Merry Christmas! So excited for the Doctor Who Christmas Special tonight. Don't mess with me Stephan Moffat! Not again! You made me cry last year! Don't do it again! Sorry…is PTSD a symptom of fandom? Maybe just Doctor Who fandom because Captain Jack Sparrow never made me cry...
Anywho…more fun in Eureka…still working on the ending but I at least have an idea of how this story is going to end. Just have to write it down. REVIEW!
flames and kisses,
Mlle. Phoenix Fox
"What happened to them? Why are they frozen?" Jack asked as Henry examined their three loved ones up close.
"They're still alive. But they're not frozen. Time around them has slowed down so much around them they only look like they're frozen." Henry sighed.
"But if we don't find a way to reverse it soon, their hearts could stop." Allison added.
"And that will really put a damper on Eureka Con." Fargo said.
Holly smacked his arm,
"Douglas!"
"Sorry. I make bad jokes when I'm worried." Fargo apologized.
Taggart suddenly burst out of the elevator and said,
"We got a problem Mates."
"What now?" Jack moaned.
"You know how the Doctors told everyone they would look at their Whovian projects later? Told them to keep them in me lab? Well they're all gone. Huge spike of Autron energy." Taggart reported.
"Fantastic." Henry said.
"I'm concerned about the unstable temporal events that could occur. I've been crunching some numbers and if the Autron energy level keeps rising, and if it's agitated by our EM shield, we all could be frozen in time." Holly said.
"Of course. What's a disaster in Eureka without mortal danger for us all?" Fargo said.
"Fargo..." Allison warned him.
"Henry they're standing before where we stored the Artifact." Jack said.
"I checked already though. It's still dormant." Henry said.
"Then why are they facing it?" Jack asked as Allison got an alert on her phone.
"The team on the loading dock is reporting a delivery." She told them.
"Under who's authority?" Trent demanded.
"The Doctors." Allison said.
"Let's go. I need to talk to them. Taggart. Go check the EM Sheild. Holly. Stay with them." Jack said.
"Will do Mate." Taggart nodded as Henry, Allison, Fargo and Trent followed Jack. A few minutes later they were in a massive underground garage where they saw a GD truck delivering the TARDIS under the watchful eyes of the Doctors.
"What are you doing with Fargo's holographic chamber?" Allison asked.
The Tenth Doctor didn't say anything. He just snapped his fingers. The doors of the TARDIS opened.
"Oh my gawd!" Fargo cried rushing inside as the others jaws dropped. The companions were inside as he gaped around the huge interior console room. It was the console room of the second half of series seven.
"Holy smokes! It's bigger on the inside!" Jack cried upon stepping inside. Then he looked back outside. "Really...really...big!"
"If we weren't about to die, this would be so cool!" Fargo gushed, unable to help his inner Fanboy.
"Did he just say 'die'?" Rory asked nervously.
"It's the TARDIS. It's real now too?" Allison said.
"Made from the missing experiments of Global Dynamics." The Eleventh Doctor spoke up stepping behind the Eureka scientists. He tossed a piece of motherboard at Henry who caught it. He turned it over to see a 'Made in Eureka' stamp on it.
"Of course. When you combine all of the experiments, you get a TARDIS." Henry said.
"How could you combine the experiments?" Jack asked.
"Nanites could be programmed to do it." Fargo suggested.
"Programmed by who?" Allison asked.
"That's an interesting question. Wouldn't you agree...Dr. Grant?" The Eleventh Doctor said turning to Trent. The Eureka residents shared nervous looks.
"Excuse me?" Trent asked.
"You're Dr. Trevor Grant. We saw your picture at Beverly Barlowe's house. We know you're a time traveler." Rose said.
"And we also know about the bridge device."Clara said folding her arms.
"And it would seem you do too Dr. Deacon." Rory said showing him the blueprints.
"Where did you get these?" Henry asked seeing his handwriting.
"The same place we found the TARDIS. The same place we found a picture of Dr. Grant. The same place where we found Andy being controlled into helping build the TARDIS." Ten said.
