Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 15:11:30 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Doctor Who, Jesse and Jeremy 129

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DOCTOR WHO, JEREMY AND JESSE  129

This chapter dedicated to Matthew Waterhouse


THE PAST IS NOT THE PAST


"Last?"  The Doctor, in his Fourth body, showed up at the doorway, "Last
what? I'll have you know I've had many more legs after this. So many that
Spiga, that giant spider couldn't cover more ground than the miles of legs
I've had in the past...or was that the future."

"Doctor!"  Jeremy gasped and hugged him, turning.

"You...you...you're not old anymore!"  Jesse sprang at the Doctor.

"What's 8000 years between friends, aye?"  The Doctor asked.  "You can't
get rid of me and this daft ole face that easily, aye?"

"Are you stabilized?"

"For now but it's far, far from being all over. It's not the end! I
distinctly felt something."

"Maybe you looked at me," Jesse smiled.

"No, it's something prickling at the...it's not over, far, far from over
but the moment has not been prepared for..."  The Doctor pointed. His eyes
were wide.

"What now?"  Jesse asked.

The ceiling caved in and a huge green claw came in, obviously attached to
some greater, more giant creature.

"A Great Vampire!"  The Doctor whispered and managed to be loud about all
at the same time and in tones that only this voice box could give, "THE
GREAT VAMPIRE!"

(Action music from THE ENEMY BELOW tracks 7 through 9 by Leigh Harline;
this music can also be heard in VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA episodes
FIRES OF DEATH, NO ESCAPE FROM DEATH, RESCUE, DEADLY AMPHIBIANS, any many
other fourth season episodes as well as the unaired LOST IN SPACE pilots
and THE HUNGRY SEA).


A huge claw grabbed up a family of Time Lords and squashed them, rose up
out of the roof and ate the bloody mangled bodies. Jeremy looked up through
the hole. "Jeremy, not that way!"  The Doctor ran after him, scooped up his
floppy hat, and looked up, "I know what to do!"

"There's a surprise!"  Jesse ran to them.

"This way! I know exactly what to do!"  The Doctor ran around a corner.

Jesse and Jeremy ran, too, followed by a claw with huge pointed
fingernails. The skin was green on the arm that was attached and that
followed them down the hallway. The Doctor fumbled for the sonic
screwdriver, took it out and opened a long door. "Doctor! It's right behind
us!"  Jeremy yelled. He and Jesse ran past the Doctor to the far wall. The
claw reached the door but couldn't get in.

The Doctor waved his floppy hat at it. "Hello, there! Wave all you want, no
N wave forms here, but there are..."  The creature's arm couldn't fit in
any further. On the outside, it used its other arm to start tearing up the
roof some more. It roared and flapped its wings. They could hear it from
the huge room they were in and then the banging started.

"Are they invading?"  Jeremy asked, "And what is this place?"  He turned to
see huge rockets. They were in a huge missile silo. "Giant bows and
arrows?"

The Doctor ran to a console. "Bow ships. Jeremy, Jesse, we're very far back
in my history, Time Lord history."

"Just another day," Jesse shrugged, "The firing mechanism? Where is it?"

"Not arrows, bows. Bow ships. For the heart of the vampire!"  The Doctor
stated, "But what I don't know is why...ahhh, over there. The firing
controls."

They looked at the controls and saw three Time Lords standing over the
control stall. They had their backs to them. The Doctor ran over to them,
followed by Jesse and Jeremy. The doors slid from both sides of the wall to
block the grasping giant green hand. "Say, old friends, why haven't you..."

The three Time Lords turned. The one on the right, and nearest the Doctor,
was very old and he opened his mouth and there were large fangs. The other
one was a bit younger, maybe in his 40s and he, too, was a vampire. The one
on the right was a woman with long light brown hair and she, too, was a
vampire. The younger man jumped at Jesse, who was next to the Doctor. The
female lunged at Jeremy, who put his foot out and moved to the side. She
was faster and grabbed his arm with claws on her right hand. He punched her
chin and she just turned and looked at him. She started to move her fangs
at his neck. "Oh no, not again!"  Jeremy gasped, "Doctor, help me!"

Jesse ducked from the man that attacked him and put his head into the
vampire's stomach and toppled him over. Jeremy squatted, used his weight to
jump up and spin his body up in the air, feet first. This made the vampire
let go but with her other claw, she swiped up at him.  She ripped the back
of his shirt from collar to bottom and when he landed and turned at her,
his shirt all but fell off. He tore it off and threw it at her face,
stopping her newest attack. "Don't look at their eyes!"  They heard the
Doctor yell.

