Twists and Turns in Time
Part Three
by
Sabrina Lonewalker
Five looked at the other two, "I don't like the direction this is going in. Have any other companions disappeared yet?" Eight turned to his console. "Not yet but that means nothing. Whoever or whatever is behind this knows what they're doing and who to pick. But why?" He slammed his fist on the console in frustration, drawing a complaining chirp from TARDIS. He was apologetic, "Sorry old girl." He patted the console in apology, a gesture the other two Doctors understood all too well. Eight took a deep breath and let it out slowly. He was worried about Grace. He was worried about all of them but Grace had captured his hearts in a way the others hadn't. He was hoping she and the others were all right.
The Sixth Doctor and Peri were making their way through what looked like an old English countryside but they were actually in Spain. Peri was asking questions about the Doctor's second incarnation whom they had been thrown together with along with Jamie Mc Crimmon, his companion at the time. He answered her because he knew silence would get him nowhere. They finally arrived back at the TARDIS and went inside. Six walked over to the console and saw a flashing light. He frowned and pressed the button. The main viewscreen lit up showing him Four, Five and one he didn't recognize at first then, it hit him. "What is happening?" He asked, "Why are the three of you together?"
Peri broke into a smile when she saw Five, "Hello Docotr!" He smiled back, "Hello Peri, am I treating you all right?" Peri shrugged, "Now you are." He raised his eyebrows but thought better of asking. He looked at Six, "We have a problem, some of our previous and futire companions have been taken out of time and space and we do not know who or how." Six frowned, "Which ones?" He grew angerier as they told him. "That's all?" Eight nodded, "So far. We have no clue if or when he will grab some others. We're trying to warn those who haven't been affected to be on gurad though frankly..." Four spoke up, "Seeing as we don't know who is behind this, we can not build a defense."
Six nodded, "What about Jamie and Zoe? They would have to be taken out before the Time Lords erased their memories of me." Four spoke again, "Not likely, whoever this is is taking comapnions that have stopped travelling with me, so far. They haven't taken any that we know of that are travelling with our other selves." Six nodded, "No guarantee that they won't." Five nodded, "True. We need to meet somewhere so you can park TARDIS and come with us. We need to be working together to solve this." Four nodded, "Agreed and this started with me. They took Harry, Jo and Sarah Jane." Eight spoke, "Yes, then Ian, Barbara and Grace. Grace was my companion for a short time in 1999." Six nodded, "All right, we'll meet...here." He inputed some coordinates. Eight nodded, "Very well, we'll meet you there shortly." The view screen went off and Six looked at Peri, "Hold on, here we go." He pulled the dematerialization lever and they were away, Peri wondering, not for the first time, whatever had possessed her to come along in the first place.
The TARDIS finally materialized and Six and Peri stepped out to what looked like a desolate landscape. There was another TARDIS there and Eight stepped out of it. Peri's eyebrows rose as she looked at Six, "That's going to be you?" She asked. "Yes," said six in a huff, "Seems I'm going to turn into a dandy. No color sense at all." Eight smiled, "Look who's talking. You look like you were in a paint factory when it exploded." Peri giggled and was rewarded with Eight's familiar, warm smile. Six locked his TARDIS and looked narrowly at Peri, "Come along, Peri." She nodded and followed him into Eight's TARDIS and looked around at the Gothic interior then, she heard a familiar voice, "Hello Peri." She tunred and ran over to hug Five. "It's good to see you again, Doctor." Five smiled down at her, "Good to see you too. he treating you ok?" Peri nodded, "Now yes but right after you regenerated into him he was really off the wall, it was scary."
Five nodded, "I think I know why. After we escaped the caves on Androzani, I gave you the antidote but there wasn't enough for me so, I had to regenerate. I think the poison had not fully left my system when the regeneration finished and was still metabolizing, leaving my Sixth self acting strangely. I'm sorry you had to go through that." Peri smiled, "It's ok now, he's almost back to normal, whatever that is." Five laughed then joined the other Doctors at the control console. The problem was that they were still in the dark but things about to change in a big way and finally, their way would become a little clearer.
Grace, Sarah Jane and the others were sitting around a table eating and talking about their various Doctors when there was a bright flash of light and someone else was on the floor unconscious. Grace got to the woman first and knelt beside her. The woman was petite and had longish brown hair. She opened her eyes slowly and Grace smiled at her, "It's all right. You're safe here, wherever here is." She helped the woman to her feet. Teagan came over to help and her eyes widened, "Nyssa?" Nyssa looked up, "Tegan! Is Thurlough here too?" The quiet, bronw haired man came over with a smile, "Yeah, right here." The three friends hugged then Nyssa started asking questions. Unfortunately, none of the companions could tell her where they were or why only that they all had a connection to the Doctor.
In the control room of the complex they were in, the Mystery figure was zeroing in on his next target. He watched his screen and saw a woman with flame red hair heading for her car to go to work. He smiled evilly as he activated the transmat but something happened. The beam could not lock onto it's target. The woman got into her car and drove away leaving the Collector speechless for a few moments. Then, he began looking over the controls. The machinery was working fine. He sat back wondering what went wrong. How was he able to lock onto the others yet this one, also a former companion, he couldn't bring here. he began looking over everything, knowing he must have missed something but he couldn't find out what it was. He sat back, seething in frustration.
In another TARDIS, travelling through the vortex, a tall, lanky man with brown hair wearing a blue pinstrip suit, a tie and red Converse trainers was alone staring at the console. A lot had happened in the past few months. The Daleks, Davros, leaving Rose in the Beta Universe with his twin, what he had to do to save Donna. It still rankled him but, it was over and done now and he was alone. Then, a light that normally never flashed on the console was signalling him. He raised his eyebrows in surprise and pushed the button that went with it. A set of coordinates was displayed on the monitor screen with the messgae, "Need to see you, can you come, now?" It was signed Jack Harkness.
TBC