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Post by timegirl on Sept 29, 2021 17:22:55 GMT
“You look just just like a wee version of my boyfriend! Is he your daddy? Did he and his pet human make you?” Missy said ruffling the terrified Peter’s hair.
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Post by grinch on Sept 29, 2021 17:28:41 GMT
Formed from the very vines formed the figure that once was the Rainbow Duchess.
Not quite human, not quite Time Lord but something else entirely.
She smiled. Let the feast begin.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Sept 29, 2021 17:31:55 GMT
The Empress Clara wasn't feeling exactly lonely, but it was unusual that none of her servants were attending upon her. There was a little bell on a table at her elbow; she rang it.
And waited.
And decided that if they didn't hurry, she'd have somebody's head removed.
***
The Slave Consort grabbed Frobisher by the beak, and yanked it open. He inspected the Whifferdill's mouth, then moved onto the flippers.
"Hey!" Frobisher protested. "I'm a unique specimen in the shape of another unique specimen, you need to treat me better!
"I have a plan," the Slave Cosrt announced, "to assassaintate my wife. But it requires you to be cured of Monomorphia first."
"Some chance," quacked Frobisher. "You'd have to have a scientific and genetic mind like... liek Davros's, to work out how to do that.!
"Well," said the Doctor, "it's useful that I know where he is, don't I? And I know what barrier's keeping us from him? And with another version of me there-"
"What?" interjected the Master.
"Never mind," the slave Consort replied. "But when I make three, well, that's three geniuses all in one place. Four, if we extend the definition and count Special K here, too."
The Master was not amused by this crack at his expense. But he *was* intrigued.
"But," Avon pointed out, "if you bring down the barrier, Travis's Seven will attack the planet."
Polar nodded, very emphatically. He didn't want to be at ground zero of an alien attack.
"Well, it's lucky we have a Moral Warrior to fend him off," the Doctor grinned. Then he frowned. "Avon, how long have you had a pot plant in the corridor outside?"
The others turned. They could, indeed, see some greenery behind the door. But until they opened it wider, they would not see Branda Soobie at the centre of the growth.
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Post by grinch on Sept 29, 2021 17:59:00 GMT
Vines began making their way around the door as the now leafy form of Brenda Soobie shuffled forward.
Upon recognising that all of them were suddenly in deep danger, all of them reacted immediately.
Frobisher squawked in alarm, Polar fell to his knees and clasped his hands in prayer, the Master reached for his TCE but finding it absent instead resorted to smashing a chair using what remained of it as a makeshift weapon. The Slave Consort and Avon followed suit.
They began batting away at the vines which suddenly slithered towards them all.
“What is it?” asked the Master fending off a vine which was making it way towards a practically defenceless Frobisher. “A Krynoid?”
“Impossible” muttered Avon who had a terrified Polar clutched under his arm. “The Empress wiped them all out in the great Pesticide Wars”
“Yet another thing to thank your wife for eh?” remarked Frobisher who clearly had regained some of his wits.
The Slave Consort said nothing.
Despite their best effects, it was very much a war of attrition and one they were losing. They were surrounded and it was only a matter of time before they were overwhelmed and presumably absorbed into this... thing.
Several vines suddenly ripped the weapons away from our motley crew and one even began to try and wrap around Polar as what had once been Brenda Scoobie reached out her arms towards them. Ready to enfold them in her embrace....
Until...
The creature paused as the sound of chanting could suddenly be heard outside in the corridor. Then, as the strange sound grew in pitch it let out a shriek and recoiled back fleeing into the corridor with her vines in close pursuit.
Polar dropped to the ground. Good thing he was an artificial being he thought.
The chanting only grew in pitch and volume until it stopped. Then a familiar cloaked head poked around the now barely held on door.
“Daughter?” enquired the Slave Consort.
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Post by timegirl on Sept 29, 2021 18:17:24 GMT
The cyber Clara came in to interrupt Missy before Peter could answer his headmistress’s very uncomfortable questions.
“I must EDUCATE” she said motioning to Peter
“ Oh but I was having so much fun.” Said Missy like a disappointed child.
“Wait no! Please” shouted Peter as cyber Clara dragged him out of the office.
Then when they were out of Missy’s eye view cyber Clara unexpectedly took off her handles!
“Don’t worry Peter. I’m not really cyber.Clever disguise, huh?” the real Clara said.
“ But-“ the very confused Peter started.
