Doctor Who: Planet of the forbidden-the 50th anniversary special
written by Handbot10
The end is approaching. Can the doctor prevent the death of the universe, even if he’s fighting death himself?
Prologue
We all know that one day, everything shall die. Stars, moons and, the human race. We think it will happen long after we die. But someone has been waiting. In fact he’s not even a someone he’s a something. You look into his eyes and there’s nothing there. He isn’t even alive. All he is, all he ever was, was a ball of swirling vengeance. Vengeance on a mad man, the doctor. And he will do whatever it takes to destroy the doctor. Even if it means destroying the one thing the time lord ever cared about. We all thought the world would end in millions of years. It ended on the 23rd of November, 2013.
Chapter one: Alcatraz
Sanfransisco bay, 1961
The wind chilled to the bone. This was a very different sight compared to the loud and eccentric night life of the city. A classical car pulled up at an almost deserted pier and out came a skinny man wearing a flashy waistcoat, bowler hat and blue bowtie.
“Ugh! I can taste the salt already!” the man exclaimed
“That will be 10 dollars sir” The taxi driver demanded. The man huffed, pulled out a roll of money from his breast pocket and chucked it to the taxi driver. After looking through the money he grabbed out a notebook.
“Name please” he asked.
“The doctor” the man answered. The taxi driver noted down what he said and then paused.
“Doctor who?”. The doctor chuckled.
“Typical humans” He said as he turned around and started walking to small boat with a waiting man standing next to it. The doctor shook hands with the sailor.
“Hello good sir, I am looking for boat trip to Alcatraz Island.” The sailor nodded and showed him onto the boat. The doctor sat himself down on a little stool just at the back of the small boat. The boat sailed of at a slow pace to begin with because the motor was broken. So the doctor pulled out his trustworthy sonic screwdriver and pointed it in the direction of the broken motor. VREEEEE! The motor burst into action and zoomed across the water. About 3 minutes later they arrived at Alcatraz. The doctor pulled a serious face as if knowing this wasn’t going to be at all good. He clapped his hands, and strolled off to the prison.
A guard dressed in a dull uniform walked slowly down the aisle of prisons. Each one containing a prisoner. Some were mad, others were quiet.
“Oi!” one of the prisoners shouted. “Whats you doin down here?”
“I am looking for Guvnar Richards”. The guard replied. The prisoner pointed to solitary confinement cell and just as the guard left he grabbed him on the shoulder.
“I warn you. He’s a mad one he is.”
“Release me.” The guard shrugged the hand of his shoulder and walked to the cell. He heard banging and screaming as he opened a hatch.
“Prisoner Guvnar D Richards you have a visitor” He said into the hatch.
“I have no visitors. Who is he?” Another voice replied.
“He said he was some sort of doctor. He insisted you came. It’s a matter of great importance” The guard answered as he opened a stiff hatch that opened a door. Out of the shadows came a hunchbacked man wearing rags, dragging a huge metal ball across the floor. Guvnar followed the guard to the visitor’s room. He sat down on a stool and looked into the glass to see a scruffy man. They both picked up the phone. The doctor spoke into it. “Hello Guvnar.”
“What do you want?”
“You see this” He pulled his physic paper out and showed him a note inside it. It read, the end approaches, he is coming, be at Alcatraz prison, with Guvnar Richards at 11.00pm. “No ordinary person can send me this. I want to know what you have to do with this.” Guvnar laughed. “I don’t know what you are talking about”
“You’re lying!”
“I speak the truth”
“Not good enough”
“Listen!” Everyone stopped talking. “Listen, I don’t know who said this. Although, I believe I have heard this message before. In a dream. It was all dark. I saw earth, then a voice, he said: The end is approaching. Next the earth is burning. And everyone dies”. The doctor shook his head.
“There was one more thing, about a planet. He described it as the planet of the forbidden…” His speech was interrupted by a load bang.
“No, no, no!” The doctor mumbled as he crashed through the door to see Guvnar lying on his side with a puddle of blood around his head. He ran to the body.
“Guvnar you need to speak to me, where is this planet, when will the earth die!” he shouted. Guvnar coughed.
“2, 2, 2,23rd of November…” He chocked wildly “20, 13. 2013!”
The doctor stood up in shock and closed his eyes with a frown on his face.
“What does it mean?” a guard asked
“Earths death bed” He said as he ran out the prison to the docking bay to see there wasn’t a boat there. But that didn’t stop him. He pulled out a key that when he pressed a button it made a beeping noise like a car and straight away a deep blue box appeared out of nowhere. The doctor was greeted with a low metallic sucking noise that went a little bit like VROOP VROOP! He clicked his fingers and the doors of the 1960’s police box opened with a loud creak. He entered it with the doors shutting behind him as the deep sucking noise faded of into the distance.
Chapter two: The resurrection glove
It was a cold, windy morning. The trees rustled and the crows gave their cry. Out of nowhere a black van pulled up next to the desolate church. Out stepped a tall man in a grey army coat. He had deep black hair and looked like he was from world war two. This was Captain. Jack Harckness. This was true; he looks like he was in world war two because he lived around world war two. In fact he has lived long before then. The truth was Captain. Jack was immortal and worked for a secret alien fighting organisation called Torchwood. He was used to the unusual and strange. But what he was about to attempt could end him. Jack pulled out a pistol from his back pocket and walked slowly to the doors of the church. He opened them to be greeted by a cold breeze of rotting air. He gave a big whiff of the smell and he used his coat to cover his mouth. Carefully he walked in and wondered till he found a mouldy dead body on the mosaic floors. Maggots and worms were crawling out of bleeding holes. Out of Jack’s long history he had never seen anything so disgusting.
“Maggots, lovely” He said sarcastically in his American accent. He carried on walking and saw a large shelf. Books and boxes were towered up in an untidy pile. The thing he was looking for, unfortunately for him, was at the right top. Jack pulled out a grappling gun and aimed it at the right top. He pulled the trigger and the hook shot out and wrapped itself around a loose bit of wood. Eventually the wire that connected the hook to the gun tightened and shortened pulling jack up to the very top. He looked around and saw a rusty box. Despite how small it was, it was very heavy. As soon as he picked it up it added to the weight and the bit of wood holding him up snapped. Jack fell down and landed on his back. He screamed in agony, but that wasn’t enough to kill him. Unfortunately for him the bit of wood fell and the sharp side came plummeting down until it pierced into Jack’s skin. He collapsed for a few seconds and gained consciousness back with a large inhale. Now I know what you are thinking. How did he survive? Well you see Jack Harkness is immortal. In fact he has lived for nearly 1000 years and has died almost 70,000000 times! After a few minutes of stumbling around waiting for his wound to heal he grabbed the box and rushed out of the church before anyone had noticed anything had gone.
The car pulled up on a bend where no one could see him. He picked up a note he had been keeping safe in his pocket the whole time. It read: meet me at Holly Street, at 10:30. Although Jack had no idea what sent him this, he knew straight away as he heard a faint metallic sucking noise disturbing the peacefulness. Out of nowhere appeared a bright blue box which hummed delicately. With a load CREEK the doors opened and the doctor stepped out.
“Captain Harkness, long time no see.” The man said.
“I am so glad it’s you. I thought I would never see you again, well with the whole torchwood thing.”
