It was sixteen years in physical time later when things went wrong again for the Time Lords, the last sixteen years had been fun, full of adventure, learning and near-death experiences, Harry could do without the last part, but it did add excitement occasionally when the Doctor set the TARDIS navigator to random. Harry now looked around sixteen years old physically, a good age to fit in but you could tell he was older mentally his eyes showed the years he had lived so far. They had worked out that by becoming a Magical Time Lord it would take him another sixty four years to be classed as an adult at two hundred mental years and look twenty before he could stop his aging. He was happy with how he looked and didn't really care about his mental age especially as he had lost thirty eight of them when he was changed yet still had the memories of those years, also there was the fact that he didn't age when he was with his Father. His dads made sure he acted both ages to keep him stable until he was considered an adult. They spent time with him in his lessons, doing different adventures together or his dads would go out on their own. One he hadn't gone on because he had stayed with Sirius while his dad and Pere were looking into something on Earth, a prophecy had come up that said something was returning and he would knock four times before the Doctor would die. That was a physical year ago to them and the Doctor was not happy with it.
Harry was now about fifty percent of the way through the full TARDIS engineering course and was well past his year mates in the ordinal courses he had picked back up as if he was living on Gallifrey, normally they would take the full TARDIS engineering course after they had finished all their schooling, Harry was taking it as extra from when he was grounded years ago. He had been making improvements to the new control room and console unit. The control room still had character but even the new control room and console unit he had put in place back when the Earth disappeared only to find out the daleks had moved the Earth and another twenty six planets, was gone and a new one put in its place. Now there was four levels in the control room which looked modern and futuristic as it should. on the console unit level there was just the console unit to the left as you entered, then a set of metal stairs to go up and the entrance to the wardrobe was further behind and off to the left of the console unit past the stairs on the side wall, there was also a set of doors in the middle on the back wall of the control room for the libraries, then to the right of the doors from entering the TARDIS control room were three sets of stairs made out of metal, the first set were where the sitting area level was, which was all in wood with rugs and warm heating the chairs stuck to the floor so they didn't move when the Doctor drove. There was an underground layer under the console unit so Harry could get to it easier again down a set of stairs on the left-hand side after the stairs for the sitting area level to the right of the entrance. The last level was the entry to the living quarters all up above the console unit level even the seating area, there was a walkway with two entrances one on either side of the room, the stairs to get up there were to the left and right just after the console unit in the control room the ones on the right were the second set of stairs. you entered up either set of metal stairs to the living area then there were two entrances one on the left and one on the right, in between the walkway were shelves of books as well as interactive large screens in old looking frames and old looking gas lights on the wall only lit by new energy. It looked a lot better than it did even if the Doctor grumbled about not being consulted on the new control room the first time around, he couldn't really say anything though when he found out Harry had redesigned the room once before when the whole control room went up in flames and they got a second Doctor, so Harry had initiated Arbitrator one A. He had now set it up like this with permission and input off both his dads. He was doing all the repairs needed to get the TARDIS up to full speck for taking on enemies like the daleks on her own. The new console unit and TARDIS settings should protect her better and make flying her much easier as everything worked as it should on the console unit, Harry added things the more he worked on his engineering course he had been at it now for one hundred and twenty two years in physical time not including being in the Time Vortex. The Doctor had explained to Harry that he mixed up the course he intended to take, Harry was taking the full TARDIS engineering course which would take one hundred years to finish only doing that at the Time Academy, but Harry was doing both that and his regular lessons on top of doing research into being able to make the TARDIS travel to other universes with ease not just repair Sexy. Even the chameleon circuit was repaired, but as agreed the circuit was given over directly for the TARDIS to control. None of them could change her outside unless they took back that control off her, but it would just be easier to ask her to help them. Even better was the new security system now that was in place, the TARDIS could be locked and taken out of phase so that they couldn't be trapped or lose power through outside influence, lock the TARDIS down and nothing would get at it.
In the sixteen years they had been traveling since they had talked that night to his mother, they had been all over Time and space. He still wasn't sure about his actual mental age, but it was a lot higher than his dads thought because of him visiting his Father, but it was around one hundred and seventy four year in universal time not counting the time spent in the Time Vortex since he had been born within a universe, they didn't even celebrate his physical birthday and they spent so much time traveling that you could easily forget your actual mental age though SATURN and DEATH knew it he just didn't bother to ask anymore after enquiring one about it. one years after the prophecy came about, they got a signal directly to the TARDIS for them to come quicky to the Ood planet. They stopped what they were doing and traced the signal back through time to when it originated, March two thousand and ten.
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Once that was known, they set off for the summons. When they arrived, they were met by Ood Sigma.
"It is good that you all could join us Doctor, Master and Arbitrator." Greeted the Ood.
"Wait how do you know about me? We haven't ever been introduced I only watched through the timeline what was going on here when we last visited." Asked and explained Harry.
"We know many things this is why we have called you here, there are things we feel you all need to see." Was the reply they got of Ood Sigma.
"You've been able to see into the timeline?" Asked the Master.
"Yes!" Exclaimed Ood Sigma.
"That shouldn't be possible, not for a couple more centuries at least, until your power has grown. You've been building fast here and now you are seeing things something is artificially evolving your race from the outside, but why?" Spoke the Doctor while looking around there was a lot of new buildings and sculptures than there should be.
"That is why we want you to see what we have to show you." Spoke Ood Sigma. They were led to a cave where six elders were sat around in a circle, room was made for the three and then their brains were placed in their lap and they all held hands including the Doctors, the Masters and Harrys. Suddenly they were thrown into a vision, the first one was of a black man and his daughter the second one was of Donna grandad, the third one was of the whole human race turning into the man they had seen the last one was the worst, they could see and feel the White Point Star diamond fall to the Earth. It was that shocking that all three Time Lords let go of the Oods hands as soon as they had seen it. The Master looked petrified, even the Doctor looked concerned.
"How long have you been having these visions for?" The Doctor eventually asked.
"The last three months they are coming more regularly. They are giving us all nightmares! What does it mean?" Demanded one of the elders.
"Trouble, it means trouble for us, the Rest of the Time Lord council are enacting their final sanction or so they think." Spoke the Doctor eventually. Harry nodded agreeing with him, the timeline was showing him that, he just didn't know how they did it. It had something to do with that diamond.
"Doctor, Master we need to go and find that diamond now! We don't know if it has already impacted the Earth, but we must get to it first." Spoke Harry with conviction.
"We will come back but the Arbitrator is right, we need to get to Earth and put a stop to this." Spoke the Doctor agreeing. All three stood up and virtually ran for the TARDIS.
"Aim for two thousand and nine Christmas straight into Sirius' living room if he's not there we can use SATURN to track him down, Jack or he would know!" Shouted Harry running in between his dads.
