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by Parkin, Lance

  (=) 1993 - “Time and Time Again” [737]

  The seventh Doctor, Benny and Ace arrived in a London that was in ruins... a battleground for armies of monsters. The Black Guardian had altered history so that the Doctor never left Gallifrey, but the Doctor and his companions travelled through history reassembling the Key to Time, and the White Guardian restored the timeline to its normal path.

  1993 (November) - Goth Opera [738]

  The Time Lady Ruath sought to fulfill prophesies that spoke of the birth of a vampire nation. She rescued the vampire Yarven from his burial spot in Croatia and allowed him to turn her. Together, they sought to raise a vampire army. Tracking them down to Manchester, the fifth Doctor destroyed the army and its attempt to create the Vampire Messiah. Yarven was incinerated; Ruath was flung into the Time Vortex.

  The vampires Jake and Madeline departed into space. They later returned, and by the twenty-fourth century had sired many descendents.

  1993 (29th December) - Instruments of Darkness [739]

  The sixth Doctor and Mel found Evelyn in Great Rokeby. The twins Cellian and Ciara had reformed and were improving the school system in the village of Halcham.

  By now, the Cylox named Lai-Ma was trying to psionically absorb the energy of his former prison realm, hoping to increase his power levels and destroy Earth. His brother Tko-Ma hoped to steal his brother’s power and had founded the Network, an organisation that kidnapped psionics and exploited their abilities. The Ini-Ma, the Cylox brothers’ jailor, killed the siblings but died in the process.

  A powerplay between Tko-Ma’s anchor on Earth (Sebastian Malvern) and the Network’s head administrator (John Doe) triggered a slaughter that killed Cellian, Ciara and Doe. The Network reformed, with Mel’s associate Trey Korte as a member, into an organisation pledged to protect Earth from extra-terrestrial threats. Evelyn resumed travelling with the Doctor and Mel.

  Department C19 had closed by 1993 due to internal corruption. Sir John Sudbury was murdered to prevent his exposing the Network.

  The outermost planet of the solar system was discovered in 1994 and called Cassius. [740] UNISYC, a UN security group, was founded in 1994. Like UNIT, they were involved with alien encounters. [741] The US government only admitted that Area 51 existed in 1994. [742] UNIT constructed the Vault, a.k.a. the Museum of Terrors - an underground base found under the Angel of the North - to house alien artifacts and weapons. [743]

  1994 - The Land of the Dead [744]

  The fifth Doctor and Nyssa were attacked in Alaska by sea monsters. They sheltered in the home of oilman Shaun Brett. One of the fossils in his collection was a Permian - an ancient predator that looked like a living skeleton, bound together by a bioelectric field. A pack of Permians revived and threatened to breed. As the creatures were vulnerable to fire, the Doctor destroyed them with a stock of flammable paint.

  Clyde Langer, a future friend of Sarah Jane Smith, was born on 5th June, 1994, to Paul and Carla Langer. [745]

  1994 (10th-11th June) - Touched by an Angel [746]

  A variant of the Weeping Angels that fed on paradoxes attempted to create a complex space-time event centred around Mark Whitaker, whose wife Rebecca was fated to die in 2003. An Angel sent Mark back to 1994 from 2011 - he had in his possession a series of instructions he believed his future self had written, but which the Angels had crafted. The eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory arrived from 2011, but believed that Mark’s future self had to remain in the 1990s and fulfill upon the instructions to preserve history. They failed to realise that he intended to save Rebecca from dying. The Doctor set the TARDIS to follow disturbances in Mark’s timeline, and they would next meet in 1997.

  1994 (8th July) - Invasion of the Cat-People [747]

  The second Doctor, Polly and Ben prevented the Cat-People, one of the most powerful races in the galaxy, from harnessing the magnetic energy of the Earth.

  1994 (8th-13th August) - P.R.O.B.E.: The Zero Imperative [748]

  Liz Shaw had left Cambridge and now worked for the Preternatural Research Bureau (P.R.O.B.E.), an arm of the government that investigated supernatural phenomena. She looked into a series of murders centred around the Hawthorne psychiatric clinic - the new home of Daniel O’Kane, a.k.a. Patient Zero. The dark forces that turned O’Kane into a killer tried to manifest through his son, Peter Russell. O’Kane stopped them from doing so, at the cost of his own life.

