Doctor Who: the Eternal Champion recap....(Part 2)

We send out the signal to stabilize and repair the damage done to the universe (and also changed that universe into a "steady state" universe....by the way), and then went onto our second target.

Well, I know that we were prepared. Really. But perhaps a bit too prepared in a sense. That or perhaps I should say the individual members of our team were too ready to act on the next sign of danger. We needed to....er.....co-ordinate better. We hit the first zombified person we meet upon exiting the TARDIS (an analog of the same female security guard who'd shot Ragan before) with quiet a bit more than was needed to put her out, and let me tell you that the results of all of that were quiet.....painful for me. Oh, it's not that the woman died. No, not that. Rather, it only initially knocked her down...and then a synergistic effect kicked in and....oh BOY....was she revved up into high gear! That and the security guard was freaking out. The guard's last memories were of the Master and her attempting to go for her gun. Well, reflexes were reved way up and she completed her draw and fire maneuver. I barely had time to knock the Doctor out of the way as it was. Bullet hit me in the forehead. Hmm. Well, I always said I'd been hard headed about a few things.... Sorry, couldn't resist the pun. Boy, got headache from that... Anyway, the security guard, freaked out at accidentally shooting somebody, is stopped in mid babble as I took her gun and put her to sleep with a spell.

However, the noise had attracted the attention of the other zombified VLA staff. E'eysha made the excellent suggestion that in order to minimize the effort needed to neutralize them would be for Sigin to magically make himself to look like the Master and order them to halt. Now Sigin is a master at acting (needed to be to be able to blend into human society as he'd done back where he was from), and while the act was a bit off (more Ainely's Master than Delgado's according to Betty) it worked like a charm! We put the zombified people to sleep in the VLA's Visitor Center where they'd awaken later and remember nothing. We also made the security guard think upon waking that the whole incident was nothing but a dream. Even replaced the spent bullet in her gun (that and we took and replaced the images of what we did on the security system) to give reality to that lie.

We fix the damage done, see that this Earth also gets dragged to Terra Prime's universe (in orbit around a yellow sun like the Sun).

Off to that last Earth, Betty's Earth, and we'd be done.

Naturally, something had to interrupt.

Naturally.

Well, it all has to do with interference done by a corrupt Time Lord was the problem. One Lord President Borusa had gained control of the Time Scoop and tried to Scoop the Doctor in a bid to gain immortality. But the problem is....you can't alter a Champion's past. It's a security feature of sorts. Keeps the opponents from erasing you for being annoying and all that. Using a Time Scoop falls under this category. What happened was a parallel version got, sort of, dragged into Doctor Who's universe and then proceeded on getting Scooped. The process also dragged the Doctor's TARDIS back to his home universe (instead of to Betty's universe as planned).

I, Betty, and Ragan recognize a scene playing out from an episode called "Shada". A certain villain was in search of a powerful Gallifrian book needed. Well, let's just say to prevent a disaster I mugged a student to gain this powerful book and threw the villain into a river. The very river that the analogous Doctor who got scooped, along with his Romana, are traveling down in a gondola.

Then....we all got dragged to Gallifrey, along with what I would call a Fu....e mess.

Uh, for the sake of brevity, I'll just say that what happens next basically follows the plot set forth in that "The Five Doctors". Let's me just tell you about the exceptions besides what we already have seen here. When we and the Fourth Doctor got Scooped together, the Scooped acted up and caught Borusa....and he died in the cold vacuum of space. Then we interrupted an ongoing discussion between the Master and the High Council. Then, a traitor in Security, frightened that his role in Borusa's plans would be revealed cuts power to the Time Scoop, and the analogous Doctor (in all his five incarnations) gets almost killed when his long lives get shattered into five different pieces. They all would have died if Sigin hadn't thrown together a powerful, dangerous, and unstable magical ritual which saved the pieces (i.e. the five different incarnations of the analogous Doctor) by basically turning these five shattered segments into five complete, new Time Lords. They were still themselves, with their own memories, but now they were in new bodies (though they looked the same as before). The incarnations no longer were merely incarnations of the same person, but five separate people in their own right. Best that we could do, really. The damage had already been done. Either we did that, or we watch them fade and die. Now, the problem with that magical ceremony of Sigin is that it takes tremendous amounts of material (provided by Sigin's Hoard back on his home world). There was also the fact that we had to do something in the ritual that left all Sigin's apprentices with something like an equal amount of magical knowledge as ten years of training (including Romana....more on that in a bit). There was a side effect that youthened the First Doctor into a man in his thirties in appearance. Then there was the effect it had on Romana herself....and the Fourth Doctor. In the course of things she got magical knowledge....and turned into an elf....along with the Fourth Doctor. We also helped a set of new Champions (analogs of Fred and Astra) to get a note to Rassilon which....somehow resurrected him so as to be able to lead the Time Lords in an upcoming time of trouble. Long story we shan't go into here right now. Makes my head hurt to think about it....let alone to try to explain it all. Forget about me doing that, at least for now.