A smaller door on the roof opened up and Roman fell through, landed in a
crouching position and aimed a bow and arrow at the vampire attacking
Jeremy. It went down soon with a metal arrow in the heart. Jeremy tried to
run but she grabbed his leg and made him fall on top of her. The arrow
shaft grazed his ribs as she pulled the shirtless wonder boy to her
bosom. He was making EWL sounds as her fanged mouth came at his neck
again. He tried to hold her back, his hands on her arms on each side. Her
face came at his but turned to a very old woman. Another arrow landed right
over Jeremy's angled and struggling shoulder and into her second heart.
Her hair became white. Her eyes bulged red. Her skin slowly vanished in
front of him and under him. He could feel the muscles in her arms vanishing
into bone.  The struggle was soon over and he was resting on top of a
skeleton. "EWL! UCK!"  He jumped up, dropping an arm bone. His feet in
struggling, broke off one bony leg and his chest struggling to get up
collapsed her ribs on the left. "Ahhhhh!"  He turned as he backed away from
his horror to Jesse's...

Jesse had got the drop on his vampire but the thing now lunged at Jesse
again from above, arms spread, cape spread with the arms as if it were a
vampire of old. "SHIT!"  Jesse said and tried to back away from his lower
position. He fell but held his hands on the floor and arms straight as if
he were doing some kind of exercise, his torso up. The monster vampire Time
Lord hissed and made to bite at his stomach. The teeth tore the shirt off
his belly and then made to re-attack. An arrow fired by Roman pierced the
heart of the Time Lord. This barely stopped him and Roman, on one knee,
fired a second.

"I'm over here!"  The Doctor waved from the wall where the ancient vampire
Time Lord had him pinned. Roman fired into the back twice and the thing
collapsed against the Doctor, face to face. "EWWWWWWWW!"  The Doctor spat
out old man skin as it dropped off the skull. He turned his head to get
away from the skull and saw the fangs brush against him. He pinned himself
against the wall some more, flattened his back as the thing that was once a
Time Lord faded away, slowly. Gray hair turned white. Shoulder bones
dropped from sight and the clanking of bones at the Doctor's feet made him
feel horrified but more comfortable. "Pfftt! Phew!"

"Doctor!"  Roman ran to the Doctor and held his right arm. "Are you ..."

"I'm fine. There was nothing at all to worry about."  He looked at the door
where the giant claw on the other side was trying to claw its way into the
room. The door buckled. The Doctor looked up at the roof. "That's it! Isn't
it?"

"Yes," Roman said, straightening out his outfit. "I can't believe we're
here. You bring me to the strangest of places..."

"The far past...of Gallifrey!"  The Doctor said, "Jesse! Jeremy!"

"Yes?"  Jeremy looked at his arm. "We're okay if that's what you wanted to
know."

"I didn't. Get to those levers over there!"

"The ones over there?"

"Yes, there. And there."

Jesse ran to one. "Not there?"

"Not there but where you are," the Doctor snapped, "And pull as you've
never pulled before..."

"My past pulls'll be hard to match!"  Jesse joked even as he pulled the
lever. Jeremy, on the other side of the room but adjacent to Jesse, did the
same. The ceiling opened up. A huge gigantic bat like face appeared
overhead and opened a mouth of sharp teeth sported by fangs on the upper
jaw and lower. The green scaly skin seemed to shine blue in Gallifrean
twilight. Jesse looked up. "That was supposed to help?"  The frenzy of the
vampire eyes as they darted from side to side and watched the life forms
below scared Jesse. He didn't move from his lever though. Jeremy ran to him
and grabbed him by the arm and flung him toward a barrier that was now
between the two of them and the missiles.

"I know what you're doing!"  Roman gasped, "Let me help!"

"We have to hurry. For some reason, the launching was preempted!"  The
Doctor ran to a row of computer banks. Roman ran behind him and when they
reached the banks, the two of them went to work, disregarding the huge claw
that stopped hammering at the door and that started reaching in through the
upper roof. Fortunately, the roof was far above. It began the process of
tearing off the top of the walls. Its anger was evident in the strange low
gurgling growls it made, a kind of controlled raging like an animal
cowering and striking at the same time.

"Doctor, run! We've fired them all!"  Roman grabbed the Doctor's scarf and
pulled. The Doctor came with it and the two of them joined Jesse and Jeremy
behind the see through barrier wall.  "Get down! Get down!"  Jesse and
Jeremy obeyed him and he followed them down.

"I wanted to say that!"  The Doctor said, irritated as the missiles
launched, smoke filling the chamber. From behind him, Roman pulled his
jacket while Jesse pulled one shoulder down and Jeremy the other. As the
missiles shot overhead, the Doctor gasped, "I almost forgot!"  He ran to a
pedestal in the chamber which was really just four see through walls so
they could watch the launching. He pressed some buttons and a see through
clear ceiling snapped over the room. "Get up. I always wanted to say that,
too. You see..." he turned and saw his three friends still down on the
ground, covering their heads and lying flat. "That wouldn't help you
anyway, you know. We're fully protected in here..."


