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The Time Regeneration

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The Time Regeneration by BlueBeacon


As I ran from the Daleks, desperate to reach anyone from the High Council to help fight the invasion of Gallifrey, I worried about all my friends on the besieged planet. Romana, Drax, and all the others I had befriended over the years. Were they alright? Were they still alive?

I remembered why, why I disliked the Daleks so very much, for they believed that they were the most superior beings in the universe. They firmly believe that everyone else is inferior and must be exterminated so that they only remain.

The Daleks were squid-like things wrapped in metal with a long robotic eye, a plunger for an arm and a laser canon for the other. They moved along the ground like tanks, slow but deadly.

No one knew who let them onto Gallifrey. Then again many timelords didn't really worry about it, they just tried to survive the Daleks rampage with them destroying people and buildings. I intended to find out who would had committed this horrendous act. I had a few hunches on who might have done it but I needed to confirm it before I pointed any fingers. I hope many of my people survived long enough to find out."

Three Daleks chased me as I ran to the transmat center. I duck behind pillars and ruins of buildings, dodging the blasts from the daleks' cannons of death. I had to make it to the transmat center, a place to teleport anywhere on Gallifrey. I had to reach the High Council in time to warn them that the war was lost before the unthinkable happens.

Just as I thought I'd made it, two more Daleks came out of nowhere, firing at the center, setting it ablaze.

Stumbling into the fire and smoke, I managed to peer through the haze and found the controls of the transmat. As I set the coordinates on the transmat to the High Council Chamber, my clothing caught fire. I hurriedly threw off my favorite coat. I finished putting in the coordinates before I felt a burning sensation. I looked down, and saw that my pants were on fire. I ripped them off hurriedly as well, so I could safely jump into the transmat.

I landed in the transmat and slowly disappeared, thanking Rassilon it happened before the center came down completely destroying the controls.

The burning surroundings of the transmat center were replaced with the tattered ruins of the High Council Chambers, littered with the bodies of the High Councilors and their guards. All of them were dead, unable to regenerate. I remember thinking as I saw them that some were class mates that I knew at the academy and some who were people I had met on my trips to Galifrey. They were people I knew and that hurt me deeply making me feel so much pain inside. I remembered feeling that at the fall of Arcadia, so much death and dying it made me want to weep for days. I couldn't weep though, I had to keep moving forward or all of Galifrey is lost.

Amid the horror, I saw the charred remains of one council woman bore the Sash of Rassilon. I bent down to her thinking could this have been Romana?

"There were so many things I never told her; so many things left unsaid, my dear Romana," I said to the corpse thinking of all the adventures we shared.

It was then that I heard a pleasant voice call to me from behind. "Yes, Doctor?"

I stood up, turned around and saw that it was Romana! I hugged her tightly.

"I thought-" I began, "Oh never mind! How are you still alive?" I asked letting go of her.

Romana chuckled, "Well, maybe first you should get some pants on, Doctor."

I looked down realizing in all the grief I had forgotten my clothes had been burned.

Romana led me away from the bodies in the ruined chamber to some undamaged rooms, and we looked through the closets. In the only really undamaged closet I found a pair of black pants, black shoes, a crimson shirt and a black leather jacket. I found it a bit dark and a little big on me but it was the only thing to wear at the moment.

Romana started to tell her tale of how she escaped: "When the Daleks attacked the High Council, my security double took my place. I was escorted to the time room where the emergency Tardis was but as we get there it is occupied by Daleks. They come out firing at us, the battle ends with me killing the last Dalek with one of the guards' laser pistols. I go into the Tardis room finding it damaged beyond repair. I remember the escort guards saying their would be reinforcements so I went back to see if it were true because its the only option I had at the time. If it was I would strategize from there, if not I would plan my next move. I make it back to the main council room where I see you kneeling over the body of my security double who tragically died with the rest of the high council.

I listened intently to her, feeling sorrow over Romana's tale and the people who died in this room I took a moment to silently grieve over them as did Romana.

I told her straight off"I came here to ask about the electro wave generator."

"The one that powers Gallifrey?" Romana responded puzzled.

"Yes,now if I can transform it into a transmitter, which I think I can, to send a signal to all the Daleks, I can use it to overload their systems and make all the invading Dalek ships in orbit and on Gallifrey lose power. It will trap the remaining Daleks on Gallifrey to be disarmed and imprisoned.  and any remaining ships in space will retreat. I need to know where the generator is,Romana."