"Beverly Barlowe's house. Ah Ha!" Amy said.
"What?" Jack asked.
"Andy was being controlled?" Allison asked.
"Controlled and taken from 11:59pm Monday night. Taken out of time so he could be an extra set of hands to whoever needed to build the TARDIS." Eleven said.
"11:59...that's when Andy got the gap in his memory." Jack said.
"Ah ha!" Amy cried again.
"I think the Doctors can handle this Amy." Rory said to his wife.
"So. I think you lot have something to tell us?" Ten asked, folding his hands behind his back.
"That depends. Care to tell us why you lied about Dr. Peabody's notes?" Jack retorted.
"Doctor!" Rose said in surprise.
"We didn't..." Eleven shook his head.
"We know about the missing particle collider Doctor." Allison said.
"Oh..." Eleven said.
"Taken by your friend Beverly Barlowe maybe?" Ten asked.
"We have nothing to do with Beverly Barlowe." Henry insisted.
"Your name on these seem to disagree." Eleven said taking the blue prints from Rory.
"Doctors we're on your side." Trent insisted.
"Then why are you hiding the truth about from us?" Ten said.
"Yes, why should we trust you lot?" Eleven said.
"Well why should we trust you? You lied about Dr. Peabody's notes!" Trent countered.
"Enough! Trent you were right. We didn't tell them the truth and we got burned." Jack said. He turned to the Doctors and continued, looking each Doctor and companion in the eye, "What I am about to say, doesn't leave this...TARDIS. Yes. He was Trevor Grant. He did time travel. And so did we. Plus Jo. Three years ago, we accidentally traveled back to 1947."
"The bridge device. It created a bridge over time between itself in 1947 and 2010 powered by solar flares." Ten said.
"And our new cell phones acted as a link that sent each of us back in time." Allison said.
"But Dr. Old Spice here hitched a ride back with us." Jack said thumbing towards Trent who rolled his eyes.
"And by doing so, our timelines changed. Jo and Zane never dated, Jack was still dating someone he had broken up with..."Henry began.
"Bit awkward..."Clara said.
"Tell me about it." Jack huffed.
"And my son Kevin...was no longer autistic. Much to my surprise." Allison said.
"And I was the head of Global Dynamics!" Fargo beamed proudly.
"Much to everyone's surprise..." Jack added.
"Hey..." Fargo pouted.
"And I had gone from a confirmed bachelor to married to a woman I barely knew. And apparently the me of the new timeline had conspired with Beverley Barlowe and the Consortium. Which is why my name is on those blueprints. But this me wants nothing to do with that woman and her kind." Henry explained passionately.
"Oh. Well that explains a lot." Rory blinked.
"That it does. Don't you think so Doctor?" Ten asked Eleven.
"Good enough for me Doctor." Eleven said.
"So are you two going to explain why you lied?" Jack asked.
"To get you to tell us the truth of course." Ten said.
"Huh?" Jack asked.
"Jack the only reason we ever lie is so that our companions are truthful with us." Eleven explained.
"Seriously?" The companions chorused.
"Sort of a reverse psychology thing. Well...and to fool our enemies. Well...and we lie to people we need to protect...well...people who can't handle the truth..."Ten said.
"I get it! First rule. The Doctor lies." Jack muttered.
"I thought the first rule was 'Don't wander off?" Rose asked the other companions.
"That's the second rule now." Amy said.
"But if the first rule is 'the Doctor lies', then doesn't that cancel out the second rule of 'don't wander off'?" Rose asked.
"Exactly!" Eleven said to Rose's amusement.
"Now that everything's settled, who can tell me...what's wrong with this picture?" Ten said going to the console and popping it open.
"Stop! Don't...huh?" Fargo cried looking inside.
Jack looked inside as well and shrugged,
"I don't see anything."
"But we should! That's where the TARDIS connects to the Eye of Harmony. At least according to my Unofficial TARDIS Operators Manuel." Fargo said.
"Can they get one of those?" Clara asked, pointing to the Doctors.
"Wait...so why is there being no Eye of Harmony a bad thing?" Jack asked.
