This chapter is mostly Doctor Who related with stories mentioning from the Classic and Modern who.
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Chapter 7: The Past is in the Past
The Doctor and Elphaba are still falling from his memories and he is finding a way to escape. "Doctor, this is your past. Stop trying to fight it! Accept and maybe we can survive all this!" Elphaba told him.
"No, I d-don't want to see, Elphaba! I don't want you to see it too!" the Doctor said.
"Please Doctor, you have to try!"
"I'm doing it again, aren't I? Always running away!"
The Doctor and Elphaba has stopped fallen and they are transported into a room with nothing but four cylinder objects next to them. "Where are we now, Doctor?" Elphaba asked
"In Gallifrey, Elphaba. Before what Morrible first showed us." Just then, the two saw an old man and a young woman have appeared on the room and went into one of the cylinders and the Doctor pointed the old man for Elphaba. "That old man right there Elphaba, is me?"
"It's that really you?! But you look so young and the man is elderly."
"I'll give you a little history about my early life and my people, Elphaba. I belong to an alien race called the Time Lords. They have vast knowledge of time and space and have many advance technologies than any of the whole universe. They also have the ability to regenerate 12 times whenever you want or when you're on death's door. That man you are seeing is my first self. I'm the thirteenth and last incarnation, but the eleventh to be called 'Doctor'. What you are seeing now is me and my granddaughter, Susan, stealing a TARDIS. I stole a TARDIS because I don't like how the Time Lords run and we weren't welcome on Gallifrey. I even got punished for that and saving other universe because they have a non-interference policy."
Just then, a Clara duplicate arrived and told the First Doctor to not steal the one Susan's in and steal the one next to it. "The navigation system's knackered, but you'll have much more fun." She told the First Doctor.
The Doctor and Elphaba immediately left Gallifrey and arrived in a swamp. "Now where are?" Elphaba asked
"I don't know. I had to stop somewhere but I would've sworn that I've been here before." Just then the Doctor heard voices behind them.
"Doctor, look over there!" Elphaba pointed at the two men arguing.
"Just as long as you understand that I won't follow your orders blindly." the old man said.
"If there were only two of us, you could find you own way back to the ship." the young man told the old man.
"Aren't you a tiresome young man." the old man remarked.
"Who are these two men?" Elphaba asked.
"That is my first self along with one of my first companions, Ian Chesterton. And I know this place. This place is where I on my very first adventure." The Doctor and Elphaba then saw more figures in the memory. When they came clear, they saw Susan and Barbara Wright trying to save a caveman.
"That caveman over there was attacked by an animal. I wanted to run and let him die, but those two, Ian and Barbara, insisted on stopping and helped him. I didn't understand them better than that caveman did."
"You were an angry old man when you're that face." Elphaba remarked.
"You must understand the concept of regeneration, Elphaba. Not only it changes your physical features, but it changes your personality as well." The Doctor and Elphaba are then transported the time when the Doctor first met the Daleks. "During my first self, I'm mostly a liar and coward. A selfish idiot. My ignorance nearly killed me and my companions when I first came to Skaro and tricked Ian into entering the Dalek City..."
The two are then transported into another memory where the First Doctor and Ian are fighting inside the TARDIS. "And when the TARDIS was nearly destroyed, I blamed him. I almost threw him off the ship and left him to die."
The two are again went to another memory when the four met Marco Polo in China. "But if I look at these memories, you warmed up and you four looked like you become a family." Elphaba said.
The Doctor then show a memory of Ian and Barbara in ancient Greece "Yes, Elphaba. During those time I learned a lot from them. Two schoolteachers from post-war Britain, their lives were stolen thrown into the worst horrors the Universe has to offer, but they never gave up. They were inspiring." The Doctor then showed Elphaba various memories of his adventures with his past companions including Donna Noble, Sarah Jane Smith, Jamie McCrimmon, Ace, Tegan Jovanka and Martha Jones. "After Ian and Barbara left, I took other people with me."