"Doctor....its thirty floors!" Romana explained alittle shocked.

"Thirty floors where?" I asked unsure where they put the generator since I was last on Gallifrey.

Romana explained, "Doctor, the generator is thirty floors below us. Here is a map to help navigate secret passage ways the Daleks won't know about."

She handed me a map from her coat pocket on the inside of her robes. I looked up asking, "What about you, Romana, aren't you coming with me?"

Romana replied, "No Doctor, I have to find the Supreme Dalek and destroy him and his mothership."

I went wide eyed with shock "Alone?"

"Yes." Romana stared into my eyes and I knew their was no changing her mind,but I had to try though.

"Romana that is suicide! That ship is crawling with millions of daleks!" I exclaim trying to tell her that its not a good idea at all.

"If you hadn't noticed, so is Gallifrey." Romana responded without missing a beat.

"How do you plan to get on the ship?Hmmmm? You don't do you?" I questioned trying to poke holes in her plan to get her to see reason.

"I have my ways." She tells me mysteriously with a smile.

"Romana, let me do it, you know the floors better than I." I countered determined to save her from doing this.

Romana stood firm in her decision. "I'm sorry Doctor but as Lady President of Gallifrey it's my duty to meet the Supreme Dalek head on using the Demat Gun."

I stared at her in disbelief "Romana?! No! I have used the gun before, even though I really don't remember using it, but I know I should be the one who should use it again, not you!"

Romana stood firm staring me down "Doctor, as I have stated before, I am the Lady President of Gallifrey so the use of the Demat Gun falls to me. You know more about your idea than I and this will increase our chances for at least one of us succeeding in saving the planet!"  She spoke with the passion that made her a Lady President to be reckoned with.

Against my better judgment, I agreed with a hug. "Good luck Romana."

She replies tenderly, "Good luck, Doctor." We both went our separate ways, though I hoped we would meet again, something told me we would not.

As I moved through the secret passage ways, I couldn't help but wonder who could have let the shields of Gallifrey down? I thought of a multitude of enemies who could have found a way through including the Sontarans, the Master or the Rani.

As I pondered about the defenses of Gallifrey, I noticed someone following me. Since it was somewhat dark I had the advantage, so I ducked behind one of the corridors.

When the figure came closer, I tackled him. We wrestled until we could see one another in the nearby light fixture. I recognized him as Commander Maxil. I thought to myself, what did I do to see him again?

I got off Maxil, who from his appearance had regenerated a time or two. We both stood up and I looked at him, simply greeting him with, "Maxil."

And he gave the same, "Doctor."

I looked him over; he had short brown hair, a sturdy face and yellow gold eyes. He seemed physically fit and dressed in the typical Gallifreyian commander outfit of red and white. Maxil interrupted my observation of his new incarnation with a laser pistol pointed at me.
"What are you doing here, Doctor? I thought your type wouldn't get involved in this sort of thing."

I replied, "Ah, Commander Maxil, you haven't changed at all, shoot first and interrogate later."

Maxil countered stiffly at the reminder of our first meeting, "You were a suspect, I was ordered to bring you in."

I exclaimed, "You shot me right after I introduced myself!"

Maxil argued, "It was more efficient to simply stun you and take you to the High Counsel than go over needless talk, Doctor."

I sighed, "As much as I would like to stay and chat, Maxil, I have to go to the electro wave generator to turn it into a way to stop the Daleks."

I was about to leave when he caught me by the shoulder.

"Not without me. There are Daleks up ahead and you can't make it all the way there without being seen."

I responded confidently, "I can handle myself."

Maxil tuned the settings on his laser pistol. "You will need a soldier to help you. You see you hate weapons, Doctor, I prefer them."

I turned around and looked at him for a moment and thought I couldn't argue much more, and so I gave in. "Fine, let's go."

We went together into the next secret passage way. I was thinking I will live to regret the decision I'd just made.

As we get further down and nearer to the electro wave generator there are apparently less and less Daleks. That was to be expected since most of the fighting was being fought on the surface.

I thought to myself, we are free and clear! Until I saw five Daleks occupying all entrances
up ahead.

Maxil asked impatiently, "Why have we stopped? Let's go around the Daleks and continue on."