"You do it Arbitrator, she does exactly as you ask!" Returned the Master still a little pale. Luckily, they had their watches in the TARDIS with their DNA to match this reincarnation, they had made them a few weeks after the dalek invasion seeing the wisdom in it and the promise they had made. They ran into the control room and Harry went straight for the navigator. Inputting the time and date and space coordinates into the system and then releasing the break they were off, ten seconds later they were silently phasing into Sirius' living room.
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"It's a good job you explained and let me experience Time travel and I'm glad to see you but what gives?" Asked Sirius he didn't even greet them properly seeing the look on all three faces.
"We need your help, has there been anything going on like meteors hitting the Earth or a very specific White Point Star diamond being found?" Explained then asked Harry.
"Erm… Yes, actually a multi billionaire called Naismith from England purchased it for his daughter." Answered Sirius.
"When Sirius?" Asked Harry.
"About two weeks ago." Sirius answers him.
"This can't be happening, I can't go back to the drums, I'm finally happy!" Panicked the Master.
"Dad calm down, occlude your mind, I have my block around you and as soon as we knew we were dealing with the High Council I strengthened it, nothing should get past it especially the drums, but this does offer us an opportunity, one we've waited a very long time for. If the High Council are making their move, we can demand they remove the drums before sending them back into the Time Lock, no one the wiser we crossed them." Explained Harry trying to calm the Master down.
"What's so important about this diamond?" Demanded Sirius he had never seen the Master like this up until now.
"The High Council applied a beat into the Masters head when he looked into the schism you know this ive told you before, the White Point Star diamond is only found on Gallifrey no other world in this universe. It will somehow allow them to escape the Time War breaking out of the Time Lock, but if that doorway is opened then everything will come through all the nasty horrors from the Time War. However, we need to hold them at the door while they remove the drums from plaguing dad, then shut that door in their faces sending them back into the Time Lock and I can't see how in the timeline, can you Doctor?" Harry explained to Sirius then asked the Doctor.
"No all I know is other aliens are involved, along with the High Council. I keep seeing a scrap yard though, I thought we could look at it, using the TARDIS, I don't want it out of our sight especially if the others are coming through." Explained the Doctor.
"Rights lets go and look around this scrap yard, Sirius I will be back on my usual weekend, you know the rules we don't discuss this until I bring it back up, however we have to sort this out now." Harry announced before quicky hugging Sirius and then the three ran back into the TARDIS.
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Back at the Nobles house they were celebrating Christmas, Wilfred had been bought a book by his new soon to be son in law, Donna had got him a jumper and his daughter got him a web cam relenting on him having one eventually. Once he had finished opening everything, he said he was off to the old people's club. As soon as he was at the end of the drive and couldn't be heard he used his mobile.
"Paratroop One to Paratroop Two. We are mobilised. I repeat, we are mobilised. Rendezvous thirteen hundred hours. Over and out." He then waited for the Sparrow Lane minibus.
"Come on! Way hey, shake a leg! Yay hey. Right then, come on, let's get going." Spoke Wilfred the driver and the other passengers applauded Wilfred as he got on board.
"Off we go. Everybody all right? Who's got the chocolates then?" He asked next. Five minutes later he was stood up at the front of the bus with everyone's attention on him.
"He's tall and thin, wears a brown suit, maybe a blue suit. He's got a long brown coat. Modern sort of hair, all sticky-uppy, right, he should be traveling with another man dressed smartly in a dark suit with black long hair tied back and a child with them he wears normal designer clothing, but he will be with one or the other I would think. Oh, and on page two, be on the lookout for a police box exactly like the old ones, that's really important you don't see them today so look out for one." Wilfred instructed everyone on the bus.
"I got locked inside one of them. August Bank Holiday 1962." Spoke one of women on the bus.
"Were you misbehaving, Minnie?" Asked a coloured man.
"I certainly was. Way hey." Minnie replied to Winston with a massive smile her hand in the air.
"Yeah, all right, all right. Now listen, this is important. We have got to find it, right? So, phone around. Phone everybody. Sally, will you get onto the Bridge club? Right. Winston, you try the old boys. Bobby, I want you to ring the skiffle band, right? Between us, we've got the city covered." Spoke Wilfred in a commanding tone remembering from his army days being given orders.
"The Silver Cloak." Spoke Minnie
"Who are they then, this Doctor, Master and this child called Arbitrator?" Asked another man on the bus.
"No, I can't tell you that. I swear. Yeah, but answer me this. Have you been having bad dreams more like nightmares? All of you? Dreams you can't remember. Yeah? Well, that's why we need them. We need them more than ever!" Spoke Wilfred with conviction, both his daughter and granddaughter along with him were woken up from nightmare inducing dreams that they couldn't remember, he knew something was going on that shouldn't, he needed to find the Time Lords urgently it was getting worse.
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The TARDIS landed from where the Doctor could see in the timeline and out stepped the three of them looking around.
"Doctor, lock the TARDIS down completely please, if were looking around we know where we left her." Spoke Harry to him. They hadn't walked five hundred yards from the now hidden TARDIS looking around the scrap yard when they were suddenly surrounded by a group of old people.
"Oh, my gosh, Arbitrator, Doctor and Master. You're a sight for sore eyes." Spoke Wilfred looking relieved.
"Out of our way!" Demanded the Master to the people surrounding them.
"Did we do it? Is that them?" Asked a woman.
"Tall and thin, big brown coat. Smart dressed man with a…. Teenager you said child Wilfred!" spoke another one of the women
"The Silver Cloak. It worked. Because Wilf phoned Netty, who phoned June, and her sister lives opposite Broadfell, and she saw the police box, and her neighbour saw these two men and a teenager heading east." Spoke up Minnie.
"Wilfred?" Asked the Doctor shocked.
"Yeah?" Wilfred asked back.
"Have you told them who we are? You promised me." The Doctor told him.
"No, I just said you were the Doctor, the Arbitrator and the Master nothing else, that's all. And might I say, sirs, it is an honour to see you all again!" Here Wilfred saluted all of them.
"Oh, but you never said the older ones were so good lucking. They're gorgeous. Take a photo." Spoke the one identified as Minnie.
"Not bad, eh? Me next." Spoke up a camp older man.
"I'm Minnie. Minnie the Menace. It's a long time since I had a photo with two handsome men." Minnie announced as she got inbetween the two older Time Lords.
"Just get off them. Leave them alone, will you?" Wilfred admonished them all.
"Hush, you old misery. Come on. Give us a smile. That's it." Minnie told them with her holding them in place between her.
"Hold on. Did it flash?" Asked the camp man looking at the front of the camera.
"No, there's a blue light. Try again." Minnie told him.
"I'm all fingers and thumbs." He told Minnie.
"We're really kind of busy, you know." Spoke the Doctor.
"Oh, it won't take a tick. Keep smiling." Spoke the woman called Minnie while squeezing both the Doctors and Masters behinds.
"Is that your hand, Minnie?" Demanded the Doctor.
"Good boys." She replied as she took her camera back and put it away in her bag. The three Time Lords looked around while the old people were talking.