“Ah, I forgot to ask how everything is in the most famous top secret base in the UK.” He said.
“Well, every child in the world stopped and said a message from an alien race that planned on destroying the world if we didn’t give them our children, Gwen had a baby, Torchwood base has blown up, and my boyfriend died.”
“Every child in the world, and I never noticed?”
“No, anyway what do you want with this?”
“I just need to check who used it last, that’s all.” The doctor grabbed the box and opened it in wonder. “The resurrection glove, thanks Jack!” Jack saluted and the doctor sniggered.
“Oh don’t do that I hate it.”
“I know, you have said that more times than I have died.” The doctor looked confused but dropped the idea as he went back into the Tardis. The doors shut tight and the dematerialising noise broke the silence once again and vanished of back into the distance.
Chapter three: A very different day
Tau isn’t your average child. He does everything different to the other kids at school. He brushes his teeth with a sonic toothbrush, has a shower by traveling back to the day before when it was raining and gets his toilet styled Tardis to sort out his Maths equations. Unlucky for him he has to go to a very average school, with average kids and average teachers. Every day at Cardle School was an average day. But his day was about to get exciting. Very exciting. Although it didn’t start that well. The school inspectors were coming. And that meant hard work, good behaviour and top marks. Something that his class aren’t all that good at. Tau (or Tom as his class mates know him as) was busy doing ICT work when a very unusual inspector came in. Not the usual old bloke that looks like he had been hit by a car but a skinny, fancy dressed young man came in. Tau thought he recognise him, but couldn’t be sure. He felt a strong vibe in his head, distracting him from his work.
“Tom carry on with your poster please”
“John smith, bowties are cool, Geronimo, he he, would you like a jelly baby?” Tau cried, but it didn’t sound anything like him.
“I’m sorry, he isn’t usually like this. Tom, please behave now!” The teacher said to the inspector.
“It’s ok. I dealt with this stuff back in the days when I was a doctor” he replied.
“Doctor! That’s it you are the doctor!” Tau remembered. He had met him before when this whole time lord/human thing began. He got on his legs.
“Tom is it? Would you like to come with me?”
“Ok?” Tau walked with the doctor out of the classroom. When they had reached a point where no one could see them they stopped and turned to one and other.
“Listen Tau, I need your help.” The doctor said
“What with?” He asked.
“Whatever happens, you are ill and I have been given permission to walk you home Ok?” Tau nodded. The two of them strolled out the door with Tau acting trying to be ill and the doctor comforting him. They were both terrible actors and the lady at reception stared in confusion.
They came to a shed where the Tardis was parked. Wires and gadgets connected to a large metallic glove on a glass box.
“What’s all this?” Tau asked.
“What you get if you cross me and a question that hasn’t been answered.” The doctor replied. “Right, here we go”. He held up a helmet with wires and flashing bulbs attached to it. “Put this on”. Tau did what he said.
“So basically, you have been having bad headaches, images of our history. Correct?” Tau nodded. “Well, I am hoping that with all this junk I can unravel the message it is trying to tell you”
“Will it hurt?”
“Shouldn’t do” The doctor flicked a switch and the room burst into lights and sparks. The doctor could hear quotes from his history and after about 12 seconds it all stopped and the room went completely black. The doctor pulled another switch that turned the light back on only to see writing, burnt onto the wall. It read: 23rd of November 2013.
“What does it mean doctor?”
“What is the exact date today Tau?”
“Uum, the 22nd of November why?”
“Because tomorrow it will be the end of the world, and I only have 24 hours to find out who’s responsible.”
Chapter four: the hidden truth
The Tardis interior hummed gently and there was the occasional sound of a beep. Suddenly lightning flashed in a great circle like if a gateway was opening. An echoing voice came out.
“I shall be ascended from my imprisonment, I shall return to finish what I started” then the lightning stopped and the circle disappeared without a trace. Seconds later the doctor came crashing in carrying lots of equipment, he was shortly followed by Tau who was holding his head and stumbling around.
“Ok then” the doctor said as he tossed the stuff into a trunk. “Set coordinates for 29.49.99/b, and we are off!” The Tardis let out its occasional inhaling sound and the deep blue box disappeared out of the shed.
“What? Why aren’t we going to the next day so we can stop this from happening?” Tau questioned.
“Because whoever is doing this must be trapped through time. Maybe they are a time traveller like me or just maybe they are using my Tardis behind my back. But we can’t be sure. What I’m trying to say is, for me there is no present day, for you maybe but not for me. Technically there is no present day because I keep on travelling across the timeline. And I am a time lord so I can change history. Make things happen that never should. Whoever we are fighting has that power to. If we go there then he hasn’t caught up with us. It wouldn’t happen. But eventually it will and every day you have lived pass then would have never of existed. If we hold back and let him do it first we might just have a chance of stopping him. You get me?”
“Ok, sort of, no not really. I’ll change the question: Where are we going?” Tau asked. The doctor chuckled.
“You’ll like this fellow. Always loved being him” The doctor flicked a switch and off they went.
The coral designed Tardis hummed gently and the lights illuminated in aqua blue. Suddenly the two police box doors burst open with the doctor and his companion rose following behind.
“Get down rose!” The man with the spiky hair and expensive suit shouted to the girl with the blonde hair and the casual red jumper. As soon as he said that a burst of green lasers came zapping into the console room. The spots where they hit made a small explosion. Luckily for them, not any of them hit the two.
“How are we going to get away from them?” Rose, the blonde girl, said.
“Hang on!” the doctor shouted as he tugged on the lever making smaller explosions around that area of the console.
“I’m sorry Rose, we’re out of options” He grabbed her hand and they both shut their eyes. The girl turned to the doctor.
“Doctor, before we die I’d just like to say I…” The lasers stopped and were replaced with a loud echoing sucking noise.
“That’s impossible…” The doctor said as he checked to see the computer. “Stay back!” he shouted and there was a huge crashing noise. The Tardis console room shook violently. The Tardis dematerialising noise was breaking up and sounding like a cat with a sore throat. The console let out a huge puff of thick smoke. The doctor searched the room on his knees for rose but could not see a thing. Eventually he could see two black shoes and tight black trousers standing in front of him.
“Hello again” The 11th doctor said. The other doctor stared up as if he had seen a ghost.
“What are you doing here; you know two doctors in the same place can create a paradox the size of Belgium!”
“And an even bigger threat will be placed upon Earth if we don’t work together”
“Work together to stop what exactly?” The 10th doctor asked.
“Doctor?” Tau said behind them.
“Well done my dear doctor” a terrifying voice said from behind them. The two doctors turned around to face to space, outside of the door. The 11th doctor stood challengingly, knowing fully well who this was.
“After years of imprisonment, I am finally free to destroy your humble planet!” They could still not see who was talking.
“Step into the light” The doctor ordered and the others turn to look at him “Look at me face to face!” suddenly a breeze of smoke filled the doorway and out of it came a black boot, shortly followed by a pitch black cloak. Instead of a head there was a helmet decorated with Egyptian symbols.
“So we meet again, Sutehk the destroyer!” The two eyes on the helmet illuminated into a green light. The last of the Osirens had returned!
Chapter five: The planet
“What is it you want!” the 10th doctor questioned. The eyes green light faded.
