as he pressed a switch on the console.
The Doctor told Rose and the others "it is a distress signal, but it is not from another planet."
The others frowned. Jack asked "if it is not from another planet. Then where is it coming from then?"
The Doctor looked up at Jack and replied slowly, his voiced coloured with disbelief "it is not from another planet, the signal is coming from another dimension, a dimension and home to a race of gods and goddesses."
He added "a dimension just outside where Gallifreys main core had once been. They were never wiped out during the Time war, along with the other higher beings."
He explained "the time dimensions were always separate from the universe. Time, it works and moves differently in dimensions then it does in the universe."
Rose asked "and what does the natives of this dimension look like Doctor?" The Doctor and lovingly tugged on one of the long fiery curls framing Rose's face.
He told her "the women are slender and petite, and have high cheek bones and pointed noses a lot like your own, as well as the same shade of green eyes and fiery hair."
He kissed her nose and added "I guess when the TARDIS changed you; they were who she had in mind.
To give you the looks of a female time goddess says a lot about what the TARDIS thinks of you."
Rose blushed beautifully and mentally told the TARDIS 'wow you are full of surprises, I'm truly flattered old girl'
The TARDIS replied 'to Theta you are a goddess, so I decided to give him a mate and bonded who looked like a goddess'
Rose grinned and mouthed the word 'Theta' to the Doctor who flushed embarrassedly and told her telepathically Rose beamed in delight, at the fact she now knew something new and 'Theta, that is my real name, or at least a shortened version of it'personal about her very own Time Lord.
Jack asked "so what do the Time Gods look like if the Time Goddess's resemble Rose?" The Doctor smirked knowingly at Jack, while Mickey rolled his eyes.
The Doctor replied "they have raven hair and pale blue eyes. They are toned and slender and their skin is just like the females, as white as snow."
He finished "the Time gods and goddess's are some of the most beautiful life forms you will ever encounter. They look human, but they aren't. They have a life span of a Millennium times six."
Mickey choked out "you mean to tell me they have the life span of six thousand years?" the Doctor nodded.
He hit a switch and the room was suddenly filled with the sound of a rich and deep male voice.
"This is a call and plea of need to the nearest ship that receives this message. Your assistances is required, my people are in mortal danger. They are dieing, please help us." The message ended there.
The Doctor swallowed and said "there must be a paradox. Not only the Time Lords and Ladies have dealt with paradoxes. Time gods and goddess's have also been known to suffer the occasional paradox."
He finished "whenever they do, which is not all that often, they are usually worse then what us Gallifreyan's normally had dealt with."
He looked pale and sickly "if something has happened to endanger the time dimensions. Once they are destroyed, the entire universe will follow."
He explained when the others frowned "the universe and dimensions are connected in the smallest of ways, if one goes the other will surely follow."
He continued "The Time dimensions and universe is different to our own universe and time and space. As I mentioned, their time and space moves slower then ours. Where as they have dimensions, we don't, we have planets instead."
He went on "Thousands of years ago, the Time Lords and Ladies came to agreement with the gods and goddess's of Time."
He sighed and continued "they would leave the fate and the control of the universe to us Gallifreyan's, as it was what our powers and birth right were based on."
He concluded "and the Time gods and goddess's decided the fate and controlled all the dimensions. We never interfered with the dimensions and universe.
And they agreed to then never interfere with the workings of our planets and our version of the universe."
He shook his head "we all deal with time. But the difference between mine and Rose's kind and the time Gods and goddess's, is that we are alien, and they are superior higher beings."
The Doctor hit another switch and contacted the time god who had sent the signal a few moments later there was a brief crackling sound before the same male voice answered.
"Oh thank you, I'm so glad someone finally answered my call. Who may I ask has picked up on my signal?"
The Doctor replied "I am the Doctor. I am a Time Lord, the second last of my people. My mate and life bonded is the last of our kind."
He continued "your signal reached my TARDIS. My mate, and my two companions, who are both human can assist you, as soon as you explain what the problem is."
The god replied "ah a Time Lord and also Time Lady I presume. My people were under the impression your kind and planet had been destroyed in your Time War. It seems we were only partly correct, not all of you are dead."
He went on "we need your help. Our world is under attack. Our defences have been weakened. We have never received an attack of this magnitude."
He added "alien life forms from various planets from various parts of your universe have some how managed to rip a whole in time separating both universes and invade the time dimensions."
The Doctor felt a chill of dread run down his spine he commented, his voice like ice "if the time dimensions are destroyed, then it shall over lap with all of time and space and my planets and version of the universe."
The god replied "precisely Time Lord. Time and space was never meant to come into contact with the time dimensions.
There has always been an invisible line that has stopped aliens and higher beings from the time dimensions, crossing over into time and space and the whole of the universe."
The Doctor continued on from where the god left off, as he began to pace irritably. "If that hole in time is not refilled and sealed, then aliens and other such time travellers will have access to the dimensions and planets. And visa versa."
He cursed in Gallifreyan. He looked enraged "I will not allow our two different universes to collide, it would be disastrous. It would be the end of everything as both of our universes know it."
The Time God replied "I agree, and am not willing to allow such a catastrophic event to occur either."
The Doctor sighed "this is why our two races agreed all of those thousands of years ago, to leave time and space and our version of the universe and planets to the Time Lords, and the time Dimensions and your version of the universe to you Time gods."
The Doctor pinched the bridge of his nose and finished "the TARDIS, she should be able to slip through the hole that has been created. We'll be there as soon as we can, you have my word."
The Time god replied before disconnecting the signal "thank you, we are in debut to you, your mate and your companions if you succeed and prevent our two universes colliding. I await your arrival."