What is left of Team Eleven
The teams left in the maze met again. One looked around at the people gathered.
"Where is my granddaughter?" he asked.
"Nice to see you too," Ian mumbled.
"We saw a great dragon!" Eleven exclaimed, flailing his arms about.
"We played a riddle game, and the Doctor won using a paradox!" Ace boasted. Eleven harrumphed.
"Barbara fed it a ham sandwich," he said. Amy looked awed.
"A ham sandwich?" she asked.
"It was Ian's," Barbara looked proud of herself, but quickly brought the conversation back on topic. "But the Doctor made a good point. Where are the others?"
Ace kicked a pebble. "They took the Professor!" She seemed to be blinking back tears, but the expression on her face showed clear, undying anger. Ian knew that she'd never stop until she punished the person who had done this. Carefully, he put his arm around her shoulders and steered her away from the crowd, speaking soft words of comfort.
"But what about the other team?" Amy asked. "The one with the handsome Doctor with the, uh… carrot, and his companions?"
"Good question, dear girl, good question!" One looked at the people gathered. "We must not forget that question, for it is important! And we may find the answer when we round that bend," he pointed with his walking stick toward a turn.
"How do you know?" Barbara asked.
"It's the middle of the maze," Eleven answered.
"And how do you know that?" Amy questioned.
"Oh, Amy," Eleven gave her a "but it's so obvious face." "Why else would we be all together? Geronimo!"
"But what about the other Doctor's group?" Ian asked.
"Oh, I shan't think that they'd be coming," One said breezily. "They probably met the same fate as the fourth team. As the young man put it- geronimo."
The team walked around the corner.
Team Six, plus Five and company
"Almost there," Ten said. He walked well in front of the others.
"Almost where?" Jo asked. They had been walking for miles now. Everytime they thought they were close, it turned out to be the "TARDIS" playing tricks.
"The Eye," Ten said, turning around and walking backwards.
"But how do you know that it isn't playing with us again?" she asked.
"I can feel it."
That's comforting, she thought. Then her legs began to give out from sheer exhaustion. "Oomph!" The Third Doctor ran to catch her.
"Why don't we rest?" Nyssa called from the back with Adric, Peri, and Fitz.
"Yes," Eight agreed. "For ten minutes. Does that seem like a long enough time?"
The group agreed, and began to halt. Ten ran back to them.
"But we need to keep going!" he said. Five walked up to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Look," he said in a low voice. "I want to find Tegan as much as you want to find Donna. But the companions who are with us need rest. Remember, they aren't Time Lords. They can't keep up."
Ten sighed. "Sorry."
"It's all right, old chap. Just try to relax for a few moments, and we'll be on our way."
Across the corridor, Six stood up. Peri moved to follow him, but he motioned for her to stay where she was. Ten noticed this.
"Six…?" he asked. Bt Six ignored him, continuing to poke about in the walls. He pushed a certain spot, and hiss echoed through the corridor. He looked amazed. Those around him- Peri, Anji, Three, and Jo- stood in amazement.
"Eureka," Six said in amazement.
"What?" Ten squeezed his way through the group, with Five close behind him. He too stopped when he saw what his younger self saw. "The Eye of Harmony," he breathed. "How could we have missed it?"
Six looked over at him. "Just be grateful that my eyes are keen enough to spot the rough outline of a door. And that Jo needed a rest."
The group funnelled through the doorway into the room that contained the Eye. It was large and ornate, with balconies high above their heads. But when Fitz closed the door, the scenery changed.
Kidnapped Team
"Of course it's the Time Lords," Seven snapped. "It's prrrobably been demanded by the same High Council that warranted my trial. Not yours, but Six's. I remember it all too well," he growled.
"My trial?" Two asked.
"Yes, you get put on trial for interfering," Seven said. "Stay away from World War One, would you?"
Two nodded sagely.
"But what do the Time Lords have to do with this?" Donna asked. "They were all killed, in the Time War."
The Doctors looked at each other.
"A Time War?" Two asked himself.
"Wiped out the Time Lords?" Seven responded. They turned back to Donna.
"Never," Two said.
"Just answer her question," Tegan said. "What do the Time Lords have to do with this?"
Two opened his mouth to speak, but Seven interrupted.
"Well, not all of them. Whoever is creating this paradox by trapping all of Me here is just one Time Lord. He's evil, pure through and through. He'll stop at nothing to achieve what he wants. He'll even go so far as to try and kill Me, and everybody else here."
"Who is he?" the companions asked in unison.
"Who do you think?" Seven smiled mischievously. "Anyway, he's not our problem right now. He's everybody else's. Our problem is that door over there," he pointed to the locked door keeping them in their room. "Oh, I wish Ace was here."
It was Donna's turn to smile. "Well, you may not have her, but you've got me: Super-Temp." She stood up, walked over to the door, and kicked it down in one try. The Doctors jumped up, both registering shock on their faces. Tegan however, was smiling from ear to ear.
"I like you," she said. The team rushed out to confront their kidnapper.
Team Nine
"What do you mean, Doctor?" Clara was alert. What was he saying?
"Well, not me, really," Twelve responded. "I'm talking about a future me who once tried to put me on trial to claim all of my remaining regenerations. A me who is a- a mash-up of all of the evil things in me."
"Not the one who fought in the war," Clara said, hoping that she was wrong. She quite liked that one.
"No, not him!" Twelve looked shocked. "He's probably just stuck in the Time Vortex, much like you were during that Rassilon business." The last part was directed toward Four.
"Very good, Doctor," came a voice from behind them. They turned to see a man in flowing black robes with a silver trim standing atop a small hill. "It is a pleasure that you have solved my mystery. But the time for games is over." He began to walk closer.
"Stop!" Nine commanded. He stepped forward to meet the stranger. Rose tried to follow, but he spoke some low words and she backed up. "How did you gain control over the Matrix? I assume that is where we are?"
"I am the Keeper of the Matrix, yes," the man said. The two were nearly nose to nose. All of a sudden, the man disappeared and reappeared behind Ben and Sarah Jane. "But that doesn't matter. What does is that you do exactly as I tell you. No tricks like last time. You know that they don't work." He disappeared again, but black goo was coming out of the holes and was moving toward Ben and Sarah. They tried to move like the others, but like Seven and Tegan, they couldn't move. In a matter of seconds, they had been transported to… somewhere.
The stranger laughed, and Jamie drew his dagger and began to attack. But the stranger disappeared yet again, leaving the highlander to swat at thin air.
"But because I just stole some friends, have some in return," the man swept his hand across the landscape, and the rest of the teams emerged from nowhere. Susan broke away from Team Six and ran to hug One. Eleven stared at the man in disbelief.
"I was right," he murmured. The in a much louder voice, he simply said, "Hello, Scrapyard!"
This insult jogged Eight's memory. "The Valeyard," he growled.