So here we go with another chapter, see I am getting into the swing of things. I have to say this chapter and the next were meant to be one, but I thought I would give you what was originally the beginning section of that chapter to hold you off until I finish it. It mainly gives more questions and a few answers to why the Doctor is in Remnant. I have added more details here and there to make the story less point and follow. Someone also asked me if I will be making this into a comic. I probably won't, but I have plans to draw a few key scenes, just because if I do them right they will look awesome, but no promises. As always a DISCLAIMER: I do not own RWBY or Doctor Who, wish I did, but I don't, they are the property of Rooster Teeth and the BBC respectively. Go watch them if you haven't, though not sure why you would be reading this without having seen them.
Doctor's POV
"Ow, head hurts really bad" The Doctor sat up in a way that seemed all too familiar. The room was dark, but different from the clinic room he had been in earlier. He made sure his hands were free of his restraints before spying a sight that gave his old eyes reason to jump for joy.
"Oh! there you are!" The old blue box stood in the other corner of the room, the Windows, lantern, and signs lit up at the Doctor's comment. "I had been wondering where you had gotten off to. Guess Ozpin must of brought you here old girl."
"Not quite Doctor. I had , one of the teachers working here bring it up. We had tried to gain entrance, but the wooden appearance proved a bit deceiving." The Doctor turned to face Ozpin, "How long have you been standing there? I don't like it when people watch me sleep." HE pointed his finger accusingly at Ozpin. The man before him seemed to take it as a joke and raised an eyebrow.
"I assure you Doctor, I had not so much as opened the door when you awoke." , The Doctor gave a mumble under his breath in response.
He sat up from his bed and walked towards the time machine in front of him running his finger over a chip in the wooden frame. He finally took notice of the lack of clothing on his body. He was still wearing his white shirt, though it no longer carried his his tie and the top 2 buttons had been undone, he no longer possessed his vest or hat, and his glasses were nowhere to be seen.
"Where are my clothes they seem to have, um, you know, gone missing." The Doctor asked in suspicion. The headmaster raised an eyebrow once again and lifted his hand towards a rack where his missing clothes laid.
The Doctor's head began churning with possibilities about he had wound up here again and walked over to his clothes beginning to put them on by buttoning his shirt up and flipping up the collar. Ozpin Having decided he should explain the predicament started with the tale."You were called in by four of our students, they said you had chastised Miss Schnee and went on a tirade before collapsing midway through a sentence."
The Doctor gave Ozpin a nod as he looked for the tie hidden under his coat, "When they brought you in, you were glowing gold, had a fever, and were giving clear signs of distress. We almost believed you to be dying." The older looking man walked over to a curiously placed knick knack placed in the room for decoration and picked it up moving it around in his hands. "However; six hours ago the fever broke and you began to calm down"
The Doctor, who was finishing tying his tie in a Eldredge knot spoke up in question, "Six hours? How long was I out?"
Ozpin gave a cracked smile as he looked to the clock on the far side of the room. "A little more than 15 hours, it is 8:30 in morning right now" The Doctor, who seemed to be walking all over the place, had put in his vest buttoning all but the bottom button, had put on his glasses, and had positioned himself in front of a mirror to fix his hair. He moved three or four stands away from the front of his face and observed his appearance more closely than he had before. He noticed his soft features, his nose was on the tame side for once along with his ears, his steel eyes stared into the mirror reflection of themselves.
When he finally stepped away from the mirror he turned to the headmaster "Well seems I should be able to help you with your problem after all. I will head out in a little while. I am just going to see to the TARDIS, have some breakfast, and possibly do a little reading. You have a library right? Who am I kidding, you are very clearly someone who reads a lot of books, and drinks a lot of coffee."
The Doctor smirked after giving his observation, he took out the key for the TARDIS from his left inner pocket in his vest and inserted it in the key slot. Before he turned it he turned to Ozpin, "Oh before I leave you, would you mind giving me the names of the four girls?"
"Yes of course, the leader Ruby Rose, her partner Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and her partner Yang Xiao Long. They form one of our first year teams, team RWBY." The Doctor turned the key in the lock, "Thank you kindly Mr. Ozpin, I will probably see you later, No promises though, it could be quite a while." With that the Doctor entered the TARDIS leaving Ozpin to himself, who quietly turned around taking a sip of his coffee and walking out the door, noticing four pairs of eye around the next corner. "Girls I suggest you get to Breakfast before the hall closes." The four eyes turned into the four girls mentioned earlier. Each looking a bit saddened at being discovered. "The Doctor will see you soon enough.