"I hope you didn't landed your ship at their siblings." Elphaba joked.
"I've seen how two extraordinary schoolteachers could be. Their lives are so fragile, so intense, I wanted to feel that passion for myself but never could. So I decided to follow their example. In my wisdom, I'd bring some justice to the universe."
The Doctor and Elphaba saw many memories of the Doctor in action including the Tenth Doctor sword fighting with the Sycorax general, the Second Doctor defeating an Ice Warrior, the Sixth Doctor fighting Sil from Varos, the Third Doctor defeating Omega, the Eighth Doctor struggling to fight against the Master. "This is incredible!" Elphaba exclaimed, "So many faces, so many adventures! Villains defeated, innocents saved, hundreds of planets freed from slavery! Oh Doctor, what a life you've led! Why wouldn't you want me to see this!"
"Take a closer look." The Doctor showed the final moments of Adric, Katarina, Sara Kingdom, River Song, Astrid Peth, Amy Pond, Rory Williams and Victorian Clara Oswald before their final demise. "When you travel with me, you will be in the most dangerous situation of all. Even though there a not many, some died during my adventures. I wouldn't want you die too Elphaba. Even if you had are the Wicked Witch, you had a full life ahead of you. But this is not the only reason why I don't want you to see my memories."
The Doctor and Elphaba now appeared walking in a field full of skulls all by themselves. "The Ozians got one part of me right, I destroy worlds." Elphaba was shocked to hear that and didn't want to believe it. "You see Elphaba, I don't do anything by halves. Small battles turned to wars and the wars turn into Armageddons. Worlds burn in my wake. I became a dark legend. A name to frighten children and monsters alike. I have been called names that are darker than 'Wicked Witch'. I've been called 'The Storm', 'The Beast', 'The Valeyard'. And I just stepped over all the bodies. Never looking back." The Doctor took a skull from the ground and started to reminisce. "I tried to be a better man, but I became a better killer. I tried to save the universe, but instead try to destroy it."
"No, I refuse to believe it!" Elphaba said and slapped the skull off the Doctor.
"You think I was that same selfish old man, Elphaba Thropp. There was a war between my people and the Daleks. It burnt the skin of eternity. Ancient, beautiful cultures were caught in our crossfire and sent screaming into hell…" The Doctor showed the memory of the time Fourth Doctor was sent to to destroy the existence of the Daleks in Skaro. "...And I fired the first! Every last drop of blood is in my hands!"
"Is that all you can see? I'm seeing more than just death, I'm witnessing bravery beyond measure. Elphaba told the Doctor. "I see a man who never gives up, never stops helping even if it costs him everything." She then showed the Doctor his memories of him being heroic, including the Fifth Doctor saving Peri in Androzani, Ninth Doctor saving Rose in Bad Wolf station, Tenth Doctor saving Caecilius in Pompeii, Second Doctor leading U.N.I.T. against the Great Intelligence's abominable snowmen, and the Seventh Doctor battling Fenric. "You're a legend alright, but not a dark one. When you said that you destroyed worlds, I thought you would be a phony like the wizard. But you we're just a man doing the best he can to save the world."
"You do not understand Elphaba!" the Doctor shouted.
"Of course I've understand Doctor! We have many things in common. We're both hated by our respective society. We have been called by dark names by our enemies. We both screw up whenever we try do something. And we both loss love ones when we want to help. You've been a thread of hope throughout history and the universe." Elphaba then showed the Doctor his memory of him saving her from the Gale Force. "You see that Doctor, this is you saving me. Without you there, they would have chopped my head. And with you there, I wouldn't meet Fiyero again and rekindled my friendship with Glinda. The past is in the past Doctor! Just only remember the good you've done to people and forget the bad things you've cause. Accept it Doctor and forgive yourself!" The Doctor then shed a single tear when he heard what Elphaba has told him. He then gave her a smile and starting to control of Morrible's powers.
"Come along Thropp, let's go save your friends and Oz." the Doctor told her as they walking through a portal.