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The consciousnesses of the first 9 Doctors approaches and challenges the
Dalek conditioning. The 10th Doctor’s mind tries to reach back, but the
conditioning is strong.
The Doctors' wills sync up and become one!
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The 10 Doctors merge their consciousnesses, experiencing each others'
memories, past and future.
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Then, combined into one mighty Doctor, they face off against the Dalek
conditioning.
Y’know, written down, that sounds stupid.
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Meanwhile, Commander Maxil, with a little help from the Brigadier and
Captain Jack, has been overseeing the cleanup and reconstruction of
Gallifrey. Glitz approaches Drax with some kind of proposal and Nyssa
thanks Grace for her help. Susan asks the 2-and-a-halfth-Doctor how her
grandfather is doing and he tells them all that they are not to disturb the
Doctors for ANY reason.
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The Doctor confronts the Dalek conditioning, but starts to lose coordination
between the various personae in his psyche. The Dalek tells him that by
accepting the conditioning it can help the Doctors become more disciplined.
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The Dalek reminds the Doctor of times in his early life when his
impulsiveness and lack of discipline got him into serious trouble.
The Doctor informs the Dalek that his goals and achievements outweigh his
foibles.
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The companions and friends wait impatiently for the Doctors to sort
themselves out. Susan can’t take it anymore and Sarah Jane give her words
of comfort. The door opens and there stands a partially dressed 10th Doctor,
who announces that he is in the clear.
They all share a celebratory hug.
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The companions gravitate towards their various Doctors (and we need not
go into lengthy discussion as to why some chose which), and ask what
happened in there. Not surprisingly, they all tell their own version of the
story, which sounds remarkably similar to each other Doctor’s version in
some ways.
–Don’t worry, it’s not quite the end yet!–
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Coming to the conclusion that they’ve done all the damage they can on
Gallifrey, and really ought to try not to do anymore, the Doctors decide it’s
time to leave and regroup on the Eye of Orion to figure out what the next
step should be. All, that is, except the 10th Doctor who’s reluctant to leave
the home he misses so dearly. Even if he did originally run away from its
staunch dullness. The 9th Doctor’s words leave him feeling somewhat
crushed, which turns to indignant anger when he spots Maxil.
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The 10th Doctor confronts Maxil, but knowing that they’ve already
interfered in the time line already, is unable to interfere more. Besides, he
figures, Maxil will ultimately be wiped out on Gallifrey with all the others
when the Last Great Time War happens.
Or will he? The 6th Doctor has a little chat of his own with Maxil who
informs him that he’s feeling some remorse and once he’s relocated Leela
and her family, he plans to steal a TARDIS and do some soul searching. The
6th Doctor approves.
When Peri inquires about Maxil’s resemblance to the 6th Doctor, the Doctor
is indignant and has no idea what she’s going on about.
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The various Doctors begin to head back to their TARDISes with their entourages
of companions. The 3rd and 5th Doctors plot a trip to visit with the federation
before heading to the Eye of Orion to meet with the others.
The 9th Doctor takes a final sad look at his beloved homeworld.
The Rani decides to take a ride with Drax and Glitz to get off the planet and the
1st Doctor takes Susan to ride with the 8th Doctor and Grace to keep an eye on
things.
Leaving the 10th Doctor to travel alone.
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The 10th Doctor watches the last of his previous selves leave Gallifrey.
He is alone.
He goes back to the TARDIS.
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The 10th Doctor pops onto the surface of Gallifrey for one last sniff of the
ole’ familiar air. But he is suddenly treated to the unexpected sight of the
Capital blowing up. More explosions rock the planet’s surface and suddenly
the Doctor is caught up in the shockwave!
BOOOM!
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The surface of Gallifrey is blasted. The air twists with the mists and dust of
churned up soil and shattered structures. The ground is littered with debris
from the cities. Out of this steps the 10th Doctor. Somehow alive. This isn’t
how Gallifrey was destroyed and certainly not when. The Doctor protests to
another Time Lord figure in the mist, but when he investigates, it’s a statue
from a memorial to Rassilon that survived the destruction.
In the depths of despair, the Doctor sinks to his knees…
…but he’s not alone here.
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The Doctor is confronted by two young women in black and white
Gallifreyan robes. He correctly concludes that they are the Black and White
Guardians of Time. They inform him that their appearances are selected to
suit the needs of their intended contacts. In the previous instance in the
Doctor’s 4th incarnation, the Doctor was still going through some authority
figure issues. Now in his 10th incarnation and after the destruction of his
home planet, the Doctor is excessively lonely and lacks true companionship.