"Master, Arbitrator, you take the TARDIS and follow us, park it to as near me as you can get, please." Said the Doctor, while looking at Harry knowing he would have to be the one to do it. The minibus dropped the Doctor and Wilfred off.
"Come on, then. Here we are, hurry up. Bye. You behave, bye." Spoke Wilfred while pushing the Doctor out of the bus.
"Over here, come on." He continued after the two were off the bus.
"What's so special about this place? We passed fifteen cafes on the way." Asked the Doctor as they took as seat near the window opposite each other with a drink for each of them.
"Yeah." Replied Wilfred, but he was looking out of the window across the street from where they were sat inside the café. Suddenly he spotted Donna, and the Doctor heard her from outside turning to look he saw her arguing with a parking attendant.
"Can't you make her better?" Wilfred asked him upset.
"I can't Wilfred, none of us can or she will burn up from the inside, that is what was happening to her, it will carry on if she even remembers only for a second." The Doctor told him. They drank their drinks in silence after that. Donna had driven off with another male in the car with her.
"Is she happy?" Eventually asked the Doctor.
"She is, but there are times you can see on her face, she knows she is missing something but not what. He's on minimum wage even if he is a dreamer and she's on a pittance. They are due to be married but they can only afford to rent a one-bedroom flat." Wilfred told him honestly still upset.
"I've been told I am going to die, there was a prophecy, while we were looking into something me and the Master, she told me he will knock four times." The Doctor told him.
"He will knock four times!" Spoke Wilfred slightly confused.
"That's what she said." Agreed the Doctor.
"But you can regenerate the Arbitrator told me, it's a Time Lord trick." Wilfred explained.
"We can still die shoot one of us enough times and even we can't regenerate and even if we do, we lose part of who we are, that need inside us all to fight on is there just before we change, it's like this person will die, at my core I will be me but everything else all the window dressing still changes." Answered the Doctor, they talked for another thirty minutes until the Doctor left and entered the police box that was now opposite the café.
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Back at the Nobel house Donna fiancé had just entered the living room.
"Aye, aye. I'm sorry, I couldn't afford much, but not for long, if President Obama ends the recession tonight. Come here." Spoke Shawn, Donna fiancé, pulling Donna into a hug.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Keep it quiet, you lot. Now come on, sit down. Show some respect. Come on." Wilfred told them trying to watch the Queens Christmas speech.
"Happy Christmas Mr. Mott." Spoke Shawn while giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"Thank you. Will you behave! You, honestly. All right now." Spoke Wilfred waving him off. A minute later the broadcast he was watching slowed down then the woman in white he had met the other day when he had popped into a church to get out of the rain appeared on the screen.
"Eh?" Wilfred asked looking at the tv confused.
"Events are moving, Wilfred." Spoke the woman on the television.
"Eh?" Wilfred asked again.
"Faster than we thought." She told him.
"Oi, can you see that?" Wilfred turned and asked the other three who were stood up talking quietly behind him.
"Frankly, I'd tell the Queen it's time for trouser suits she looks awful in bright yellow." Spoke Donna looking over at the TV.
"No, no, no, no. That's not the" spoke Wilfred only to be silenced.
"Only you can see. Only you stand at the heart of coincidence." Spoke the woman on the television.
"Why, what have I done?" Wilfred asked her.
"You're an old soldier, sir. Only you were too late. The war was won and passed you by." She explained.
"I did my duty." Wilfred rebuked.
"You never killed a man." She replied to his statement.
"No, I didn't. No, I did not, no, but don't say that like it's shameful!" He argued back.
"The time will come when you must take arms." Was her simple answer.
"Who are you?" He asked her, hoping she would answer.
"Tell the Time Lords nothing of this. The Doctors life could still be saved, so long as you tell them nothing." Spoke the woman before the television cleared back to the Queen's speech. Wilfred went to his bedroom and pulled an old suitcase out from under his bed. In a box, wrapped in a piece of cloth, was his old service revolver. Something was thrown against his window. Wilfred looked out to see the Doctor returning to the TARDIS. He ran out after him leaving the house quietly.
"You can't park that there, what if Donna sees it?" Wilfred told them then asked.
"There is only you outside we checked we need you to think Wilfred is there anything strange going on? Anything at all? No matter how trivial?" Asked the Doctor the other two Time Lords were on either side of him just behind him.
"Nothing I can think of, well there's the nightmares everyone's been having, and it's got something to do with that Naismith character, I think." Wilfred answered in the end.
"Who?" Asked Harry having heard Sirius say a Naismith had the diamond.
"Wait here I got his book off Donna partner for Christmas but it's definitely his face." Wilfred replied and then disappeared into the house and tried to sneak out without being noticed.
"Here it is, there is a picture of him on the back." Wilfred told them handing the book over to Harry.
"We've been shown him in a vision and he's the one that's got the diamond we are after." Explained Harry.
"I can lock onto his location and visit him wherever he is." Explained the Doctor
"What are you doing here if Donna see the box and you dad get away from them." Spoke Wilfred's daughter catching them talking outside the TARDIS she had seen her father leaving the house.
"I'm going with them make an excuse to Donna for me, will you?" Announced Wilfred and with that he tried to move pass the Doctor.
"Get out of there right now father!" She demanded of him.
"Wilfred you can't come with us." Spoke the Doctor but he could see the funny side and knew what was coming.
"You're not leaving me here with her!" Spoke Wilfred with determination.
"Fair enough." Was the Doctors reply as he let him in and started to shut the door.
"Oyyyy father, get out of there now!" Demanded Wilfred's daughter only for her to hear Donna shouting for her, while she was looking for Donna the Time Lords were getting ready to move.
"Oyy Father come back here! Don't just leave like that come back here, do you hear me!" shouted Wilfred's daughter as the TARDIS disappeared which Donna asked her about a minute later after following her voice she had to admit she was shouting at the sky while trying to explain what had gone on.
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The four of them appeared in a barn inside a horse stall, they were quickly out, with the TARDIS properly locked. They made their way around the private army as Wilfred called them and down into the basement.
"All the systems are slotting back into place. The shatterthreads have harmonised, the friable links have densified... They have done it." Spoke a woman scientist reading the information on a screen.
"And the multiple overshots have triplicated." The woman carried on reading the information.
"Nice Gate." Spoke the Doctor getting her attention.
"Hello. Sorry." Spoke Wilfred for them.
"Don't try calling security, or I'll tell them you're wearing a Shimmer. Because I reckon anyone wearing a Shimmer doesn't want the Shimmer to be noticed, or they wouldn't need a Shimmer in the first place." Spoke the Master in his usual voice but you could see he was still shaken.
"I'm sorry? What's a Shimmer?" Asked the woman only for the Master to point his sonic screwdriver at her.
"Shimmer." Spoke the Master and the woman in front of them turned green with spike all over her face.
"Oh, my Lord. She's a cactus." Spoke Wilfred just as they heard footsteps walking down toward then.
"Miss Adams?" Another shimmer later and a man was revealed to be of the same species.
"Who are you, though? Cause I met someone like you. He was brilliant, but he was little and red." Asked the Doctor.
