5.1
Chandra Nalaar blinked Awake, and immediately noticed she was in a Fused Loop. In part because the place she was in looked like a restaurant made out of ice, and also because she was wearing a waitress uniform and arguing with a bearded man at a table.
"Glitz!" came a surprised shout from behind her. Glancing back, she noticed a poofy-haired woman and a short guy in off-white, carrying an umbrella.
"What? Never heard of him," said the guy her unAwake self had been arguing with. He was holding out a card which her in-Loop memories and a Loop in the Hub (where her name had become "Felicia Day") told her was a credit card. Deciding to play along for now, she took the card and headed for the counter.
A few moments later, she was approached by the short guy she had seen. "I imagine that you're feeling rather Loopy at the moment, hmm?"
"Yeah. Chandra Nalaar," she held out a hand, which he promptly shook.
"I'm the Doctor, pleasure to meet you, Miss Nalaar."
"So, what are we up to in this Loop?"
"Well, at the moment, we have to retrieve a power source from the Dragon of Ice World, then tell Kane that his chance at revenge is lost because his home planet has been dead for two thousand years. He melts himself, Glitz takes the city-ship, then we go gallivanting off to adventure. How's that sound?"
Chandra grinned wickedly. "I'm always up for something new."
"Excellent! By the way, you're replacing a friend of mine this Loop, so I hope you can handle the same things she can."
Chandra just lit a fire in her hand in response.
"Ah. It seems like Ace, you must be an expert in calorification, incineration, carbonization, and inflammation."
"Okay, the only word I recognized there was 'incineration.'"
"Considering they're synonyms, that's okay."
Chandra just shrugged. "Whatever. Lead the way, Doc."
The Doctor scowled. "I'm not 'Doc,' I'm 'the Doctor.'"
"Whatever you say... Doc." Chandra grinned. The Doctor rolled his eyes and smiled. This young woman was so much like Ace, it was actually rather amusing.
5.2
Sokka and Katara Awoke as normal, in their fishing trip canoe, and did a quick run-down of things, with only one responding ping. Those times Aang did manage to Awaken a hundred years ago, he would usually change things up a bit. But-
Katara frowned. "Not Avatar, but Doctor? That's new."
"Wonder if it's that Doctor? I heard recently that they got his Branch Looping." Sokka had also heard a lot of disbelief in that statement, but he'd come to know the impossible in these things.
"Could be. If everything else is the same, he should still be in the iceberg."
The Water Tribe siblings piloted the canoe quickly through the water until they found the right iceberg. After so many Loops, it had become the work of a single waterbending move to both pull the spherical iceberg out of the ocean and split it open.
A blast of golden, flame-like light rose out of the opened ice, streaking into the sky.
The Master looked through his spyglass at the plume of regeneration energy so far away. Yes, it was truly the Doctor. Though he had learned of the "ping," amongst other things important to a Looper, he would never respond. He would be like what he had heard of the "Star Trek" Loopers: a Stealth Looper. It was a test of sorts, seeing if the Doctor could tell he was Awake.
"Uncle," said the Master, playing his role as his memories dictated. "Do you realize what this means?"
"I won't get to finish my game?"
A cruel smirk formed, hidden. "It means our search has come to an end. That light is seen whenever the Doctor is reborn. It must be him."
"It could just be the celestial lights, Prince Koschei. Please, sit. Why don't you enjoy a cup of calming Jasmine tea?"
The Master was unsure how to feel about that name. An alias he took before he was the Master. In any case, he still was the Master, not "Koschei." Regardless, it was his name this Loop, so he'd play along.
"I don't need any calming tea, Uncle. Helmsman! Change course for that light!"
The Doctor looked young. Not twelve-years-old young, like Aang, but younger than they expected. He staggered out of the broken iceberg and looked up at the Water Tribe Loopers.
"Well, hello! I'm the Doctor!" He paused. "Hmm, tenth face again. Strange how often that happens in Fused Loops, but that's the whims of fate, eh?"
"I'm Sokka, this is my sister Katara."
"Pleasure to meet you. So, what's your Loop about?"
"Hundred year war. The Fire Nation killed all the Airbenders and have been doing their best to take over the rest of the world. Our goal is to stop Fire Lord Ozai and, with him, the war."