  The seventh Doctor, Benny, Chris and Roz spent a couple of days at the Doctor’s house in Allen Road to recover from their experiences on Zamper. [749] On 5th April, 1995, Private Cleary died in hospital. [750]

  Ian Chesterton retired after spending thirty years doing research. He then got bored, and returned to teaching, while Barbara worked on a new book. [751] Using blueprints stolen from UNIT, Bernard Kelly worked to develop a matter-transporter for benefit of “Britain first” zealots within the military. He spent a decade failing to do so. [752]

  Iris Wildthyme’s companion Tom left her company and returned to his native era. He brokered a deal with the publisher Satan and Satan Ltd. to produce a series of novels based upon his adventures with Iris. Sales soared, and Tom gained a reputation as an eccentric alien abductee. Satan and Satan was a front for MIAOW, who hoped to learn Iris’ secrets. [753]

  1995 - “Star Beast II” [754]

  Judges Zagran, Scraggs and Theka concluded that white star therapy had successfully rehabilitated Beep the Meep and he was released. He remained evil, but the authorities had removed his blackstar drive. Beep had a spare hidden on Earth, and headed there. The fourth Doctor arrived in Blackcastle just before the Meep. Fudge Higgins now managed the multiplex built on the site of the old steel mills, and this was where the Meep had buried his stardrive. The Doctor adjusted a film projector and imprisoned the Meep within a Lassie movie.

  Nightshade: The Movie was in general release.

  Maria Jackson, a friend of Sarah Jane Smith, was born around 1995. [755] Age 20, Toshiko Sato joined a government science think tank. [756] Jack visited the Powell Estate once or twice in the nineties and watched Rose grow up, but refrained from speaking with her. [757]

  (=) 1995 - TimeH: Echoes [758]

  The time-creature that Honoré and Emily saved from the Cabal of the Horned Beast took up residence in the Dragon Industry Tower - an office block that proved so financially ruinous, its founder, John Raymond, killed himself. The creature sought redemption for its crimes by absorbing the timelines of abused women, but this cast the women into a noncorporeal void. Emily persuaded the creature to return the women home and absorb Raymond’s timeline, an act that erased the tower from history.

  The paradox resolved itself enough that the time-creature broke free, and left for parts unknown.

  c 1995 - Downtime [759]

  Under the direction of the Great Intelligence, which was secretly hosted in Professor Travers, Victoria Waterfield had invested an eight-figure sum in the New World University in north-west London. The University specialised in teaching classes by computer, but the Intelligence used a hypnotic technique to control the students there. It inhabited the university’s computers, and spread into the Internet. There was chaos as all computer systems succumbed to - as the media termed it - the “computer flu”. The CIA’s files were broadcast on Russian television, bank cash points released all their cash and Tomahawk missiles were launched in the Gulf.

  The Intelligence transformed some of the University students into Yeti, leading to a conflict with UNIT. Before the Intelligence could take control of Earth, Victoria and her allies destroyed the University’s generators, which banished the Intelligence. Professor Travers’ dead body collapsed without the Intelligence to animate it.

  Victoria was put on Interpol’s Most Wanted list for her role in this affair. The Doctor provided a letter of reference to clear her name with UNIT.

  After this time, the Brigadier reunited with Doris. They married and the Brigadier gave up teaching. [760]

  1995 - P.R.O.B.E.: The Devil of Winterbor
ne [761]

  Liz Shaw’s father, Reuben Shaw, had recently died. P.R.O.B.E. investigated a number of killings at the Winterborne boys’ school. Christian Purcell, a student there, thought he was the cult-leader Isaac Greatorex reincarnated, and was murdering people to ritualistically attain immortality. Confronted, Purcell seemingly leapt to his death on a motorway, but his body vanished...