I sighed, and pointed out, "The Daleks are inadvertently blocking the secret passages as well as the normal passages, and I don't see a way around."

Maxil put a hand on my shoulder as he told me, "Well this is where we part, Doctor. Complete the mission, that's an order."

I tried to protest, but it was too late. He had already gone ahead to the Daleks, firing his laser pistol.

He hit two Daleks, blowing them up.

The remaining Daleks started firing back shouting, "Timelord detected! Exterminate! Exterminate!"

Maxil dodged the Dalek's fire and ran down one of the passages. The Daleks were hot on his trail, leaving the remaining passages open.

I thought, as I headed down the right passage that would lead me to the electro wave generator, that Maxil was a brave man and his sacrifice would not be in vain.

After several floors of Daleks, I finally made it to the electro wave generator floor. The walls and floor were a shade of smoky gray. In the center was a cylinder and in the middle of the cylinder was a glass case containing large neon blue jagged crystal. There were four consoles connected on all four sides of the cylinder.

The crystal looked like it was hooked into the bottom half of the cylinder. The cylinder's bottom half actually was connected to the generator which powered the sub systems. The crystal, I knew, was electronithium, which emits waves of electrical energy that can power anything, really.

I stood there looking at it, thinking that I will have to turn this lovely energy generator into a doomsday weapon. This must be similar to what Einstein thought when he discovered the atom's use as a weapon. I must really meet him again to compare notes.

I quickly got to work, shutting off power, then opening the hatch on the first console in front of me. I took out a pair of pliers, cutting a few essential wires. I did this to the other three consoles as well. I then took out more wires, running all three consoles to the first one I had started working on. I make a few adjustments to the console giving it primary power over the generator. I pulled out my trusty sonic screwdriver and hooked it into the primary console to act as a booster for the signal.

Now on the way down, Maxil, poor, brave Maxil had killed a Dalek or two and I had managed to get the frequency for all Daleks from that one signal.

I said to myself "Now that the transmitter is complete, I just have to pull the lever and goodbye Daleks."

I heard a shot and I turned around to see to a man dressed in a black Gallifreyian robe. He had a short black receding hairline with an obscure looking, freshly fired green pistol. He had a sinister smile on his face as I realized who he was, the Valeyard!

I looked at a foe I thought long dead, shocked by his presence here and now.

He spoke first, "Hello Doctor, it has been along time hasn't it?"

I responded, still in shock, "How can you still be alive? The last time I saw you, you had died in the matrix!"

The vile Valeyard simply replied, "Oh Doctor, you should have known better then to think my own machine would kill me."

I questioned, "Why are you still here then? You could have left Gallifrey centuries ago!"

The Valeyard laughed "Doctor, you have all these queries yet you have not asked why I look the same."

I realized he had not aged since my sixth incarnation. It was mind-boggling, so I asked, "Why have you not aged, Valeyard?"

The Valeyard chuckled, "I will answer that with another question. Where do you think they got me, Doctor?"

I had to think for a moment because it had been so long; plus, the amnesia and I had gone through two regenerations since. I finally give an answer, "You are the in-between between my twelfth and thirteenth incarnations similar to the watcher. They placed in you all my darker emotions such as hate, anger, and fear."

The Valeyard nodded, "Very good, remembering that dribble the Timelords fed you."

I looked confused asking, "So, what is the truth, Valeyard?! What are you doing here now?!"

The Valeyard simply smiled that sickening smile of his before answering, "They told the truth about me embodying your darker emotions, but they lied about which two incarnations I come between."

I realized the truth. "You're here to help me regenerate!"

The Valeyard nodded. "I have existed here for so long waiting to make myself real by taking over your body, Doctor. When I make you regenerate I will not only turn you into your ninth incarnation; I will take over your mind, your lives will be mine!"

I simply scoffed, "Not the first time some madman wanted my lives."

I put on a brave front, but the thought of becoming the Valeyard was beyond disturbing.

I looked at him, trying to learn more.

"Why here? Why now?"

The Valeyard smiled, "I did all this to get you here, Doctor."

I looked at him, eyes wide, shocked beyond belief, "You let the Daleks in?! You made the war possible?!"

The Valeyard nodded. "You mean you caused it! You have no love for the Timelords, eternally angry with them for their non-interference!"

