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[Hello, Doctor. We've arrived]
"Hello sexy. How are the new upgrades treating you?" I asked as I woke up from my induced sleep
I had finished all the upgrades and inventions a day ago, re-familiarized myself with the TARDIS and her new systems, and finally gave in to a long-overdue idea, holograms. Now she could appear anywhere inside herself, and we could actually have a physical conversation.
All I had to do was connect her matrix to the internal speakers and holographic projectors, link her consciousness to the internal systems, and voilà, an interactive TARDIS.
The personality and image, though, were entirely her choice
[Just fine, my Doctor, although I don't understand the need for all this. We talked just fine before. I go whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and you go "Geronimo"]
I sighed and ignored her. I'd spent the past few days locked in the lab, inventing and upgrading anything that might help me survive longer than a week in the DC Universe.
After a few days of fiddling in the lab, I realized I didn't seem to need sleep, so I decided to check out why, I ran a few scans on myself and discovered that their was and energy running through my body, I believe its called atron energy.
It's a time-active energy produced by time travel, and time vortex, its what powers the Time Lords regenerations.
Mine, however, was different.
It seems to accumulate up until my body reaches full saturation, at which point a forced regeneration occurs. And if my readings are correct, which they are, I can freely control mine, energy blast, regenerate limbs, as long as I'm not killed immediately I could simply heal using the energy and if by some act of bad luck I'm killed immediately, then the forced regeneration will occur
Another thing I have discovered was that unlike the former Doctor, I don't forget my past selves, although I may change face, skin color, gender and so on, heck I may even gain a new personality, but I don't forget who I was, it's like starting a game with new skin, but resuming from last saved point
Anyways that's all about that, oh yeah, I also seem to have unlimited regenerations, that ought to be fun
"How long has it been?" I asked as I walked out of my room towards the controls
Although I may not need sleep but what's life without a little shut-eye eh?
[Five hours since the last time you asked, Doctor]
"Okay I get it, there's no need for sass" I said checking the panels to see where we'd landed
[You know you could just ask me were we are, right?] She said with amusement as she watched me fiddle with the controls
I simply ignored her, I can't exactly admit I like pushing all the buttons and pulling the lever now can I?
I checked the screen... we seem to have landed in a miniworld? pocket dimension? off the eat coast of earth?
"Very well then, let's go on an adventure!" as said as I put on my coat and took my sonic screwdriver and walked towards the door
[Remember, no bringing home strays!!]
I heard her shout as I walked out the door
[oooooh hamburger]
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I opened the door and immediately walked into a forest with strange plants, I think I just saw a six legged rabbit hop pass me
Now normally I should be gallivanting my way into some trouble but I haven't forgotten the tests I said I would run the moment I land so I'm doing that right now
I stared at a fern. Not a normal fern. This one had teeth.
"Right," I said. "If you try to bite me, you're real."
The fern snapped shut.
"Excellent. Hostile flora. That rules out hallucination." I said as a golden glow appears on the wound and it heals almost instantly
I picked up a pebble, tossed it straight up, and waited.
The pebble went up.
It came down.
It came down twice.
One pebble. Two impacts.
I stared at the ground.
"Localized probability bifurcation," I said cheerfully. "Gravity works, but it seems to have forgotten it's rule book at home."
I then snap a glowing blue leaf off a nearby plant and sniffed it.
Smelled like mint, ozone, and regret.
I licked it.
Yes, I licked it.
It tasted like electricity and almonds.
I immediately spat.
"Real," I coughed. "Very real. Also mildly poisonous. Possibly illegal in seventeen systems."
Finally I activated my sonic screwdriver
It hummed, sparked and displayed three conflicting datas in a frequency only a time lord can read.
"Chronal depth present," it reported. "History detected. Future pending. Multiple pasts arguing."
I grinned.
"An unstable, self-contained, temporally flexible and biologically enthusiastic pokect dimension" I concluded
Anyways I guess this is real then, not simulation or any of that, well that's good to know
"Get her!! the Lord needs her!!"
Well that's the sound of trouble if I've ever met one, I thought as I turned to the sound of the voices
I saw a group of... people. Well they may have horns, red all over and two pairs of eyes and a long tail, that doesn't mean they aren't people, I'm not one to judge
They seem to be chasing a young girl who was running in my general direction
As she raised her head and she me, she had a flicker of surprise cross her face, and I myself was a little surprised
Cause the person I say was very familiar, who knew I would run into her at the start
She looks to be sixteen years of age, and from the looks of the demons chasing her and the book she's clutching in her arms I'm guessing she's at the point where she's trying to escape from her father, so he doesn't use her to conquer worlds
"Hey over here!!" I shouted as I waved at her to run towards me, she hesitates for a moment but as the demons are almost reaching her She decides to take the gamble and ran towards me
And from the movement of her mouth I can guess she's preparing some spell just incase, heh typical
Immediately she was less than an arms length from me, I immediately whipped out my sonic screwdriver from my coat and pointed it at the demons, and a sonic sound was released, making the demons to stop running and cover their ears, some fell to their knees
As I turned around, I saw her hands already glowing with dark magic
"Hurry we don't have much time, this won't stop them for long" I said as I held her hand and activated my wrist band
I had made it for emergency escapes, cause I know how many times I had needed one but didn't have it
A bright light shone on the both of us making the demons who were beginning to get accustomed to the sound to cover their eyes
We both disappeared and in the next moment we appeared in the TARDIS
"Phew* That was close" I said as I begin to relax
I wasn't planning for any of this, who the heck plans to meet demons on the very first moment they arrive in a new universe, not me that's who
I thought I would land in a relatively safe place, I even had plans for if I land in Gotham, right now I don't even have a demon slaying tool, talk less of something to kill her father
Yeah I'm not the peaceful Pacific kind of Doctor, I'm more of the war Doctor, cause I'll need that to survive this universe
As I was thinking, the next thing I heard was
"Asarath, Metrion, Zinthos"
And I was suspended in the air with both my hands and feet tighed up
"Who are you? what's this place!? are you another one of my father's manipulations?"
Now how do I begin to explain to a child who has been used, manipulated exploited and some of that manipulations leading to the death of many, although not her fault
That I'm not another manipulation or agent sent to use her by her father
[Of cause less than a minute out there and you bring a stray back]
'And she decides to speak right now' I thought as I roll my eyes at the TARDIS'S antics
"Who's there?!" Raven said as she looked around with agitation if the robes slowly tightening around my wrist and ankles is anything to go by
[Should I toss her out Doctor]
"No no, calm down, activate cloaking, hide within moments" I said a little hurried, cause out there are demons currently looking for me and the lovely lady that has me strung up like a piñata
Hiding within moments is like hiding within the localised timestream, not completely within but not fully out, it prevents those looking for you to be able to find you within time as you're in the physical world and it prevents those in the physical to find you as you're within time
To put it simply, the position of the TARDIS would change depending whether it is being searched for and at what position it is being searched at
I call it the Heisenberg Uncertainty TARDIS, or the Schrodinger TARDIS
Well back to the present
"Sorry for the late introductions, Hi, I'm the Doctor" I said as I calmly continue to hang