A Temporal Carol

Chapter Four Futureless

By Mathieu Leader

The Doctor found himself in Trafalgar Square and saw a black HD TV screen come on a tall man dressed in a blue suit with scruffy blond hair and a beard with grey eyes said coldly "I Harold Peter Saxon have been reappointed Prime Minister of Great Britain as my predecessor Brian Louis Green failed abysmally in handling the 456 crisis and who better to handle an alien invasion than an alien me I'm a Time Lord and my race will be returning to Earth to solve your problems,"

The crowds cheered....

Suddenly a blonde haired girl with blue eyes carried a gun and shot a red ray of light into the air.

Then a blue police box which floated into the air and crashed from the sky and burnt.

The blue box was destroyed and from the blue fragments sat the Doctor, and his dead companions Wilfred and Donna with Martha Jones.

The Doctor said gasping "Rose why did you do this?"

Rose replied angrily "The Master will be our saviour and anyone who rebels against the New Gallifreyian Empire, is a traitor,"

She continued darkly "Traitors to the Time Lords are to die!"

The Doctor said sadly "Finally I embrace death!"

The Doctor lay dead and the corpse was collected by Rose and the corpse went into a white van marked TORCHWOOD in bold letters and the van went away silently.

The black Dalek returned and said in a monotone drone "I have read your thoughts you wondering why the humans hate you!"

The Doctor said annoyed "I would like an answer my angelic adversary?"

The Dalek replied "The Archangel Signal was beamed out after the Master's rebirth and they became his slaves his own Master Race,"

The Doctor said angrily "I do not believe you!"

The Dalek said softly "I guess seeing is would be proof for you Doctor, the Daleks have a far superior ocular range than you humanoids!"

The Doctor said irritated "Stop boasting!"

The Doctor hopped onto the Dalek and the Dalek floated into the stratosphere and the Dalek said calmly "Place your hand onto my hand and then you'll see what I see,"

The Doctor placed his hand onto the Dalek's eyestalk and saw a thick gold fog around the planet.

The Doctor said frightened "That's Arton energy swamping the Earth, and that must mean the barriers of universes are opening again no wonder Rose is here,"

The Dalek said darkly "Yes, the total percentage of the earth is immersed in 6.6.6. % of Arton energy to be exact,"

The Doctor said annoyed "I've seen that number since day one when the Scyroax are invaded Earth sometime ago does this have anything to with Old Horned God of Skaro?"

The Dalek said frightened "Throughout the cosmos the number is in every culture 666, they refer to it as The Number of the Beast and he is returning he will knock four times!"

The Doctor said shocked "The Beast was destroyed I killed him,"

The Dalek said darkly "Nothing of the New World shall destroy the Beast as it is one of the Old Ones the Beast lives and waiting to be reborn,"

The Doctor said coolly "You are not a Dalek really?"

The Dalek replied in a cool feminine voice "You are correct Theta,"

The Dalek suddenly radiated a white light and the Doctor saw now instead of a Dalek now a woman in a white suit with short brown hair dark brown eyes.

The woman said softly "Hello it is good to see you son after so many aeons,"

The Doctor said confused Pandora how are you still alive with the Time War I saw Gallifrey burn?"

Pandora said quietly "I prayed to the White Guardian, who was fleeing the universe at the disgust of the Time War with the other Guardians. But they decided someone needed to maintain the order of the universe with them gone they put there holy powers within me so I'm now the sole guardian,"

Pandora said coldly "The lines of convergence are being drawn across the Earth Theta, the final day of your Tenth life draws close with the Hand of Omega you are the only one who will slay the Beast forevermore,"

The Doctor said irritated "But mum the Hand of Omega was lost in the war,"

Pandora smiled and said softly "I gave my youngest son a bit of help I managed to send the Hand through the Medusa Cascade, and then it got diverted through another temporal rift on Earth in Cardiff to a place called Torchwood where a man called Captain Jack Harkness renamed the device the Resurrection Gauntlet and is still there,"

The Doctor said annoyed "How can it be that's impossible Torchwood fell I sensed it?"

Pandora said coldly "It is in the procession of the Captain you and he shall gather the army with the Lost Companion as its leader proclaiming freedom from the Legions of the Beast,"

The Doctor said quietly "How did I die from that gun?"

Pandora waved her hand and the city of London vanished and was replaced with the steel reinforced room of Torchwood Three.

The figure of Rose Tyler shouted "As Chief Executive of Torchwood, I demand you of none citizens of New Gallifrey tell us your names?"

Two green spiky cacti creatures one smaller and female the other was taller and male.

The woman said coolly "I'm Lynette Addams and this is my partner Oscar Rossiter, and we are the ones whom created the Immortality Gate. Which saw the rebirth of Harold Saxon we have tried to reconfigure the Gate into a Molecular Transducer to destroy the Doctor's regenerative chromosome,"

Rossiter pulled out a long black gum with silver symbols,

Rose grabbed the gun and said excitedly "Great this will be perfect,"

Rose said coolly "I declare Addams and Rossiter former people of Sto to be citizens of New Gallifrey and honoured members of Torchwood,"

Suddenly, the Torchwood base disappeared.

Now a giant red horned head appeared with glowing golden eyes said in a low voice "Doctor your bestiality makes me the First Sin, look like a saint the Devil and the Lonely God will meet for the End of Time with the Lost Children will appear as well,"

The Doctor said angrily "I'm far more than a mere Time Lord, I was there as a commander of the Fledgling Empires in the Dark Times I saw the first Lords of Time.

"Then known as the Disciples of Light with Omega and Rassilion, and myself banishing you to the dark pit I was the Other and died in the pit but my biological data was stored in the Matrix and I was loomed again as Theta Sigma I never forgot who I was,"

The Beast said darkly "You are the Oncoming Storm, the End draws near and Death is waiting Doctor,"

The Beast said darkly "The truth of the Ood will be revealed Doctor,"

The Doctors mother Pandora reappeared and shone brightly and the Beast snarled and growled then disappeared

The Doctor said nervously "Mom what did the Beast mean by the truth of the Ood will be revealed?"

Suddenly Pandora sobbed and the white aura faded she said tearfully "It is the shameful secret of the Time War,"

Pandora was gone in a pale mist,

The Doctor stared in shock as he was back in his TARDIS and the cloister bell sounded.

The Doctor went outside and saw the on the street an elderly man with white hair and brown eyes with a red beret in camouflage uniform aided with a thin black cane come towards him.

The man said breathlessly "Doctor, it is good to see you Colonel Mace, told me how you handled the Sontarans,"

The Doctor said ecstatically "Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, it's been ages literally ages since I saw you last,"

The Brigadier said urgently "We need you Doctor I have retaken my post as Head of UNIT we need to stop Project Lazarus,"

The Doctor said coolly "I defeated Dr. Richard Lazarus months ago so no problem?"

The Brigadier said angrily "You are a dumb bastard sometimes Doctor, Harold Saxon knew you where going to kill him so he and a small group of loyal Saxon disciples including the late Dr. Lazarus and Joshua Naismith the internet tycoon have harvested the Immortality Gate from Torchwood One and are going to resurrect your antithesis the Master!"

The Doctor shouted erratically "Go we must stop the Cult of Saxon!"

Then the Brigadier clicked his fingers and a black helicopter appeared.

The Brigadier said softly "The Woman told us about the End of Time Doctor so we must attack Saxon Manor directly we must travel in style,"

The Doctor said eagerly "Great,"

The end