Doctor Who: The Time of the Companions: Book 3 (Doctor Who: The Companions' Adventure)

by Cour M.

  The Two Doctors

  Xaros does escape the onslaught, but he abandons hope of retaking Earth, so they create an Ark and travel across the universe to find a planet they can take. They eventually choose Jexari, a planet that is riding a black hole. It turned out that there were people on Jexari, but they lived underground, so no one was aware of their existence. When Xaros arrives, he learns of their society, and he orders all the humans to be enslaved. Twelve and Donna arrive and they attempt to free the people. Due to the means that have to be achieved in order to free the people and defeat Xaros, the planet reacts, the black hole is activated, and the Doctor has just enough time to get everyone out before the planet is consumed.

  However, he was not sure what caused the black hole to close as fast as it did.

  What he does not know is that it closed quickly because on the other side of it, another version of him appeared, the Sixth Doctor arrived and sacrificed himself to the black hole, believing the TARDIS would close it. Not having time to think of anything else, he flies it in, but he’s not alone. He accidently came upon Bill and they both fly it in there together.

  The Black Hole closes around them, but it turns out that they are not dead. Rather, they are on the outside of the universe, and they come upon a planet named Crotaria. They land and discover that there are many dinosaurs on it, clearly taken from Earth before their extinction. They even come upon the person who took them from Earth, and it was actually a set of Timelords who are called, The Creator and The Assistant. This seems ideal, until Six and Bill discover that they are not Timelords at all, but another species who can actually regenerate over and over as well, called the Meccras, and they were using the planet to harvest Dinosaurs so that they can sell them to planets that use them for either labor, entertainment, circuses, or brutal games such as space coliseums and amphitheaters. Therefore, Six and Bill have to put an end to it. Eventually, they are victorious and a planet who is grateful for their help give them coordinates which will get them back to the Universe they came from.

  The World is a Canvas

  There is a battle occurring during the Napoleonic Wars, and while it is underway, all of the soldiers get frozen. But not only them, but so does the entire scene. All of a sudden, the scene turns into a painting, someone picks it up and hangs it on a wall. There is someone who is using historic moments as artwork, suspending them in time for its collection. This villain goes by the name of The Artist, who is a part of the same species as the Dream Lord. However, this is affecting history. This behavior continues when the Artist freezes images that took place during Doomsday and the battle between cybermen and Daleks.

  The Seventh Doctor goes to investigate this, sees that the only way to activate anything is to jump into the paintings and get each and every one working again where the scene commences. However so far the Doctor has to travel through seven scenes, because seven historic scenes were entrapped. He even comes upon Ten and Rose in the painting of Doomsday, and considers reviving them to help him succeed faster. This means that right in the middle of Ten and Rose undergoing this crisis, they have to take a detour and help Seven go through all these battle scenes/other paintings to un-break them all. Luckily, Seven is not alone, for he is assisted by a one-time companion who happened to run into the TARDIS, Sally Sparrow.

  Life is a Highway

  There is one planet of cars. Just all they are is cars. Yet each car, is a city onto itself. For example, one is called Philadelphia, the other is called Leeds, the next is Cairo, Montreal, Kyoto, then Edinburgh, Berlin, etc. When a person gets out of a car, then goes into another one, then they are at the top of a large city. Each car has Timelord Magic where they are bigger on the inside. The reason why is because the planet was becoming overrun, so there was one Timelord who snuck the planet his technology so that it would not have to colonize another planet just to sustain. This Timelord was The Experimentalist, but the Master, upset with this, blew up an entire car once, in hopes of being able to weaken the order of operations so that he could take dominion over the cars. Yet Five, looking a lot older because he is suffering under an aging disease that he contracted from another planet, goes in to stop him, but this time, he accidentally is joined by Jenny, who he learns is his daughter (from the Doctor’s Daughter).