"No, that's a Zocci." Spoke the female.
"We're not Zocci, we're Vinvocci." Explained the male.
"They've got it working, but what is it? What's working?" Demanded the Doctor of the two Vinvocci next.
"What are you doing here?" Asked the male Vinvocci.
"We're here to stop what is to come, now what does that machine do?" Asked the Doctor.
"Well, the Gate is Vinvocci. We're a salvage team. We picked up the signal when the humans reactivated it. And as soon as it's working, we can transport it to the ship." The female informed them.
"But what does it do?" Asked the Doctor next.
"Well, it mends. It's a simple as that. It's a medical device to repair the body. It makes people better." Explained the male Vinivocci.
"No, there's got to be more. Every single warning says it's going to do something colossal." Disagreed Harry.
"So that thing is like a sickbed, yes?" Asked Wilfred
"More or less." Spoke the female Vinivocci.
"Well, pardon me for asking, but why is it so big?" Asked Wilfred confused.
"Oh, good question. Why's it so big?" Asked Harry.
"It doesn't just mend one person at a time." Spoke the female Vinivocci.
"That would be ridiculous!" Spoke the male Vinivocci.
"It mends whole planets." Spoke the female Vinivocci.
"It does what?" Asked the Master.
"It transmits the medical template across the entire population." Explained the female Vinivocci.
"So, anyone who goes through the scanner this is connected to, it turns everyone on the whole planet into the same template?" Asked the Master while thinking furiously.
"Do you know where they have kept the White Point Star diamond, they bought?" The Doctor asked to the two Vinivocci.
"Yes, it's in his study in a case with more security around it than fort Knox." Spoke the male Vinivocci answering them without more prompt.
"Hold on the machine is powering up, they are running it at full power when it was locked down to us… How?" Spoke the female Vinvocci shocked.
"Doctor, Master, my head, I can see a face in my head, it's that man." Spoke Wilfred holding his head.
"Quickly sir in there, seal it shut behind you, that is and axillary room, the template is only set to human you will be safe in there it's Vinivocci Glass." Spoke the female Vinivocci while the male was looking at the other three, they weren't experiencing any problems like them which meant they weren't human either although they looked it. Suddenly Wilfred's phone rang, and it was Donna going on about everyone changing and seeing things in her head.
"Doctor she's remembering." Suddenly he had a call waiting. It was Winston off the bus.
"Not now Winston." Replied Wilfred to that call.
"Wilfred I can see that face in my head from my nightmares." In the background Wilfred heard others saying the same thing. He transferred the call back to Donna.
"Grandfather, my head I can see all these different things, I keep seeing a giant wasp and death everywhere." She spoke the others could hear it he had put it on speakerphone.
"Donna, just remain calm. It's going to be alright!" Reassured Wilfred whether he was reassuring himself or Donna he didn't know.
"Grandfather everyone looks the same they've all changed on me, even mum and Shawn I ran out of the house…. Why are they looking at me? They're coming after me others were coming after me, I can see shadows following me." Suddenly they all heard a scream over the phone.
"Donna? Donna? Donna? Donna? Can you hear me sweetheart?... She gone!" Announced Wilfred eventually after even checking the phone was still connected.
"Wilfred don't worry she will be fine, I left her defences in case she was ever attacked, or the memories became too much for her, she just passed out all those chasing her will be in the same state, hang up, then the call will disconnect before it can be traced." Spoke the Doctor with a gentleness while explaining she would be okay.
"What is it turning people into?" Asked the Master.
"Mr. Naismith. He's in the processing machine, everyone on the Earth is turning into him, it will allow him to take over bodies of all different people, intelligent and powerful people.
Everyone on the planet." Spoke the female Vinivocci.
Suddenly they heard half a dozen guards, the Vinivocci teleported away to their ship, unfortunately the others didn't fare as well. After the four were apprehended including Wilfred who they ordered from out of the Vinivocci glass cubicle, not that they knew what it was, they were takin up to where the scanning machine was. The scientists looked like Naismith and all the soldiers were him.
"I didn't know it would do this, I thought it would grant me immortality, but it has done more, it has turned me into a literal genius who has a higher calling, I can feel and see that now!" Spoke the real Mr. Naismith
"What are you on about? You've not made yourself immortal, all it does is heal the body, but it does it on a template of everyone on the planet, why would this give you a higher calling?" The Doctor explained then demanded while looking at the real Naismith.
"I can hear the sound better now, ever since I held the diamond I felt a calling, it's all centred around that diamond like no other, there is a highly advanced race trying to communicate with us and now I have all of the memories of the best in the world I can make that call and talk to them this is the start…. Take them to the dungeons and restrain them!" Naismith explained to them, all three Time Lords looked shook up. They were lead away after having their hand secured around their backs even Harry had handcuffs on.
Once they were alone and Harry double checked by looking out of the cell left and right, he quickly used his Magic to get himself out of the cuffs, then he got everyone else free then he let them out of the cell, and they were dashing for the TARDIS, they had to hide from patrols to get back to it. But with Harrys Magic, he could hide them from view every time they ran across a guard unit.
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And so it came to pass, on Christmas day in two thousand and nine, that the human race did cease to exist. But even then, Naismith had no concept of his greater role in events. For this was far more than humanity's end this was the day the Time Lords of Gallifrey put their final plan into action.
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This day was the day upon which the whole of creation in this universe changed forever. This was the day the Time Lords returned.
Rassilon came into the high council chambers and demanded to know what was going on with the war effort. One council member lost her life after she suggested to Rassilon that maybe they should let the Doctor use The Moment all of creation around them was being changed through this Time War and what both sides were doing to the universe killing millions over and over finding new and worse ways to kill them again and again all dying a travesty to the universe Gallifrey was only at the furthest edge of the Time War maybe they should let the Doctor end the war and let the Time Lords and Ladies pass on. Rassilon refused to die they had a billion years of Time Lord history riding on their shoulders and he wouldn't let them end like that, he wouldn't end like that, he was not going to die. Eventually another council member showed Rassilon the visionary's prophecies particularly one that was hard to decipher and it spoke of two Lords of Time, the enmity of ages locked in battle and it repeated on word over and over, Earth. Rassilon worked out it meant the Doctor and the Master. The visionary kept tapping her long fingernail on the table in a beat of four and Rassilon worked it all out that the Master needed the beat implanted into him and some way to follow it something very unique a White Point Star Daimond only ever found on their planet. Pulling the planet up on their system he was told that the indigenous species was human something the Doctor had protected against the Time Wars interference.
Rassilon threw the Diamond off the top of his staff sending the diamond to Earth while arranging for the implantation of the four beats the Visionary of the High council had given him for the Master as he looked into the schism as an initiate. Then he made his way to the chamber of the Time Lords ever Time Lord and Lady was in the main chambers the Diamond missing now from the staff the Head of the High Council held.
"For Gallifrey." Shouted Rassilon the Head of the Council of Time lords.