"What is here?"  Jesse ran to him first. The other two joined him.

"A condom from missiles," the Doctor said, "We can watch..."  he pointed as
a hundred bow ships blasted off and one hit the Great Vampire in the
heart. It had been in the process of finishing the tearing off of the
remainder of the walls at the highest point.

"The others?"  Roman asked.

"Romano," the Doctor said, "You know our history as well as anyone, even
me."

"Better than you, I should imagine."  Roman threw his nose up.

"Yes, well, that's the way it is with you intellect...what?" The Doctor
snapped, "Then you should know the bow ships killed the army of Great
Vampires..."

"Ahh, all but one..."  Roman stirred and put his head on the Doctor's arm
and nudged up it with his nose and neck.

"Yes, into E Space," the Doctor whispered.

"Doc, I hope you're right about us being safe in this glass box..."

"It's not glass, Jesse...why?"

Jesse pointed up. The Great Vampire, bow ship in its chest, spun and they
could see its head through the open roof and from the tear in the wall it
made, its shoulders spinning for a death fall. It tore through the entire
wall and wall pieces and the great body fell straight at them. "We have to
get out!"  Jesse ran for the door.

"NO!"  The Doctor pulled him back from the door. "Watch!"

The vampire hit the box as they watched it. Jeremy blinked and the monster
rolled off the box. "If this can withstand the force of bow ships taking
off, it can withstand the weight of a big lummox like that."  the Doctor
hugged Jesse to him. The Doctor was taller, this one, the fourth, was.

"That was awesome," Jeremy said, "Horrible, but awesome."

Roman put a hand on Jeremy's back. "Time Lord workmanship. Oh, and
womanship."

Jeremy smiled. "Now what, Doc?"

"Why has everyone suddenly taken to calling me doc?"  He looked at Jeremy
and Jesse, who both shrugged.

"You have to admit," Roman started, "It has certain charm to it..."

"Don't you start."  The Doctor pointed. "I suggest we try to wait until the
time shift...oh, there is right on cue..."  the room shifted around them
and they were in a silvery hallway. "I..."  he turned around, his scarf
flying and almost hitting Jeremy, who ducked. It did hit Jesse in the
face. Jesse blinked as it passed him by. The Doctor took his hat in his
hand, "I ...I know this corridor."

Roman turned slightly to Jesse. "He's run down them his whole lives so he
should know them all by now..."

"I heard that."  The Doctor nodded, "If the Master's anywhere controlling
things like this...it might be from the Matrix..."

"You don't intend to go in there now?"  Roman talked as if he thought that
was a bad idea.

"Why not?"

"That's a bad idea."  Roman rounded on the Doctor.

"My dear Romano, it's safer than out here at the moment and probably more
stable..."

"Stable? If the Master's in there?"

"He might not be. It might be the only place we can find answers on how to
beat him at this game he's playing."

"What's he after anyway?"  Jesse rubbed his elbow.

"Who can tell? He's completely insane. I tend to think he always has been,"
the Doctor said, "It was just...well, maybe not. Maybe it was just the way
our people treated each other that made him that way. He wants to impress
me."

"Impress you?"  Roman scoffed, "He could try to find a less vicious, less
complicated, and more efficient way of doing that. I mean he's a genius if
he's causing time to mess up like this on Gallifrey. It takes an enormous
amount of power..."

The Doctor clicked his fingers, "And that's why I think he's getting that
power from the minds of all the deceased Time Lords inside the Matrix..."

"Then the same problem," Roman stated, "You can't go in there. You remember
what happened to you the last few times and the time he was in there..."

"He was in control then," the Doctor said, "To exert this much control out
here...he can't control in there...as much..."

"As much?"  Jesse asked, his tone not confident.

"Unless I'm sadly mistaken..."  the Doctor pointed. "The Archive room
is..."

"STOP! In the name of Rassilon, Omega, the Monk and the Master!"

"Make up your minds! Not ours! RUN!"  The Doctor yelled, "RUN FOR YOUR
LIVES!"

"Oh my god!"  Jesse gasped, "Not again!"

A large group of Time Lords came after them. They began firing laser
blasts. "They're red!"  Roman yelled, "They're trying to kill us!"

"And that surprises you, why?"  Jeremy yelled, taking his hand.  They ran
down a corridor followed by twenty Time Lords. He squinted and saw a
slanted slit in the hallway wall. It was painted the same white color as
the wall so that no one could see it. Jeremy pushed Jesse through it
first. Roman shrugged and turned to wait for the Doctor. The Doctor pushed
him through. The Time Lords passed the slit by.

They had ducked into a side door, a small slanted slit that they just fit
into. Inside was an office. The Doctor saw Jeremy and Jesse ahead of
him. He ran to them, undoing his scarf and put the scarf around both of
them and pulled them back. They were running toward an office where a woman
was sitting with her back to them, looking at radars and scanners. The
woman had her raven colored hair up in a bun and she wore a purple outfit.

 http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Rodan

"Why did you do that?"  Jeremy asked.