  The Inferno has Thirteen Levels

  The Eighth Doctor accidentally runs into Martha and Mickey Smith just as his TARDIS summons him away to a planet. This planet is directly pulling his TARDIS there. When it lands, they emerge from the TARDIS to investigate but the TARDIS immediately disappears. The people on the first level who meet them were the ones who found a way to signal his TARDIS, because they needed his help, but they were hoping to contact him before his TARDIS was taken. To summon him, they had used Huon particles. They inform the Doctor that their society is built on 13 levels and each level has been overrun by a monster who is controlled by one main villain who is at the bottom level. For example, one level is overrun by Gelem warriors, another has rogue Silurians, the third level are overrun by Macra, then there’s cybermen, then even some brainwashed Daleks, some sontarans, Electric Demons (aliens who travel through electricity), some Quarks, Velgrin Angels, a human race called the Future Kind who love to eat people, the mechanoids, etc. All the while, the victims of each level call the overall villain, the Master, so the Doctor thinks that is who he is dealing with, but it turns out to be the Great Intelligence. Most levels, he succeeds, assisted by Martha and Mickey. On the cyberman level, where the people are rebelling against the cybermen for trying to harvest humans from their supply and ones from other planets, Eight helps and he saves a woman named Madge Orwell, who he hasn’t met yet, but she remembers him from ‘The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe’. Also he re-meets an old companion of his, Peri. Each time the Doctor and his gang make it to another level, they defeat some, but other times they lose. Therefore, imagine it as being each level they make it to is equivalent to one episode. Therefore, it’s as if the Doctor would spend an entire season without a TARDIS, like he did during his third regeneration.

  Space Titan

  Somehow, the universe has given birth to a space Titan. This giant is so large that he can bend down and look at the largest planet as a person would look down at a marble. Even more, it can walk and breathe in space. It also appears to consist of light and space matter (asteroids, etc.). Every race in the world is frightened of it. Worried about it, they confront it through their space armadas. They at first try and communicate with it, but it cannot understand. It reaches for them, out of curiosity, but all believe it’s attacking. Therefore, they fire on it, it recoils, then it retaliates and destroys the ships. The Doctor arrives to help, and the giant roars out one word, and the Doctor recognizes the language it roars as being in the language ‘Old Universe Text’, which was rumored to only be spoken by the designer of the Universe. The Titan runs off, but the Doctor (who is regarded as the War Doctor), pursues him and theorizes that he has been designed and built by the Architect, who is known for being the chief designer of the Universe. At first when he felt obliged to take a persistent woman Lady Christina de Souza as his companion (Planet of the Dead), but now he’s happy not to be alone. With difficulty, he finds the Architect, who it turns out created the Titan to help protect the universe against the Daleks, Sontarans, end the Thousand Year War, etc. Yet when seeing his creation, the Architect realized that he failed and ran from his creation. So the Doctor has to fight to get the Architect to embrace his creation and raise the Titan. This concept is inspired by the tale of Frankenstein.

  The Impossible Moment

  Croesus lives, yes. But the TARDISes do not, or do they? What if General Sidney pretended that he ordered the destruction of the entire junkyard, but he had hidden a couple. Then they get stolen by Croesus, who uses it to try and go back in time to kill the Doctor. Figuring out that this is what is happening, the Thirteenth Doctor (the future one) jumps back into his own timeline to stop him. In his timeline, he meets Clara Oswald an
d together they not only keep searching for Croesus and defeat him, but they also keep on facing off the Great Intelligence together, thus solving how Clara was able to save the Doctor by jumping into his timeline. Then she gets lost as she falls completely, but Thirteen comes in contact with Eleven, who jumped into his timeline to get Clara. Together they find her and that’s when Thirteen leaves, seeing Eleven as he carries Clara away after confronting the War Doctor.