Well, the next thing we get to do is go directly to Logopolis here due to the news that Rassilon gives that not only can we fix the problem in Betty's universe, but it perhaps would be a great idea to get over there ASAP. Oh, that and it would also by doing this also make this universe beside the originally three, as we had expected, also into a steady state universes. Ah, if the Doctor can't follow exactly how these signals we are sending out to fix things work....then this AI girl ain't going to even begin explain it.

Despite my initial worries about us just arriving out of the blue and what kind of strain that might put on our welcome, the Monitor of Logopolis was absolutely thrilled to greet us. When he saw the computations that would make it no longer necessary for them to continue sending entropy through Charged Vacuum Embodiments to keep this universe still going, he was almost beside himself in delight With little to no delay we arrived at the Central Register and broadcasted the signal. I must admit to Betty and the others later that....at first it seemed rather anticlimactic. Should have known.

That's when the old school USS Enterprise (1701) arrived in the skies of Logopolis out of the freaking thin air. Not crashing. Not burning. Just....flying up there. Turns out that a certain bad boy who likes to wear black and wear a mustache had planned on crashing the good ship and using it as a distraction. It didn't quiet happen that way, but it did cause the Logopolitans monitoring the for approaching ships to look up at the sky instead of whatever they use for detection equipment.

A day late and a dollar short, the Master arrived (with a unwilling Neysa in tow to take over this complex on Logolis and learn it's secrets in yet another.....dipshit plan to take over the universe, I'm sure. Creator!! I am getting so tired of meeting this guy over and over again...and again. Either him or his analogous twin. Sigh.

He also said, as what had happened in Betty's TV show, demanded our cooperation or he'd bring Logopolis to a complete halt. That's about the time that those people on the Enterprise beamed down. That's about the time when the Master got distracted and looked back to see the source of the noise that the teleporters had made. That's about the time I, Sigin, and the elves jumped the Master. That's about the time we wrestled away the controls that the Master was going to use to silence Logopolis. That's about the time when, while braining the Master with the hilt of her dagger, E'eysha accidently....killed him (Amazonian warriors are very skilled with their weaponry....and able to actually hit and knock out an opponent somewhat easily....and without nasty side effects less skilled folks would usually have). That's when the Doctor found out that the Master learned from Betty that the Master had been in his last Regeneration and should be dead permanently, now. That's about the time we were treated to some freak window to another universe where something similar had happened with another Doctor and his group.

There as well as here we watch the Master not only Regenerate (defying the rules), but came back as a young blonde! Well, long story short, we free Neysa, get the newly revived Masters into custody (ours to a Time Lord delegation sent to retrieve her and the other one to be taken into custody of this other Doctor's people), we closed down a anomaly that' would have destroyed Logopolis, persuaded Captain Kirk (who's from another universe than the Federation I know of) to contact Star Fleet and let them get that wonderful transwarp drive that Lt Uhura came up with. All that, we finally were done and had pretty much taken care of business. We deserved a vacation and the Rules and Agents even sent a message saying that we had done good and should indeed do that. That and that we could still go to Betty's world for one visit (a vacation, really) and such.

So that's what we did!

After going down to get the stuff from Betty's place, things started to get interesting.

1. First, we get to meet Betty's biological sister......

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