Located at the edge of the Andromeda galaxy, in orbit around Eye 3 in the 34th century, was a space station that looked too fragile to be allowed. Slightly larger than a moon, and composed of what looked like thick glass with the insides containing city-scapes whose architecture was reminiscent of an ant colony, the space station was a symbol of humanity's engineering prowess.

The space station had been constructed to show and to remind other races living in this galaxy the human race from Earth was here. The station, nicknamed the Andromeda Snowglobe, was close to the Hyperspace Hub that linked the Andromeda galaxy to the Earth Empire, a massive trans-paranium globe, a shining example of humanity's prowess, it served as a permanent symbol as the humans colonised the galaxy nearest to themselves; ever since the humans discovered and explored the cosmos using hyperspace, they had quickly expanded before anyone, any power, could see what they were doing.

Wave after wave, the humans expanded further out into the universe, opening up hyperspace conduits, and allowing exploration cruisers and generational ships like the Wandering Worlds and even captured rogue planets, which would trawl through stray galaxies forever, and give rise to fresh human civilisations.

The Andromeda Snowglobe was a magnet to entrepreneurs, ambassadors and politicians, and wandering travellers, and it had served as the site of many a battle during several warlike races and belligerents wanting to make trouble attempting to make a fight for one reason or another, but most of the time it was peaceful even if so many bizarre things happened that confused the humans as they administrated the exploration of the galaxy, and it was for that reason many Time Lords visited the station, even if the Time Lords preferred keeping as low a profile as possible.

Sitting in a bar, close to one of the many spaceports that were self-enclosed, a brunette-haired young girl, who physically looked 19 or 20 years old, was sipping her twelfth hyper-martini.

Now in her third, and final incarnation if the Time Lord's sentence of exile to Earth with her biodata amended, the Doctor was nursing her drink for a second before she downed it in a final gulp.

"Rum, please," she called, holding out her hyper-credit card for the bartender to see. "And make it a double," she added.

The bartender got her her drink, and she paid for the rum. She picked up the glass, and she looked into the dark liquid, letting the scent of the rum waft up her nose. But as she looked into the rich, dark red-brown liquid, the Doctor wondered about the murkiness of the depths in the glass, wondering if there was anything so simple, anything that described her life as well as the rum in this glass….

With a sigh, the Doctor sipped some of the rum. The Doctor had spent her current three incarnations, the ones she knew of, travelling the universe. In her original incarnation (or what she had believed was her original incarnation), she had left the homeworld of the Time Lords in her old Type 40 TARDIS, wanting to see the universe instead of reading books on what it was like; eventually she had discovered the evils in the universe, and after being forced to intervene whenever the TARDIS was in danger before she had decided to take the law into her hands until it became second nature for her to embrace an adventure, regardless of the dangers. While her first incarnation was originally reluctant to get involved, she had gotten better at it, until in her following regeneration she threw herself into action over and over again.

The Doctor had watched as her constant crusading had forced Victoria to leave because the girl was extremely sheltered, and all she ever wanted was a home of her own, which had been snatched from her when her father was murdered by the Daleks. She had also watched as her need to see the bigger picture forced her to push Jamie into a corner, manipulating him to take part in the obscene plans of the Dalek Emperor to discover and isolate the Human factor to help them with their own plans to isolate the Dalek factor; their friendship had survived, but the Doctor had known it had nearly been destroyed as a result.

Adventure after adventure, after adventure, facing Ice Warriors, Cybermen, the Great Intelligence, the Quarks and Dominators, and the Krotons, the Doctor had finally met her match when the TARDIS landed on a world she originally believed was Earth, and she had found herself in what looked like the First World War. Except it wasn't, but was instead one of many isolated and segregated time zones where other wars were being fought, with 1914 being the most modern, and the most advanced.

The War Games had been organised by a race of beings called the War Lords (hardly the most imaginative name), who were trying to create a galactic empire, but for reasons she had never understood and in hindsight she wished she could have asked the War Lords why they were recruiting a super army out of brainwashed humans, who were kidnapped with the help of another renegade Time Lord, who'd supplied the War Lords with extremely basic TARDIS clones that were not cloned fully so they could be thought of as TARDISes, and other pieces of time technology that made their sick games possible.

She didn't know if the War Lords had some kind of problem on their world, that stopped their population from reaching the heights they needed to create an army. And they would need a big one to conquer the galaxy, to deal with losses and to survive long enough to leave occupying forces on various worlds in the galaxy. But actually, she did not care, not anymore. She found it hard to care about a lot of things, especially after all she'd learnt.

The Doctor could understand that; her travels had taught her the universe was littered with alien races who had desires to conquer the universe - the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Sontarans, and the Dominators - but the Doctor knew all of those races had relied on themselves, they hadn't sourced outsiders.

It was like the Roman Empire of old, but this was on a different scale, and she was disgusted by the way the War Lords callously disregarded the lives of the humans, as they experimented on them, forcing them into one battle after another, forcing them to adapt while their mental conditioning decayed, and awaited further conditioning.

