The Alternate 4th Doctor: Series 2 Part 2

by BadgerLeopard

The final four stories featuring the Alternate 4th Doctor. Now with a new companion and with an infection to cure, can the Doctor survive? And when he's brought back to a familiar place, how will he cope with what happens next? Features three stories: The Caves of Armesh, Triumph of the Daleks and the Last Song!

4. The Last Song

The Last Song

Featuring the Alternate 4th Doctor

The Doctor piloted his TARDIS towards the Interuniversal Rift. But, when he tried to enter the rift, he found that the rift had simply vanished.
He was trapped in his home universe.
Forever.

However, a small gateway had now opened suddenly and was drawing the TARDIS into it, with an almighty force. The cloister bell began to toll as the ship fell into the gateway and plunged into a universe of darkness.
"What's going on?" the Doctor cried, "Hold on, old girl!"
The TARDIS fell into a universe that looked exactly like his own and began to fall towards Earth. Well, an alternate Earth. One that had one major difference.

On Monday, January 22, something extraordinary happened. Julia Smith was cleaning her house when a police box smashed into her backgarden. She left her house to see what was going on, only to find an old man covered in dirt emerge from his box which had landed doors down on the mud.
"Excuse me, where am I?" the Doctor asked, "I appear to have crashed on your begonias."
"You're in Richmond and it's a Monday. Don't worry about the begonias." Julia simply replied, escorting him inside.

Julia sat the Doctor down in the kitchen and made him a kale smoothie. She passed the smoothie to him and then poured some biscuits out onto a plate.
"Here, have these. They're custard creams but they'll do." she said, sitting down next to him and smiling. The Doctor sipped his smoothie and spat it out immediately.
"Horrid. Which idiot thought a kale smoothie was a good idea?"
"I did. Sorry, did I upset you?" she wondered, before she called out with the voice of a young girl, "Mum, can I have a smoothie?"
This creeped the Doctor out. How could a daughter and a mother be living inside the same mind?
"Sorry about that. Rosie's supposed to be asleep." Julia then said, with a firm, authoritative voice, before changing back to her normal voice and saying, "That was odd. Looks like they have a lot to say to you, don't they?"
"What exactly is going on?"
"Perhaps it's better if I showed you the bodies."

Julia led the Doctor to a wardrobe in her bedroom and opened the door, revealing two other bodies inside it: one was of a man, mid-40s, dressed in a white shirt and tie; the other was of a young girl dressed as a fairy queen.
"This is monstrous." the Doctor remarked, "You've got three minds in one body. Why?"
"Humanity was eating up all of the Earth's resources. We needed a way to survive so one family member from each household was selected at random and their brains were engineered to be more resistant. The other family members would be extracted from their physical forms and inserted into the host's mind. Then the amount of calories would decrease, the human mortality rate would decrease and humanity would survive."
"What about the bodies?"
"Let me show you."

She took out a remote control and pressed two orange buttons. The two bodies stood up and looked at the Doctor and Julia with blank faces. The Doctor raised his eyebrows.
"You've turned them into what? Cleaning robots?"
"They're our maids now, aren't they Rosie?" the authoritative voice of Julia said, before Rosie yelled, "Yes daddy!"
Suddenly, there was a whoosh from outside the window and the Doctor noticed a large wave of white light was crashing towards them, engulfing everything in its path.
"Run, to the TARDIS!" he yelled, rushing down the stairs, through the backdoor and clambering into the TARDIS for shelter. He then activated the TARDIS' defences, only realising that he had left the woman outside when the white wave hit, making the TARDIS whine in pain.

There was nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Reality.

The Doctor was lying on the grass on his back and realised that his TARDIS had vanished. He fumbled his pockets and found his sonic screwdriver, sighing with relief. Strangely however, he found that there were no signs of life around him. No moving cars. No planes. Not even any birds. He had an entire planet to himself.
"I think this is what humans call retirement." he said with a smile, walking inside the house and settling down into the rest of his life.

THE END