"Sounds good. Not the right face for a war, but I can probably deal."
The was a bizarre groaning sound from the inside of the iceberg, which attracted the Doctor's attention. He hopped, flailing a bit as he realized that he jumped slightly higher than he expected, and looked down.
"Well, that's a new look for you, Sexy."
Mildly confused, Sokka climbed up next to him. It was a Flying Bison, as normal, but this one had blue arrows, rather than the normal brown. "Sexy?"
"My TARDIS. She's not Awake, but she sometimes follows me in non-TARDIS forms. Well, I say follows, but-"
"I get it. Think she's up to flying?"
The Doctor slid down the side of the ice and lay his head on Sexy's. She groaned again, that bizarre sound Sokka couldn't quite associate with a Flying Bison. "Hmm, not right now, she's kind of tired. Should be up to swimming, though!"
"Alright, we'll take you back to our village. Katara can start teaching you waterbending and then we'll see if Zuko or Iroh's Awake, and if not just do our best to outfox them and head north."
5.3 (cipher100)
Currently in his tenth regeneration, the Doctor was gaping in open mouthed horror and mumbling incoherently at the sight before him. For you see, his current companion had violated something precious that he treasured very dearly.
The inside of the TARDIS was clean.
Not just clean though, completely overhauled. Everywhere the Doctor looked, he could see modifications to his 'beautiful' TARDIS. All the frayed wiring and exposed mechanisms were repaired and placed behind their panels that once littered the floor. Even the control console had been reworked. Now it sported an updated interface that had been streamlined and possibly idiot-proofed.
The seats even had SEAT BELTS.
"Donna!" the Doctor called in the voice that all his companions knew meant 'run and don't look back'.
"Oi! I'm right here you know," Donna replied, lifting herself out of the grates in the floor.
"Donna, what have you done to my TARDIS?" the Doctor asked, still in shock from what he was seeing around him.
Shrugging, Donna said, "What? I was renovating! Making it more efficient. When was the last time you replaced the thermal couplers anyway?"
"But it's MY TARDIS!" the Doctor stated in exasperation.
"Yes, and I made it better. Now hush up and let me work. I'm going to see if I can fix the Chameleon Circuit, which you probably broke when you first stepped into the old girl." Having said her piece, Donna pushed the Doctor aside and continued with her work. The Doctor opened his mouth to continue but wisely closed it after a second. He knew there was one thing he would never be able to do.
He would never win an argument with Donna Noble.
5.4 (fractalman)
'Well, this is certainly the earliest I've woken up yet,' the Doctor thought while sitting in a crib. Before he could check what few loop memories he had, however...
"GO TO SLEEP! GO TO SLEEP! GO TO SLEEEP LIT-TTLE TIME-LORD! GO TO SLEEP! AND WHEN YOU WAKE! YOU WILL BE A DA-LEK-SLAVE!"
...And apparently, Daleks were nannies this loop. 'Well this is going in my top umpteen creepiest loops.'
5.5 (Blazingen1, edited by OathToOblivion)
"There were days, there were many days that these words could burn stars and raise up empires and topple Gods," the Doctor said on literal auto-pilot. He had borrowed the Teselecta this Loop, just for the hell of it.
"What does it say?" Amy Pond asked impatiently.
The Doctor frantically took over manual control as he saw that the text was different again. "'Do you want to build a snowman?' Must be Anna," he commented, referring to the Looper from the 'Frozen' Branch. Although why she was asking him confused him. Then he realized that the homebox he was supposed to read was on the other side of the hall. Sure enough, River's regular message was on there.
...Wait, then how did Anna learn Gallifreyan and who was she speaking to?
5.6 (crossoverpairinglover)
The Doctor, currently in his form where he wore a fedora and scarf with the teeth and curls, was staring down a dark trench-coat-wearing figure who had his own fedora as well as glowing white eyes hidden in his hat's shadow.
Meanwhile, this stare down was being observed from a few thousand feet above the planet in the (hopefully safe) Watch Tower.
"You're seeing this, right?!" the green dressed archer nervously asked the other members of the Justice League, who looked similarly nervous.
"Yes, we do see the Doctor in a staring match with the Phantom Stranger. I'm waiting for reality to end!" a young fellow in a red suit crossed by yellow bolts exclaimed dramatically. The dark cloaked man who looked the least unnerved glowered at him.