  Regeneration Day

  On the last day of a Doctor’s life before he regenerates, an entire story is devoted to him in the few seconds that he regenerates. Consider it as a flashback situation before one dies. As the Doctor (honestly, which ever one you the Reader choose) is regenerating, his mind is confronted by his previous self as they begin talking. Then they go through flashbacks of his previous self, his previous self guides him through this all, he comes upon older faces of his too and then he even meets his future self there, and they discuss what could occur now, what dangers still have to be faced, and what did the Doctor fail to accomplish so far. The Doctor can even go on an old adventure with his previous self. For example, he could meet Seven and go with him during Destiny of the Daleks, or Five during Planet of Fire, etc. so that they can alter something the Doctor regretted happening during it. Then he regenerates into his future self at the end.

  This idea could even work for other concepts, for example, a Doctor in NuWho can be in the midst of a crisis that he has no idea how to solve, and he gets captured. For example, while being unconscious during being captured, his mind goes back to his third regeneration and he goes through ‘Spearhead in Space’ with Three and together they go through the adventure, but also they solve the Doctor’s current one also, so when the new Doctor wakes up, he knows how to overcome his adversary.

  I hope these ideas at least interested you to read, because this was all fun to write. But if you are thinking ‘well, why didn’t you just write this as a series of books rather than just jolt down plot points?’, don’t worry, I’ve got a few reasons:

  1) Series 10 is coming out soon, and I know that a lot of these ideas might be contradicted by it very soon. Heck, I’m even worried that series 10 will contradict this trilogy and this story will eventually become obsolete and trite.

  2) I’ve learned when having an idea that you are not certain you’ll ever be able to match again, you got to learn to let things go. Even if I were to come up with an idea of how to write more, I fear that I will not be able to pull it off.

  3) Even when you have other ideas, and plots are of course the primary asset to a story, a spine is still only a spine. You need more parts to it. So even if I have the ideas for plots in my head, it’s actually the characters and the details that make a story good. With this list, the ideas are all I had, but that’s about it. Hopefully one day I might get a good idea of how to write one of these ideas, but if I never do, I just wish to put them out there.

  4) This list is for the fun of the readers. When reading this list of other adventures, if it sparks someone’s imagination, then that is wonderful, for I was just hoping to spend more time talking about Doctor Who and wondering if it would appeal to anyone. Thanks for letting me be long-winded about things.

  Yet, for all those who read this trilogy, whether you enjoyed it or not, thanks for stopping by, and for those who enjoyed this trilogy immensely, then you are fantastic! Absolutely fantastic! And you know what? I hope I was as well. Good day Reader. Again, thank you ever so much and if you want any more reading, there are some deleted scenes behind this of what could have gone into this last book. For those who want some more reading, enjoy.

  Deleted Scenes

  Ten’s Last Talk with Ace & Jack Harkness

  This is a bit where I thought of what Ten would have said to Jack and Ace after they dropped off C.S. Lewis and the rest of the soldiers. At first I thought that there was no point to give them much to say to each other and just move on to him forgetting, but then I felt that we needed to hear what they had to say to each other as a farewell. Here is an idea of it.

  The TARDIS landed and Ace emerged from it, feeling slightly different and also slightly the same. She looked around her, saw that she was in her apartment, and turned to see Ten appear from the TARDIS doors. Behind him, Jack’s head popped into view.

  “So then,” Ace began.

  “Yes, so then,” Ten smiled.

  “This is what it’s like for you now?” She grinned, “you have more arch enemies than just the Daleks.”

  “A side effect to getting older,” Ten sighed, and then he looked around at her room, “we both flew again.”

  “Yes, we did.”

  “Despite it all, it has been fun though, hasn’t it?”

  “It sure has,” they both laughed together.

  “But I must ask… is there any chance that you’ll see Amy and Rory again?”

  Ten looked at Jack.

  “Of course, there is,” Ten said, forced.

  “Ah, the deeper tone,” Ace replied, reading his thoughts, “I know that look and tone of your voice. You have a plan—that you know won’t work.”