The Doctor put the fringe of his scarf ahead of them and it singed
slightly. "Force field."

"I think it's Rodan."  The Doctor gasped.

"Don' t tell me he's coming after us too? Might as well, everyone else is
after us."

"What? What are you talking about?"  Jeremy asked as the Doctor and Roman
got closer to the office ahead of them.

"Rodan?"  Jesse looked up at the scanners on the wall, "I don't see any..."

"Any what?"  Jeremy asked.

"Flapping wings of a giant prehistoric pterodactyl."

"Oh, shut up," Jeremy said in a friendly manner and moved to the Doctor,
followed by Jesse, "He obviously means something else. Perry maybe?"

"Peri?"  The Doctor gulped, "She's never been to Gallifrey..."  then he
thought and pointed, "That I know of."  He smiled.  "Met him once?"

"I thought Peri was a girl."  Jeremy sounded skeptical of the Doctor's
story of meeting Perry.

The Doctor turned from squinting at the woman's back.  "Not my companion
Peri. Rodan. Perry Rodan."

"Really? He's a real person?"

"Yes, Jeremy. How many times do I have to tell you just because something
is fiction in one universe, doesn't mean it's not fact and real in
another," the Doctor said.

"Can you three stop this banter," Roman said, "We have to get in there."

"Do you know Rodan?"  The Doctor asked the girl sitting behind the drizzle
effect force field.

"Know her? That's my name."

"It really IS a small universe after all, isn't it? I know you."

"Do I?"  She dared a glance from her perch behind her desk. "Oh. Oh yes,
some time ago. All that fuss with the Sontarans. My memory of it is a bit
fuzzy..."

"Me, too. Rodan."

"Please let us in," Roman said, followed by, "I was President once," at the
exact same time, the Doctor said the same exact thing.

"Oh, very well," Rodan said after a momentary hesitation. Rodan looked from
her chair. "Oh very well. You all have very nice faces."

Roman blinked.

Rodan hit a button and the force field drizzle effect vanished. "Hurry in."
They came inside and she turned it back on.

Roman smiled. "Space Traffic Control. I've never actually been here, I
don't think..."

"YOU don't think?"  Rodan asked, "How unfortunate for you."

"You're slightly recalcitrant..."  Roman put his hand on the back of
Rodan's chair and leaned in to look at the scanners.

"Just slightly? Then I've failed in my mission..."


"I DO recall you giving me a lot of help during that whole Vardan/Sontaran
business...even if I can't recall what it was."  The Doctor scratched his
chin and put his hat in his pocket.  He blew on the fringes of his scarf.

"Well, color me impressed," Rodan said, "This is Space Traffic Control. I
like it. One of the highest security rooms in the Citadel...as President
you should know that."

"Things are a bit confused at the moment," Roman sat in one of the brightly
colored purple chairs. "Not sure if I was or will be."

"Ahh."  Rodan nodded to him and kept her attention on the screens.

"Why'd you let us in?"  Jesse asked.

"I like your faces. You remind me of a friend had once here. Leela. A
friend of yours I believe, Doctor."


"Yes, that's right, Leela. Rodan? Are you surprised to see me at all?"  The
Doctor waved a hand in front of Rodan's eyes.

"Please don't do that. I need to be watching for signs of invasion or
traffic of any kind..."

"Oh, right, sorry."  The Doctor shrugged.

"Not surprised by anything anymore. If Gallifrey could be invaded...first
by the Vardans, then by the Sontarans..."  she suppressed a shudder. "And
then by those horrid Dalek things...is that what they were called?"

"There, there."  Roman patted her shoulder, standing back up.  "It's all
over now."

"Romano," the Doctor whispered in her ear, "May I have a word with you?"

"Yes?"  Roman asked as the Doctor brought her out of ear shot.

"Do you mind not patronizing the folk that are in the midst of aiding and
abetting us?"

"Sorry."  Roman shrugged. The Doctor turned back to Rodan. Roman added,
"Doc."  The Doctor turned back to Roman, angry for a second. He had nothing
to say.

"Can you get us a map to the Archive room?"  Roman asked.

"Map? You don't know the way there either?"

"We wouldn't ask, my dear lady, if we did."  the Doctor was on the verge of
snapping.

"Of course," Rodan said, "I can get a great many things."  She stated this
as a matter of fact and not in any conceited way.

Roman turned his head at her and made a face. "Will you?"

"Yes," Rodan said, "Because I'm nice."

"I thought you were a Time Lady?"  The Doctor asked.

"Aren't they nice?"  Rodan asked.

Eyes darting, at Roman and back, The Doctor started to open his mouth...

"Watch it, Doctor."  Roman frowned.  The Doctor hung back.

