After a successful hour-long search, The Doctor and River Song returned to the TARDIS console room armed with about fifty Sporks between the two of them.
"So, I assume you can't use the same Spork twice," River said.
"No, you just sort of poke them with it, and both of them vanish. Sucked back into their own dimension," The Doctor replied.
"So, what exactly makes these Mary-Sues so dangerous?"
"Well, you see, while they don't exactly terrorize people, or anything, they have a huge arsenal of their own kind of weapons. Perception fields, hallucinogenic pheromones, hypnosis rays, the lot. The reason they are so dangerous is because they have a tendency to gravitate towards major points in time, causing important moments in history to be changed completely. Let me show you an example."
The Doctor led her to one of the large screens attached to the console, twiddled a knob and flicked a few switches. A video recording flickered onto the screen. It showed a rather familiar figure in a long tan overcoat staring confusedly at a large castle in the background.
"Oh, that's one of you!" said River excitedly, " Eight... no Ten, right?"
"That's right. At the time, I had found a rather old invitation to a banquet in Edinburgh Castle from a Scottish Lord nearly five regenerations ago. I decided to just pop by to see how it turned out without me, but I had no idea that the TARDIS had been caught in a slipstream and had dimensionally shifted."
"Hang on, this place looks different from last time," The Doctor on the screen was saying.
"I love the way you pretend there's someone to talk to, even when there isn't" River said with a smile.
"How would you know anyway?"
The smile grew wider. "Spoilers."
"Ah, life forms," continued the Tenth, strolling towards a group of people in black robes."And human too, excellent!"
He approached them and tapped the shoulder of a dark haired boy facing away from him. "Don't mean to bother you, but could you tell me where I am exactly?"
'Oh, you're at Hogw-" The boy had turned around and his hazel eyes widened with shock when he saw The Doctor's face."Hang on- but that's not possible, you can't be-" He swiftly pulled a wooden stick out of his pocket, and began shooting some kind of red light at the Doctor, who had already begun to run. "It's Barty Crouch!", the boy exclaimed, causing the others around him to follow suit. Suddenly, the screen went blank.
"Now that's when one of those energy pulses hit the TARDIS camera, and the two didn't mix very well. Took me a week to get it repaired. But you get my point?"
"No, not really."
"Okay, so he may have been a bit paranoid. But then the TARDIS took me a few year in the future and I discreetly found out that he was a wizarding student named Harry Potter, he defeated an extremely dangerous Dark Lord, and that he really was a nice guy once you get past the violent tendencies," The Doctor's eyes were rather distant, as he showed her several images of a magnificent banquet hall, some black robed students in a classroom and an old man with a long white beard. "It was actually a pretty cool story, even if it did take a bit of time to hear it all."
"Still not getting it."
"Oh aren't you?" The Doctor grinned and pulled a lever, causing the temporal engines to whir. "Let me show you what became of him in one particular alternate..."
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