"Reality won't implode from The Doctor having a staring match with the Phantom Stranger, Wally. At the most, Earth will start fluctuating in time, and most likely nothing will happen."
"But do we know for sure?!" the super hero now identified as Wally West, the 3rd Flash, exclaimed. Hal Jordan, Green Lantern, shook his head.
"The Doctor only just began looping and none of us really understand the Stranger even though our looping experiences predate everyone except the O7 and our counterparts in the Marvelverse. I'd call watching from a distance the best call in this case."
"From orbit though?" Green Arrow pointed out as Superman frowned.
"All the better to react to temporal alterations."
"Say, you think the Stranger's looping?" Flash vouched the question, causing the League to exchange contemplative looks.
"Could we tell?" Batman offered a straight answer to the question.
The great higher entity staring match continued.
5.7 (OathToOblivion)
It's not every day that a God and a Time Lord walk into a bar. But then, this was no ordinary day. Zurvan had finally gotten enough time off to take a break, and he was spending this part of it within the Doctor Who Loop. Naturally, with the Doctor, who was currently on his first incarnation of his second cycle (the 12th Doctor). The two sat at a table, sipping from some Saurian Brandy the Doctor had received last Loop. It was then that the Doctor decided to ask something that had been niggling at him.
"Question: Is there a reason only my Companions from my first regeneration cycle are beginning to Loop?" he asked, taking a swig from his Brandy.
Zurvan looked away at this. "..."
The Doctor got the gist of it from that. "Answer: You don't want to tell me, do you?"
Zurvan shook his head. "No, it's nothing like that. It's just that only the period of subjective time covered by your first regeneration cycle's completely stable. Your later incarnations aren't, while your current one is only just beginning to stabilize."
The Doctor took that in. "So, none of them can Loop yet?"
"No."
"Not even-?"
"Not even them."
"...Damn."
5.8 (wildrook)
"Yeah," Rory muttered, noticing the corpses go in his direction as he went Last Centurion on the Nazi Zombies. "DEFINITELY one of those days..."
Amy then cringed. "This is karma," was what she muttered. "We accidentally save Adolf Hitler, now we're up against Nazi Zombies."
The Doctor, however, was more focused on his blade. "One, it was 1938," he said. "I've seen bad things happen when a Paradox gets involved, but I feel the same way. Two, we were more focused on your runaway daughter and I was poisoned, so we had to keep Hitler in the cupboard. Finally, these zombies have Pinkeye for some strange reason...but really, we might need to focus on staying alive in order to figure out where these zombies are coming from."
"You sure we're not involved with the Dream Lord again?" Rory asked the Doctor.
"No, we've been through that scenario before, Rory, and I doubt he'd come up with something as ludicrous as an anal probe made by gray aliens that speak cow."
Amy then cringed. "And it's times like this I wish River were here," she muttered.
"You and me both," Rory replied.
On the upside, Rory had the rare privilege of punching Eric Cartman in the face when the guy tried to re-enact the Third Reich over "The Passion of The Christ." Too bad the Doctor and Amy had to deal with a crazed Mel Gibson at the time.
5.9 (OathToOblivion)
Kureshima Takatora had Awoken while asleep in bed. Now that he was awake in the physical sense, he was contemplating what to do this Loop. Well, first thing was first, they had to deal with Ryoma. After that, though, was the matter of convincing Sagara to call off Helheim's invasion. Sometimes, it was easy. Other times, not so much.
He had sent out a Ping earlier, but had only gotten one reply back so far. It probably wasn't their Anchor, Kazuraba Kouta, as he tended to forget to Ping. Anyway, as it wasn't from within the house, that meant Mitsuzane wasn't Awake. And in that case, then he needed to make sure his younger brother did not go through the hardships he did in baseline. Speaking of…
"Nii-san, I'm heading out," Mitsuzane said, on his way out.
Takatora nodded from where he was eating his breakfast and reviewing his paperwork. "Have a nice day, Mitsuzane. Oh, and have fun with the Beat Riders later," he nonchalantly said.
Mitsuzane paled at that. "You know?!" he squeaked out.