The Doctor said to Rodan, "We do have to get to that room. Wait a second. I
know where that room is?"

"Then you don't need..."  Rodan started.

"Uhm, quite."  The Doctor moved back even more but then added, "Just in
case they've moved it since I was last here or since time has been moved
again or something like that. Quite."

"Yes."  Rodan printed it up. "And I'm not a Time Lady."

Roman smiled, "You have all the attributes. I really thought you were one."

"Well, thank you. I know you meant that as a compliment but I don't really
want to be one yet. In fact, I'm not a Time Lady and I'd like to keep it
that way."

"Whatever for?"  Jesse asked.

"Well, the Time Lords are all the boring, stuffy people, the worst of them
being the Time Ladies. Have you ever seen any of them?"

Roman bit his lip and took the map that Rodan printed for him. "Hmmmpfff."

"Thank the lady, Romano."

"Thank you, Rodan."  Roman hit Rodan on the head with the rolled up map.

"Is that a custom on your planet?"

"I'm a Time Lady!"  Roman gasped, "I'm from your planet. Don't you know
your own customs?"

"No, they're boring too. As for Time Lady, you do not look like one."

"Oh, yeah, right. I forgot.  I got a few ---uh, spare parts."

"Can we go now please?"  The Doctor asked.

"I like your spare parts."  Rodan raised the shield again, "It was good to
have talked to you all. You're not boring."

"Goodbye," Jeremy waved to her and on the way out he whispered, "She seems
non pulsed."

"Could be her training."  Roman shrugged. "Can't have a nervous space
traffic controller..."

"Tell that to Ronald Regan," The Doctor snapped.


"Roman, here's what I suggest, again. You go back to that non TARDIS room
of yours that you're trying to make everyone think is not your TARDIS room
of yours. Maybe you can find Damon for us from there."

"Why can't we do that first?"  Jeremy asked.

"Come here, come over here, you, too, Jesse."  The Doctor took all three of
his friends within his arms, Jesse on one side, Jeremy and Roman on the
other, his reach encompassing all of them, "Listen to me, listen to me,
please. Because we have to get to the source of all this bouncing around,"
the Doctor said.  "The Master's use of the Time Scoop isn't causing all
this. He's did that as a distraction to what's really going on here..."

Jeremy looked at him, almost face to face as they leaned in on each
other. "What's really going on here?"

The Doctor was wide eyed. "I have no idea."

Jesse frowned. "Typical."

"That's the fun. Where would the fun be if I knew all the answers, aye?"
He released them and they pulled faces.

Roman shook their hands. "Good luck, Doctor, Jesse, Jeremy. I'll try to
find Damon for you and rescue him if I can."

"Good, good. Good gir...good boy."  the Doctor shook his head, looking
down, trying not to show his concern for all of them.  He pounded a fist to
Roman's hand. "See you soon."

Roman nodded and smacked the map down into the Doctor's hand. "Yes,
Doctor. See you soon. Famous last words."

As Roman left, Jesse smirked. "Boy? That's a ridiculous term for someone as
old as her."

The Doctor checked the map. "Ahh."  He pointed one way and moved the direct
opposite. "This way I should think."

"There they are again! Kill them! Don't let them get away! Kill them all!"

"Did I ever tell you I love your people?"  Jesse asked as they ran yet
again.


"Yes," the Doctor snapped.


"Well, I take it back. I only love one..."  he thought about the puppy dog
faced Roman.  "Maybe two of them! And as for the male Rani...well, he's
just hot he's a douchebag."

The Doctor looked at the map. "I was right! It's this way!"  As they ran
they ducked from blasts which occurred when the rays the Time Lord Guards
shot at them, missed.  They ran into a wall. "It...It should be right
here!"  The Doctor leaned on the wall.

"Doctor!"  Jeremy yelled, "We can't keep dodging them forever!"

A Time Lord guard came to them. "Correction. You cannot keep dodging us at
all."  He waved a hand to his firing squad and they picked up their guns to
fire.

The Doctor turned to face them, putting Jesse behind him. Jesse
frowned. Jeremy put himself in front of the Doctor.  "It's been nice
knowing you, Doctor."

The blasts fired but hit in front of the trio. Jeremy opened his eyes to
see the blasts dispersing on the open air flat in front of his face. He
blinked and stepped back. The Doctor put him behind himself and stepped
forward. "A force field of some kind. Ha ha. Timely!"  He shook his fist at
the force field. "Good, good."  He turned to see Jesse making faces at the
Time Lords. "Jesse, don't antagonize the homicidal Time Lord Chancellery
Guard, all right, hmm?"  He himself stuck his tongue at them and waved his
hat, taking it from his pocket.

"Doctor!"  Jeremy looked back at him as the wall opened. He had turned to
look at the wall. Jesse already passed through the entrance into a darker
area. Jeremy pulled the Doctor's scarf and the Doctor smiling at the
Guards, was pulled back.