"For Gallifrey!" Shouted all the Time Lords and Ladies bar two females in the whole of the chamber.
"For victory!" Spoke Rassilon again with more power in his voice.
"For victory!" They all shouted again bar the two females.
"For the end of Time itself!" Rassilon shouted out.
"For the end of time itself!" Replied everyone there even the other main councillors, again except the two women who were made to hide their face in shame for not agreeing to Rassilon's plan to save Gallifrey.
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The TARDIS jumped back in time to ten minutes ago and above the Earth, once they were in space, they found the reclamation ship and soon were inside of it. The two Vinivocci appeared on their ship.
"How did you beat up here? You were surrounded by guards!" Demanded the Female, she seemed to be the one in charge.
"Never mind that where is your control centre?" Demanded the Master right back.
"We don't need to worry were one hundred thousand miles from Earth." She told him.
"And he has all the governments and private security able to look out and launch weapons at us!" Pointed out the Master in his you are thick voice.
"Good point, this way!" Spoke the female again and they were all running along the ship to the control room, soon the Doctor had all the power off by blowing the main circuit to say the woman wasn't impressed was an understatement, the Vinivocci were stood around complaining about what the Doctor had done while Harry was sat down while the Master and the Doctor worked on the ship.
"Arbitrator? Doctor? Master? Hello? Hello? Is that you? Arbitrator? Anyone? Anyone? Oh, I think I'm lost!" Spoke Wilfred while he walked along a corridor with tubing on the walls and smoke coming out of certain places to be removed, getting left behind when they ran for the control room the whole ship was dark now though.
"And yet you are found…. Events are closing. The day is almost upon us…. But tell me, old soldier. Did you take up arms?" Asked the woman that Wilfred kept seeing, she appeared behind him but as soon as she spoke, he turned to her.
"I brought this. But what am I supposed to do?" Wilfred asked her, showing the gun he had taken out of his suitcase.
"This is the Doctor's final battle. At the end of his life, he must stand at arms, or lose himself and all this universe, to the End of Time itself." Spoke the woman gently.
"But he never carries guns. He doesn't do. Who are you?" Spoke Wilfred looking confused at the woman.
"I was lost…. So very long ago." She answered before disappearing, Wilfred stared for a few seconds and then carried on his way.
"Aye, aye. Got this old tub mended?" Was what he first asked of the three Time Lords.
"Just trying to fix the heating." The Doctor told Wilfred as he and the Master worked on the ship.
"Oh. I've always dreamt of a view like that. Hee, hee. I'm an astronaut. It's dawn over England, look. Brand new day. My wife's buried down there. I might never visit her again now. Do you think he changed them, in their graves?" Wilfred asked looking out of the main viewing window in the control room.
"I'm sorry." Spoke the Master.
"No, it's not your fault." Replied Wilfred.
"Isn't it?" Asked the Master
"Oh, nineteen forty eight, I was over there. End of the Mandate in Palestine. Private Mott. Skinny little idiot, I was. Stood on this rooftop, in the middle of a skirmish. It was like a blizzard, all of them bullets in the air. The world gone mad. Yeah, you don't want to listen to an old man's tales, do you?" Wilfred pointed out Palestine and carried on telling them what had gone on as he sat down, Harry went to look out of the window looking through the timelines at the same time.
"I'm older than you." Explained the Doctor.
"Get away." Wilfred said in shock.
"I'm now over eleven hundred years old, The Master is older than me!" The Doctor told him looking over at him.
"What, really, though? I thought the Arbitrator was joking!" Wilfred said looking at him.
"Yeah. he's now around one hundred and seventy four years old himself." the Doctor answered with a small smile aimed at Harry.
"Eleven hundred years old though, we must look like insects to you even the Arbitrator is twice my age now." Spoke Wilfred honestly.
"I think you look like giants." Rebutted the Doctor going over to Wilfred and sitting next to him leaving the Master to sort out the rest of the ship.
"Listen, I…. I want you to have this. I've kept it all this time, and I thought." Wilfred showed him the revolver trying to pass it over to the Doctor.
"No." spoke the Doctor without hesitation.
"No, but if you take it, you could" tried Wilfred again.
"No. You had that gun in the mansion. You could have shot Mr. Naismith there and then." The Doctor told him.
"Too scared, I suppose…. Oh, come on, don't start. But you said, you were told he will knock four times and then you die. Well, that's him, isn't it? Mr Naismith. That noise in his head? That's him isn't it he's going to kill you?" Wilfred explained then asked with some intensity.
"Yeah." the Doctor answered thinking he would have to regenerate by the end of this.
"Then kill him first." Spoke Wilfred with conviction.
"And that's how it all started them wanting the perfect killer for a war never before ever seen and likely never to be seen again. It's not like I'm an innocent. I've taken lives. I got worse. I got clever. Manipulated people into taking their own. Sometimes I think a Time Lord lives too long. I can't. I just can't." Answered the Doctor to Wilfred.
"If the real Mr. Naismith dies, what happens to all the people?" Demanded Wilfred to the Doctor.
"I don't know." Answered the Doctor.
"Doctor, what happens?" Asked Wilfred with intensity.
"The template snaps." Explained the Master gently.
"What, they go back to being human? They're alive, and human. Then don't you dare, sir. Don't you dare put him before them. Now you take this. That's an order, Doctor. Take the gun. You take the gun and save your life. And please don't die. You have a son to take care of with the Master he won't survive if he loses one of his dads, he loves you too much. So please take the gun Doctor and don't you die!" Asked then explained Wilfred begging and crying at the end for the Doctor to not die he knew how much the Arbitrator loved his parents.
"Never." Replied the Doctor not taking the gun.
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"A star fell from the sky. Don't you want to know where from? Because now it makes sense." Spoke Mr. Naismith
"It's an open broadcast. Don't reply…. Or he'll know where we are." Spoke the female.
"The whole of my life. My destiny. The star was a diamond. And the diamond is a White Point Star. And I have worked all night to sanctify that gift and allow me to speak with the advanced race that sent me the message to get in touch with them now with billions of people the same as me I can hear the noise and it comes from the skies as it came from that diamond!" Spoke Mr Naismith. All three Time Lords looked shook up.
"It should have only affected the Master, how's it affecting him?" Asked Harry turning around and going between the two Time Lords to the other side of the Vinivocci.
"No…. He couldn't have been so stupid, they were ramblings of the drums, he's a top businessman!" Spoke the Master shocked and worried.
"What Master?" Asked Harry looking over at his dad feeling his emotions through the bond.
"The year that never was, in case I lost in the build up to it I had written the Saxon gospels as I had named them two books that explained just who I was, I left written books to devoted followers, that would allow someone to resurrect me, but they would have needed my old ring for that, what if he's tried it thinking he was bringing back someone powerful only for it to latch onto him as well. I never thought about them again, they were mad ramblings and there were only three copies ever made." Spoke the Master subdued. Looking back at Harry then the Doctor.
