\u201cYou don\u2019t understand, Miss Rose!\u201d hissed Miss Tarae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cUnderstand what?\u201d asked Amy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI spent 90 years alone with my thoughts after our last encounter, thanks to Ganondorf\u2019s magics! Many more years after that, after my prison was destroyed throughout Hyrule\u2019s many temporal resets as I drifted in space-!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd now that you\u2019ve had a little think about it, you\u2019ve decided to mend your ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA little think?! \u2026Ninety years! Do you have ANY idea?! You must think death impossible for a Time Lord! You most likely believe 90 years must be nothing to us! Believe me, when you\u2019re a Time Lord stuck in a crystal prison without the ability to time travel, it is a lifetime unable to move! I was in complete sensory deprivation! I wasn\u2019t breathing! I couldn\u2019t even feel my hearts beating! I stood utterly alone\u2026I thought I would go insane!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNo comment,\u201d remarked Amy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026I wondered if I really HAD died after all. How would I know? \u2026I started hearing voices!\u201d By now, Miss Tarae was looking fearful at what she was forcing herself to recall. \u201cI started imagining things out there in the darkness! Terrifying things! Larger than me! All around me! It was like I had been cast adrift on a raft in the middle of the ocean! I heard all my former allies there! The Cybermen! The Autons! The Daleks! Every one of them calling out my names in unison! All the names I had, even my birth name! \u2026They sounded so faint.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt feels like you\u2019re demanding an apology for what YOU used them for,\u201d said Amy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThen I saw the face of the Timeless Child! Tormenting! Sneering! Cruel! Cowardly! Just as it is now! Just as it had always been! Their true face! Not the one they happen to be wearing today as the current Doctor! \u2026Then there was nothing. \u2026A near\u2026century\u2026of nothing. \u2026I turned inward. My mind, consumed by memories, forced me to live and relive every single experience from the moment I was born! Maybe even before that! I was LOCKED in my past! Unable to change my mistakes! Condemned to relive them over and over and over! Every death, every failure, every lie, every betrayal! Even those I thought I had completely erased from my memory, like-!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026Like?\u201d ventured Amy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026Every one of the foul deeds I thought I had buried\u2026rose up\u2026taunting me! \u2026I felt so ashamed\u2026so naked. The process stripped me of everything. It showed me how small I was! How insignificant my achievements had been! I was NOTHING! The mere dreams of a Time Lord who should have died millennia before! I passed through eternity! Imagining every possible theory! Every possible book! Every possible idea! And then, as I had exhausted every combination in that moment\u2026I felt myself transcending! I felt myself starting to lift away from my body to join with something greater than me! Greater than ALL things! \u2026And then\u2026I felt my hearts beat. \u2026That had just been the first second of my imprisonment. \u2026And I was back at the beginning! Utterly trapped! Cursing those who had imprisoned me! A mere deformed, unfinished mind! Before the next hearts beat, the process was repeated in every detail! The third second was the same! As was the next! AS WAS THE NEXT!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs I only have a watch synced to Mobius and the TARDIS,\u201d said Amy, \u201cand I don\u2019t have the life-span of a Time Lord, maybe you should skip to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026The end?\u201d asked Miss Tarae. \u201c\u2026Very well. I came to realize that I could count myself the queen of an infinite universe were it not for my bad dreams! That there was more in heaven and on Gallifrey than was ever dreamt of in YOUR philosophy, Amy Rose!\u201d By then, the Doctor announced her presence by laughing in the doorway, causing Miss Tarae and Amy to yelp in surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEternity?!\u201d asked the Doctor between giggles. \u201cAnd the best you could manage is to misquote Shakespeare?! Any non-Mobian monkey with a typewriter could do that! At least THEY would have managed to write something down!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy point precisely, Doctor!\u201d hissed Miss Tarae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGood night, Sweet Prince,\u201d countered the Doctor. \u201cI need to check on something. The bio-data induction channel is very fragile. Amy, I trust-.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe didn\u2019t lay a finger on it,\u201d assured Amy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGood to know. Now, let\u2019s see-.\u201d The Doctor was interrupted by someone approaching. That person was Romana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDoctor, we need to give the Thanakians sanctuary,\u201d said Romana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d asked the Doctor. \u201cBut with so many inconsistencies-!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA Rutan fleet was discovered making their way to Gallifrey!\u201d replied Romana. \u201cThey\u2019re in attack formation!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026The Rutans aren\u2019t so ham-fisted!\u201d argued the Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019d say the Rutans are desperate for a win,\u201d remarked Miss Tarae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have discussed this with Rassilon,\u201d said Romana, \u201cand it\u2019s agreed that the Thanakian flagship may land, but that ship only.