“ It’s me Peter, the Clara you know. The original, you might say. Anyways let’s get you out of here. Bill is waiting in the school swimming pool. We’ve got to save my husband and kids. Stupid old man always getting himself into trouble but then that’s why I love him.”Clara explained
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Post by grinch on Sept 29, 2021 18:45:34 GMT
In entered the Nameless Marquess. All bar Avon, Polar and the Slave Consort stepped back warily. They’d all heard stories of the Empress’s’ rarely seen other daughter, the resident bogeyman of the palace but none of them had seen her so up close.
The Slave Consort walked forward and embraced her. And the Nameless Marquess with shaking hands warmly hugged him back.
“So, she’s definitely on our side right?” whispered Frobisher to The Master.
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Post by timegirl on Sept 29, 2021 18:49:53 GMT
As Peter and Clara ran through the school to find Bill, Clara explained to Peter that he would need to body swap again with the Doctor for their plan to work….
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Post by fitzoliverj on Sept 30, 2021 17:56:09 GMT
At the end of the school corridor, Peter could see an orange blur.
It crackled - like words? "I.... am.... Clara... Oswald...."
"Ignore it! Clara said to Peter. "I am the real Clara!"
"And so am I!" said the teenage Clara, who had emerged from the servants quarters.
"She is," confirmed Clara, "the DNA tests prove it. She is an exact copy of me."
"And so am I," said another figure, who was dressed in a suit of armour.
"No, you're not," Clara replied testily.
"All right, I'm not," conceded the genie, "but I'm on your side."
"I....AM... CLARA.... OSWALD...!" insisted the energy being.
Peter, who of course was too young to have read the Death of Superman storyline and didn't know where this was going, stepped back, and clutched Clara's hand.
"DO.... NOT.... TRUST... HER...." crackled the energy being, who was (of course) the version of Clara that had been turned over by Seb to Rassilon.
There was a water fountain in the corridor, and Bill poured out of it. "Our ride's here," she told Clara, and opened a door to the outside. Clara and Pter and Bill and the clone and the idiot in the metal suit all ran outside, to see a gigantic spaceship lowering itself slowly above the school.
"That;s a bit big," said the teenage Clara.
"That's *very* big," said the genie.
"That's...." Bill was horrified. "That's *familiar*. That's a Cyber-ship!"
Clara was grinning. It was not a nice grin.
"Clara, what have you done?" Peter asked, frightened.
"Well, for starters," Clara leered, "I've stolen these bits of your friend. I'm not Clara Oswald; at least, not above a few pounds of flesh."
"She's not, that's true," Missy - who they discovered ws also outside, with Seb next to her carrying her luggage. "But she - he - is hurrying my plan on *far* too quickly."
"Who is she, boss?" the genie asked.
"I can answer for myself," Clara remarked, raising her arms as Cyberprobles extended from her fingers and metal stretched across her face. "I.... AM HANK HENSHAW!!!"
"So, am I going to go and look you up on Wikipedia," Bill asked, "or what?"
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Post by fitzoliverj on Sept 30, 2021 17:58:20 GMT
An evil Clara in each universe. And, in each universe, an implacable foe ready to.... eradicate her.
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Post by timegirl on Sept 30, 2021 18:14:15 GMT
Peter knew exactly what he to do in that instant! He had to turn back time back to when the Doctor and Clara first arrived in his bedroom, and then make sure they had to stay with him in Glasgow. That way he could keep an eye on them and keep them safe and make sure that none of the bad things happened. It would be a big job for a small human boy but he was willing to try.
But how to turn back time?
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Post by fitzoliverj on Sept 30, 2021 18:40:33 GMT
He wondered where Missy's TARDIS was.
Then, as the Cybership began to blast the planet's surface, Peter began to think about his immediate problem.
"RUN!"
***
Meanwhile, the Doctor, who had never counted living in a schoolboy's bedroom as an ambition of his, was wondering how to get back to the Empress's planet through an impenetrible timeproof shield without the one thing that would let him through the impenetrible timeproof shield . He didn't know that his other self wanted to deactivate it, or that his other self would have to battle killer plants to do so.
The Doctor glared at Lara, who glared back.
"Impossible girl," he muttered. "And you're the most impossible of all of them."
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Post by grinch on Sept 30, 2021 18:44:34 GMT
The Nameless Marquess shuffled down the corridor still chanting, followed closely by her father, Avon, The Master and the two (well one at least) talking animals.
“She doesn’t half go on does she?” muttered Frobisher to Avon.
The Nameless Marquess suddenly stopped turned around and raised a finger to her lips. Frobisher raised his flippers in apology. Seemingly accepting it as an apology, she continued forward.
Throughout the various rooms of the palace, vines could be seen as well as the unfortunate victims they coiled around. Many of those unfortunates who had succumb to the Black Mercy’s influence swiped at them as they passed but were quickly warded off by the Marequess’s chanting.
