| 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.
-
 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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