“Him” he pointed at the other doctor, who was now angrier than ever.
“Why do you need me?” he asked.
“I am to take you to the planet of the forbidden” Sutehk answered.
“What happens if I say no” He tested. Sutehk hummed with laughter and once again his eyes glowed green, though he was facing Tau this time. The boy lifted his hands to his head and screamed in pain.
“Stop!” The light dimmed and Tau fell into Rose’s arms.
“I’ll go with you, just please let them go.” The doctor waited for a response.
“Correct answer” Sutehk said and he grabbed the 11th doctor’s arm and in a dramatic flash of light, they both disappeared.
The floor was rocky and lifeless. There were no plants or any other sign of life. The doctor gently pulled himself up off the hard ground. His clothes were stained with rubble and burns. Cuts and bruises covered his hands. He thought he had finally died, and he was now in hell. Just as all hope was lost and delicate ball of what the doctor thought was snow fell from the pitch black sky. He let out a huff of relief but was soon disappointed to see it was not snow, but ash that had come from a raging volcano at least a mile off in the distance. ‘So this is the planet of the forbidden hey’ the doctor thought ‘If I was a beaten up skeleton this would be heaven, I guess that’s why Sutehk chose it’ he chuckled to himself. He stood up and began to walk away from the volcano and up a mountain so he could see the planet from bird’s eye view. That way he could find Sutehk. Once he was up the mountain he could see everything. The rocky plains he was just standing on, the desert and even what looked like to be an old town. He had no idea how long he was going to be there so he chose to go to the town.
The town was a mess. The houses were stone and rubble and decorated with squiggly lines engraved in the rock. Wherever this place was, it had been abandoned for centuries. Maybe Sutehk’s people lived there. As he strolled down the alley he could almost sense the screams and yells of pain. Was this town the centre of some kind of war? He had to hurry as a huge cloud of ash was now hovering over his head. The doctor had a flashback to when he went to Pompeii and decided that he did not want to have the same fate as some of those other romans. He ran desperately to find an exit to this maze of crumbling buildings. He passed a house, but inside he could hear a low hum like that of a train engine. Curios, he knocked down the door and entered. It was the Tardis. Everything was similar except for the red glow inside of it that he could make out from the windows. The doctor went into the Tardis to see the entire interior was different. It was the one he used in his eighth incarnation, though the glass tube in the middle was glowing that same blood red colour. He knew straight away where he really was. A pondering voice came into his head. It said “What I did, I did without choice”. He shook his head and closed his eyes but when they reopened everything was gone. He was back to where he began in the town. Confirming the settlement was no use and would only trigger more bad memories, he made haste for a giant abandoned beacon of in the distance.
After a long walk, the doctor finally arrived at the tower. He walked into it and trekked the never ending stairs. Once he got up he tried to find a spot where he could see everything for miles. Then, he saw something that changed everything he thought about this place. The planet of the forbidden was just another name for it. A couple of miles away from where he was, the doctor could see the remains of the huge tower that was home to his race. He was on Gallifrey. The graveyard of the time lords.
Chapter six: The Earth burns
The doctor ran to Tau who was lying on the ground in pain.
“Are you ok?” he asked
“Fine, just. Just, what about the other doctor?” Tau replied
“I am afraid I cannot tell you that. It is in my future is it not?”
“I suppose. What happens now?”
“Well…” The Tardis made a beeping noise.
“Doctor! What is it?” Rose questioned. He ran to the controls anxiously like something really bad was about to happen. And, it was.
“It’s Earth” The doctor answered “But that’s impossible”
“What?” Tau and rose shouted at the same time.
“The 23rd of November 2013, the end of the world!” They all looked at each other. The Doctor resumed to the controls.
“What are you doing doctor?” Rose exclaimed.
“We need to go there”
“But we can’t interfere”
“Someone has. And I can’t stop it. Only the doctor can!” They arrived. The team ran out, on the way past the door the doctor grabbed his brown coat.
It was a normal day; nothing was out of place or strange.
“What?” the doctor asked himself. He turned around confused.
“But everything is just normal. A typical normal daaaaay…” The earth shook violently like an earthquake. The entire population of London screamed in shock. And all at once, everybody on earth looked to the sky to see a large planet hovering over them.
“What is it?” Rose asked
“The planet of the forbidden!”
The doctor stared in shock. He closed his eyes and hoped it was all a dream but it wasn’t. When he reopened them, it was like everything sprung into life. Dalek ships were flying; explosions blew holes into the hard red rock. 2 timelord guards were at the top of the tower where the doctor was, although they didn’t see him. It was like he was a ghost. Then it all turned to the worst. A cloud of fire spread over the sky. Burst of burning light came from every corner. Then as if the entire planet gave up on itself, it blew up into tiny pieces. A rock hit the doctor sending him flying of the building. He closed his eyes and reopened them to see himself on the ground. He was nowhere near the tower now. Instead he was in front of a throne decorated with skulls. Sat in it was Sutehk.
“I see you have found out this planets true origin” He said powerfully.
“Just kill me Sutehk”
“Oh but doctor, don’t you see. I am killing you. I am starting by killing everything you ever had and when you are on the tip of death, I shall torture you some more until your timelord body is broken. I am killing the doctor and leaving you to suffer!” The doctor was angry and sad.
“You see that” He pointed to earth. “Would you like to say goodbye. All of your friends are on there. Such a waste.” Sutehk lifted his arms in the air and faced the earth, his eyes glowed green and the earth shook and eventually a mighty explosion, the size of the sun blew, destroying earth.
“No!” The doctor shouted helplessly as a tear fell down his face. He got up off the floor and tackled Sutehk wrapping his arm around his neck. Sutehk managed to wriggle him off.
“The man that only uses violence as the last option, my you are a desperate child aren’t you” he sniggered.
“You can mock me all you wish but you will never get away with this!” he said intimidatingly. Sutehk lashed out his arm and crunched his fingers together. The doctor immediately put his hands against his throat as if being strangled. After endless pain and frustration, Sutehk released him. He fell on the floor yelling in agony.
Chapter seven: At the enemy’s doorstep
Meanwhile on Earth, the humans faced their darkest hour. The sky was lit up by the raging fires and the ground fell apart and collapsed. Tall skyscrapers lunged to the streets of London whilst houses were burning into ash. The unluckiest of people got incinerated by the immense heat and the others were left to either be squashed by the falling glass and stone or to dragged under the surfaces by the crumbling pavements. Rose held tightly to the doctor’s hand as him and Tau ran desperately to shelter. After what felt like hours of running they reached a secure and untouched bunker from early world war two, away from the hazards that crept towards them. The team were lucky to escape with their lives. To be severely injured was no surprise at all. The doctor attended to Rose who was bleeding like a river from her arm. Tau sat in a corner shaking.
“Tau, fetch me something to stop the bleeding. NOW!” He shouted to the boy. He lept out of his spot and dashed to an old cloth on the floor. The doctor pressed it against Rose’s arm. Realising it wasn’t enough; he pulled his tie of his neck and wrapped it around the wound. She was close to death.
“Rose!” he screamed as she began to fall unconscious “Rose!” Tau stood back trying to resist from letting a single tear fall down his face. The doctor put his head to her heart. He looked up at her still body. He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her.
