Simplifying things.....

Meanwhile, Fred and Astra have told basically a similar tale to those within the fifth Doctor's TARDIS......

They leave out the part about Turlough, Tegan, and Sarah Jane (about them also being duplicated by the Time Scoop....rather than being scooped up and about what that odd dragon had told them in a frenzied discussion right before they'd gotten down to the task of actually saving the Doctor. It happened between a sort span of time between that rather odd "force feeding" of magical knowledge and the forming of the "Herinic Trenis" (a special but risky uniting of mage talent and power....where odd and unexpected side effects could happen like what happened with Romana-who's mind came in too close of contact with E'ysha's at the wrong time-and the first Doctor-who's new body got youthened due to a stray wild surge of magic-in episode 10350).

"....surely you must be mad," Susan says in an uncharacteristically cross voice, "I mean I remember that Grandfather and Grandmother gave birth to their son who became my father......"

Susan then blinks in surprise when the first and fifth Doctor look at her in utter shock.

"But....it wasn't a son......" the first protested weakly, looking a bit green as he looked over at his older version.

"I had a daughter....." the fifth Doctor whispered softly, sitting down upon a chair nearby. "So it's true."

Susan, fighting off a wave of confusion, forges ahead and tries to lend comfort to her distressed grandfather.....or the person she may have mistaken for her grandfather. She'll sort out her feeling later, but right now her family needed emotional support.

"True or not....you two are still real enough," she says softly, "You told me how quantum mechanics worked....how each moment in time another 'me' comes into being. Remember how you explained to me how it worked and that I was real and not some pale imitation? Well, if I am to understand some of what Fred and Astra said, then something similar happened with you both when they went and saved you."

The Doctors look visibly lifted when Susan said this, seeing the truth of what she'd said. They were "real" as the next person.....even if their origins may be a bit peculiar.

Turlough and Tegan just look at each other, not having understood a fifth of what had been said as far as the mathematics of it.

Magic under systematic means?

Ridiculous.

As it was, the new mages Astra and Fred had only begun to understand the new concepts and ideas force upon them and still were trying to hammer out ways to relate it to others.....to put it in their own words. However, they'd learned enough to save the Doctors and that was enough. Well, there was just a little more to it.

Astra and E'ysha, in the end when the fatigue from the spell was catching up, had finished up what needed to be done. The others had already been almost spent from it all, but they had just enough vital essence left to magically check out the fate of the people of this universe who Turlough, Tegan, and Sarah Jane. It was more out of curiosity more than anything else.

It had been somewhat distressing to find that each of the analogous version of them in this universe had died in separate accidents of one type or another....

General agreement had been, despite this, that these duplicates probably would be less than thrilled to find themselves being duplicates. The one known as Betty had said that the Doctor was such a person who'd be able to "bounce back" from the news. She had been less than optimistic that the others would be able to take it in...... Silence for now and hope that something could be figured out before things came to a head.

At least they'd found that their lifeline hadn't been stressed (somehow) to the breaking point by this "Time Scoop" thing's malfunctions. Somehow, the Scoop had even been able to somehow weave their lifelines into this universe, anchoring them (who's process had been completed by the act of the "Scoop" being shut down).

Anyway, despite all that metaphysical mumbojumbo as some would call it, there were still things to take care of.

Bottom line is that there is no going back for the newcomers, now. The way had been lost (if there had even been one) with the deactivation of the Time Scoop. Chords cut and ways home lost and all that.....

That part hasn't been told either to Turlough or Tegan for similar reasons as what has been put forth before. Perhaps the others may find a way home for them within the Tomb of Rassilon?

"Well, I guess it'll have to do for now," Tegan finally concedes, not satisfied with the answers an increasingly annoyed Fred has given her, "but as soon as we're done...."

"We'll come to that when we come to it," Astra says, "but right now we must get to Rassilon's tomb to deliver a message directly to him, as per our assignment by the entities known as an Agent......"

The first Doctor has the good grace to look a bit embarrassed for having forgotten the first time Fred and Astra had told their story (re: 10046).

At least my memory seems have improved from what they did when they saved me, he thinks to himself, That and having more vigor....

The first Doctor then put in how they had arrived here and what Fred and Astra had been able to do to the Dalek and the others who'd tried to finish his and the other's lives.

"I still....am not going to say that I believe in magic," the first Doctor finishes, "but....there is definitely something happening here more than mere nonsense...and I suggest for all of you now to just....er....go with it as some say back on Earth."

"Don't you mean Terra?" Astra mutters to herself before yet more questions can be asked, as is the wont of most of the Doctor's Companions.

1. That is when the Cybermen decide to start knocking on the door of the TARDIS, only to be burned to a crisp by a passing dragon named Sigin.....

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