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat about the other-?!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Thanakians have ship-to-ship teleportation, Doctor. They\u2019ve already beamed over those that haven\u2019t stayed behind. However, they are to stay in their time ship until proper accommodations can be made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don\u2019t like this,\u201d muttered the Doctor. \u201cEverything is happening so fast!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDoctor, we\u2019re still in a position to dictate terms,\u201d said Miss Tarae. \u201cPerhaps I should explain my deal with the Thanakians fully.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYes, perhaps you should!\u201d hissed Romana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs you know, the Thanakians have considerably primitive time-travel capabilities. Their power source is a more wasteful one compared to the Eye of Harmony.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat IS the Eye of Harmony?\u201d asked Amy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRassilon and Omega created a star,\u201d explained the Doctor, \u201cthen suspended time around it as it exploded in the act of becoming a black hole, harnessing the potential energy of a collapse that would never occur. That energy was then imprisoned in a crystal that was connected up to all of Gallifrey and all the TARDIS\u2019 ever made, including my own. It was lost during the Time War.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThen how-?\u201d asked Amy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRifts in space-time can refuel a TARDIS,\u201d explained Miss Tarae. \u201cThe Doctor\u2019s favorite rift is in Cardiff, Wales on Earth!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLet me guess,\u201d muttered the Doctor, \u201cyou think a new Eye of Harmony can be created.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI know it will,\u201d replied Miss Tarae. \u201cAnd the Thanakians can observe how it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat\u2019s entirely dependent on if Rassilon can pull up how she and Omega did it in the first place,\u201d remarked the Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s that supposed to mean?\u201d asked Miss Tarae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCome on, how long has it been since she and Omega made the Eye?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRassilon can\u2019t just forget something like that!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWell, she probably did and maybe the notes are in the deepest recesses of the Matrix,\u201d remarked Romana. \u201cI haven\u2019t seen those notes when I was trapped in that dimension.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOh, for the love of-! Are you REALLY going to make me look like a liar in front of Thanakians?!\u201d complained Miss Tarae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat, did you give them a timetable?\u201d asked the Doctor. \u201cCome on, you can see the state of Gallifrey, the Matrix is probably at dial-up speeds right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019ll need to tell them that you, Miss Tarae,\u201d said Romana, \u201cjumped the gun as you forgot that the Eye is a proprietary secret.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut-!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut nothing! My decision is final!\u201d said Romana. As Romana left, Miss Tarae snarled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWho does she think she is?!\u201d she hissed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe current president of the High Council of Time Lords,\u201d remarked the Doctor. \u201cCurrently consisting of you, me, Susan, her, and Rassilon. \u2026Coincidentally, we make up the current population of Gallifrey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd you have to admit, you DID promise them something that doesn\u2019t exist right now,\u201d remarked Amy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGallifrey to Thanakian ship,\u201d Romana said over the call she was setting up. \u201cThanakians, come in please.\u201d The Thanakian ambassador appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLord President,\u201d said the ambassador fearfully, \u201cthe Rutans are moving in for the kill!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI sympathize with your plight and I wish we could save every Thanakian,\u201d replied Romana, \u201cbut we can\u2019t have every ship in your fleet landing on Gallifrey. Have your people evacuate to your flagship. We will lower the Transduction Barriers for that ship only. And until accommodations can be made on Gallifrey, I must ask that you stay aboard the flagship. Only then can we help you formulate a plan of campaign against the Rutans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are grateful for what you can realistically offer,\u201d thanked the ambassador. \u201cThese terms are acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m sending you coordinates,\u201d said Romana as she keyed in the coordinates for a landing site outside the capital. \u201cThere will be a beacon there to guide you to the landing site.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThank you, Gallifrey!\u201d replied the ambassador. The call ended. At that moment, Miss Tarae entered the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat is this supposed to be?\u201d asked Miss Tarae. \u201cYour act of undoing the Master Restitution?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cKeep silent about that, Monster!\u201d hissed Romana as she stormed away to collect Rassilon and greet the Thanakians. Miss Tarae smirked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t anyways,\u201d she chuckled to herself. \u201cSoon, I shall be in control of Gallifrey. I already wounded Rassilon, but never had the pleasure of wounding YOU, Lord President Romana!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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