"So, we've got nearly seven billion humans all with the drums in their head hearing it sending them into further madness, he's going to build a portal with the diamond, to pull Gallifrey out of the Time Lock, but they don't realise it will release everything." Spoke Harry looking worried so were the other Time Lords. Suddenly the Doctor snatched the gun off Wilfred.
"Then they are in for a fight, Arbitrator I need you to keep them on the thresh hold until they pull the drums out of the Master, Master you stand ready near me so we can get them removed!" Demanded the Doctor of the other two.
"I'll then relase them and send them back into the Time Lock hopefully that will all work out." Spoke Harry trying to help going through the best timeline he could see.
"Oh yes and how to you intend to do that?" Asked the Vinivocci female. Only for the Doctor to point his screwdriver at the control unit him and the Master had been working on and the whole ship came to life.
"We're going to use you as a distraction, you're going to fly into the Earth's atmosphere heading straight for the mansion, the Master and the Arbitrator will take our ship and meet me there. I will tell you when to set off which will let the other two know as they can see outside of even here." Explained the Doctor
"We are not using this ship, as soon as everything is prepared were going home, were a salvage crew we're not getting messed up in this now the ship is repaired." Spoke the Female Vinvocci in no uncertain terms.
"We need your guns to shoot all the missiles down, now male Vinivocci you and Wilfred into the gun emplacements, it's easy Wilfred just line up and shoot. Lady you're with me so you can take over piloting, once I leave the craft." Spoke the Doctor with conviction in his eyes, the oncoming storm was starting to brew. Harry grabbed the Master by his hand as he always did and they left for the TARDIS once they were inside, they watched both the control room and the outside of the ship they had landed on, once the Time Lords made it to the edge Harry would have to do everything because it was so hard to read his timeline it would make the High Councillor dizzy trying to decipher what he was going to do next, plus he knew stories were still talked about how there use to be Magicals within the Time Lords.
There must have been over fifty missiles sent at them that had to be destroyed before they could damage the ship. As they saw the Doctor hanging through a hatch and watching where they were going, they waited, as soon as he let go Harry took the brakes off and hit the leaver to move them, three seconds later they were coming back into phase within the main hall of the mansion, where the machine processor would be.
Wilfred had left the weapons system and made for the bridge of the craft demanding that they land the craft. Once it was on the ground he went running for the mansion. He saw everyone was back to themselves and fleeing the area making his way back into the room they had been taken to before he saw a scientist trapped in one of the control machines banging on the glass begging to be let out. Without thinking Wilfred ran into the other one and following the instructions given realised him allowing him to flee he knew he was safe the Vinivocci has said the glass wouldn't affect him.
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"Stop this, please stop this!" Begged The Doctor once he regained his balance after falling through the domed glass roof. Gun in his hand.
"This is Destiny, we will take the world into a new era an enlightened human race. I want nothing more than to give my daughter immortality and this is the first step. These are an ancient society to allow us to commune with them just through a diamond and the beat to ensure the directions were followed!" Announced Naismith as though he knew everything.
"Please don't, turn that device off, you have no idea what you are doing! It won't get you want you want." Begged the Doctor to Mr. Naismith.
"You weren't there in the final days of this civilisation. You never saw what was born. But with the Time Lock broken, then everything's coming through. The horrors both sides released and fought through both Time and space itself, the whole of the universe was in turmoil they fought for over thirty thousand years in both physical time and throughout Time. The War turned into hell. And that's what you've opened, right above the Earth. Hell is descending." Spoke the Doctor the oncoming storm out in full.
"Just listen! Because even the Time Lords can't survive that." Spoke Harry stepping out of the TARDIS with the Master
"We will initiate the Final Sanction. The end of Time itself will come at my hand. The rupture will continue until it rips the Time Vortex apart." Spoke Rassilon the High Chancellor, he had already reverted everyone back into their human visage he only needed the connection to bring Gallifrey out of the Time Lock he had all the other High Councillors with him stood behind him they were the vanguard of Gallifrey as it started to appear in the sky above planet Earth, the two shamed women were either side of him directly behind him with their faces covered by their own hands.
"That's suicide!" Spoke the Master shocked this is what the drums were for.
"We will ascend to become creatures of consciousness alone. Free of these bodies, free of Time, and cause and effect, while creation itself ceases to be." Replied Rassilon.
"That's what they were planning in the final days of the War. I had to and must stop them. They can't come through you know what it will do to our universe." spoke the Doctor to the Master tenderly, he couldn't see the full timeline it was the only option he could see.
"But Naismith is to blame, not me. Oh, the link is inside my head. Kill me, the link gets broken, they go back. Go on do it then. But promise me you will look after our son no matter what you will always be there for him forever Doctor, give me that and I will die." At the mention of their son the Doctor aimed at the Lord President Rassilon again.
"Exactly. It's not just me, it's him. He's the link he started all of this. Kill him!" Spoke the Master pointing at Rassilon.
"Chose your enemies wisely Doctor. The final act of your life is murder. But which one of us?" Demanded Rassilon. Behind the Lord President, the Woman Wilfred kept seeing normally dressed in white, but now dressed as the rest of the high council in red, lowered her hands and looks over the Doctor's shoulder. He looked shocked seeing her face but then realised what she was expecting of him, so he turned back to face the Master.
"Get out of the way." Demanded the Doctor of the Master. The Master took two steps to the left and the Doctor shot the diamond in its gizmo.
"Now you two get out of my way!" Spoke Harry to both his dads and they moved aside for him. Harry stepped forward his probe was out in one hand and his other he was channelling True Magic through the High Council were held on the threshold of the Time Lock by his powers.
"I think before we go any further Rassilon we should talk! I am the Arbitrator a True Magical Time Lord the last and highest form of evolution for Gallifrey. You're trying to look through my timeline to get to me, but you won't, do you know why? Ask the question lord president, after what you have done. You will have to ask!" Harry told him his own anger showing.
"The Arbitrator of who?" Ground out Rassilon.
"I am the Arbitrator of DEATH and you have pissed both me and HIM off. Remove the drums from the Master's head now! Or I will run you through your regenerations until death!" Demanded Harry of him he saw Rassilon hold out his metal hand and he spoke in high Gallifreyan .
"Now we will address the final sanction. It will not happen! I will Destroy Gallifrey and all on her before I allow that! Instead, you're going back into the Time Lock set down as my punishment for two billion four hundred and seventy children crying out silently for help! Because of your war! Rassilon!" Spoke Harry in anger and they could all feel his emotions they were not getting away with wat they had done to his dad! With that said Harry released his power to send them back into the Time lock and it started to close slowly.
"The link is broken. Back into the Time War, Rassilon. Back into hell." Shouted the Doctor.
"Gallifrey falling! Gallifrey falls!" Screamed the Visionary in the background.
"You'll die with me, Doctor." Shouted Rassilon.
"I know." Was the simple answer off the Doctor, Rassilon aimed his gauntlet at the Doctor. But before he could do anything they were going backwards all back into the Time Lock the Time Lords and Ladies of the high council disappeared in a bright flash of light and Gallifrey started to fade away from the sky above all of the Time War going back into the Time Lock permanently again.
