Vivian III
The Zygon-Elizabeth lead them through the corridors of the Tower to the Zygon control center. Vivian walked next to Ten while The Warrior and The Doctor walked behind them side by side. The Human companion, Clara, walked in front of Ten and Vivian, but behind the Queen.
"The Zygons lost their own world. It burnt in the first days of the Time War. A new home is required." Zygon-Elizabeth spoke with an evil smile.
"So they want this one." Concluded Clara.
Zygon-Elizabeth scoffed and eyed Clara, "Not yet. It's far too primitive. Zygons are used to a certain level of comfort."
A Zygon marches up to the group, "Commander, why are these creatures here?" He asked in a low tone.
The Zygon-Elizabeth's lips twitched upwards into a smirk, "Because I say they should be. It is time you too were translated. Observe this." She turned her head towards Ten, "I believe you will find it fascinating." The Zygon puts his hand on a glass cube with dents in the corners, then vanishes. The 3D landscape painting from the Under Gallery is nearby.
Clara let out a small gasp, "That's him! That's the Zygon in the picture now."
"It's not a picture, it's a stasis cube." Vivian stated. "Time Lord art. Frozen instants in time, bigger on the inside, but could be deployed as-" Vivian bit her lip from saying anything… inappropriate as Ten interrupted her.
"Suspended animation. Oh, that's very good. The Zygons all pop inside the pictures, wait a few centuries till the planet's a bit more interesting, and then out they come."
The Doctor leaned in a bit to Clara to explain, "You see, Clara, they're stored in the paintings in the Under Gallery, like cup-a-soups. Except you add time, if you can picture that. Nobody could picture that. Forget I said cup-a-soups."
"And now the world is worth conquering." Clara concluded, "So the Zygons are invading the future from the past."
"Exactly." The Doctor nodded.
"And do you know why I know that you're a fake? Because you're such a bad copy. It's not just the smell, or the unconvincing hair, or the atrocious teeth, or the eyes just a bit too close together, or the breath that could stun a horse. It's because my Elizabeth, the real Elizabeth, would never be stupid enough to reveal her own plan. Honestly, why would you do that?" Ten asked.
Elizabeth gave Ten a cold stare, "Because it's not my plan. And I am the real Elizabeth."
Ten gulped as Vivian snorted, "Okay. So, backtracking a moment just to lend context to my earlier remarks."
"My twin is dead in the forest. I am accustomed to taking precautions." Elizabeth produced a dagger from the garter beneath her skirts and held it infront of her. Vivian immediately tensed the moment she saw a weapon. The Doctor apparently noticed her tense because he briefly touched the back of her hand, "These Zygon creatures never even considered that it was me who survived rather than their own commander. The arrogance that typifies their kind."
"Zygons?" Clara inquired.
Elizabeth glanced at Clara, "Men." She replied.
"To true." Vivian stated.
"And you actually killed one of them?" Clara asked, having a hard time believing that Queen Elizabeth would be able to kill anyone.
"I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but at the time, so did the Zygon. The future of my kingdom is imperilled." Elizabeth turned to Ten, "Doctor, can I rely on your service?"
"Well, I'm going to need my TARDIS." Ten said.
"It has been procured already." Elizabeth replied.
"Ah."
Elizabeth smiled, "But first, my love, you have a promise to keep."
The group of The Doctor, Ten, Warrior, Clara, Vivian and Queen Elizabeth were out in a courtyard of the royal palace in London, England. The clergyman was holding a bible that was open. Ten and Elizabeth were standing in front of each other holding hands while The Doctor, Warrior, Clara and Vivian stood off to the side. Clara was holding a basket of rose petals.
"I now pronounce you man and wife." The Clergyman stated.
"Woo hoo!" Clara whooped.
"You may kiss the bride." The Clergyman concluded the ceremony and Elizabeth enthusiastically kissed Ten while his arms flared about uncomfortably.
"Is there a lot of this in the future?" Warrior asked The Doctor.
The Doctor glanced at Vivian quickly and then away and mumbled, "It does start to happen, yeah."
"Wow, Doctor. Just… wow." Vivian said, shaking her head. It was a blatant disregard for Time Lord tradition, marrying more than one female. Marriage was sacred in Time Lord society because of the longevity of Time Lords and because of the ancient laws. You were only supposed to marry once. The Doctor threw the five thousand year tradition and laws out of the window, "It's no wonder why we were warned about you."
