Chapter Seven
The Doctor and river raced through the streets until they came to his room. All around them the city bustled, preparing for war. From the other side of the city they could hear the twanging of bows and catapults. The pair raced into the Tardis and the Doctor set to work.
"We need to get this old girl outside, or it won't work," he said.
"You have a plan then?" asked River, furiously typing in commands. He grinned again.
"Oh, I hate that look!" she added. The doctor laughed then outlined his plan. River smiled, looking impressed. Soon the Tardis was in flight, but it didn't last long. Before they could tweak the plan they had landed. River sprinted outside to check where they were, and the Doctor got to work.
High above Pellenor Fields, lining the walls of the White City, stood the soldiers of Gondor. Aragorn strode up and down, ordering volley after volley of arrows, but to no effect. They simply bounced off the armour of the Goblins. He was slowly losing men too, as archers from the Goblin ranks returned fire with their special mithril arrows. After ten minutes, and losing seventy men to their none, he withdrew his forces and retreated into a small tower nearby. As he went to bar the door he heard the now familiar noise of the Tardis engines. He watched as it faded into view and the door was yanked open by River.
Back in the Tardis, the Doctor finished his writing his computer programme.
"Right, River, stand back. This computer programme can be merged for a few seconds with the Tardis matrix before it burns up. But in that time, if I extrapolate its mutated form, double it up and fire it from the light bulb on the top, it will disrupt the atmosphere and cause acid rain, and not just any old acid. No, no, no. It'll be a time tinted acid, and there is almost nothing that can withstand it." As he finished, he pulled a lever and from the top of the Tardis flew a ball of light, which exploded outwards. For a few minutes there was silence as the enemy wondered what that was and then came the tinkling of water hitting metal. Over the top of that however came an almighty roar.
"NO! DOCTOR!" There followed a flash of blue light and the Master vanished, leaving his army and their King stranded under a bulging cloud of acid rain, that was large enough to cover them but leave everywhere else dry. The first scream came as acid hit flesh and soon mithril armour was dropping off and Goblins were routing. Soon they had all fled, leaving a patch of the field that was wet and bare of everything including grass. The Doctor, watching from the door of his Tardis smiled happily. Out of nowhere there was a flash of blue, a blue staff slammed him in the stomach and he hit the floor heavily.