The palace shook for a moment as the sounds of a large explosion and the tearing of metal could be heard.
“That came from down below.” stated The Master.
“Just what we need.” said Avon. “It’s reached the dungeons.”
Polar covered his eyes in despair.
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Post by timegirl on Sept 30, 2021 18:45:06 GMT
As Peter was running he stumbled into a very large hole that just so happened to contain….. Missy’s TARDIS
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Post by fitzoliverj on Sept 30, 2021 20:01:10 GMT
"What kind of power source do you have here?" the Doctor demanded.
"Only a few dexterium crystals," Davros replied. "There's a broken warp drive in the back, but-"
"Perfect," said the Doctor. "You see little Miss Splinter here. The laws of physics just move out of the way when Claras and Laras and Oswins are around, and that's doubly true of somebody particularly special like her."
Lara wasn't sure whether to be pleased by this.
"I reckon," said the Doctor, "that if we supercharge that old transmat" - he nodded at a pile of junk in the corner - "we could teleport through the timeproof barrier."
"I suppose, in theory," Davros mused, "the warp drive fed through the power systems-" He broke off. "But what wouldn't mean just transmitting one or two individuals..."
The Doctor grinned a mad grin. "It would mean transmitting your entire headquarters!"
"But.. but..." Davros protested. "The Empress would have me killed."
"I... WILL... PROTECT..." the Dalek offered.
Davros smiled.
"Will it work?" Gabby asked.
""Well, if it doesn't," the Doctor replied, "none of us will be alive enough to know about it."
***
The Rainbow Princess's regeneration, infected by the Black Mercy, was complete. Reminisicent of a Krynoid or Triffid, she resembled nothing more than a giant planet. And once she rose from the straw, an ambulatory plant.
But she couldn't emerge. A large metal shape was now occupying the courtyard, crammed between wall and wall. A large metal cylinde, rusty and battered, with great big round black bumps down one side.
A door rattled, and fell out of the structure - and the Doctor emerged.
"The power cells are drained," Davros quavered from inside. "You will not be able to send us back."
"I'm not planning on going back," the Doctor called back.
"But we're now trapped within the impenetrable timeproof barrier," Davros pointed out. "Whatever happens in the universe outside, there is no power that can reach us. No TARDIS, no god, no anything.... We are competely cut off from the rest of this and any and every other universe."
The Doctor shrugged. "I like it cosy."
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Post by timegirl on Sept 30, 2021 20:20:01 GMT
As Peter tried various ways to open Missy’s TARDIS door he remembered that the Doctor and Clara had a son and daughter. He wondered if he could save them too and then the Doctor and his family would all be safe in Glasgow with Peter. Peter thought about how much fun they would all have once they were staying with him: they could all have sleepovers every night and tell scary stories , the Doctor could come to his family parties and play his electric guitar, and they could all watch “ Doctor Who” together and eat ice cream. Just as he was thinking about if the Doctor, Clara and their adult children liked watching Doctor Who and what their favorite ice cream might be Peter got interrupted by someone else falling into the hole….
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Post by timegirl on Oct 1, 2021 18:15:39 GMT
It was a man who looked very similar to the Doctor, Peter was currently trying to save except his shirt was a bit more ruffled, his hair a bit more buffant like, and accent a bit more English…
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Post by fitzoliverj on Oct 3, 2021 12:07:24 GMT
They sprawled in the dirt at the bottom of the hole. The older man was particularly upset by their predicament.
"Abandon planet! Pertwees and children first! Look at the dirt on this shirt, Nuncy's going to collar me for me the dry cleaning, I just know it. *And* there's the late return fee as well."
Peter rolled his eyes. Why couldn't it have been the third Doctor? He didn't like "The Navy Lark".
"I'll kill Mr Philips," CPO Pertwee continued, "lost in the fog again, and we end up in a warzone. Pertwee doesn't want to die in an 'orrible 'ole in the ground!"
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Post by timegirl on Oct 6, 2021 2:19:18 GMT
But Peter decided to make the best out of a bad situation and asked the man for help anyways getting into Missy’s TARDIS.
Peter wondered if this man would need to stay with him in Glasgow too if he were to come with him in Missy’s TARDIS.
It was too bad however that Peter didn’t notice the man’s fob watch or know the true meaning behind this device….
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Post by timegirl on Oct 6, 2021 22:46:38 GMT
Just then Peter heard Missy’s voice off in the distance he knew he would have to act quickly…
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Post by timegirl on Oct 7, 2021 19:38:16 GMT
But would Peter and the man with the fob watch be able to get into Missy’s TARDIS in time?
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