“Is she… is she dead?” Tau asked. The doctor looked up at him. He presumed the emotions displayed on his face were a sign to say yes. Rose had breathed her last breath.
The doctor got up of the floor. His clothes stained with dust and muck. His face filled with sorrow and pain. But his anger was something that could not be missed.
“You are a murderer” he said to Sutehk, who turned around to face him.
“What?”
“I said, you are a murderer! Nothing but a cold hearted assassin!”
“So what does that make you? The doctor. On other planets that means the healer, protector. But no. You are the betrayer. A killer of his own kind!” he glared at the time lord in fury.
“My friends, they are dead. Everyone I know, you killed them. Is there no sadness in your heart? Don’t you feel even the slightest bit disappointed with yourself?”
Sutehk took a minute to think about it and said “I am a very different man now!”
Sutehk looked away from the doctor who stood up glaring at the Earth that was slowly crumbling and falling apart. He checked to see if Sutehk was looking but he was not, so the doctor pressed his fingers against the sides of his head and thought deeply. In his mind he could hear the faint sounds of screaming and burning from the planet in front of him. His vision was blurry but he could make out big ben and the houses of parliament collapsing. He went on to trying to look around but he could not see clearly. But finally he found what he was looking for. A man in a tight but smart suit with converse shoes and unique spiky hair. He forgot how much he missed his old hair. It was always the little things that worried him but there was no time for grieving, the doctor’s plan had to work. The entire human race was depending on it.
The doctor trudged around worrying and scared. Tau was left standing there, looking at the body of Rose. He had not seen a dead person before, well not in this body. He could not stop shaking and twitching. The doctor could see this so he wrapped his arms around him and gave him an encouraging hug. Suddenly the doctor felt a draft of air brush past him. He leaped up in surprise.
“What is it doctor?” Tau asked him.
“It was like, I don’t know. It was like my ghost passed through me.”
Tau gulped and pointed behind him.
“What, what is it Tau?” He said as he turned around curiously. There standing at the back of the room was the doctor. The other doctor.
“Ha ha! You’re a genius, well I am a genius.”
“That’s all lovely and all but why exactly is there a ghost standing in the room? Especially one of the 11th doctor?”
“Ah well” the two doctor’s said at the same time.
“It’s all wibbly wobbly timey wimey really.” They continued. The tenth doctor glared at the other.
“Anyway, why are you here?” he asked
“I need you here with me on the planet of the forbidden” the doctor replied. The 11th doctor held out his arm to him and he placed his hand on it. In a flash of blue and white light they both disappeared out of thin air, leaving Tau on his own in an old bunker where the whole of outside is exploding and crashing.
The doctor released his fingers from his head and stared Sutehk who had found himself a grand but dark throne decorated with rusty skulls and dried bones. The doctor turned away and looked around for his tenth self. ‘Did it work?’ he thought to himself. The doctor started moving around but had no intention on escaping. He had Sutehk right where he wanted him. He was not going to let his last chance at possibly saving mankind go to waste. But he needed some help. He needed… a doctor!
Chapter eight: Deaths deal
After trudging around in the thick mud and rock of the planet, the doctor tossed his vintage purple jacket of his back. He rolled up his sleeves and rubbed his hands together.
“You know, I was one of the strongest warriors in the time war” he said to Sutehk.
“Why should that concern me?” the dark lord replied.
“Because although I am not pleased about what I did, it gave me hope in tricky situations like these”. Sutehk turned his helmet towards the time lord.
“And then I remembered. This is the planet of death. The millions that I killed on that day, what do you think they would say to me. They would fear me. Tremble in my name!” He had Sutehk’s full attention. Everything was in place, although there was one last thing the doctor needed. He stared at the ground and walked casually as if nothing had happened, but he stopped suddenly and held out his ear.
“Did you here that? It sounded like some footsteps” he said on purpose. Out from behind the rock came out another man in a tight grey suit.
“Yes I did to” the man said. This man was the doctor, they had finally been reunited. But this was only the beginning. The man glared up to see Sutehk startled.
“Ah hello again!” he said.
“What sort of trickery is this?” Sutehk exclaimed. The two doctors’ scratched their heads.
“You see Sutehk everyone dies, even me. They all go here don’t they. I have lived and died and seen things no one can possibly imagine! 10 deaths. And here they are, all 11 doctor’s here at last! The doctor said triumphantly as an old man in old clothes followed by a scruffy black haired man in a blue shirt and stylish bowtie came from behind him. Eventually 3 other people came, one in a tight green coat, another in a large hat and stripy scarf and the 3rd in a traditional cricket coat accompanied with a rather unusual stick of celery. One by one more and more people came out of the shadows. 11 men stood in front of Sutehk. 11 doctors.
“This is me Sutehk! I am the doctor, the destroyer of worlds, the oncoming storm. And this is my message: Life!” The hands of each doctor glowed orange like it did when he regenerated.
“No stop it, what are you doing!” Sutehk yelled. The doctor’s lifted their arms and golden energy shot out of their hands and hit Sutehk like raging bullets. Fire and steam rose from the ground underneath as he began to melt.
“I will get you for this doctor! Every single one of you!” his huge helmet disintegrated to reveal a face like a jackal dog that burnt and melted. The doctor turned around to see his fellow selves.
“Long time no see gentlemen!” he said. They all nodded and faded away in a blink of an eye. The doctor looked around and saw the Earth still on fire.
“One last act” he said as he lifted his glowing arms and shot out glowing energy around the planet. The doctor laughed as his entire journey flashed before his eyes. Time was resetting itself. In a flash of golden light the doctor found himself back on Earth. Everyone had forgotten what had happened and resumed their normal lives. It was the 24th of November. It was like nothing had happened. Life on Planet earth was normal, the way it should be.
“Well done doctor” he said to himself as he patted the Tardis “One last trip, I have to go somewhere” he walked into his police box and it faded of in the distance.
Chapter nine: 23rd of November 1963; the beginning of a legend
“Come on Barbara” Ian, the school teacher said.
“I’m coming, I thought I saw something that’s all” Barbara replied. They both walked to the blue box left in the old junkyard. A man peeked from behind the gate. It was the doctor. He tried to follow the couple that looked for their student Susan. He looked down and chuckled to himself but he felt a nudge on his back.
“Well watch your step young fellow, come on chop chop!” he had an unforgettable face. It was the first doctor. The grumpy one. The original.
“Oh sorry sir” he said as he kept his head down
“I say, have I met you before boy?” the old doctor asked.
“I’ll just say, Your future is my past, don’t make stupid decisions.”
“But that’s, no. But that’s impossible. I can’t really be you. Your no way near as handsome!” the 11th doctor pulled a face.
“Ah I’m only joking. Now you should scuttle of before they get inside my, I mean our Tardis shall I say” The 11th doctor waved his hand politely. The old man turned and walked away and so did the doctor as he went to his Tardis. He opened the door but glanced at the old man again as he came face to face with Ian and Barbara. He span his head back around and entered his Tardis. The doctor stared up and said “All of time and space, what a small universe”. But then the echoing voice came back again as he held his head in frustration. The voice said: “What I did I did without choice, in the name of peace and sanity” the doctor looked up to see and old man standing away from him. “But not in the name of the doctor…”
To be continued in… the day of the doctor!
