Echoes of the Future

Featuring the Ninth Doctor

Before, it was better. Life on Jespa used to be brilliant. The Jespans had the ability to control matter with pure thought, which made them a mighty force.
However, that didn't make them mightier than the Daleks. The Time War had come to Jespa, and reduced it to dust and ruins.

The remaining inhabitants of Jespa lived in small villages made out of the ruined buildings. It was better than sleeping on dust and ash.
But, a piece of Dalek technology became buried on Jespa: the Life-Burner. It had the ability to, if activated at a particular person, erase that person from existance, so that they could never been and never have been.
In the wrong hands, that device could destroy the universe.

Village AB2Z, Jespa, 1989.

Near to the food shop of the village stood a blue box. It had only materialised into view a few seconds ago, making its usual wheezing, groaning noise whilst it did so.
The door of the box opened, and a young man, wearing a battered leather jacket stepped out. He looked around, unimpressed.
"Bit smelly. And dusty. But I won't be here for long." he said to himself, with his Northern accent. He closed the door, and pulled out a small, blue cube. Twisting the edges, an electronic compass lit up on the screen, and the man began to follow where the compass pointed.

It lead him out of the village, and along one of the winding roads that linked each village together. Then, he was lead to the left, and eventually found himself standing near a giant metal dome. He walked up to it, and took out a pen-like device, which he activated, letting the end that was closest to the dome's door glow a bright blue.
The door opened, and the man walked inside.

Inside the dome, the Doctor continued to follow the compass, until it eventually lead him to a dimly lit hall, with a meteor in the centre. The compass then began to bleep. He found the point in the hall when the compass bleeped the most, and began to dig, with his bare hands, a hole into the ash floor.

Five minutes later, when the hole was 6 feet deep, the Doctor picked up the Life-Burner, filled the hole, and left the hall.

Outside the dome, the Doctor found himself at gunpoint, by people on hoverbikes.
"Aah, erm... have you by any chance heard of a planet called Gallifrey?" the Doctor asked.
"Yes, we have. Gallifrey are the ones who will start the Time War." the man stood opposite the Doctor replied.
"Will start? But this planet was ruined in the Time War. How can there be a war that will be and has been?"
"There is a time delay field in Jespa's constellation. The further you go, the slower time runs. We already know of the Time War, as it has been for us."
"So, what year is this?"
"This is the Earth year of 1989."
The Doctor then frowned, took out his sonic screwdriver, and activated it at the guns pointed at him. He then pulled a soldier off of a bike, and rode it back to the TARDIS, avoiding laser bows shot by the soldiers.

The Doctor then eventually reached the TARDIS, and, after closing the door behind him as he entered, the TARDIS then left, leaving a square of ash behind.

Inside the TARDIS.

The Doctor held the Life-Burner in his hand, satisified that he had rescued it from falling into the hands of evil.
But, he couldn't escape the fact that he needed someone. Someone to laugh with, talk to, explore the universe with.
No, he thought to himself, I won't. I made a promise to travel alone, and I'm keeping it.
"You won't though, and I know that better than anyone." came a voice. A man wearing a brown pinstripe suit had suddenly appeared.
"Who are you?" the Doctor asked.
The man smiled.
"You know who I am." he replied, before vanishing.
The Doctor sighed, before a flashing red light appeared on the TARDIS' monitor. Alien life had been detected in London, Earth, 2005, on the 26th March.
Well, the Doctor thought, how fantastic is that?

THE END