She didn't know why the War Lords didn't simply adopt the Sontaran method of simply cloning themselves and genetically augmenting themselves; maybe they had

There were none else; there was no Second World War, or Cold War, or one of the wars of the later centuries; from a certain point of view, the Doctor could work out the War Lords were more than aware of the more advanced the time the human soldiers were kidnapped from, the more different their brains were, and if they were plonked down in the middle of a battle, they could see something was wrong. On the face of it, she could also see why the War Lords had just ignored the Cold War and the Second World War, even if there were dozens of benefits to kidnapping people from both eras.

The Second World War was fought with dozens of new weapons and war machines, from aircraft, rockets, bio-weapons, incendiary bombs, submarines, and tanks, that would give the War Lords many new possibilities and prospects for their experiments while the Cold War didn't use guns and bombs often, but espionage.

If there had been time zones dedicated to the Second World War and the Cold War, the Doctor could have used their help in the resistance; the combined skills would have been a great help.

The War Games were being fought on a terraformed planet, although the Doctor had never asked or worked out if the planet was fully terraformed down to a sub-atomic and molecular level so it resembled Earth, or if they were just underneath some kind of life support dome.

The plan had been falling apart long before the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe even arrived on the War Games world. The seemingly never-ending fight against the War Lords, after discovering the time zone barriers, which were letting in conditioned humans through from the different periods had been a red flag for the Doctor when Jamie had told her about the redcoat he'd met in a cell, and was killed in an escape attempt that didn't work, and then watching for herself the brutality of the War Lords brainwashing techniques.

In the end, the Doctor and her allies had managed to stop the War Games, but the Doctor was not able to cement their victory by sending the humans back to their home times on Earth. The other Time Lord's TARDIS-like travel machines were falling apart, and decaying, and her own TARDIS was unreliable. There was simply no choice, the Doctor needed to summon the Time Lords, and they quickly took action and stopped the War Lords, eventually sealing them inside a Time Loop forever while the Leader of the War Lords himself was removed from history as if he never existed.

The Doctor could consider herself lucky, if she compared her fate to the War Lord. At least she was still alive. She had given the Time Lords a good account of what she had been doing on her travels. She had described the alien enemies she had encountered - the Quarks and the Dominators, the Ice Warriors, the Cybermen, the Daleks, and many of the other larger threats she had faced, from the Animus, the Great Intelligence, and the Celestial Toymaker, and she had also described the alternative timelines she'd perceived over the years.

The different timelines involving the artificial intelligence WOTAN which had changed history following its 1966 activation.

Earth's entire flora and fauna were destroyed with the pesticide she and her original human companions, Ian and Barbara, with Susan had seen when they were an inch high.

The Daleks conquered the universe with the Earth as their moving spaceship.

The Daleks use the Time Destructor to conquer a large chunk of the universe.

The colonisation of Refusis failed due to the Monoids wiping out the humans.

Mondas, despite being a fixed event in the Web of Time, had also been a nexus of possibilities; in one of them, especially with Cutler's insane plan to use the Z-bomb regardless of the damage it would cause because the stupid man was so convinced it would save his son when it could still kill him at the same time, so using it was pointless, the Z bomb would have destroyed Earth as well as Mondas. In another timeline potential, the Cybermen would use it themselves and brave the radiation within the chamber, or set it off remotely while Ben and Barclay's attempt to stop it failed.

The Daleks on Vulcan overrun all of the humans on the nascent colony world and build up their forces until they launch an all-out war against the other races in the Milky Way.

The Chameleons' plan to kidnap many humans going missing on the aeroplanes succeeded.

The Daleks plan to use the Dalek factor being spread throughout human history regardless of her being a Time Lord, and not a human.

Kliegs's insane reactivation of the Cybermen in the tombs of Telos overpowering Hopper and his crew, and using the more advanced human technology to conquer human colonies to swell their numbers while influencing other alien races to undergo Cyber conversion after years of research, while subtly encouraging the Brotherhood of Logicians, the same stupid group Kliegg and Kaftan followed to embrace cybernetics as well, so humanity would have to fight a long Cyberwar on many fronts.

The Great Intelligence overrunning Earth in two different timelines, while in the second there had been a chance of the Intelligence stealing her knowledge, and leaving her with the intellect of a baby.

The Ice Warriors colonised a version of Earth in the 21st century where the humans had not spread out beyond the moon, ensuring the mass extinction of the human race.

The Time Lords had accepted her pleas, but then she had tried to escape with Jamie and Zoe, and she had gone into the Matrix to see if there was a way she and her friends would get the TARDIS away from Gallifrey before the Time Lords could get them.

Deeper and deeper she had delved into the Matrix. Only the President of the High Council of Time Lords had permission and access to the Matrix, but the Doctor had hacked the Matrix with his friends at the Academy - it was how she, Rallon, and Millennia had gone out to look for the Guardians of Time and stumbled across the Toymaker instead - and her skills as a hacker had only improved - Gallifrey believed themselves to be the creme de le creme in the universe, but many races would take one look at some of the operating principles of the Matrix, and snicker at how basic it was - and she discovered something that shook her to the core of her being.