  “My god, you know him very well,” Jack laughed.

  “I had the time to get to know him too well.” Ace moved forward just a bit, “remember, how I used to call you the Professor?”

  “Yes, you did,” Ten recalled warmly.

  “And yet, despite it all, different face, different beliefs, and you’re still the same man underneath, always.” Ace turned to Jack and smiled. “Come back and see me sometime.”

  “Ace, you didn’t even have to ask.”

  Jack rushed up to her and they hugged. He moved away, saluted her and then re-entered the TARDIS, leaving Ten to stare at her awkwardly.

  “What?” Ace asked, confused.

  “Nothing, it’s just… I just realized something about myself.”

  “What?”

  “I don’t think I like endings. I never noticed that until now.”

  “And I don’t like feeling confused. For right now, I feel the same as I ever was, and as different as I always felt when I emerged from that blue box of yours.” Ace smiled and raised out her arms. Ten took it as the invitation. He came up to her and twirled her around.

  “Ace, we flew again!”

  “Yes, we did… Professor!”

  “You called me Professor again!”

  “Yes, I did.”

  They both stared into each other’s eyes, not knowing what to make of each other. For in Ace’s eyes, this Doctor was the future for her time when on the TARDIS. And for him, she was a reminder of the man he was in the past. And the sort of Doctor that he was. Both were each other’s outliers—resting on the outside of what they were once in the middle of. With Ace, this Doctor was always now going to be the one who antagonized her, who reminded her of the days with the Doctor that she never got to have. And she reminded him of the man he was when he was in a younger state. A more stable state. But maybe that was the point. Maybe he needed to remember his long past and live it. Perhaps that was the only way he was going to get better in the future.

  “I wonder if we’ll ever see each other again,” Ace admitted.

  “In this whole wide universe that is constantly expanding and shrinking, Ace,” Ten smiled, “what’s not possible? Especially when you’re lucky.”

  “Like you always are,” she pointed out.

  “No, Ace,” he corrected, “like you always are.”

  He nodded to her, entered his TARDIS, and the familiar sounds of its departure filled the room as Ace stared at the place it was.

  She folded her arms over her body and blinked.

  “I will see him again,” she assured herself, “of course I shall. Because I am lucky.”

  

  After a week of looking for every way to find the Ponds, Ten had to silently give up. He didn’t say that he was, nor write it down anywhere or make any assurances, but it was something he just accepted. As he stood in the control room, he st
ared at a spot that he recalled them standing. The image of them was disturbed and interrupted when Jack entered, putting on his coat.

  Since dropping off Ace, Jack remained with him, in order to check in on C.S. Lewis for a time as well as to help Ten find the Ponds.

  Yet Jack knew that Ten was giving up.

  Ten knew that Jack knew.

  Jack knew that the Doctor knew that he knew.

  But they didn’t speak about it until present.

  Until Jack noticed the memory worm that was perched on the dashboard of the consul unit.

  “Doctor,” Jack said, “what is that?”

  Ten looked at it and didn’t reply at first.

  “Oh, it’s just a pet that I now have. I love pets now, because I really think that pets can liven a mood.”

  Jack looked at the Doctor as he was checking on the stabilizers.

  “That’s the thing about having a vortex manipulator,” Jack announced suddenly, “I get the chance to see the world and learn many things. Doctor, why do you have a memory worm?”

  The Doctor looked at the worm and then didn’t respond.

  “You and I both know that there is no point in you denying it,” Jack continued, “that’s a memory worm. Doctor, tell me. Are you about to forget the Ponds?”

  Ten gave up pretending and folded his arms on his chest.

  “Yes, Jack,” he admitted, “I’m going to forget them.”

  

  Jack rubbed his cheeks in frustration, turned away, took a few steps and then turned back to him.

  “No, you can’t do that,” Jack demanded.

  “Jack, I have to do this,” The Doctor replied simply, “you know that I have to.”