Prologue
We all know that one day, everything shall die. Stars, moons and, the human race. We think it will happen long after we die. But someone has been waiting. In fact he’s not even a someone he’s a something. You look into his eyes and there’s nothing there. He isn’t even alive. All he is, all he ever was, was a ball of swirling vengeance. Vengeance on a mad man, the doctor. And he will do whatever it takes to destroy the doctor. Even if it means destroying the one thing the time lord ever cared about. We all thought the world would end in millions of years. It ended on the 23rd of November, 2013.
Chapter one: Alcatraz
Sanfransisco bay, 1961
The wind chilled to the bone. This was a very different sight compared to the loud and eccentric night life of the city. A classical car pulled up at an almost deserted pier and out came a skinny man wearing a flashy waistcoat, bowler hat and blue bowtie.
“Ugh! I can taste the salt already!” the man exclaimed
“That will be 10 dollars sir” The taxi driver demanded. The man huffed, pulled out a roll of money from his breast pocket and chucked it to the taxi driver. After looking through the money he grabbed out a notebook.
“Name please” he asked.
“The doctor” the man answered. The taxi driver noted down what he said and then paused.
“Doctor who?”. The doctor chuckled.
“Typical humans” He said as he turned around and started walking to small boat with a waiting man standing next to it. The doctor shook hands with the sailor.
“Hello good sir, I am looking for boat trip to Alcatraz Island.” The sailor nodded and showed him onto the boat. The doctor sat himself down on a little stool just at the back of the small boat. The boat sailed of at a slow pace to begin with because the motor was broken. So the doctor pulled out his trustworthy sonic screwdriver and pointed it in the direction of the broken motor. VREEEEE! The motor burst into action and zoomed across the water. About 3 minutes later they arrived at Alcatraz. The doctor pulled a serious face as if knowing this wasn’t going to be at all good. He clapped his hands, and strolled off to the prison.
A guard dressed in a dull uniform walked slowly down the aisle of prisons. Each one containing a prisoner. Some were mad, others were quiet.
“Oi!” one of the prisoners shouted. “Whats you doin down here?”
“I am looking for Guvnar Richards”. The guard replied. The prisoner pointed to solitary confinement cell and just as the guard left he grabbed him on the shoulder.
“I warn you. He’s a mad one he is.”
“Release me.” The guard shrugged the hand of his shoulder and walked to the cell. He heard banging and screaming as he opened a hatch.
“Prisoner Guvnar D Richards you have a visitor” He said into the hatch.
“I have no visitors. Who is he?” Another voice replied.
“He said he was some sort of doctor. He insisted you came. It’s a matter of great importance” The guard answered as he opened a stiff hatch that opened a door. Out of the shadows came a hunchbacked man wearing rags, dragging a huge metal ball across the floor. Guvnar followed the guard to the visitor’s room. He sat down on a stool and looked into the glass to see a scruffy man. They both picked up the phone. The doctor spoke into it. “Hello Guvnar.”
“What do you want?”
“You see this” He pulled his physic paper out and showed him a note inside it. It read, the end approaches, he is coming, be at Alcatraz prison, with Guvnar Richards at 11.00pm. “No ordinary person can send me this. I want to know what you have to do with this.” Guvnar laughed. “I don’t know what you are talking about”
“You’re lying!”
“I speak the truth”
“Not good enough”
“Listen!” Everyone stopped talking. “Listen, I don’t know who said this. Although, I believe I have heard this message before. In a dream. It was all dark. I saw earth, then a voice, he said: The end is approaching. Next the earth is burning. And everyone dies”. The doctor shook his head.
“There was one more thing, about a planet. He described it as the planet of the forbidden…” His speech was interrupted by a load bang.
“No, no, no!” The doctor mumbled as he crashed through the door to see Guvnar lying on his side with a puddle of blood around his head. He ran to the body.
“Guvnar you need to speak to me, where is this planet, when will the earth die!” he shouted. Guvnar coughed.
“2, 2, 2,23rd of November…” He chocked wildly “20, 13. 2013!”
The doctor stood up in shock and closed his eyes with a frown on his face.
“What does it mean?” a guard asked
“Earths death bed” He said as he ran out the prison to the docking bay to see there wasn’t a boat there. But that didn’t stop him. He pulled out a key that when he pressed a button it made a beeping noise like a car and straight away a deep blue box appeared out of nowhere. The doctor was greeted with a low metallic sucking noise that went a little bit like VROOP VROOP! He clicked his fingers and the doors of the 1960’s police box opened with a loud creak. He entered it with the doors shutting behind him as the deep sucking noise faded of into the distance.
Chapter two: The resurrection glove
It was a cold, windy morning. The trees rustled and the crows gave their cry. Out of nowhere a black van pulled up next to the desolate church. Out stepped a tall man in a grey army coat. He had deep black hair and looked like he was from world war two. This was Captain. Jack Harckness. This was true; he looks like he was in world war two because he lived around world war two. In fact he has lived long before then. The truth was Captain. Jack was immortal and worked for a secret alien fighting organisation called Torchwood. He was used to the unusual and strange. But what he was about to attempt could end him. Jack pulled out a pistol from his back pocket and walked slowly to the doors of the church. He opened them to be greeted by a cold breeze of rotting air. He gave a big whiff of the smell and he used his coat to cover his mouth. Carefully he walked in and wondered till he found a mouldy dead body on the mosaic floors. Maggots and worms were crawling out of bleeding holes. Out of Jack’s long history he had never seen anything so disgusting.
“Maggots, lovely” He said sarcastically in his American accent. He carried on walking and saw a large shelf. Books and boxes were towered up in an untidy pile. The thing he was looking for, unfortunately for him, was at the right top. Jack pulled out a grappling gun and aimed it at the right top. He pulled the trigger and the hook shot out and wrapped itself around a loose bit of wood. Eventually the wire that connected the hook to the gun tightened and shortened pulling jack up to the very top. He looked around and saw a rusty box. Despite how small it was, it was very heavy. As soon as he picked it up it added to the weight and the bit of wood holding him up snapped. Jack fell down and landed on his back. He screamed in agony, but that wasn’t enough to kill him. Unfortunately for him the bit of wood fell and the sharp side came plummeting down until it pierced into Jack’s skin. He collapsed for a few seconds and gained consciousness back with a large inhale. Now I know what you are thinking. How did he survive? Well you see Jack Harkness is immortal. In fact he has lived for nearly 1000 years and has died almost 70,000000 times! After a few minutes of stumbling around waiting for his wound to heal he grabbed the box and rushed out of the church before anyone had noticed anything had gone.
The car pulled up on a bend where no one could see him. He picked up a note he had been keeping safe in his pocket the whole time. It read: meet me at Holly Street, at 10:30. Although Jack had no idea what sent him this, he knew straight away as he heard a faint metallic sucking noise disturbing the peacefulness. Out of nowhere appeared a bright blue box which hummed delicately. With a load CREEK the doors opened and the doctor stepped out.
“Captain Harkness, long time no see.” The man said.
“I am so glad it’s you. I thought I would never see you again, well with the whole torchwood thing.”
“Ah, I forgot to ask how everything is in the most famous top secret base in the UK.” He said.
