Faith and Pixie Dust
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A/N: Alright. I'm reposting this chapter because I didn't like how it was. Most of it is still the same, I just changed the middle slightly. Enjoy and read and review!(:
Chapter Two: Part One – Neverland
"Wait. You're Peter Pan?" Rose spluttered. "As in Peter Pan from Neverland?"
Peter Pan looked at Rose strangely before nodded. "Yes, you are currently in Neverland. You can just call me Pan though."
"Brilliant! I've always loved Peter Pan!" Rose exclaimed before realising how it sounded and her face flushed slightly. "I mean, in my world, Peter Pan was a kids show and I always loved it."
To her surprise, Pan laughed and said, "Don't worry, I know."
"You do?" The Doctor asked incredulously.
"Of course, some of the boys have mentioned it. Rarely but it happens." Pan replied.
"No way! Does the lost boys really exist? Tootles, Nibs, Slightly, and the Twins?" Rose asked excitedly.
"What? No! What sort of names are those?" Pan asked with disbelief much to Rose's disappointment.
"Where is everybody else?" The Doctor asked suspiciously.
"Gone." Pan answered hollowly. He then went on to explain how Neverland is a land for those who dream and its human occupants tend to be temporary residents. Its permanent occupants are the beasts, him, the manifestation of fun and childhood innocence, and Jayius, the "enemy" who serves to balance the good that's him.
For centuries, Neverland was a place where children would come in their dreams to have adventures and aid him in his fight against Jayius. The same situation would be for Jayius. But in recent years, he realised that the number of people fighting on his side was quickly diminishing while people on Jayius's side was steadily increasing. He later went on to point out that the time travellers were the first people on his side that he has seen in months.
"Wait. But we did not come here by dream. We came here by our ship and I am very certain that we are awake at this moment." Rose pointed out. The Doctor beamed proudly at her. His clever Rose, seeing the root of the problem instantly.
"Exactly. The whole dynamic of Neverland is changing and I am certain that Jayius is behind this." Pan said.
"There has got to be a place that controls this. If you bring us there, I might be able figure out what Jayius did and reverse it." The Doctor suggested. After some slight pondering, Pan agreed that there might be such a place but it would take a few hours to trek there.
"You've been here before you know?" Peter told Rose about an hour into the trek.
"I have?" Rose asked in surprise.
"Oh yes, Rose Tyler. It took me a while to recall but you have definitely been here before. Together, we defeated Jayius and saved Tink. It was quite the adventure." Pan recalled wistfully.
"Then why can't I remember any of it?"
"Same reason why dreams always tend to be left forgotten. To your human brain, it wasn't real. It was all happening in that head of yours." The Doctor answered for Pan.
"So it was all happening in my head but why on Earth should that mean it is not real?" Rose replied with a grin.
"Exactly." The Doctor grinned back.
"Will I ever get to remember it? My time here I mean."
"Well, it's still all in your subconscious, you just got to retrieve it."
"Then you can help me." Rose pointed out, lifting her fingers to her temples.
The Doctor paused for a while and gave Rose a tender smile. "Yeah, if you would like to. When all this is settled, I can help you."
After another hour of trekking, Pan brought them to a cave.
"It should be somewhere in here. I have always had a strange compulsion to stay from this place but I have recently spotted Jayius and his men around here." Pan said as they entered the cave. However, after about kilometre into the cave, the trio ran into a deadline.
"No. That can't be. There is more to the cave than this!" Pan exclaimed in disbelief.
"Wellllll, sometimes you shouldn't just rely on sight alone. This wall is just a perception filter." The Doctor walked towards the wall and pointed his sonic screwdriver at it. "So with just some jiggery pokery." The Doctor took out a stethoscope from his pockets and listened to various parts of the wall. "And..." He then went on to sonic-ed a specific part of the wall, opening it.
"Well, you did come in first with jiggery pokery yeah?" Rose joked. The Doctor grinned back at her.
Beyond the wall was a huge laboratory with many technical equipment all whirring about. The Doctor instantly went about studying them and occasionally using his sonic screwdriver on them. Used to this, Rose went about to explore the laboratory on her own. She randomly picked up some equipment when she noticed a light at the corner of her eye however she turned her head to give it a better look, it was gone. She shook her, surmising that as her imagination.
"Ohhhhh. This is just fascinating." The Doctor said, eyes wide with wonder as he examined an equipment.
"What is it?" Rose asked.
"This is Ishin technology. I have only seen it once in my entire life. The Ishin are probably the closest to Time Lords in terms of physiology and technology. However, even though they were not as advanced as the Time Lords but they were highly knowledgeable in dimensional travel. That's why Neverland is a world that can only be entered by dreaming. It actually belongs to a different plane of existence. Kind of like another universe." The Doctor explained.
"Like the one Mickey stayed behind in?"
"Not really, Mickey stayed behind in a parallel universe. Neverland exists in a telepathic plane of existence. It does not have a physical existence, well at least it didn't."
"But it does now. That's why we were able to land here." Rose concluded.
"Precisely."
"How did he know to do this? And if he did know about this, why only do it now? We have been at this for ages! And how did he stop light dreamers coming here?" Pan pondered out loud.
"To change an entire world's plane of existence requires immense power and additional equipment. Such restrictions can take a very long time to work around."
As Pan and the Doctor continued to exchange theories on how to reverse what Jayius has done, Rose continued to look around the laboratory. Once again, she spotted a speck of light at the corner of her eye. Although it once again vanished when she turned her head to look at it, she was certain that it was not her imagination.
"Doctor, I'm not going to be much help around here anyway. I am just going to look around a bit 'kay?" Rose said.
"Right, be careful and don't go too far." The Doctor said distractedly as he examined the equipment, barely looking up when Rose left the laboratory.
Not long after Rose left the laboratory, she once again spotted the light. Unlike the first two times, it lingered for a while. Not giving it much thought, Rose ran towards that speck of light. The next thing she knew was a bright flash of light and then darkness.