"Think of the TARDIS like a car. The Eye of Harmony is like an engine." Henry said.
"No engine and the car can't go." Jack finished with understanding.
"And the TARDIS is much cooler than a boring ol' car. But without an Eye of Harmony she won't do any traveling through time." Eleven said circling the console.
"Which is still illegal." Jack reminded them.
"Oh we'll worry about that later. I mean so far the only thing it can do is make us our sonic screwdrivers." Ten asked taking his palm sized device with the blue tip from the console.
"A sonic screwdriver?" Jack asked.
"It does everything! Unlocks doors, medical scans, hacks computers." Fargo said.
"Can't do wood though. Still working on that one." Eleven said taking his long sonic with the gold casing, green tip and retractable claws from the console. Comparing the sizes, Ten asked him softly,
"Compensating?"
"Fascinating device." Trent said as Eleven frowned at his prior incarnation.
"These sonic doohickeys can help us?" Jack asked.
"There actually is a working prototype in existence in this universe. Essentially, it uses sound waves to move objects. But the Doctors have a highly advanced version. That's also more compact whereas the prototype is the size of a microwave." Henry said.
"So..." Jack said.
"Yeah they can help." Rory translated.
"But why build a TARDIS that's bigger on the inside with no Eye of Harmony? That can make a sonic screwdriver but not be able to move without renting a truck to haul her?" Eleven asked.
"The same reason someone brought fictional characters to life." Allison said.
"Which we still don't know why." Fargo said.
"Maybe you interrupted them before they could finish." Trent said.
"But it's just like Fargo said. We don't know why they are doing this at all. If we can figure out the why, we can figure out who." Eleven said.
"Well that might have to wait. We've got bigger problems at the moment." Jack sighed.
Hearing the worry in his voice, Ten asked,
"What problems?"
A few minutes later, Eleven and Ten stood before the three still figures of Zane, Jo, and Zoe. Their expressions were hard as Holly explained and they examined the trio with their sonic screwdrivers,
"So I've been watching the Autron levels. Every hour the levels are rising."
"And Taggart went out to the town border. He reports that the EM shield is starting to malfunction." Henry said checking the text on his phone.
"If this keeps up, we will all be frozen in time." Trent said.
"Great..." Rory muttered.
"I'm sorry Jack. I'm so so sorry. But we will fix this." The Tenth Doctor said.
"I know. Thanks." Jack nodded.
"What were they looking at? What's in there?" Rose asked indicating the storage room.
"That's where we store the Artifact." Henry said.
"Henry!" Allison said.
"They need to know." Jack told her.
"What's the Artifact?" Amy asked.
"The Artifact is the last remaining object from the universe that existed before the Big Bang. It gives off massive amounts of radiation that make it dangerous for anyone to approach it and there isn't advanced enough technology to be able to track the radiation. The Artifact itself exists outside of space-time. It serves as an antenna for the Akashic Field, a zero-point subspace nexus for all the knowledge of the universe." Henry said.
"And it's caused the deaths of five people. And it almost killed my son." Allison said.
"The first death was Carl Carlson. He was a scientist that was researching cellular regeneration in the lab above. But the Artifact leaked into his lab and caused an explosion that altered his brain function so that he was using one hundred percent of his brain. He gained telepathic and telekinetic powers. He used it to heal Carter when he got hurt. Then he threw himself into the Artifact." Henry told them.
"Then it killed Henry's old girlfriend Kim when she tried to extract a sample." Jack said.
"Did it release radiation?" Ten asked.
"So much that Kim had been barbecued. To a crisp." Fargo said.
"Blimey...sounds a bit dangerous." Clara hissed.
"Wow...I missed a lot before I moved here." Holly blinked.
"Yet your son Kevin survived?" Rose asked Allison.
"I'm not sure how in this timeline, but in the old timeline Kevin's autism must have acted as a shield against the Artifact." Allison said.
"His mind was wired differently. Makes sense." Ten said.
"Old timeline?" Holly asked confused.
"Uh...honey? There's something I need to tell you..." Fargo said leading her off to a side room.