  (=) Around 1995, physicist John Finer accidentally killed his daughter Amelia. He began researching time travel, hoping to go back in time to prevent this. Events circa 2001 nullified this timeline. [762]

  In 1995, Ironside Industries purchased British Rocket Group and the former Space Defence Station at Devesham. [763] While the fourth Doctor and Romana were in Cornwall in 1995, the Doctor read of the suicide of David Brown, captain of the English cricket team and a native of Hexen Bridge. [764] In 1995, Katherine Chambers started up her own practice, Chambers Pharmaceuticals, in Brisbane. [765]

  1995 (20th December) - “Memorial” [766]

  The seventh Doctor and Ace landed in Westmouth. The Doctor freed the Telphin consciousness from Simon Galway, in whom it had resided in peace for exactly sixty years.

  1996

  Iris Wildthyme and her companion Jenny parted ways following an escapade with jellyfish creatures, their secluded moonbase and the cast of a daytime soap that Iris watched. Jenny would eventually head the Darlington branch of MIAOW. [767]

  The fourth segment of the Key to Time, disguised as a meteoroid, passed through the Cronquist system. The Cronquist charged the meteoroid with their power, and it later impacted a NASA shuttle. Astronaut Millicent Drake, the only survivor, came under Cronquist’s control and furthered their invasion plans. [768]

  In January 1996, James Stevens retrieved his time ring from his safety deposit box at a bank in London. Rifle in hand, he departed into the past to assassinate Kennedy. [769] A set of army barracks in Wales was closed down in 1996, but would be reopened as the Cowbridge Overflow Camp in 2011. [770]

  c 1996 (12th January) - Night Thoughts [771]

  On Gravonax Island in Scotland, J.J. Bartholomew developed the prototype Bartholomew Transactor, a device that could send a subatomic particle back in time to an identical piece of equipment. By this method, audio messages from the future could be heard in the past.

  Major Dickens theorised that if the device were used to retroactively halt an established death, then the closely related timelines would overlap and the deceased’s body would re-animate. When a destitute woman named Maude appeared with her two daughters, Edie and Ruth, Dickens decided to test this and deliberately misdiagnosed Edie’s eye infection as Gravonax gas poisoning. Dickens’ colleagues were moved to euthanise Edie rather than let her suffer what they believed was an inevitable, agonizing death.

  A Bartholomew Transactor was present as Dickens gave Edie a lethal dose of anaesthetic. The veterinary scientist Hartley chemically preserved Edie’s body on Dickens’ behalf, and her corpse was placed inside a taxidermied bear. Maude discovered Dickens’ deception and committed suicide. Ruth was shuffled between foster homes. Dickens held Bartholomew prisoner so she could perfect her device; she tried to escape, but was permanently crippled by a bear trap. The world believed that she was dead.

  As Dickens desired, the Transactor relayed a message from ten years in the future and caused a temporal anomaly. The seventh Doctor arrived from that period, tasked with conclusively ensuring Edie’s death, but found himself unable to kill her.

  1996 (17th April) - Touched by an Angel [772]

  Mark Whitaker and Rebecca Coles impulsively slept together, which had a chilling effect on their friendship.

  1996 - Benny: The End of the World [773]

  When Jason Kane was nearly 13, he responded to his father’s physical abuse by catching a train out of town, leaving his mother and sister Lucy behind. As an adult, Jason travelled back from 2607 and arrived at his family home two days after his younger self fled. Posing as a detective-inspector from the “Child Protection Taskforce”, Jason told Peter Kane that young Jason’s disappearance was being investigated - and that the Kane household would be under surveillance. Jason hoped this would curtail his father’s abuse of Lucy, and he also established a trust fund for her.

  Shug, the leader of the Skrak, was betrayed by his subordinate Gleka and transmatted to the Dagellan Cluster in 1996. The beam also swept up Jason Kane, who was living on the streets of London. Jason became a rogue and spent the next fifteen years away from Earth, thinking that Shug was his small, furry pet. [774] Amy Pond went to the National Museum when she was little. [775]

  1996 - Interference [776]

  The eighth Doctor was summoned by the United Nations, who had been offered a weapon - the Cold - by a race of alien arms dealers. The aliens were members of the Remote, a Faction Paradox colony. Sarah Jane Smith, who was now involved with a man named Paul, investigated the matter and met Samantha Jones, who was taken to the Remote. Fitz was frozen in suspended animation and wouldn’t awaken until the twenty-sixth century. He would become Father Kreiner of Faction Paradox.