Takatora turned to him and arched an eyebrow. "Of course I know. I'm your brother. It's my job. As long as you don't do anything illegal, I'm fine with whatever you do. Now, I believe you had somewhere to go right now?" he pointed out.
Mitsuzane silently nodded and headed off. As soon as he had left, Takatora sighed. It was never easy trying to stop his brother from going off the deep end. But it was always worth it in the end, he reminded himself.
Now, the current timeframe was shortly after their adventure in the Sengoku World, and as such the Genesis Drivers had already been completed. As such, that meant that Ryoma could be dealt with without sacrificing firepower.
But first, paperwork. It wasn't going to do itself after all. So for most of the day, Takatora went through his paperwork, only breaking in the middle for lunch. It was now 5 PM, and he was about to start wrapping it up.
Suddenly, the ground started shaking. "An earthquake?!" Takatora exclaimed in shock. He leapt out of his chair in an attempt to find something solid to hold onto, but a piece of loose plaster fell from the ceiling onto his head, knocking him out.
Takatora groaned as he woke up from his impromptu nap. 'There's something to be said about how easily I got knocked out,' he decided. He rolled to his feet, wincing as the scar on his shoulder from the initial Sengoku Driver test acted up again. However, he pushed past it as he usually did, rising up.
It was dark. This was the first thing he noticed. Checking his watch, which escaped getting broken somehow, he saw that the time was 6 PM. Far too early for it to be dark. He brought out his phone to call someone, but it wasn't functioning, not even on Yggdrasil's own network. That was a bad sign. Well, he wasn't going to be taken by surprise this time. Ignoring his briefcase containing this Loop's iteration of his Driver, he removed his own personal Sengoku Driver from his Pocket, as well as his Melon Lockseed. "Henshin," he declared, simply holding the muskmelon-themed padlock in front of him, rather than sending it flying into the air like he usually did.
MELON!
He placed the Lockseed into his Driver's Drive Bay and closed it over the Lock On Arm. Then, he sliced it open with his Cutting Blade, not letting the Standby Tune play.
LOCK ON!
SOIYA!
And that was all his belt said. Takatora blinked, and looked above him. Sure enough, no Crack, and no Melon Arms armor. "What?" he questioned in disbelief. However, after a very long 30 seconds, a Crack finally unzipped itself over his head, releasing his armor. Takatora sighed at this, but was still wondering what had taken so long for it to appear, even as it landed on his head and unfolded, the activation call playing.
MELON ARMS! TENKA GOMEN!
(MELON ARMS! AUTHORIZED BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE!)
The armor finished folding, revealing his Rider Form, Armored Rider Zangetsu! ...Or at least, that's what their backups in the Hub called him. Takatora had never named his Rider Form the first time around. What was the point? But...he honestly felt a bit of an attachment to it. So, at least in private, he referred to himself as Zangetsu in Rider Form.
But that was a tangent. He needed to find out what was going on. First an earthquake, now it's dark? That didn't bode well at all. Zangetsu rushed for the front door, only to find it jarred shut by debris. "Tch!" he let out. Sure, he could probably get out regardless, but it would cause horrible damage to the structure of the house. 'No, buildings can be rebuilt. Lives can't,' he reminded himself. Was this the onset of not really caring about non-Loopers, the kind of thing Kumon Kaito hated? Lack of compassion?
No. Kureshima Takatora had made many mistakes, but he would never give up compassion no matter how long he lived. He sliced his Cutting Blade down twice.
SOIYA! MELON AU LAIT!
He charged energy into his Musou Saber, then lashed it out. "Hah!" he yelled, destroying the debris and the doorframe in one fell swoop. 'I think I'll dock the repairs out of Ryoma's pay,' he thought to himself. It was petty, but it made him feel better. Plus, it's not as though Sengoku Ryoma really used it for anything.
Rushing out of the door, he noticed the sky. "What-?!" he said in shock. For the sky was filled with strange planets and the stars looked nothing like they were supposed to. "Could it be that the entire planet was moved?" he questioned. Right, that settled it. This was either a very extreme Variant, or a Fused Loop.
However, the thought that immediately went through Zangetsu's mind was, 'Mitsuzane!' Concerned for his brother, the white Armored Rider decided to find him. 'If it's 6, then he's probably with Team Gaim,' he decided. He pulled out a Sakura Hurricane from his Pocket and drove off towards Team Gaim's hangout.