The Doctor turned and glared at her, "Hey! I don't go out of my way to marry every woman I see."
"Disregard for the ancient laws… ring a bell?" Vivian spat as The Doctor shrank back from Vivian's stare, "Oh, and weren't you exiled to Earth once." At that Clara turned to The Doctor with wide eyes. Apparently Clara didn't know everything about him.
"God speed, my love." Vivian heard The Queen say.
Ten looked at her, "I will be right back." He runs into the TARDIS.
Vivian huffed and marched off, following Ten into the TARDIS with the others behind her. Her breath caught as she felt the familiar hum of a time-and-relative-dimension-in-space sentient being. She was the last of her kind and she knew it. Her hum grew louder as she recognized a female Time Lord.
"Right then, back to the future." Vivian heard The Doctor say as he entered the TARDIS.
The Warrior looked around, "You've let this place go a bit."
The Doctor shrugged, "Ah, it's his grunge phase. He grows out of it."
The Doctor pointed at The Warrior, "Don't you listen to them."
An alarm sounds and Ten gets an electric shock, "Ow! The desktop is glitching."
"Well there is three of you each from different time zones. It's trying to compensate. This was never supposed to happen." Vivian stated, "Blatant disregard for the Laws of Time."
"Hey, look. The round things." The Doctor said, completely ignoring Vivian's comment.
"I love the round things." Ten commented.
"What are the round things?"
"No idea."
The Doctor looked at the friction contrafibulator on the counsel, "Oh dear, the friction contrafibulator. Ha! There, stabilized."
The desktop changes again.
"Oh, you've redecorated. I don't like it." Ten said, obviously trying to impersonate his second generation's way of speaking. Vivian only knew The Doctor's up to the eighth regeneration.
"Oh. Oh yeah? Oh, you never do. Listen, we're going to the National Gallery. The Zygons are underneath it."
Clara shook her head, "No, UNIT HQ. They followed us there in the Black Archive."
Vivian froze and slowly turned to Clara, shocked. Out of the corner of her eye she saw that all three Doctors were giving similar stares.
Clara swallowed and licked her dry lips, "Okay, so you've heard of that, then."
"Clara, are you sure it is the Black Archive?" Vivian asked Clara, stepping forward to put her hands on Clara's shoulders.
"Uh, yep. Pretty sure." Clara answered, "They've also got this mind-wipe device, thing, that they put you through because apparently I've been there before. I don't even remember going. I mean, they have pictures of me there and I don't remember it at all."
Vivian could tell that this really freaked Clara out even though she was trying to remain cool. She understood the fear of people messing with your head and memories. Vivian shut her eyes for a second then reopened them and turned back around to face The Doctor's, "Please tell me you have a way of contacting them."
Ten smiled widely, "Oh yeah."
"There's a nuclear warhead twenty feet beneath us. Are you sitting comfortably?" Kate's voice came over the Space-Time Telegraph from a human called Alistair who was apparently a General from the 1970's and one of the founders of UNIT. Vivian learned that Kate, the woman with the blond hair from the museum was his daughter. The Doctor looked at Vivian with and put one finger over his mouth to signify for her to be quiet. Vivian bit her lip and nodded.
"You would destroy London?" Zygon-Kate asked.
"To save the world, yes, I would."
"You're bluffing."
"You really think so? Somewhere in your memory is a man called Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart. I am his daughter."
"Science leads, Kate." The Doctor held a microphone that was attached to the Space-Time Telegraph with a cord, "Is that what you meant? Is that what your father meant?"
"Doctor?" Kate's voice asked, sounding shocked.
"Space-Time Telegraph, Kate. A gift from me to your father, hotline straight to the TARDIS. I know about the Black Archive and I know about the security protocol. Kate, please. Please tell me you are not about to do something unbelievably stupid."
"I'm sorry, Doctor. Switch it off."
"Not as sorry as you will be." This time it was Ten that spoke, "This is not a decision you will ever be able to live with."
"Kate, we're trying to bring the TARDIS in. Why can't we land?" The Doctor asked.
"I said, switch it off."
"No, Kate, please." The Doctor pleaded, "Just listen to me!" The connection was cut off and The Doctor hit his hand on the control panel in response.
