We arrived back on Vorton safely. Eiji, K\u014dsei, and Ankh were amazed at their new surroundings. \u201cOh, good!\u201d cheered X-PO. \u201cYou guys got the cake!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYeah, and we were almost toast, too!\u201d hissed Batman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou cut that pretty close, X-PO,\u201d snapped Wyldstyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCouldn\u2019t you have opened the rift sooner?\u201d asked Touch\u00e9 as we cancelled our transformations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIs that the cake from Portal<\/em>?\u201d asked Richard. \u201cYou guys were in Portal<\/em>? Man, I wish I had been there!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou really don\u2019t, my dear brother,\u201d argued Emily. \u201cWith Hiro gaining his own Super Charge sequence and with the main enemies of Eiji-san here, we had our work cut out for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSpeaking of cutting,\u201d muttered Gandalf as he eyed the cake. \u201cPerhaps a slice of\u2026\u201d Tanisha took the cake out of Batman\u2019s hands and held it above her head out of Gandalf\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s not for eating!\u201d growled Batman. I then looked around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHey, where\u2019s Hiroki?\u201d I asked as X-PO took the cake. \u201cI have another Rider for him to geek over.\u201d Mikhail and Lukas came up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe, Tonje, Emmanuel, Michael, Sheela, Xiomara, and Irina went on an adventure with a new Doctor,\u201d replied Mikhail. \u201cThey\u2019ll be back soon. Something about a Dalek fleet over their native universe\u2019s Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCan we get something to eat?\u201d asked Eiji. \u201cThat adventure wore me out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe adventure, or Putotyra?\u201d asked Ankh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFollow me,\u201d I directed as I led the way to the cafeteria. When we showed off the cafeteria and demonstrated the replicators, Eiji, Ankh, and K\u014dsei got their food. Ankh seemed to be eating a lot of popsicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIsn\u2019t that a bit\u2026unhealthy?\u201d asked Emily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don\u2019t eat food in the sense that you humans do,\u201d explained Ankh. \u201cHeck, my senses are dulled. I can\u2019t taste food, Colors are washed out, and sounds are distorted and muffled. The only time I experienced the full range of the five senses was when I possessed a detective.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greeed are voids that can\u2019t be filled,\u201d elaborated Eiji. \u201cThus, they want to turn the world into Cell Medals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd\u2026you\u2019re working with him?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLet\u2019s just say, he\u2019s learned a thing or two,\u201d chuckled Eiji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat reminds me,\u201d mused Ankh as he drew a bag out of his body. \u201cK\u014dsei, do you know anything about these?\u201d The bag was full of studs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNot a clue,\u201d admitted K\u014dsei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThose are studs, the local currency,\u201d I explained<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are 150,000 studs in that bag,\u201d counted Vortoranii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou can have them,\u201d muttered Ankh as he tossed the bag to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat\u2019s 980,000 studs!\u201d Vortoranii said, then laughed like Count Von Count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGuys,\u201d called X-PO, \u201cI hate to sound needy, but, unless you want to miss this, Irina and the others came back and she needs medical attention!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat?!\u201d yelped Emily. We made a mad dash for the med bay. Irina was hooked up to an IV and had an NG tube in her nose. Her pulse was low, but steady. Tonje, Hiroki, Emmanuel, Michael, Sheela, and Xiomara were there along with a woman with blonde hair reaching her neck and a coat with the hood down at the bed, running the medical equipment. The TARDIS was there as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEmily! Good!\u201d called the woman. \u201cShe was hit by a handheld, low yield, Dalek blaster. Davros seemed to have it on his person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhere\u2019s the Doctor?\u201d asked Emily, going into full Medic mode. \u201cI want the full story of what happened while I work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWell, Doctor?\u201d asked Michael to the woman. I goggled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Doctor passed the torch to her?\u201d I guessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn a manner of speaking,\u201d replied the woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat IS the Doctor,\u201d explained Michael. \u201cI\u2019ll explain later. Doctor, if you please.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOh, come on,\u201d argued the woman, the new Doctor, \u201csurely you want to tell the story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOh, very well,\u201d muttered Michael.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCHARGE!\u201d ordered my princess. As her team entered the rift, the rest of us started wondering what we should do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don\u2019t know about you, meine Freunde,\u201d called Lukas, \u201cbut I\u2019m going to go tune up the replicators.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m going to rest my back,\u201d sighed Livia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSame here,\u201d agreed Richard. That was when a familiar sound started playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnyone hear that?\u201d asked Joshua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat\u2019s the TARDIS!\u201d called Mikhail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat\u2019s he doing coming back here?!\u201d I asked as the TARDIS materialized in the gateway room. The door opened and a woman poked her head out. She caught sight of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAHA!\u201d she cheered. \u201cI need your help, Michael! Something\u2019s going down around my universe\u2019s Earth. Mind coming with?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHold on, how do you know my name, Ma\u2019am?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNever mind that,\u201d dismissed the woman, \u201cI\u2019ll explain later. Just pick six others to come with us!\u201d I was surprised but did so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEr, Tonje, Hiroki, Emmanuel, Irina, Sheela, and Xiomara, you want to see the TARDIS again?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEh, why not?\u201d mused Emmanuel. As the people I picked entered the TARDIS, I glanced around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDoctor?!\u201d I called. No response. The woman then headed to the console. \u201cDoctor?!