  The Saudis captured and tortured the Doctor. He sent an emergency message to his third incarnation, who was on the planet Dust in the thirty-eighth century. Sarah rescued the Doctor and he travelled to the Remote, who had built a settlement on a Time Lord warship. This ship was designed to destroy the original home planet of their Enemy - Earth - in the future War. The Doctor convinced the people of the Remote that they were being used. The ship was sent to a place of safety.

  Sam accepted an offer to stay with Sarah Jane Smith and left the Doctor’s company. The Doctor was joined on his travels by two members of the Remote: Compassion and Kode, the latter of whom had been generated from a Remote remembrance tank and endowed with much of Fitz’s personality. The Doctor used the TARDIS to revise Kode into a copy of Fitz as he had been prior to his joining Faction Paradox.

  Amelia “Amy” Pond had grown up with a Crack in Time in her bedroom wall. It erased her parents from existence; Amy would remember scant details about them, but didn’t know their fate. Her Aunt Sharon raised her. Amy went to the National Museum when she was little. [777]

  1996 (Easter) - The Eleventh Hour [778]

  The newly regenerated eleventh Doctor crashed to Earth in the backyard of Amelia Pond, age seven, and the falling TARDIS destroyed her garden shed. She asked the Doctor to investigate a crack in her wall - actually a Crack in Time, through which a voice could be heard saying, “Prisoner Zero has escaped.” The Doctor recognised it as a message from a prison, but had to attend to the healing TARDIS when its engines misphased. He told Amelia that he would right the TARDIS by taking a short hop five minutes into the future - she packed to go away with him, and waited for him in the back yard. Instead of reappearing in five minutes, the Doctor would return twelve years later.

  1996 (Easter) - The Big Bang [779]

  Amelia fell asleep in her backyard while waiting for the Doctor. As the eleventh Doctor’s timeline came undone after he sealed the Cracks in Time, he carried Amelia into her house and put her to bed. The words he spoke while she slept would help her to remember him in future.

  Amelia Pond told her best friends Rory and Mels about meeting the Doctor. [780] In the years to follow, the persistence with which Amy clung to the existence of her imaginary friend - her “raggedy Doctor” - caused her to be taken to four psychiatrists. [781]

  (=) 1996 - The Big Bang [782]

  The explosion of the Doctor’s TARDIS in 2010 caused every sun to supernova at every moment in history, obliterating the universe. Only the Earth and its moon remained, lit by the energy from the exploding TARDIS. In this eye of the storm, the people of Earth lived beneath a starless sky. All of the races allied against the Doctor in 102 AD had been wiped out, although a few “never-were” vestiges of them remained, resembling statues.

  The Pandorica, having held Amy Pond in stasis ever since 102 AD, was now kept in the National Museum. The eleventh Doctor left a note that made Amy�
�s seven-year-old self insist that her aunt take her to see the Pandorica exhibit. The younger Amy touched the Pandorica, which used a sample of her DNA to resurrect the older Amy. The Doctor freed River Song, who had been time-looped inside the exploding TARDIS; Rory the Last Centurion, who was still guarding the Pandorica after two millennia, joined them.

  History continued to collapse... the Doctor’s group realised that the Pandorica contained some atoms from the universe before it was destroyed, and that the Pandorica’s light - if given an infinite power source - could extrapolate the whole universe from just one of them. The Doctor piloted the Pandorica into the exploding TARDIS, providing the power necessary to (effectively) trigger the second Big Bang. The Cracks of Time were sealed, but the Doctor was on the wrong side of them when this happened - and so everyone in the universe forgot about him.

  The eleventh Doctor claimed that Vortis could be seen from Earth. [783] When Owen Harper was 16, he packed his bags and left his emotionally abusive household. [784] Yvonne Hartman became the head of Torchwood London in 1996. Alex Hopkins took charge of Torchwood Cardiff no later than 1996. [785]

  1996 - P.R.O.B.E.: Unnatural Selection / P.R.O.B.E.: The Ghosts of Winterborne [786]

  The genetically advanced man Alfred began harvesting organs from humans in a bid to give his benefactor, Professor Julius Quilter, extended life. The ailing Quilter died anyway, and P.R.O.B.E. ended Aldred’s murder spree by killing him.