I stared at him, "I do not!! I may be those things, but I would never wish them death!"

The Valeyard sighed, " Whatever. Let the regeneration begin!"

The Valeyard fired the pistol at me. I dodged the shots, tackling the Valeyard to the ground, struggling, rolling. I knocked the pistol out of his hand and he yelled, "Fine then, we will have to do this the hard way Doctor!"

He started to glow as I felt the change happen, remembering being forced to regenerate when I was in my second incarnation. I felt his dark and evil mind try to take over; from here on it was the battle of the minds.

Was it my mind or was it his mind? I was...not sure...the regeneration...it was effecting me in a way...I didn't....count on...but I struggled...I fought....the Valeyard was winning, I couldn't...let....that...happen!

I burst fourth and then I awoke. I found myself standing, not knowing how I was standing, but didn't care- I was still me! I laughed so loud in joy that I could wake the dead.

I gasped, falling forwards to the control console I had rewired earlier.

Something had gone wrong with the regeneration! I knew it was too good to be true.

I pressed buttons and instead of simply subduing or destroying the Daleks, I had cranked it up to maximum power and maximum range.

If I did this, it might effect other planes of existence; I tried to stop myself but was unable to. I pulled the lever, and I heard millions of voices cry out in my head, followed by silence.

I regained control of my body again, and tried to find out what had happened.

I found from the readings, that Gallifrey was going to explode from the transmitters broadcast that overloaded vital systems. I also found I had destroyed the entire Dalek invasion fleet by overloading all their systems in all of the Daleks and....NOOO! I couldn't have!

I reread it again, that the signal had killed all the Gallifreyans on Gallifrey, that I am the last of the Timelords.

I fell to my knees, as I realized, tearing up, my people were gone.

How could this have happened? I had set it for only non-organic systems.

I remembered the first shot from the Valeyard's odd pistol. I looked up from the readings, turning my head, looking around the room and seeing the hole from the first shot, having figured where he was still pointing.

It had hit the second console, piercing the console and inside the projectile; it had carried a virus that rewrote the transmitter to affect organic as well as non-organic.

How did I know that answer? Then I realized, I picked up some of the Valeyard's memories during the regeneration. I would have wept over the death toll of two races, but I still had to get back to the Tardis and escape the wonderful shining planet known as Gallifrey.

I started to run, grabbing my sonic screwdriver, burnt out due to the power surge. I made my way up the floor, and stumbled upon a transmat. As I reconfigured it, as Gallifrey was in minutes going to explode, I couldn't help but notice the dead Daleks around, thinking they deserved death, but not like this; not at the expense of the Timelords! Damn you Valeyard.

I reconfigured the transmat, managing to turn it on and have it transport me near the Tardis. I appeared in a transmat a few feet from the Tardis.

I ran to it, unlocking the Tardis, getting in. I pressed  buttons, running around as I pulled levers, and turned knobs.

The Tardis took off as Gallifrey exploded, flinging the Tardis across the universe and causing severe damage to the Tardis console.

I fell to the ground from the shockwave, and as I climbed the console, I pressed a few buttons, trying to manage to get a picture of Gallifrey, or where it was suppose to be.

I looked to the monitor, seeing nothing but debris where Gallifrey was. I looked at my once beautiful.....I thought.....I screamed out, and fell to the floor weeping, muttering "I couldn't save anyone....couldn't save anyone......"

Epilogue:

Days later I had the Tardis console working, and then I reflected upon what I had done; I could have stopped it but I didn't....

Just then I heard an alert, coming from Earth. There apparently were the Nestene, probably with a ready made army of Autons invading the planet.

"I just lost my race and the universe just keeps moving along……………I should ignore it, but I can't; so, well, I can sit here and let the Nestene take over the Earth, or I can go and stop it."

I then pulled a few levers, pressed a few buttons. One of them jammed, so I took a mallet and hit it, so I was off to Earth to stop the Autons.
This is about the regeneration, this is about the time war, this is about the doctor, and this story is about how the end of the war happened according to me. This is how I think it happened. Enjoy.

UPDATE:

I reedited it to make it more readable.
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TheGreenMoon's avatar
good work!! I like the idea of the Valeyard slowing down the Doctor's attempts to save Gallifrey, and then not really saving it at all. :( So Romana's dead in your eyes?