“Well, every child in the world stopped and said a message from an alien race that planned on destroying the world if we didn’t give them our children, Gwen had a baby, Torchwood base has blown up, and my boyfriend died.”
“Every child in the world, and I never noticed?”
“No, anyway what do you want with this?”
“I just need to check who used it last, that’s all.” The doctor grabbed the box and opened it in wonder. “The resurrection glove, thanks Jack!” Jack saluted and the doctor sniggered.
“Oh don’t do that I hate it.”
“I know, you have said that more times than I have died.” The doctor looked confused but dropped the idea as he went back into the Tardis. The doors shut tight and the dematerialising noise broke the silence once again and vanished of back into the distance.
Chapter three: A very different day
Tau isn’t your average child. He does everything different to the other kids at school. He brushes his teeth with a sonic toothbrush, has a shower by traveling back to the day before when it was raining and gets his toilet styled Tardis to sort out his Maths equations. Unlucky for him he has to go to a very average school, with average kids and average teachers. Every day at Cardle School was an average day. But his day was about to get exciting. Very exciting. Although it didn’t start that well. The school inspectors were coming. And that meant hard work, good behaviour and top marks. Something that his class aren’t all that good at. Tau (or Tom as his class mates know him as) was busy doing ICT work when a very unusual inspector came in. Not the usual old bloke that looks like he had been hit by a car but a skinny, fancy dressed young man came in. Tau thought he recognise him, but couldn’t be sure. He felt a strong vibe in his head, distracting him from his work.
“Tom carry on with your poster please”
“John smith, bowties are cool, Geronimo, he he, would you like a jelly baby?” Tau cried, but it didn’t sound anything like him.
“I’m sorry, he isn’t usually like this. Tom, please behave now!” The teacher said to the inspector.
“It’s ok. I dealt with this stuff back in the days when I was a doctor” he replied.
“Doctor! That’s it you are the doctor!” Tau remembered. He had met him before when this whole time lord/human thing began. He got on his legs.
“Tom is it? Would you like to come with me?”
“Ok?” Tau walked with the doctor out of the classroom. When they had reached a point where no one could see them they stopped and turned to one and other.
“Listen Tau, I need your help.” The doctor said
“What with?” He asked.
“Whatever happens, you are ill and I have been given permission to walk you home Ok?” Tau nodded. The two of them strolled out the door with Tau acting trying to be ill and the doctor comforting him. They were both terrible actors and the lady at reception stared in confusion.
They came to a shed where the Tardis was parked. Wires and gadgets connected to a large metallic glove on a glass box.
“What’s all this?” Tau asked.
“What you get if you cross me and a question that hasn’t been answered.” The doctor replied. “Right, here we go”. He held up a helmet with wires and flashing bulbs attached to it. “Put this on”. Tau did what he said.
“So basically, you have been having bad headaches, images of our history. Correct?” Tau nodded. “Well, I am hoping that with all this junk I can unravel the message it is trying to tell you”
“Will it hurt?”
“Shouldn’t do” The doctor flicked a switch and the room burst into lights and sparks. The doctor could hear quotes from his history and after about 12 seconds it all stopped and the room went completely black. The doctor pulled another switch that turned the light back on only to see writing, burnt onto the wall. It read: 23rd of November 2013.
“What does it mean doctor?”
“What is the exact date today Tau?”
“Uum, the 22nd of November why?”
“Because tomorrow it will be the end of the world, and I only have 24 hours to find out who’s responsible.”
Chapter four: the hidden truth
The Tardis interior hummed gently and there was the occasional sound of a beep. Suddenly lightning flashed in a great circle like if a gateway was opening. An echoing voice came out.
“I shall be ascended from my imprisonment, I shall return to finish what I started” then the lightning stopped and the circle disappeared without a trace. Seconds later the doctor came crashing in carrying lots of equipment, he was shortly followed by Tau who was holding his head and stumbling around.
“Ok then” the doctor said as he tossed the stuff into a trunk. “Set coordinates for 29.49.99/b, and we are off!” The Tardis let out its occasional inhaling sound and the deep blue box disappeared out of the shed.
“What? Why aren’t we going to the next day so we can stop this from happening?” Tau questioned.
“Because whoever is doing this must be trapped through time. Maybe they are a time traveller like me or just maybe they are using my Tardis behind my back. But we can’t be sure. What I’m trying to say is, for me there is no present day, for you maybe but not for me. Technically there is no present day because I keep on travelling across the timeline. And I am a time lord so I can change history. Make things happen that never should. Whoever we are fighting has that power to. If we go there then he hasn’t caught up with us. It wouldn’t happen. But eventually it will and every day you have lived pass then would have never of existed. If we hold back and let him do it first we might just have a chance of stopping him. You get me?”
“Ok, sort of, no not really. I’ll change the question: Where are we going?” Tau asked. The doctor chuckled.
“You’ll like this fellow. Always loved being him” The doctor flicked a switch and off they went.
The coral designed Tardis hummed gently and the lights illuminated in aqua blue. Suddenly the two police box doors burst open with the doctor and his companion rose following behind.
“Get down rose!” The man with the spiky hair and expensive suit shouted to the girl with the blonde hair and the casual red jumper. As soon as he said that a burst of green lasers came zapping into the console room. The spots where they hit made a small explosion. Luckily for them, not any of them hit the two.
“How are we going to get away from them?” Rose, the blonde girl, said.
“Hang on!” the doctor shouted as he tugged on the lever making smaller explosions around that area of the console.
“I’m sorry Rose, we’re out of options” He grabbed her hand and they both shut their eyes. The girl turned to the doctor.
“Doctor, before we die I’d just like to say I…” The lasers stopped and were replaced with a loud echoing sucking noise.
“That’s impossible…” The doctor said as he checked to see the computer. “Stay back!” he shouted and there was a huge crashing noise. The Tardis console room shook violently. The Tardis dematerialising noise was breaking up and sounding like a cat with a sore throat. The console let out a huge puff of thick smoke. The doctor searched the room on his knees for rose but could not see a thing. Eventually he could see two black shoes and tight black trousers standing in front of him.
“Hello again” The 11th doctor said. The other doctor stared up as if he had seen a ghost.
“What are you doing here; you know two doctors in the same place can create a paradox the size of Belgium!”
“And an even bigger threat will be placed upon Earth if we don’t work together”
“Work together to stop what exactly?” The 10th doctor asked.
“Doctor?” Tau said behind them.
“Well done my dear doctor” a terrifying voice said from behind them. The two doctors turned around to face to space, outside of the door. The 11th doctor stood challengingly, knowing fully well who this was.
“After years of imprisonment, I am finally free to destroy your humble planet!” They could still not see who was talking.
“Step into the light” The doctor ordered and the others turn to look at him “Look at me face to face!” suddenly a breeze of smoke filled the doorway and out of it came a black boot, shortly followed by a pitch black cloak. Instead of a head there was a helmet decorated with Egyptian symbols.
“So we meet again, Sutehk the destroyer!” The two eyes on the helmet illuminated into a green light. The last of the Osirens had returned!
Chapter five: The planet
“What is it you want!” the 10th doctor questioned. The eyes green light faded.
“Him” he pointed at the other doctor, who was now angrier than ever.