Ruby's POV
"Ruby I told you that would be waste of time, Ozpin told us we wouldn't be able to see him." The team of four walked begrudgingly down the hall towards the Mess hall. "Yang don't look at me, it was Weiss's Idea." Her big sister seemed a bit upset by this, "Ruby you are our leader, Weiss is not, no matter how much she wishes she was"
Ruby's sensitive partner took offense to her teammates comment, "Hey I told you guys I was over not being leader." Ruby was getting worried over the amount of fighting her team had been doing lately, she was getting worried her friends were going to break. Ruby cut Yang off before she could respond to Weiss. "Can we please stop fighting, it is getting old already, we have literally been here about three weeks And you won't stop fighting like it's the very first day!"
The team seemed a bit shocked by their deceptively innocent leaders sudden outburst. Ruby realizing the penny dropped atmosphere attempted to lighten the mood by reminding everyone of their plans again, "So is everyone still okay with going into town today?" When no one spoke Ruby became her childlike self again and said, "Then let's go get some strawberry pancakes!" Rby took off with her semblance towards the hall leaving everyone covered in rose petals, she sped along not looking back and thinking of their encounter with the headmaster, though pancakes eventually consumed those thoughts
Back in the hallway the others were a bit shocked by Ruby's sudden departure. "Yang, you know your sister is weird right?" Blake asked her partner, "Yeah I know, but she is my sister, so I have no choice but to love her." The three satisfied, followed their leader to the mess hall. Weiss muttered as they walked down the corridor in relative silence, "Doesn't mean we have to."
Doctor's POV, TARDIS
The grey console room that had been with him so many years stood in shambles, the TARDIS having tried best it could to repair the console room, failed to make it look no better than an active war zone. The white tubes that had stood in the time rotor had exploded from their casings and destroyed the rotor glass. The second main console screen was steered from its mounting and laid in the lower level of the room. The Doctor navigated around a beam that had landed not far from the doorway and had crushed the railings to the left side. Many of the support structures lining the room had either large cracks running along them, or had shattered over the room. The left hand secondary console (the side console on the left side of the console room if you were looking at it from the door) had fallen loose from one of its mounting and now hung precariously over the edge of the main floor. The upwards staircase to his left had collapsed, leaving the downwards one to its right with headroom fit for a dog. He solemnly walked along, leaving a crunch with each step.
The Doctor slowly ran his hands along the debris that littered the path to the main console, careful not to touch any glass. "Oh I am so sorry dear, but don't you worry, the Doctor is in." Though, not that it would be of much use, the TARDIS would need to regenerate itself once again.
The Doctor lifted his leg over a shattered field of wiring, casings, and glass, careful to not get any in his shoe. It was then the Doctor noticed the lower ring from the upper time rotor had fallen and crushed many of the vital controls to the console, including the throttle. It laid next to a small hole in the floor where a column had broken through from above. It had, from the looks of it, been shattered from the base by the large ring. He looked at the piece with tears in his eyes and a lump in his throat. The Doctor slowly bent down on his knees, careful to avoid the veneer of glass that covered most of the floor, to pick up one of the throttle halves and held it in his hands, just staring at it. Over the years it had worn to take the shape of many of his incarnations hands, only to never see his. It gave his hearts a heavy heaping of sorrow, to see his favorite part of his lovely companion broken to pieces..
A sudden ring of an indicator bell caught his attention. He slowly let down the old throttle, careful to put it back where it laid. He put his hands on his thighs and picked himself off the ground and brushed off his knees. He walked with curiosity in his step as he approached the console. One of the monitors was still functioning and giving off an alert, or to be more precise, had a waiting queue of them. The doctor adjusted his glasses to read what it said, the gallifreyan text being pushed to the back replaced by English.(In all honesty I did this because I like how in Capaldi's TARDIS the monitor overlays everything with English which is why I have it do it here.) The first one displayed read: Critical Spatial Distributor Malfunction, Cause: Spatial Anomaly upon Trans-Dimensional Entrance. Data Log Recovery: Successful, Is as follows:
-System error, unable to locate Spatial reference after exit of spatial Anomaly
-Outcome: Corrected, Inversion of Spatial Distributor
- Energy Surge detected in Thermocoupling R73S, Cause Unknown, Attempt Loop Feed.