She learnt of the Timeless Child. She learnt the High Council, the Founding Fathers of Gallifrey…everything she had learnt at the Academy, everything she was told…all of it was an utter lie. Everything the Time Lords were, all off their beliefs of their self-entitlement, it was all built on the foundation of the lie of the Timeless Child…

The Doctor flinched and held her head as the vision entered her mind…a child wearing golden robes, standing alone on a barren planet, next to what appeared to be ruins, right underneath a wormhole.

It was buried deep in the Time Lord's memories, in their identity, almost like the very genetics of the child injected into every Time Lord wanted to punish them for what they'd done…

Thousands of years ago, Gallifrey was a highly advanced world even if they didn't have Time Lords, time travel, or regeneration. They had advanced spacecraft and one of them left Gallifrey, piloted by Tecteun, who explored the universe with the thirst for adventure, knowledge and a desire to see what was beyond the galaxy Gallifrey was nestled in.

For years she travelled until she found a world with a wormhole in its atmosphere, and underneath the wormhole, she found a child. A girl. There was nobody else with her, no friends, no family. She was on her own, and there were no signs of anyone coming for her. Tecteun had a choice, and she ultimately took the child with her. The Doctor didn't know if it was out of a curiosity to discover why an alien girl was left on a planet alone, or if it was genuine compassion.

But anyway, Tecteun studied the girl she had adopted, putting the Doctor in mind it was the former than the latter. The duo travelled the universe for years before returning to Gallifrey. One day, there was an accident and the child plummeted down to their death, Tecteun watched in fascination and horror as the child regenerated, the first regeneration on Gallifrey.

Tecteun was an explorer and now she had a new frontier to explore. She began studying the new incarnation of her adoptive child, and she became obsessive. She dissected the child and studied every strand of DNA, just so she could crack the secrets of regeneration. It took Tecteun years, and she killed several of the Child's regenerations.

The Doctor grimaced and she chugged down a large gulp of rum at the thought of regenerations' secrets being cracked using torture. Tecteun was old when she cracked it, and she regenerated. From there she passed the injection on, and Gallifreyans could become Time Lords, after they had mastered time travel, and discovered the Eye of Harmony (it actually existed; an ancient Population 3 star detonated to become a supernova, only to collapse into a black hole, but was suspended in time, and creating an alternative timeline they harnessed the potential collapse; exposing themselves to the Time Vortex by using the Untempered Schism and the Eye of Harmony once they were perfected the Gallifreyans gained better control over their regenerations.

Tecteun would work with Rassilon and Omega and would become the Time Lord known as the Other, but now the Doctor had solved the mystery of why the Other was so mysterious; it was so then nobody would know what Tecteun had done.

But the Timeless Child would live on and they would work for a clandestine Time Lord organisation called Division who would interfere with other races and affairs on a level the CIA never imagined. And….and the Doctor was the Timeless Child.

The Doctor had been in denial the whole time, even when Zoe and Jamie helped her hack into the Matrix; Zoe's analytical brain and Jamie's brute force approach had helped her when they'd gone inside, and all three of them had been shaken by the revelations, but the proof was there. The information on the Timeless Child was buried so far into the Matrix files, hidden and yet there were redacted parts, and the whole thing with Ireland had confused her no end. But the proof was in the pudding, the Doctor was the Timeless Child.

Shaken by the revelations, the Doctor had questioned herself. She had always known, long before looking into the Untempered Schism, that she would go renegade. But it was deeper than that; there was the fact her first word when stepping out of the Lungbarrow Loom was "Again?" Now when she heard that and learnt of how some Time Lords, wanting new regenerations, threw themselves into Looms and came out again with new regeneration cycles, but they lost all of their experience.

Had she done that, she had once thought?

But now she knew better, well almost. She didn't understand why her memories were gone, but she now knew why she often felt like she had deja vu with the Time Lords. Why she had the feeling that some things felt familiar, and it also explained why she felt so alone, despite having friends.

The Doctor, staggered by what she'd seen, had left the Matrix, and they tried to escape only for the Time Lords to send Jamie and Zoe back (she was just relieved she had told Zoe and Jamie not to say anything at all, and to her relief even Jamie, who was often immeasurably stupid and thoughtless, kept his mouth shut) to their own times.

The Doctor herself was sentenced to be exiled to Earth by the Time Lords, and they must have realised she had hacked the Matrix because they decided to amend her biodata, so she would lose one of her lives and then be unable to regenerate. Stunned by the sentence and by what she'd learnt, the Doctor had demanded a better choice of option, and she chose a female body that was physically young, and she was sent to 1970s Earth.

The Doctor had worked for UNIT and worked for the Brigadier as a scientific advisor, which was confusing as she was so physically young, but she gave UNIT all the help she could. As their advisor, she helped stop the Nestenes twice, the Silurians, the Monk, the Daleks and the Master. It was during one of the Master's visits she stole his TARDIS and took it to the 51st century to get her hands on a vortex manipulator before she then stole a transdimensional ship in the hopes of escaping her exile, and travelled around the multiverse in the hopes of finding out where she came from before she looked for her memories or signs of Division.

"Mind if I join you?"

The Doctor turned in surprise, and she found herself looking at a familiar woman. "Jo?" She gaped in surprise.