The streets were oddly deserted as Zangetsu drove towards Team Gaim's hangout on his bike. 'Something's not right,' he decided as he drove over the bridge. 'With all that's happened, there should be people wondering what's going on.' What had he missed while he was out cold? He was about to find out.
A laser of some kind impacted the ground in front of him, flinging him off the Sakura Hurricane. "Gah!" he yelled as he tumbled to the floor. 'What was that?!' he thought in a daze. Lights impacted the ground, and he soon got his answer. Flying in the sky were three beings that looked a lot like pepperpots. But Zangetsu recognized them from that book Kouta had given him. "Daleks?!" he yelled in disbelief.
"HU-MAN SCUM DE-TEC-TED! TA-YA-SU! TA-YA-SU!" They were indeed Daleks, and were flying down to attack Zangetsu. They fired their lasers at him. Zangetsu blocked with the Melon Defender, but was pushed back across the road.
Takatora gritted his teeth behind his helmet. He knew this would be difficult. He might have been able to take on one at a time, but three was beyond even him in his Sengoku Driver form. He would have to switch to his Genesis Driver to easily deal with them, but it would take much too long. An idea then hit him. There was one way. He had to be quick though. The Melon Defender was starting to melt from the strain of the Daleks' attacks.
Removing his right hand from bracing the Defender, he drew his Musou Saber and set it to Gun Mode, shooting at the Daleks. He was too far away to accurately hit the eyestalks, but it was enough to get them to stop shooting. Then, he did something that would normally be stupid.
He jumped off the bridge, falling directly into the water below. The Daleks were horribly confused by his actions, and flew overhead where he had dived in.
"THE HUMAN HAS JUMPED IN-TO THE RI-VER. EX-PLAIN!"
"HIS FEAR MUST HAVE BEEN TOO MUCH. HE FEARED THE DA-LEKS!"
"NEGATIVE: LIFE SIGNS ARE STILL STABLE! CONCLUSION: HUMAN IS ALIVE!"
"ALERT! POWER SPIKE DETECTED!"
Suddenly, a white figure launched out of the water, slicing through one of the Daleks' eyestalks. As that one, flew erratically until it crashed on the ground, the other two turned. There, they saw Zangetsu, in white armor themed after Kamen Rider Fourze. His left hand held his Musou Saber, while Fourze's Rocket Module was active over his right. His Driver played the activation as they finished turning.
FOURZE ARMS! SEISHUN SWITCH ON!
(FOURZE ARMS! SWITCH ON YOUR YOUTH!)
'That was close,' he thought to himself. He didn't think he'd be able to get the Lockseed off in time, what with the delay. Luckily, the Daleks were too confused, so he had gotten enough time to do so. "Now, for you two!" he declared, zooming at the Daleks.
The Daleks immediately opened fire as soon as Zangetsu zoomed forward. He dodged to the best of his ability around the blasts, swiping at them with the Musou Saber as he passed. However, his efforts were curtailed when as he was coming around for another pass, he got blasted directly in the back.
"Gah!" he yelled, falling to the ground. While the armor protected him from getting hurt, it was still very powerful. He crashed onto the ground, the Rocket Module disappearing. The Daleks descended to attempt to attack him. Thinking fast, he unlocked the Fourze Lockseed from his Driver and slammed it into the Saber's Drive Launch.
LOCK ON!
Ichi! Juu! Hyaku! FOURZE CHARGE!
(1! 10! 100! FOURZE CHARGE!)
Unbidden, the personality imprint of Kisaragi Gentarou within the Fourze Lockseed took over for a split second as he initiated the attack. "Rider Chō Ginga Finish (Rider Super Galactic Finish)!" he declared, shooting off the Cosmic Energy-charged sword beam at the Daleks. It bisected one of the Daleks clean through the center, destroying it in a blaze of glory. The surviving Dalek rushed down at him, but even then, it knew it was likely that it would die.
"RE-IN-FORCE-MENTS RE-QUEST-ED!" it announced, attempting to divebomb Zangetsu. Zangetsu replied in the following way.
SOIYA! LIMIT BREAK!