-Outcome: Critical Systems Failure of Anti Grav and Engine Overload, Advise PIlot Of Emergency Landing
Emergency Materialisation Complete, Vertical Position Relative from Landing Point too High, Attempt Relocation
-Outcome: Unable to Dematerialise
-Pilot Input: Engage Spatial Engines w/ t-00:00:02.00 TI
-Impact of External Shell, Relative Motion Dampers Fail
-Console Room Structural Failure, Attempt Transmat of Pilot
-Outcome: Unable to Divert Sufficient Power
-Sensors Detect Pilot Regeneration, Attempt Zero Effect
-Outcome: Insufficient Power, Unaided Regeneration
-Doors open
-Outcome: Pilot Exit
-System Enters Power Conservation Protocol *0976437729-3-9*
END LOG
*19203*
"Energy Surge in a Thermo-Coupling? That's strange." The Doctor tried to pull up a more in depth log of the surge, however; the monitor suddenly frazzled and indicated a data corruption,the TARDIS suddenly groaned In distress,"It's alright, it's alright. I can't expect you to be perfect. Everyone forgets now and again." The Doctor petted parts of the console as he tried to get it to calm down. When it finally quieted down a minute or two later, he walked over to the monitor and began to examine the logs again, thinking all the while.
"It still doesn't make any sense! Why didn't the coupling eject? If it was in danger of surging, the system would have purged." The Doctor scratched at his chin in thought. He couldn't figure it out, at least not yet. He tried to pace to help him think, but in his frustration had forgotten about the fallen support beam to his left and subsequently tripped over it.
The Doctor landed face first next to a silver, gold, and blue object. The Doctor stared at the object from his close up vantage point on the floor, his distorted vision from the fall making it difficult to see. When it finally subsided he recognized the familiar object immediately. His Sonic Screwdriver, the silver bits at the bottom had shattered and were gone from the handle. The upper level of the dampening chambers had been smashed, exposing the fully intact main emitter. The Doctor somberly reached out with his left hand, grasping it with the tips of his fingers. He ran his fingers across the metal of the device and slowly took it into his palm. He pulled it towards him as he began to stand. Half way up he opened his hand to see the device in his foreign yet belonging hand. The way it sat just didn't fit him, but it would have to do for now. He somehow had the feeling he would need it later. He put it in his left hand inner pocket of his waist coat, feeling in snag a little at the fabric from its rough edges.
He walked back the short distance he had come from the console and rested his hands on the edge of the monitor and leaned his weary head against it, "it just doesn't make sense old girl." The Doctor gave a reluctant sigh and archived the data file and pulled up the next log to see what else had come up.
Sensor Log RTSD928y3z1823:
-Sensor Detects Spatial Anomaly
- Type:Distortion, Effective: Predicted Long term, Location from Galactic Centre Zero is 1-88-74-634-015-89-01:00:02. Anomaly is resulted from forceful entry to current universe, approximately 16 planetary days from current time.
The Doctor straightened out his back as he pondered on this tiresome puzzle, "Now why would anyone from the Konsatal system in the Omira Spiral (the location of the coordinates) want to enter a parallel universe. Come to think of it, no species in the entire Omira Spiral has even mastered time travel, much less interdimensional travel and void transversal technology." He rubbed his temples in confusion, it just wasn't making any sense. The Doctor once again reluctantly archived the data log and went on to the third and final message, this one giving an answer to one of his many questions. Failure of Architectural Reconfiguration System to Initiate Auto-Rebuild Sequence. Begin Sequence Now?
The Doctor cracked a smile at the screen, "Old memories may cause me pain now, but the future holds endless excitement. Let's see what you have for me this time." The Doctor didn't even type in the response, the TARDIS already knew his answer, the ship give a small groan of appreciation and a small message appeared on the screen,'Please leave Doctor, so that the Process may begin.', the Doctor gave a small show surprise at the TARDIS using his name, "Are we going by names now? I thought you were always going to refer to me as 'pilot', though I am not complaining, I do like this." The Doctor patted the console one more time and spun on his heels, walking towards the console, careful to avoid everything but the floor. When he reached the door, he opened it and turned around, giving one last look at the old room before giving it a wink and leaving, closing the door with a gentle thud behind him, heading off to take care of the mystery of the dust robberies.
Next Time on RWBY Doctor: The Stray Doctor (1 of 2)
So next time we will see the Doctor's first true adventure in his new world. I will be referring heavily on your knowledge of the RWBY episodes "The Stray" and "Black and White", so as to keep unnecessary backstory to a minimum, though I will include a few reminders. I as always accept valid and constructive criticism and your thoughts on the series. I will gladly respond to any questions you have.