"I'm alive. I've. But there was…. I'm still alive." Spoke the Doctor shocked.
"Knock, knock, knock, knock. Knock, knock, knock, knock. Knock, knock, knock, knock. Knock, knock, knock, knock…. They gone, then? Yeah, good you did it! Told you, you would. Now if you could let me out only, I seem to be stuck!" Asked then explained Wilfred after he had knocked on the glass from the inside of the Vinivocci chamber after he had released the scientist.
"Yeah." Spoke the Doctor looking shocked and upset. Both Harry and the Master saw in the timeline what was going to happen.
"Only, this thing seems to be making a bit of a noise." Spoke Wilfred worriedly.
"Mr. Naismith left the Nuclear Bolt running. It's gone into overload." Explained the Doctor.
"And that's bad, is it?" Asked Wilfred from inside the chamber.
"No, because all the excess radiation gets vented inside there. Vinvocci glass contains it. All five hundred thousand rads, about to flood that thing." Explained the Doctor.
"Oh. Well, you'd better let me out, then." Exclaimed Wilfred.
"Except it's gone critical. Touch one control and it floods. Even this would set it off." Explained the Doctor showing his sonic screwdriver.
"I'm sorry." Spoke Wilfred truly sorry.
"Sure." Spoke the Doctor sad knowing the prophecy was coming to pass.
"Look, just leave me." Wilfred told him.
"Okay, right then, I will. Because you had to go in there, didn't you? You had to go and get stuck, oh yes. Because that's who you are, Wilfred. You were always this. Waiting for me all this time." Shouted the Doctor at him in sadness and anger.
"No really, just leave me. I'm an old man, Doctor. I've had my time." Wilfred told him honestly.
"Well, exactly! Look at you! Not remotely important. But me? I could do so much more. So much more!... But this is what I get. My reward. And it's not fair! Oh. Oh. I've lived too long." Spoke the Doctor in anger and then sadness pulling at his hear and shaking his head he couldn't believe this was happening.
"No. No, no, please, please don't. No, don't! Please don't! Please!" Begged Wilfred.
"Pere let me do It I have unlimited regenerations!" Spoke Harry gently to the Doctor.
"No this is the prophecy we knew this would happen! Wilfred, it's my honour…. Better be quick. Three, two, one." Spoke the Doctor looking at his son then the Doctor quickly went into the open booth and unlocked Wilfred's side. Wilfred ran out and red light flooded the Doctor's booth. It hurt a lot you could tell. The Doctor had curled up into a ball it hurt him that much. Then the power shut down. After a few moments, the Doctor slowly got up.
"What? Hello." Shouted Wilfred through the glass the other two Time Lords looked heartbroken stood behind Wilfred also looking into the booth.
"Hi." Replied the Doctor
"Still with us?" Asked Wilfred not knowing what was going on.
"The system's dead. I absorbed it all. Whole thing's kaput. Oh. Now it opens, yeah!" Explained the Doctor the last said sarcastically pushing the door to release him.
"Well, there we are, then. Safe and sound. Mind you, you're in hell of a state. You've got some battle scars there." Exclaimed Wilfred looking relived. He couldn't see the look on the Masters and Harrys faces and how sad they both looked knowing what this meant. The Doctor rubbed his face and the cuts vanished.
"But they've. Your face. How did you do that?" Asked Wilfred really confused.
"It's started…We need to get you home and the Vinivocci to collect their equipment come on you three into the TARDIS." Spoke the Doctor to all of them.
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Once they landed on the opposite side of the street to where Wilfred lived, they noticed his daughter stood at the front door looking over to them smiling.
"Oh, she's smiling. As if today wasn't bad enough…. Anyway, don't go thinking this is goodbye, Wilfred. I'll see you again, one more time." Exclaimed the Doctor seeing Wilfred's daughter with a big smile on her face then explained to Wilfred this wasn't the end.
"What do you mean? When's that?" Asked Wilfred.
"Just keep looking. I'll be there." Answered the Doctor as he started to go into the TARDIS.
"Where are you going?" Asked Wilfred.
"To get my reward." Was the Doctors cryptic response. Before he turned around and shut the TARDIS door behind him.
"I've got about six hours I can hold this off for do you mind if I visit some friends. one last goodbye from me?" Theta asked with a vulnerability in his voice.
"Of course, we can, where do you want to go?" Spoke Koschei gently.
"First let's check the drums are really gone, Muklo tie your dad to the railing please then lift your block from around his head…. Koschei, drop your occlumency shields and let Muklo look into your mind." Ordered Theta while walking over to the console unit and inputting the right time date and area.
"They are gone completely Pere, dad I would suggest making a new watch as soon as possible please along with a new hair follicle that has been previously pulled from the same place." Harry told the two the Master nodded to his son. Theta looked over and nodded as well then sent the TARDIS off while Harry released and untied his dad with a swish of his hand, he was powerful enough that he didn't need his probe unless he was doing something very magically taxing in linguistic science. Then he had to use it as a metal wand.
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Martha and Mickey Smith were running from explosions.
"I told you to stay behind." Spoke up Mickey
"Well, you looked like you needed help. Besides, you're the one who persuaded me to go freelance." Spoke up Martha.
"Yeah, but we're being fired at by a Sontaran. A dumpling with a gun. And this is no place for a married woman." Mickey replied to Martha.
"Well then. You shouldn't have married me." Was Martha's reply. A Sontaran, Commander Jask, apparently, was on a catwalk behind them with a clear shot, when the Doctor hit him on the probic vent with a hammer, in the back of his neck.
"If we go in here and down to the factory floor, and down past that corridor, then he won't know that we're here." Explained Mickey pointing at the map of the warehouse they were in.
"Mickey." Shouted Martha and pointed up to where she saw the Doctor on the catwalk with a rubber hammer in his hand.
"Mickey" She hit him again while pointing only to look at him then back where she was pointing and found the Doctor nodding to them.
"Hey!" Mickey shouted out. They watched him walk away and then they hugged to the sound of the TARDIS dematerialising.
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Luke Smith was on the phone now sixteen.
"That was the maddest day ever, Clive. Mum still doesn't know what happened. She got Mister Smith to put out this story saying that Wi-Fi went mad all across the world, giving everyone hallucinations. I mean, how else do you explain it? Everyone with a different face!" Luke spoke as he crossed the road without looking, and the Doctor dragged him away from being run down.
"Doctor what are you doing here? Do you need me or mum?" Asked Luke but the Doctor didn't answer he just walks back to the TARDIS.
"Mum! Mum!" shouted Luke while staring at where the Doctor was heading back to the TARDIS.
"What? What is it?" Asked Sarah Jane to her sixteen year old son running over to him, at least she checked the road before crossing.
"It's the Time lords." Spoke Luke while pointing at the TARDIS and there at the door the Doctor stood in front of the Master and the Arbitrator, the Doctor just waved at them both and all three entered the TARDIS to see it disappear.