"Will you quit pulling on my scarf?"  The Doctor asked.  Inside the dark
room, the light became even darker as the wall closed again.

The three walked into a few other rooms where computer banks were. Rows of
them. "This looks like antiquated hunk of junk," Jesse said.

The Doctor covered Jeremy's ears. "Jesse, don't let ...antiquated? I'll
have you know that all of this..."

Jesse asked, "Yes?"

Jeremy took the Doctor's hands off his ears. "Could fit into one of our
cell phones..."

"Ahhh."  The Doctor stepped back. "Ahhh, you've noticed. Well, it is a bit
old and past it but it's very, very functional, even from an Earth point of
view."

"I feel as if suddenly we're very high up..."  Jeremy turned his upper body
without moving his legs. "Like in a high rise or something..."

"We are."  the Doctor put his hand in the air. "Ahhh. We are. High
up. We're in the Tower ..."  He was loud but then he whispered, "The
Archive Tower...the Capital's records section...this passed it stuff is one
very large computer..."

"It's where we wanted to be, right?"  Jeremy asked.

"Someone's helping us again."  Jesse looked around and saw a door where
there blue light emanated from.

"Let's find out who, shall we?"  The Doctor said in an almost scary voice,
"After me."  He strode forward and into the room, followed closely by the
two teens.

An old gravelly voice said, "Doctor..."

The Doctor opened his arms, "I thought as much! Me old friend, Engin..."
He hugged the smaller, much older looking man.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100406001035/tardis/images/7/7d/Engin.jpg

"I thought it was you, as well. Well, I shouldn't have forgotten. You've
only just left Gallifrey."

"Have I, Engin, old pal?"

The two boys noticed that Engin was old, very old, even for a Time
Lord. His face was wrinkled like an old apple and he was bent and shrunken
with age.

Another figure in the room cleared his throat as if to be noticed.

"And Spandrell, captain of the guard!"  The Doctor's voice was high and
excited with joy at seeing old friends. The Doctor let go of Engin who
almost fell but Jeremy obliged and caught the old tiny man before he
did. Engin smiled briefly at him and Jeremy smiled briefly back.

Engin turned and mumbled, "I haven't seen this much bit of skin
since...well, the Old Time..."

Jeremy sighed. This one seemed, for his advanced age, curious and energetic
with the current complexities of their current situation.

The Doctor ravaged Spandrell's arm and hand as he shook them violently and
smiled. "My old friend, oh, very old..."

"Doctor, we just met," he said.

The older looking man didn't look at old as Engin but older than the
Doctor. The Doctor looked at the fierce blue eyes, which betrayed how young
Spandrell really was. He said, "Maybe we have but for me we have a long
time ago...perhaps oh, two thousand years or more ago..."

"Two..."  Spandrell gasped but then shook his head. "When it comes to you,
I don't know why I'm surprised."

"I know how you feel."  Jesse looked at the equipment in the room.

"Spandrell!"  The Doctor's voice turned angry and he let go of the arm
roughly. "You're Castellan here, why didn't you just tell them to stop
shooting?"

"They're not mine. I don't know what time they're from. Past or future..."

"So you know."  Jeremy stepped forward. "You know that time is not right on
Gallifrey."

"Yes, young man," Spandrell said. Jeremy noticed his Time Lord
cap. Spandrell was broad and muscular for a Time Lord and of medium height,
so taller than Engin. He had a heavy, impassive face but his blue eyes held
intelligence.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110913195431/tardis/images/8/8f/Spandrell.jpg

"Most of the Time Lords we've met, past and future, don't realize that,"
Jeremy said.

"Doctor, who are these aliens?"  Spandrell asked.

"Aliens?"  Jesse asked. "Now wait a minute..."


"We are," Jeremy smiled.

"That's my best friend."  the Doctor pointed to Jeremy and then pointed at
Jesse. "And that's my best friend. Jeremy..."  He pointed to Jesse but
Jesse took his arm and pointed it to Jeremy for him. Then, he pointed at
Jesse, who nodded in appreciation that he got
it...something...anything...right, "K9..."  Jesse's face grew in shock and
anger but the Doctor smiled. "Jesse, K9's back in the TARDIS...I hope and I
think I can find it again if you two will help me..."

Engin shrugged. "We saw your approach on the screen. The APC net..."  Engin
smiled and looked at Jesse, who smiled back and shook his head. "You
understand predicted the Doctor...one of the Doctor's incarnations would
come here...that's what it does, you see..."  He put his hand on Jesse's
back and lead him to a large table/couch attached to a larger device, the
controls of which spiraled in a seated alcove of a computer console, every
side lined with controls and buttons and screens. "Amplified Pantropic
Computations..."

"Huh?"  Jesse smiled at the old man. "Sorry, old guy, you've already lost
me, I'm afraid."