"The Tower of London, totally TARDIS-proof." Ten said from the monitor.
Vivian looked shocked, "I didn't think humans have that type of technology yet."
"How can they do that?" Clara asked almost a second after Vivian's statement.
"Alien technology plus human stupidity. Trust me, it's unbeatable." The Doctor answered her.
A stasis cube was placed on the console by The Warrior, "We don't need to land."
"Yeah, we do. A tiny bit. Try and keep up." Ten snapped.
"No, we don't. We don't. There is another way. Cup-a-soup. What is cup-a-soup?" The Warrior asked.
"Doctor, the timer says three minutes left. If we intend to do this, we need to do this now." Vivian said without any emotions. She was not looking forward to being back in that particular war-zone.
The Doctor nodded while trying to smile and failed, "Everybody listen up. Once we are in the painting, there is no stopping. We run until we find a Dalek that is alone. Sandshoes and Granddad and I," Which immediately got groans from said people, "We will take it out and use the explosion to walk through into the Black Archive where the painting should be waiting. Clara and Vivian stay next to your designated Doctor and try not to get yourselves killed. Vivian, you're with me."
"I get Clara." Ten said and Clara looked up at Ten and smiled.
The Doctor straightened his tie, "Right. Let's get going." Vivian eyed The Doctor but didn't question it when he took her hand as they walked into an active war-zone.
Time begins to move inside the 3D painting, which contains three male figures by the image of an exploding Dalek. There are two female figures off to the side.
"EXTERMINATE!"
Three sonic screwdrivers send the Dalek crashing out of the painting and into The Black Archive which was followed by three of the same Time Lord, a Time Lady and a Human female. The Dalek's eye flickers and goes offline.
Vivian looks around to see a table, and six people in the room, two Kate Stewart's, two McGillop's and two Petronella Osgood's stood facing their doppelganger. She can feel her heart rate is off the charts because of the short walk through a war-zone but thankfully none of them got seriously hurt. Clara got a scratch on her knee from tripping over a piece of metal. That will be easy to heal once they get back on the TARDIS.
"Hello." The Warrior spoke with an almost smirk showing.
"I'm the Doctor." Ten said.
The Doctor continued, "Sorry about the Dalek."
"Also the showing off." Clara commented and Vivian snorted.
The Doctor marched over to the scientist and his friend's daughter, "Kate Lethbridge Stewart, what in the name of sanity are you doing?"
"The countdown can only be halted at my personal command." Kate responded, "There's nothing you can do."
"Except make you both agree to halt it."
Kate shook her head, "Not even three of you."
The Warrior walked up to one of the Kate's, "You're about to murder millions of people."
"To save billions." Kate responded. "How many times have you made that calculation?"
Vivian eyed the time which now said one minute and thirty-six seconds. They were cutting it rather close.
"Once. Turned me into the man I am now. I'm not even sure who that is any more." The Doctor said.
"You tell yourself it's justified, but it's a lie." Ten spoke, "Because what I did that day was wrong. Just wrong."
The Warrior turns to look and focus his eyes in at nothing at all. Vivian narrowed her eyes.
"And, because I got it wrong, I'm going to make you get it right." The Doctor said as he and Ten took chairs, pulled them around to the head of the table, sat down and put their feet up on the table, crossed them and crossed their arms.
"How?" Kate asked.
"Any second now, you're going to stop that countdown. Both of you, together." Ten said.
"Then you're going to negotiate the most perfect treaty of all time." The Doctor continued and The Doctor and Ten continued talking one after the other.
"Safeguards all round, completely fair on both sides."
"And the key to perfect negotiation?
"Not knowing what side you're on."
"So, for the next few hours, until we decide to let you out-"
"No one in this room will be able to remember if they're human-"
"Or Zygon." The Doctor concluded, "Whoops a daisy." The Doctor jumps on to the table. All three Doctors point their screwdrivers which modifies the memory filter in the ceiling. The countdown reaches 7 as the humans look befuddled. Vivian was so thankful that The Doctor only put the device for Human-Zygon.
Both Kate's stared at each other in horror of what they were about to do and yelled at the same time, "Cancel the detonation!"
The countdown clock stops at 5 seconds.
The Doctor sighed in relief, "Peace in our time."
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