Executing Fourze's Rider Rocket Drill Kick, Zangetsu propelled the yellow Drill Module on his left foot through the Dalek thanks to the exhaust of the orange Rocket Module that reappeared on his right arm. Panting in exhaustion, he registered what the Dalek had said. Knowing it had gotten the signal off, he immediately pulled another Rider Lockseed from his Pocket.
KABUTO!
He replaced the Fourze Lockseed with the now-identified Kabuto Lockseed, putting the white Lockseed away into his Pocket. He then Locked it On and sliced the Cutting Blade down again.
LOCK ON!
SOIYA!
While he waited for the new armor to appear, his Fourze Arms armor disappeared. 'I don't believe this. Daleks, here? Does that mean this is a Read-Only Loop then? Then again, Kouta-san has mentioned rumors that it was taken off of that status. Ludicrous, considering how much time travel that branch has. Even Den-O had problems getting online, and it was the first of the Rider Loops to go active!'
'On the other hand, that is a bad habit of mine. Not believing things I believe to be impossible. I'm going to have to work on that,' he decided as a Crack finally opened, releasing a giant version of Kamen Rider Kabuto in Rider Form's head. It landed on Zangetsu's head and unfolded into armor resembling Kabuto's Rider Form, complete with the horn. The activation call also finally played from the Driver.
KABUTO ARMS! TEN NO MICHI MY WAY!
(KABUTO ARMS! THE PATH OF HEAVEN, MY WAY!)
Zangetsu knew when to cut his losses. He did not want to be in the area when the Daleks' reinforcements arrived. 'I've still got to make sure Mitsuzane is alright,' he decided. With that thought in mind, he pressed the Cutting Blade down twice.
SOIYA! CLOCK UP!
Zangetsu proceeded to zoom off at the high speeds of Clock Up towards Team Gaim's hangout.
5.10 (crossoverpairinglover)
"THE UNI-VERSE BE-LONGS TO THE DA-LEKS! WE ARE THE SUPER-IOR LIVING LIFE-FORMS! WE WILL NOT BE DEF-EATED BY IN-FERIOR UN-LIVING LIFE-FORMS!"
The Doctor, currently sporting his most awesome bowtie that no one could hope to ever mimic and look as good as he did, poked his head out of the TARDIS to see a sight both familiar and unfamiliar.
What was familiar were the Daleks blasting at things.
What wasn't was what the Daleks were blasting at: endless hordes of the undead in a forest with a lot of chain-link fences.
Daleks...the undead horde...
The Doctor just closed the door to the TARDIS, not wanting to deal with either.
Perhaps 15th century Bhutan instead. Had to be better than this, or at least have far fewer of the Walking Dead.
"YOU DARE ATTEMPT TO BITE A DA-LEK?! FOO-LISH CORPSE! DA-LEK ARMOR IS SUPER-IOR TO YOUR PRIM-ITIVE JAW MUSCLES! DA-LEKS WILL NOW INI-TIATE PEST CON-TROL!"
A few Loops later, now in the form that seemed to unnerve Harry Potter a lot (the 10th Doctor), the Doctor poked his head out of the TARDIS again to see another battle between human zombies and Daleks. Said zombies were finding out that they could not eat through Dalek armor.
This time, it appeared to be Yonkers, New York
"..." From the corner of his eye, the Doctor noticed Donna poke her head out, curious about what was going on.
He covertly pushed her back inside along with himself. "Nothing to see here, nothing at all. It would be far better if we go somewhere else. Ever wanted to visit Peru at the height of early Inca development?"
"HUNGER GOSPEL?! YOU DARE SUGGEST THAT YOU WILL CON-QUER THE MULTI-VERSE?! ONLY THE DA-LEKS ARE WORTHY OF CON-QUERING THE MULTI-VERSE! PRE-PARE TO BE EXTER-MINATED!"
The Doctor, quite a few loops later and now looking like how he did when he met Rose, just stared in horror as War Daleks were engaged in a massive fight over the skies of what he believed to be the world of Hala (home of the Kree race) with what appeared to be zombie versions of the Avengers and Fantastic Four."I'm almost not sure who to root for here," the Doctor, who occasionally was called Malekith in this Loop, muttered to himself.
(wildrook)
"You and me both," added the man with a chainsaw for a hand.