“Why do you need me?” he asked.
“I am to take you to the planet of the forbidden” Sutehk answered.
“What happens if I say no” He tested. Sutehk hummed with laughter and once again his eyes glowed green, though he was facing Tau this time. The boy lifted his hands to his head and screamed in pain.
“Stop!” The light dimmed and Tau fell into Rose’s arms.
“I’ll go with you, just please let them go.” The doctor waited for a response.
“Correct answer” Sutehk said and he grabbed the 11th doctor’s arm and in a dramatic flash of light, they both disappeared.
The floor was rocky and lifeless. There were no plants or any other sign of life. The doctor gently pulled himself up off the hard ground. His clothes were stained with rubble and burns. Cuts and bruises covered his hands. He thought he had finally died, and he was now in hell. Just as all hope was lost and delicate ball of what the doctor thought was snow fell from the pitch black sky. He let out a huff of relief but was soon disappointed to see it was not snow, but ash that had come from a raging volcano at least a mile off in the distance. ‘So this is the planet of the forbidden hey’ the doctor thought ‘If I was a beaten up skeleton this would be heaven, I guess that’s why Sutehk chose it’ he chuckled to himself. He stood up and began to walk away from the volcano and up a mountain so he could see the planet from bird’s eye view. That way he could find Sutehk. Once he was up the mountain he could see everything. The rocky plains he was just standing on, the desert and even what looked like to be an old town. He had no idea how long he was going to be there so he chose to go to the town.
The town was a mess. The houses were stone and rubble and decorated with squiggly lines engraved in the rock. Wherever this place was, it had been abandoned for centuries. Maybe Sutehk’s people lived there. As he strolled down the alley he could almost sense the screams and yells of pain. Was this town the centre of some kind of war? He had to hurry as a huge cloud of ash was now hovering over his head. The doctor had a flashback to when he went to Pompeii and decided that he did not want to have the same fate as some of those other romans. He ran desperately to find an exit to this maze of crumbling buildings. He passed a house, but inside he could hear a low hum like that of a train engine. Curios, he knocked down the door and entered. It was the Tardis. Everything was similar except for the red glow inside of it that he could make out from the windows. The doctor went into the Tardis to see the entire interior was different. It was the one he used in his eighth incarnation, though the glass tube in the middle was glowing that same blood red colour. He knew straight away where he really was. A pondering voice came into his head. It said “What I did, I did without choice”. He shook his head and closed his eyes but when they reopened everything was gone. He was back to where he began in the town. Confirming the settlement was no use and would only trigger more bad memories, he made haste for a giant abandoned beacon of in the distance.
After a long walk, the doctor finally arrived at the tower. He walked into it and trekked the never ending stairs. Once he got up he tried to find a spot where he could see everything for miles. Then, he saw something that changed everything he thought about this place. The planet of the forbidden was just another name for it. A couple of miles away from where he was, the doctor could see the remains of the huge tower that was home to his race. He was on Gallifrey. The graveyard of the time lords.
Chapter six: The Earth burns
The doctor ran to Tau who was lying on the ground in pain.
“Are you ok?” he asked
“Fine, just. Just, what about the other doctor?” Tau replied
“I am afraid I cannot tell you that. It is in my future is it not?”
“I suppose. What happens now?”
“Well…” The Tardis made a beeping noise.
“Doctor! What is it?” Rose questioned. He ran to the controls anxiously like something really bad was about to happen. And, it was.
“It’s Earth” The doctor answered “But that’s impossible”
“What?” Tau and rose shouted at the same time.
“The 23rd of November 2013, the end of the world!” They all looked at each other. The Doctor resumed to the controls.
“What are you doing doctor?” Rose exclaimed.
“We need to go there”
“But we can’t interfere”
“Someone has. And I can’t stop it. Only the doctor can!” They arrived. The team ran out, on the way past the door the doctor grabbed his brown coat.
It was a normal day; nothing was out of place or strange.
“What?” the doctor asked himself. He turned around confused.
“But everything is just normal. A typical normal daaaaay…” The earth shook violently like an earthquake. The entire population of London screamed in shock. And all at once, everybody on earth looked to the sky to see a large planet hovering over them.
“What is it?” Rose asked
“The planet of the forbidden!”
The doctor stared in shock. He closed his eyes and hoped it was all a dream but it wasn’t. When he reopened them, it was like everything sprung into life. Dalek ships were flying; explosions blew holes into the hard red rock. 2 timelord guards were at the top of the tower where the doctor was, although they didn’t see him. It was like he was a ghost. Then it all turned to the worst. A cloud of fire spread over the sky. Burst of burning light came from every corner. Then as if the entire planet gave up on itself, it blew up into tiny pieces. A rock hit the doctor sending him flying of the building. He closed his eyes and reopened them to see himself on the ground. He was nowhere near the tower now. Instead he was in front of a throne decorated with skulls. Sat in it was Sutehk.
“I see you have found out this planets true origin” He said powerfully.
“Just kill me Sutehk”
“Oh but doctor, don’t you see. I am killing you. I am starting by killing everything you ever had and when you are on the tip of death, I shall torture you some more until your timelord body is broken. I am killing the doctor and leaving you to suffer!” The doctor was angry and sad.
“You see that” He pointed to earth. “Would you like to say goodbye. All of your friends are on there. Such a waste.” Sutehk lifted his arms in the air and faced the earth, his eyes glowed green and the earth shook and eventually a mighty explosion, the size of the sun blew, destroying earth.
“No!” The doctor shouted helplessly as a tear fell down his face. He got up off the floor and tackled Sutehk wrapping his arm around his neck. Sutehk managed to wriggle him off.
“The man that only uses violence as the last option, my you are a desperate child aren’t you” he sniggered.
“You can mock me all you wish but you will never get away with this!” he said intimidatingly. Sutehk lashed out his arm and crunched his fingers together. The doctor immediately put his hands against his throat as if being strangled. After endless pain and frustration, Sutehk released him. He fell on the floor yelling in agony.
Chapter seven: At the enemy’s doorstep
Meanwhile on Earth, the humans faced their darkest hour. The sky was lit up by the raging fires and the ground fell apart and collapsed. Tall skyscrapers lunged to the streets of London whilst houses were burning into ash. The unluckiest of people got incinerated by the immense heat and the others were left to either be squashed by the falling glass and stone or to dragged under the surfaces by the crumbling pavements. Rose held tightly to the doctor’s hand as him and Tau ran desperately to shelter. After what felt like hours of running they reached a secure and untouched bunker from early world war two, away from the hazards that crept towards them. The team were lucky to escape with their lives. To be severely injured was no surprise at all. The doctor attended to Rose who was bleeding like a river from her arm. Tau sat in a corner shaking.
“Tau, fetch me something to stop the bleeding. NOW!” He shouted to the boy. He lept out of his spot and dashed to an old cloth on the floor. The doctor pressed it against Rose’s arm. Realising it wasn’t enough; he pulled his tie of his neck and wrapped it around the wound. She was close to death.
“Rose!” he screamed as she began to fall unconscious “Rose!” Tau stood back trying to resist from letting a single tear fall down his face. The doctor put his head to her heart. He looked up at her still body. He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her.