"But we separated Kevin from the Artifact and we haven't had any problems with it since." Jack said.
"Until today." Rose pointed out.
"Allison I need to read Kevin's mind." Eleven told her.
"What? Doctor..." Allison began to protest.
"Allison, think about it. If his autism saved him in the old timeline, then what saved him in this one? You said yourself you weren't sure." Eleven said.
"There could be million of reasons." Allison said.
"And one of those reasons could be he's a walking talking paradox. That episode at school today. He acted like he did when he had autism didn't he?" Ten asked.
"Yes. And...he drew this." Allison sighed taking a folded up piece of paper from her dress pocket. She handed it to the Tenth Doctor to unfold it. He saw it was a pencil drawing of a twisted ball of roots.
"You didn't show me this." Jack told his wife.
"There has been so much happening today I didn't get around to it. But Jack this can't be what's happening. The Artifact is dead!" Allison insisted.
"There's a difference between dead and dormant. For all we know it could have been waiting all this time for Autron energy to power it back up again. And before we get anywhere near that thing we have to know what we're dealing with." Ten said.
"It might be our only chance Allison." Trent told her.
Allison shook her head,
"I just don't know."
Amy stepped towards the female scientist.
"Allison? Mother to mother. I know you will move heaven and Earth to protect your child. But I learned a long time ago that you can trust the Doctor with your kid. Be it their safety, or their heart. Even when he has no idea who that kid is to him." Amy said looking from her Raggedy Man to Sideburns.
Convinced, but still hesitant, Allison looked the Eleventh Doctor in the eye and asked,
"And you're sure that reading his mind won't somehow trigger his autism again?"
"Cross my hearts." Eleven said crossing two spots in the front of his chest.
"This is so cool!" Kevin declared a half hour later in Henry's office. He and the Eleventh Doctor were sitting on the couch next to each other, the others gathered around in a semi circle.
"Kevin. This is serious." His mom told him.
"But the Doctor is about to read my mind! Dre is going to trip!"
"Yes yes. We all know how clumsy your friend Dre is. Now this isn't going to hurt. Just open your mind Kevin. Anything private you don't want me to see, just imagine a closed door." Eleven said placing his hands and fingers in a certain position on either side of Kevin's head.
"Okay..." Kevin nodded.
Then the Doctor blushed and exclaimed,
"Blimey Kevin! I said 'shut the door'! Get a girlfriend!"
"Dude! My mom's right there..." Kevin nodded towards his mother. Eleven looked at Allison who was in definite 'Mom' mode right then.
"Right. Sorry. My bad. Let's try again shall we? Just relax..." Eleven told him, shutting his eyes. Kevin nodded, shutting his eyes.
In his mind's eye, the Eleventh Doctor opened his eyes to find himself in a cluttered warehouse full of boxes.
"Kevin?"the Doctor called. He rounded a corner to see a boy of about ten years old sitting on the floor and drawing complicated equations with chalk.
"Kevin?" The Doctor asked, recognizing him. The boy was non-responsive. He just kept drawing. The Doctor crouched down before Young Kevin, watching him.
"What are you trying to tell me?" The Doctor asked in thought.
"When is your birthday?" Young Kevin said.
"My birthday?" The Doctor asked.
"Mines March 15th, 1997. On a Saturday." Young Kevin said.
"Oh. Okay. Um. I actually can't remember my birthday. I guess it's either because I'm really old or they never wrote it into the show" he mused. Then he continued with a wink, "Anyway, I suppose if we are going by the laws of this universe I'd say, November 23rd, 1963."
Young Kevin thought a moment before replying,
"That was also on a Saturday."
"So it was. Very good. Have you always been able to see time like that?" The Doctor asked. Young Kevin nodded.
"It's why the Artifact chose him." Spoke a deep male voice. The Eleventh Doctor jumped to his feet and spun around, seeing a tall, well dressed man with dark hair and a beard standing behind him.
"Who are you?" The Doctor asked.
"Well, right now I'm a manifestation of Kevin's subconscious. But when I was alive, I was Dr. Nathan Stark." The man replied.