5.11 (Gamerex27)
The Doctor Awoke, and instantly saw that something was wrong. He was inside what looked like a metal tube, with various levers and ports sticking into it. Levers for more than two hands. And there was a single porthole, looking out into a blue-tinted world.
So, it had finally happened. The Doctor had Looped in as his worst enemy: a Dalek.
He debated just taking one of his cyanide pills to get out of this, but since that had led to a truly awful Loop last time he had done that, he decided not to. He quickly put up the various mental barriers and blocks he had picked up in both his Baseline and in other Loops, to block out the Dalek conditioning that was no doubt trying to infest his mind.
But as he did this, he happened to stumble upon his Loop Memories.
"EH?"
To be exact, they were almost identical to the memories of his first incarnation, up to the point where he stole his TARDIS and left to hide the Hand of Omega. Except for one, crucial detail.
"OH, DEAR."
..."DOC-TOR, WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS LOOP? EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN!"
The Anchor, known in this bizarre variant as Doc Tor, adjusted his scarf with a wave of his plunger and took his eyestalk off the TARDIS console. "AH, YES. DID I E-VER TELL YOU HOW THE TIME LORDS GE-NE-TIC-ALLY SEED-ED THE UN-I-VERSE TO EN-SURE THAT AL-MOST ALL SEN-TIENT LIFE WOULD RE-SEM-BLE THEM?"
Sarah Jane Smith wracked her memory, trying to distract herself from looking down at herself (Daleks were not attractive creatures by any sense of the word). "MAY-BE ONCE?"
"WELL," the Fourth Doc Tor said, "HERE, THE TIME LORDS AND DA-LEKS HAVE SWITCHED PLA-CES. THE DA-LEKS SEED-ED THE COS-MOS WITH THEIR GE-NE-TIC MA-TER-IAL."
"SO, THAT'S WHY E-VE-RY AL-IEN WE'VE SEEN LOOKS LIKE..." Sara Jane trailed off. "BUT HOW CAN ANY-THING E-VOLVE TO MAKE THESE SUITS! IT MAKES NO SENSE!"
"I DON'T CLAIM TO UNDER-STAND THIS ANY BETTER THAN YOU DO," the Doctor simply said. "AT LEAST THERE ISN'T ANY MEN-TAL CON-DIT-IONING THIS TIME."
His claw hand, replacing where the gunstick would be on military-model Dalek suits, extended, retrieving a small, white paper bag from his pocket. "WOULD YOU LIKE A JE-LLY BA-BY?"
Sarah Jane just stared blankly at him. "DOC-TOR, YOU REA-LIZE THAT WE CAN'T EAT THOSE, RIGHT? DA-LEKS HAVE NO TEETH."
"WELL, THAT'S A SHAME," the Time Lord (or Dalek Lord this time) commented, stuffing the bag of candies back into his Pocket. "IS THERE ANY-THING YOU WANT TO SEE THIS LOOP? THE DALEK STA-TUE OF LI-BER-TY? DA VIN-CI'S DA-LEK LI-SA? THE RIN-GS OF SKA-RO-TEN?"
"HOW A-BOUT A PUB?" his companion and fellow Looper asked. "I NEED A DRINK. BADLY."
(fractalman)
"THERE IS ONE MIN-OR PRO-BLEM. HOW DO YOU EX-PECT TO DRINK?"
5.1: Similar fields of expertise. You'd be surprised how many visiting Loopers find themselves on Ice World.
5.2: Doctor Who: the Last Airbender.
5.3: Donna can still access her Doctor-Donna memories. And, like her grandfather, she figured the TARDIS should be neater.
5.4: DA-LEKS ARE THE SU-PER-IOR NAN-NY!
5.5: It doesn't have to be a Snowman, but the Great Intelligence might be disappointed if it isn't.
5.6: It's the Strangest staring match of all Time.
5.7: An in-universe explanation for why we're not writing what we don't know.
5.8: Minor Fused Loop with South Park (which is Safe Mode, BTW).
5.9: Kamen Riders versus the Daleks.
5.10: Daleks vs. Zombies. Keep an eye out for Crazy Dave (Not really).
5.11: At least it's not as bad as the time he was Davros and he had to fight himself.