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"No, it's not just a story, no. Every word of it's true. I found my great grandmother's diary in the loft, and she was a nurse in 1913, and she fell in love with this man called John Smith. Except he was a visitor from another world. She fell in love with a man from the stars and she wrote it all down." Spoke Verity, she signed the book for the young man that she was in a book store for this very reason. A Journal of Impossible Things, by Verity Newman, who was the spitting image of her great-grandmother Joan Redfern.
"Thank you." Verity said to the person she had just handed the book back to after signing it for him. The next book was presented for signing.
"And who's it for?" asked verity nicely.
"The Doctor." Replied the Doctor looking at the spitting image of Joan Redfern.
"To the Doctor. Funny, that's the name he used." She looked up at him.
"Was she happy in the end?" The Doctor asked her.
"Yes. Yes, she was. Were you?" she asked him he just nodded his head and walked away. Talking hold of Harry's hand the Master already holding his other one leaving through the doors to the bookstore.
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They arrived outside a church traveling back from thirty years in the past, on purpose for this reunion. The bells were ringing for the end of a wedding ceremony. Donna and Shaun were officially married.
"You look lovely. Come here!" Said Wilfred before he kissed Donna then his new son in law Shawn.
"Everybody, three cheers. Hip, hip!" Shouted Wilfred after moving away from Donna and Shawn.
"Hooray!" Shouted all the people invited to the wedding of Donna and Shawn.
"Hip, hip!" Shouted out Wilfred again.
"Hooray!" Again, shouted the group.
"Hip, hip!" Wilfred shouted one last time.
"Hooray!" He got back off all there.
"Right, come on then, you lot. This photo is just with friends. Come on. And I want all of you in it. Come on. That's it. Well, friends, and Neris. Oh, I'm only joking. Oh, look at her." Shouted Donna in her normal way
"You made me wear peach." Spoke the woman, Neris, in annoyance.
"That's because you are a peach. Fury skin, stone inside, going off." Was the usual witty comeback off Donna.
"Okay, smile!" Shouted the photographer.
"Cheese!" Shouted everyone there.
"How about it, Wilfred?" Asked Minnie who he had taken as his plus one.
"Eh?" Asked Wilfred not totally understanding.
"Well, it's never too late." Replied Minnie poring confetti all over Wilfred's head.
"Will you behave, Minnie. Honestly!" Laughed Wilfred at her rubbing his hair to get rid of it all.
"I'm going to catch that bouquet." She announced then wandered off.
"Oh, dear." Donna's mother saw the Doctor just outside the lych gate. The other two with him were stood by the TARDIS across the road.
"Dad." Said his daughter quietly so only he heard, while pointing to the TARDIS, they spotted the Doctor just past the gate and went out to him.
"And here you are, eh? Same old face. Didn't I tell you you'd be all right? Oh! They've arrested Mister Naismith. It was on the news. Crimes undisclosed and his daughter. Both of them, locked up. But I keep thinking, Doctor, there's one thing you never told me. That woman. Who was she?" Explained then asked Wilfred confused why a woman would take such interest in only the Doctor.
"I just wanted to give you this. Wedding present off us all. Thing is, we never carry money these days, so we just popped back in time and borrowed a quid off a really lovely man. Geoffrey Noble, his name was. Have it, he said. Have that on me." Explained the Doctor, Donna's mother put her hand to her mouth and was nearly in tears. They watched him turn around and walk back to the TARDIS where the Master and Harry were waiting for him.
"Smile!" shouted out again the photographer, Wilfred walked away with his daughter, and Wilfred gave the envelope to Donna.
"Oh, don't tell me, it's a bill. Just what I need, right now. A lottery ticket? What a cheap present…. Who gave you this? Still, you never know. It's a triple rollover this week. I might get lucky…. Oi, Shaun! Come on, we're on a tight schedule. Oxtail soup at two thirty." Spoke Donna with her old attitude back full force shouting at the end to Shawn after she placed the ticket down her bra. Wilfred looked at his daughter in shock then turned around and saluted the three time Lords all at the front of the TARDIS. The Doctor entered the TARDIS after Harry the Master going in first and Wilfred and his daughter watched the old police box disappear.
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They went into the vortex and appeared above the Earth.
"After all this time getting to know Koschei again and getting a son in Muklo I don't want this to end." Spoke Theta upset.
"You know we will love you no matter what, at your core you will be the same and that is the man we love not your name or what you can offer, just you, me as a son to his Pere and dad loves you, you know that, or he wouldn't keep going on your mad adventures with you!" Explained Harry to Theta.
"But it won't be me!" Theta had actual tears in his eyes.
"Pere I can't stop you transforming but I can provide the energy for you as well as allow you to pull a few more out of me if not completely fill up your reserves. As we won't have to worry about you changing shape." Explained Harry seeing the gold light start to appear. Quickly stepping forward Harry again grabbed his knife and cut his own wrist and then his Pere's he pushed all the regeneration energy for ten lives into Theta the man he now always called Pere. Suddenly Theta burst out with light his hands flying up to be level with his shoulders and his head leaning back as the energy did its work and changed him completely on a microscopic level. Unfortunately, Theta had pulled a lot of energy off Harry three more than the ten he was planning on giving his Pere and the rest was sent flying out of Theta. Harry quickly cut the connection before he could take even more lucky now he knew how to do it without causing himself to change but it caused the control room to explode and created a hole through the back wall which led to the library with the pool in it. All the light went out in the control room then only the red emergency lighting was on and that was flashing. The two fine Time Lords ran towards the console unit and tried to use it to get the ship under control, but Harry could see in the timeline they would crash, so he quicky accessed the shields and boosted them up to maximum.
"He took too much of my regeneration energy I had only accounted for giving him back ten lives that would give him twelve again, but he took thirteen and that overspilled were traveling through Time back fifteen years." Shouted Harry.
"Which is now causing us to crash. Grab a hold of something I can't slow her down…. In fact! Into the pool it has a gravity wave over it to keep it in! Help me with Theta!" Shouted Koschei annoyed but quickly, they were going down fast. They had just got into the pool soaking themselves through and were holding onto the stepping bars for dear life with one hand and hold Theta with their other one on either side of him when the TARDIS bounced and then fell to her side rolling before coming to a complete stop with the door pointing upwards.
"I hate this bloody pool!" Exclaimed Harry still holding on to the to the rail and his Pere. Koschei was behind him doing the same with Theta between them, Theta had changed but was releasing a lot of energy into the TARDIS, luckily this time she was containing it. He looked around the same age as he had been, but he had longish brown hair darker though than it was and what seemed to be a slight chubby chin, he looked in good condition and all his lives were topped off. He looked also thin in this reincarnation but not as thin as his previous self, they had, had to wait to see what he would look like they couldn't see until the transformation changed him physically, but this was the best place to stay after a regeneration until all the energy had finished escaping. An hour later and Theta was coming around. Harry was just happy the pool was heated.