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Bypassing the whole ‘reason for their appearance’ discussion, the 10th
Doctor instead snatches up a couple of the pieces on their playing board and
demands to know what they’re up to. He informs the White Guardian that
he is in no mood to play her ‘champion of time’, but when she tells him that
he isn’t, he deduces that, in fact, Davros is the White Guardian’s champion,
since the Daleks taking over the universe would be the ultimate ordered
structure.
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The Doctor learns that he has been acting as the champion of the Black
Guardian. When he demands an explanation, the two Guardians begin a
description of the story so far, starting with the beginning of the universe.
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The Guardians continue their story from the beginnings of time. How the
Black Guardian concluded that the unverse could not survive in an unstable
balance between order and chaos. That perfect equalibrium was impossible
and so began her campaign for universal perfect chaos.
Cited are such things as “The Arc of Infinity” from the episode of the same
title. The origins of Rassilon and Omega, Morbius (”The Brain of
Morbius”) Saliyavin (”Shada”), The Land of MakeBelieve (”The Mind
Robber”) and the Master (Image represents “The Time Monster”)
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Continuing their summary of their involvement in the Doctor’s life and the
state of the universe, the Guardians cite “Genesis of the Daleks”, “Day of
the Daleks”, “Genesis” again, “The Ribos Operation” and “The
Armageddon Factor”.
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The Guardians carry on with their summarization of the history of the
universe. The Doctor learns that his involvement in the Last Great Time War
set all the Guardians’ efforts back to square one.
They used all their resources to bend reality, roll back time, and manipulate
the most powerful beings to bring the Doctor to a point where it is his
decision whether the universe collapses into chaos or settles into perfect
order.
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The 3rd Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough visit with the Federation
leaders who inform them that the Sontarans have scattered, though not
eliminated. In the meantime they have saved the Earth (and the universe)
and garnered a whole bunch more treaties with other races. They set the
date as a holiday in memory of those who died in the battle.
Meanwhile the 5th Doctor returns from Earth with the Brigadier, Sarah
Jane and Jo who have been visiting with UNIT and Brigadier Bambara.
They learned that UNIT has cleaned up the whole Cyberman/Silurian
menace and all is well again. They have also picked up a few old friends to
come and visit.
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The Doctor confronts the Guardians, informing them that the options they
gave him aren’t acceptable. The 9th Doctor shows up out of nowhere to
support him. They briefly discuss the nature of eternal beings who insist that
they exist until the universe no longer needs them.
At which point the 9th Doctor hints that he knows a way around that… and
a second 9th Doctor shows up!
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More and more 9th Doctors show up on the scene, causing the reapers to
appear!
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The 9th Doctor points out the Guardians that once they are devoured the Time Lords will
be able to rid themselves of the Reapers before they can do any damage to Gallifrey.
Seeing how confused the 10th Doctor is, one of the 9th Doctors points out that Gallifrey
wasn’t destroyed, but the Guardians tricked him into flying the TARDIS into the Death
Zone just as acting President Flavia destroyed the Time Scoop equipment after the events
of “The Five Doctors” (on the 5th Doctor’s orders, in fact).
Another 9th Doctor points out that they’d better get out of there before the special
protection that allowed the out-of-time Doctors to even be there in the first place drops
and traps them in the Death Zone of the past.
We get a parting victory shot of the NewWho Doctors, 9th and 10th incarnations.
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As the 9th and 10th Doctors run back to their TARDISes, the 10th asks the 9th
how he knew where to find him and what was going on. The 9th takes him down
in Drax’s TARDIS and shows him the rebuilt, modified Time/Space Visualizer
that the Doctor had abandoned long ago (in a non-televised adventure. The bit
about the Daleks tracking it is not from “The Chase”, I made that up. Might
follow it up with a story of my own some day.) Apparently Drax found it broken
in a scrapyard on Thoros Beta. With it, the 9th Doctor, Drax and K9 have been
looking ahead and intervening around the time lines to set things back on course.
They boot the 10th Doctor out to keep their nick-of-timing schedule.
As a result of this, the 9th Doctor is experiencing this whole story out of order to
the rest of them.
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The 10th Doctor arrives on The Eye of Orion and is greeted by Rose who
has some poignant questions for him about her future with the Doctor. He
can give her no useful answers, but does tell her that he misses her greatly.
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They head down to the waterside where Susan is watching her various
grandfathers having a ball with the various companions.
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