"That's just it."  Engin went on excitedly. "No Time Lord is ever
lost. When a Time Lord dies or is near death, a brain scan is made of their
electrochemical impulses and transferred into the Matrix..."

Jeremy nodded, "The computer?"

"Yes."  Engin smiled. "He's very bright, Doctor..."

"So am I," Jesse protested.

"Yes, I'm sure."  Engin put a hand on Jesse's cheek but then coughed and
removed it. "It's trillions of electro chemical cells in a continuous
matrix. We monitor life in the Capital and we're trying to expand that to
the whole planet..."

The Doctor slanted his head, as if a dog hearing something beyond audible
human sound waves. "The whole planet? I didn't know it could do that..."
He moved between Jesse and Engin.

"Not yet, it can't," Spandrell cut in. "It does, however, predict future
developments...such as this time mess. We barely had time to understand it
ourselves when it affected us and the others."

"But you two...you knew it before it happened."  The Doctor pointed. "You
were in here...close to the Matrix?"

"Yes."

"That's what gave you the insight," the Doctor said, "Unless the Master
wanted you to, for some reason."

"I seem to remember as a child...he was taking over the...the Time
Scoop..."  Engin struggled to remember, his face wrinkling even further as
he furrowed his brow.

"Yes, yes, that's not important now..."

"What is, Doctor? What can we do now to stop him? To help you?"  Spandrell
asked.

Away from the chatting Jesse and Jeremy, the Doctor took Engin and
Spandrell aside, encompassing them in his wide reaching arms as he
whispered, "Jesse and Jeremy, make sure they're safe. What I have to
do...the dangers I have to face is for me only."

"You mean go into the Matrix?"  Engin said, his voice cracking.

The Doctor peered over his shoulder at this two lovers. "Shhh, shhh. Yes."

"You know how highly dangerous it is, as you've only just escaped it a few
hours ago..."

"I keep telling you Spandrell, for me it was much longer. Hundreds, no,
thousands of years ago...can you protect them and keep them from entering
the dragon so to speak?"

"Well, the dragon looks like it might have entered them more than a few
times."  Engin smiled.

The Doctor startled back, taking them both with him. "Why, Engin...did
you...did you just...just make a joke?"

"I think I did."  The old man laughed and nearly fell over his front.

"Yes, well, the universe's uncertain enough without that happening twice in
a millennia," The Doctor snapped.

Spandrell rolled his eyes, "Are you quite sure?"

"Let's not start that again and let's do get on with it. I don't want
anything that concerns the Matrix to affect Jesse and Jeremy..."

"Yes, I will protect them..."  Spandrell said with fortification.

As he spoke, Jesse and Jeremy's bodies had the spirit removed from them and
they both fell at the same time.  Their bodies fell into each other and
then onto the floor as one. Jeremy had only time to say, "Doc...tor..."

"What?"  The Doctor turned, letting go of Engin (who almost fell again) and
Spandrell. "What's happening?"

"Happened."  Spandrell checked Jeremy while the Doctor checked
Jesse. Spandrell nodded to the Doctor.

"You mean?"  The Doctor asked.

"It does appear so."  Engin ran to the rounded console opposite the wall
set up and checked dials and monitors.  "They are inside the Matrix
now. Direct transfer of their souls and minds and spirits. All they have
now of the three is their bodies."

"And that's good to have," Spandrell said as he picked Jeremy up.

"Should we be moving them?"  The Doctor asked.

"No, Doctor, he's right, he has to ...we have to get them to the monitoring
tables, like you were on a few hours ago..."  Engin said, "It will help us
keep better track of them..."

The Doctor had already started to lift Jesse.  "There's only one person
who'd have enough genius to do this..."

"The Master."  Spandrell nodded as he removed the remainders of Jeremy's
shirt.

"But why?"  Engin asked.

"He wants you in the Matrix..."  Spandrell added.

"Yes," the Doctor took Jesse's pants off and noticed no underwear, "And
with leverage against me...the souls, the very minds of my two..."

"Yes, lovers," Engin said and shrugged, "That's exciting that you can exert
such a relationship with them."

"I didn't exert anything. Except maybe energy needed to keep up with the
two of them...if they're harmed, I don't know what I'll do," the Doctor
said, seriously.

"Let's get them ready and you as well."  Engin hunched over the table and
lifted a head attachment.

Soon, Jesse and Jeremy were undressed and only wearing leather speedos that
didn't really cover any leg, more a thong than a speedo (blue for Jeremy;
red for Jesse) and lying on the tables. A head attachment was on each of
them.  "Wait. Why'd they have to be almost nude. I wasn't.."

"They're a bit..."  Engin started.

"Hotter than you were back then, old boy," Spandrell said.

The Doctor grit his teeth. The other two weren't sure if it was due to the
fact that he was being unfairly compared to his two companions or that he
was jealous or something else.