“Is she… is she dead?” Tau asked. The doctor looked up at him. He presumed the emotions displayed on his face were a sign to say yes. Rose had breathed her last breath.
The doctor got up of the floor. His clothes stained with dust and muck. His face filled with sorrow and pain. But his anger was something that could not be missed.
“You are a murderer” he said to Sutehk, who turned around to face him.
“What?”
“I said, you are a murderer! Nothing but a cold hearted assassin!”
“So what does that make you? The doctor. On other planets that means the healer, protector. But no. You are the betrayer. A killer of his own kind!” he glared at the time lord in fury.
“My friends, they are dead. Everyone I know, you killed them. Is there no sadness in your heart? Don’t you feel even the slightest bit disappointed with yourself?”
Sutehk took a minute to think about it and said “I am a very different man now!”
Sutehk looked away from the doctor who stood up glaring at the Earth that was slowly crumbling and falling apart. He checked to see if Sutehk was looking but he was not, so the doctor pressed his fingers against the sides of his head and thought deeply. In his mind he could hear the faint sounds of screaming and burning from the planet in front of him. His vision was blurry but he could make out big ben and the houses of parliament collapsing. He went on to trying to look around but he could not see clearly. But finally he found what he was looking for. A man in a tight but smart suit with converse shoes and unique spiky hair. He forgot how much he missed his old hair. It was always the little things that worried him but there was no time for grieving, the doctor’s plan had to work. The entire human race was depending on it.
The doctor trudged around worrying and scared. Tau was left standing there, looking at the body of Rose. He had not seen a dead person before, well not in this body. He could not stop shaking and twitching. The doctor could see this so he wrapped his arms around him and gave him an encouraging hug. Suddenly the doctor felt a draft of air brush past him. He leaped up in surprise.
“What is it doctor?” Tau asked him.
“It was like, I don’t know. It was like my ghost passed through me.”
Tau gulped and pointed behind him.
“What, what is it Tau?” He said as he turned around curiously. There standing at the back of the room was the doctor. The other doctor.
“Ha ha! You’re a genius, well I am a genius.”
“That’s all lovely and all but why exactly is there a ghost standing in the room? Especially one of the 11th doctor?”
“Ah well” the two doctor’s said at the same time.
“It’s all wibbly wobbly timey wimey really.” They continued. The tenth doctor glared at the other.
“Anyway, why are you here?” he asked
“I need you here with me on the planet of the forbidden” the doctor replied. The 11th doctor held out his arm to him and he placed his hand on it. In a flash of blue and white light they both disappeared out of thin air, leaving Tau on his own in an old bunker where the whole of outside is exploding and crashing.
The doctor released his fingers from his head and stared Sutehk who had found himself a grand but dark throne decorated with rusty skulls and dried bones. The doctor turned away and looked around for his tenth self. ‘Did it work?’ he thought to himself. The doctor started moving around but had no intention on escaping. He had Sutehk right where he wanted him. He was not going to let his last chance at possibly saving mankind go to waste. But he needed some help. He needed… a doctor!
Chapter eight: Deaths deal
After trudging around in the thick mud and rock of the planet, the doctor tossed his vintage purple jacket of his back. He rolled up his sleeves and rubbed his hands together.
“You know, I was one of the strongest warriors in the time war” he said to Sutehk.
“Why should that concern me?” the dark lord replied.
“Because although I am not pleased about what I did, it gave me hope in tricky situations like these”. Sutehk turned his helmet towards the time lord.
“And then I remembered. This is the planet of death. The millions that I killed on that day, what do you think they would say to me. They would fear me. Tremble in my name!” He had Sutehk’s full attention. Everything was in place, although there was one last thing the doctor needed. He stared at the ground and walked casually as if nothing had happened, but he stopped suddenly and held out his ear.
“Did you here that? It sounded like some footsteps” he said on purpose. Out from behind the rock came out another man in a tight grey suit.
“Yes I did to” the man said. This man was the doctor, they had finally been reunited. But this was only the beginning. The man glared up to see Sutehk startled.
“Ah hello again!” he said.
“What sort of trickery is this?” Sutehk exclaimed. The two doctors’ scratched their heads.
“You see Sutehk everyone dies, even me. They all go here don’t they. I have lived and died and seen things no one can possibly imagine! 10 deaths. And here they are, all 11 doctor’s here at last! The doctor said triumphantly as an old man in old clothes followed by a scruffy black haired man in a blue shirt and stylish bowtie came from behind him. Eventually 3 other people came, one in a tight green coat, another in a large hat and stripy scarf and the 3rd in a traditional cricket coat accompanied with a rather unusual stick of celery. One by one more and more people came out of the shadows. 11 men stood in front of Sutehk. 11 doctors.
“This is me Sutehk! I am the doctor, the destroyer of worlds, the oncoming storm. And this is my message: Life!” The hands of each doctor glowed orange like it did when he regenerated.
“No stop it, what are you doing!” Sutehk yelled. The doctor’s lifted their arms and golden energy shot out of their hands and hit Sutehk like raging bullets. Fire and steam rose from the ground underneath as he began to melt.
“I will get you for this doctor! Every single one of you!” his huge helmet disintegrated to reveal a face like a jackal dog that burnt and melted. The doctor turned around to see his fellow selves.
“Long time no see gentlemen!” he said. They all nodded and faded away in a blink of an eye. The doctor looked around and saw the Earth still on fire.
“One last act” he said as he lifted his glowing arms and shot out glowing energy around the planet. The doctor laughed as his entire journey flashed before his eyes. Time was resetting itself. In a flash of golden light the doctor found himself back on Earth. Everyone had forgotten what had happened and resumed their normal lives. It was the 24th of November. It was like nothing had happened. Life on Planet earth was normal, the way it should be.
“Well done doctor” he said to himself as he patted the Tardis “One last trip, I have to go somewhere” he walked into his police box and it faded of in the distance.
Chapter nine: 23rd of November 1963; the beginning of a legend
“Come on Barbara” Ian, the school teacher said.
“I’m coming, I thought I saw something that’s all” Barbara replied. They both walked to the blue box left in the old junkyard. A man peeked from behind the gate. It was the doctor. He tried to follow the couple that looked for their student Susan. He looked down and chuckled to himself but he felt a nudge on his back.
“Well watch your step young fellow, come on chop chop!” he had an unforgettable face. It was the first doctor. The grumpy one. The original.
“Oh sorry sir” he said as he kept his head down
“I say, have I met you before boy?” the old doctor asked.
“I’ll just say, Your future is my past, don’t make stupid decisions.”
“But that’s, no. But that’s impossible. I can’t really be you. Your no way near as handsome!” the 11th doctor pulled a face.
“Ah I’m only joking. Now you should scuttle of before they get inside my, I mean our Tardis shall I say” The 11th doctor waved his hand politely. The old man turned and walked away and so did the doctor as he went to his Tardis. He opened the door but glanced at the old man again as he came face to face with Ian and Barbara. He span his head back around and entered his Tardis. The doctor stared up and said “All of time and space, what a small universe”. But then the echoing voice came back again as he held his head in frustration. The voice said: “What I did I did without choice, in the name of peace and sanity” the doctor looked up to see and old man standing away from him. “But not in the name of the doctor…”
To be continued in… the day of the doctor!