\u201d I called again. Still no reply. I tried a different approach. \u201cProfessor?!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOh, come on,\u201d replied the woman. \u201cYou\u2019re making me nostalgic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMa\u2019am, I don\u2019t believe I know what you\u2019re talking about!\u201d I snapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOh, just put your hands on the telepathic circuits,\u201d instructed the woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMichael, who is this woman?!\u201d asked Tonje.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don\u2019t bloody know!\u201d I yelled. It\u2019s rare that I ever use bloody in that context. We all put a hand on the TARDIS\u2019 telepathic circuits and reviewed the most memorable moments of the pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back,\u201d faded to \u201cThey will persuade other Daleks to question. You will have a rebellion on your planet!\u201d fading to \u201cYou exist only because your will insists that you exist. Your will is all that is left of you,\u201d fading yet again to \u201cYou’ve no home planet, no influence, nothing! You’re just a pathetic bunch of tin soldiers skulking about the galaxy in an ancient spaceship!\u201d fading again to \u201cWell, a place where one embarks and disembarks from compartments on wheels drawn along these tracks by a steam engine; rarely on time,\u201d fading to \u201cBut did you bother to tell anyone that they might be eating their own relatives?\u201d with another man saying \u201cCertainly not! That would have created what I believe is termed… \u2018consumer resistance\u2019,\u201d fading to \u201cI have pity for you!\u201d and a Dalek counting fifteen and the man saying \u201cGoodbye Davros. It hasn’t been pleasant,\u201d fading to \u201cYou want dominion over the living, yet all you do is kill!\u201d fading again to \u201cGreat men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame. Whatever the cost,\u201d fading once again to a woman saying, \u201cIf you are an alien, how come you sound like you’re from the north?\u201d and a man replying, \u201cLots of planets have a north!\u201d fading to \u201cDon’t challenge me, Harriet Jones! ‘Cos I’m a completely new man! I could bring down your government with a single word!\u201d fading again to \u201cWrong with me? It’s not my fault. Why can’t you give me any decent food? You’re Scottish. Fry something!\u201d fading one last time to \u201cYou know you’ve got a lot in common with the Tivolians? You’ll both do anything to survive. They’ll surrender to anyone. You will hijack other peoples’ souls and turn them into electro-magnetic projections. That will to endure\u2026 That refusal to ever cease. It’s extraordinary. And it makes a fella think! Because, you know what? If all I have to do to survive is to tweak the future a bit, what’s stopping me? Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah: the ripple effect. Maybe it will mean that the universe will be ruled by cats or something in the future. But the way I see it, even a ghastly future is better than no future at all! You robbed those people of their deaths; made them nothing more than a message in a bottle. You violated something more important than time: You bent the rules of life and death. So I am putting things straight! Here, now, this is where your story ends!\u201d All of those quotes and an image forming in our minds slowly became clearer and clearer to show the woman, the Time Lord, that was piloting a type 40 TARDIS with a chameleon circuit stuck as a 1960\u2019s London Police Box. We were dazed at the story that unfolded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo\u2026the Doctor we\u2019re familiar with\u2026\u201d muttered Emmanuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHad many different faces\u2026\u201d finished Irina. I turned to the woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSeriously?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYep!\u201d confirmed the woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou\u2019re him?!\u201d I continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat\u2019s right!\u201d grinned the woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEven the blonde hair?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYes!\u201d said the woman, a little annoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou\u2019re the\u2026Thirteenth Doctor?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYes!\u201d repeated the woman, the Doctor. \u201cYou humans have a rather enormous capacity for repeating the facts!\u201d The TARDIS then shook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDoctor, what\u2019s going on?!\u201d asked Sheela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBit of temporal ripples!\u201d explained the Doctor. \u201cSomeone, or something, is creating a rather large distortion in time about the size of Paris! It seems to be centered around Earth, my universe\u2019s Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo, who caused the distortion?\u201d I asked. I did NOT like the response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTypical Daleks!\u201d hissed the Doctor as her fingers danced around the console. \u201cWhat IS their fascination with Earth? That\u2019s MY fascination!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGOD\u2026FLIPPING\u2026WHHHYYYY?!\u201d I shouted. \u201cCouldn\u2019t it be early model Mondasian Cybermen?! THEY knew how to be creepy!\u201d The TARDIS rocked again. \u201cAre they firing on us?!\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI may need some help maneuvering the TARDIS,\u201d called the Doctor. \u201cHiroki! Michael! Emmanuel! Sheela! Xiomara! Give me a hand!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re not Time Lords!\u201d protested Hiroki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPut your hands on the telepathic circuits again,\u201d directed the Doctor. \u201cThe TARDIS will fill you in on its operation.\u201d Information about all the panels on the console filled our minds. It soon integrated with human limits and it became easy as pie!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOh, many a fan of your adventures would sell their souls just to have this kind of knowledge!\u201d I cheered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSeems simple enough,\u201d mused Sheela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo, what are we supposed to do?\u201d asked Irina as we took our places, \u201cstand here and look glamorous?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWell,\u201d chuckled the Doctor, \u201cyou could always get us some tea. Maybe a bit of paperwork.\u201d Tonje punched the Doctor in the shoulder. She and Irina then stormed up the stairs and headed into a hallway. \u201cTONJE! IRINA! JOKE!\u201d said the Doctor as she massaged her shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey\u2019ll be back when we\u2019ve landed,\u201d I assured. We then set to work on weaving the TARDIS through Dalek laser blasts and the saucers that said lasers came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We arrived back on Vorton safely. 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