"Besides, they need new clothes after those ragged ones..."  Engin added.

"See to it, then," the Doctor nodded to Engin and Engin went off. When
Engin went off, the Doctor feigned a move to lay on a third table but
stooped over Spandrell and whispered, "If our bodies die out here...the
only chance you have of stopping the Master out here and in there is to
utterly destroy the Matrix..."

"Engin..."

"Engin would never allow that but as an outranking officer, you can allow
it and do it."  The Doctor shook his head quickly as he drew his hawkish
face in close to the man. "Do you understand? Gallifrey's never been in as
bad a shape as this. If this continues it will rip apart under the stress
and utter confusion...it's not far from that now, not that any of us can
actually feel or see it. And that's his greatest power..."  the Doctor
withdrew from Spandrell and lay down on the table. "Agreed?"

"Agreed."  Spandrell nodded and put a hand on the Doctor's right heart.

Engin came with some clothes. "For later. Agreed to what?"

"Oh, no, bother, my dear Engin, no bother. Agreed to get me and my friends
out of it at the proper time. We'll need your help of course."

Engin squinted and then laughed and squinted with that. "O course. O
course."

"Get on with it then," the Doctor said. He lay down and Engin put the head
attachment on. He waddled over to the console again and turned some
switches. "Are you...?"

"Oh just get on with it!"  The Doctor yelped as Engin turned the switch
even before he was through talking. "It feels different this time!"  His
back arched and his chest threw itself up. His head went back and his curly
haired curled all the more. He yelled in anguish.

Spandrell moved to take the head set off. Engin yelled, "No !  Don't!
You'll kill him!"

Spandrell backed off. "He may be dead already!"

The vortex of time seemed to envelop the Doctor. The vortex swirled around
him but stabilized and became two rays of light on either side, psychedelic
light, purple, blue, violet, and other darker colors, it lit up
slightly. It opened itself up to fill the area of his mind's Point of View
and spread to encompass four sides of a rectangle shape which morphed and
changed slowly into a corridor of four sides, top, bottom, two sides, all
converging again toward a center circle, the colors changing again to a
more golden color with some shades of black, white, diamond shape.  It
became four intersecting lines, closing the circle...completely...but still
converging and launching at the Doctor or he at it or both...the feeling of
movement.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJtYmNpINI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGYzizZ2dHQ

The diamond shape replaced the middle and the first vortex appeared
again. Spandrell looked, "Something's wrong! He's not recovering!"

"He's in a state of backward flux!"  Engin yelled and turned another dial,
"Nothing I'm doing is working!"

Jesse stirred and so Jeremy. In their unconsciousness, their sexual organs
grew to the maximum, testing the limits of their leather speedos and/or the
strength of their endurance...the durability of the speedos they wore was
in question...they drew wet as their bodies seemed to stretch outward,
pointing in sexual stress...Engin looked from one to the other. "My that
does make an old one stir."

"The Doctor, Engin, the Doctor! Is he dying?"  Spandrell asked.

The Doctor's body started to change. In slight ways, at first.

"No, look!"

"He's regenerating!"  Spandrell gasped.

"NO! That cannot happen! Not now ---not while he's going in..."

"He's not! He's degenerating!"  Spandrell yelped. He drew Engin back from
the Doctor's table. The glow was around it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZJ9TMUBE_I

The vortex changed to rice shaped particles spinning. The Doctor's hair
curled less and turned from a brown to a non pigment. It was whitening. His
nose curved. Into a beak. Even the atoms of his clothing changed, becoming
mostly darker in some spots and lighter in some spots.  The normal button
down was now a white frilled shirt button down. The brown jacket became a
red velvet smoking jacket. A black Inverness cloak lined with purple sides
like a cape was on him. Yet, his body was as tall as before and it still
groaned and moaned. Finally, the Doctor's eyes opened and his body popped
upward with such force that the head attachment came off!

"NO! That can't happen!"  Engin rushed to the body which was the Third
Doctor's body! It looked like Jon Pertwee.


Spandrell pulled him back again but moved in and put the head attachment
back on. The Third Doctor's body convulsed even more and then lay
still. "He...he's dead!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRkV1pPGlXI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnnqKiVcmW4


The Doctor...Tom Baker
Jesse...Jesse McCartney
Jeremy...Jeremy Sumpter
Romano...Logan Lerman
Vampire Older Time Lord...Emrys James
Vampire Time Lord...William Lindsay
Vampire Female Time Lord...Rachel Davies
Rodan...Hilary Ryan
Spandrell...George Pravda
Engin...Erik Chitty
Time Lord blood thirsty Guards...Pat Gorman, Derek Ware, Dave Carter,
Philip Ryan, Peter Thompson, Walter Henry, Terry Walsh,

...and very special guest star...
Jon Pertwee as the Doctor