# X-NEWS: spcvxb rec.arts.drwho: 5755 I Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0 13.10.90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu  Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!njin!paul.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!dimacs.rutgers.edu!bcm!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!ndc.UUCP!mak  Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho( Subject: Doctor and the Tardis - part IV( Message-ID: <9103212015.AA02339@ndc.com> From: mak@ndc.UUCP (Mike Klaus)  Date: 21 Mar 91 20:15:51 GMT" Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
 Lines: 155    * Disclaimer: Not for preflight consumption.   	-	-	-   	Timeloop in subway station   B 	doc #4 & SJ - They keep finding themselves in a previous episode.< 		      A riot breaks out as the doctor pops in right after ? 		      some kind of satanist type protest.  The crowd believes < 		      that the Doc is some kind of evil being, and so they@ 		      begin to riot.  Rather than returning to hail their lord? 		      and master, the satanists run for an exit.  Angry crowd < 		      is menacing the Doctor, and they push him off of the@ 		      platform onto the track.  There are so many people there> 		      because it's been over an hour since the last train.  = 		      Sarah thinks that the Doctor dies when the train runs > 		      him over - she is lost on the other side of the ugly,  		      milling crowd.  ? 		      Actually, the Doctor is there to retrieve the rock from < 		      his earlier time-displacement experiment, wherein he< 		      had taken it back in time to tap the rock against an; 		      earlier version of itself, in order to disprove the ; 		      Law of Simultaneous Coexistence.  Chaos had ensued, ? 		      and the rock was taken from the Doctor.  He didn't know @ 		      where it had gone, but he was finding out because he was; 		      being dragged through space and time in it's wake - @ 		      and without a Tardis, yet!  So, when he popped in to the5 		      Underground, he was disoriented and confused.   = 		      Picking himself up from the rubble of cinders on the  < 		      railroad tracks, he picks up the detector which has 8 		      bounced out of his coat pocket.  It's flashing! < 		      The head Satanist has lost his sacred rock somewhere; 		      amid the cinders.  The Doctor crawls around on the  ; 		      cinders while waving the detector around, oblivious # 		      to the approaching train.     > 		      He spots the rock ( pink granite ) leaning against the> 		      third rail.  Luckily, he still has his scarf, which he< 		      uses to pick up the rock and thus saves himself from? 		      electrocution.  He disappears in a flash of blue light, ' 		      just before the train hits him.   ? 		      Rioters nearby on the platform think that he is someone 9 		      that they recognize named 'Bob', and that he was  > 		      electrocuted before the train hit him.  People on the 0 		      train think that they have seen a ghost.  = 		      Two weeks previous, Sarah had seen the Doctor in that = 		      station.  Actually, it seemed to be his reflection in < 		      a mirror.  He was smiling, happy, and he told Sarah ? 		      that everything was OK now.  Sarah didn't believe this, ? 		      since the Satanists seemed to be taking over in London. ? 		      The Doctor lost his smile, and said that he had thought ? 		      that he was no longer travelling backward in time.  He  > 		      told Sarah about the riot which might happen two weeks= 		      later.  Sarah blinked back her tears.  The reflection = 		      disappeared, and Sarah saw that it was a clear glass  A 		      display case cover.  She hadn't been sure that the Doctor ; 		      had been there at all, that she was just talking to ( 		      herself and the train schedules.  > 		      But now, it had actually happened.  She felt like her A 		      head was completely empty.  She had tried to talk to the  @ 		      Doctor, but even right beside him she couldn't yell loud? 		      enough to hear herself above the roaring crowd.  Then,  A 		      pushed around in the melee, her free will was gone  along @ 		      with her will to live after seeing her favorite doctor's> 		      demise.  She was pushed onto a train by the crowd, the: 		      doors closed, and the train pulled away - wherever. 		      it was going, she didn't know or care.  > 		      Meanwhile, Doctor #4 finds himself back in the Tardis.= 		      The floor is littered with cinders and railroad ties.   @ 		      Sarah wakes up on the train, feeling drained.  Her purse? 		      is gone.  She rides alng for hours, finally deciding to A 		      go back to the office and maybe she left her purse there. = 		      Jumping out of the train, she feels strangely sad and ; 		      nervous in the station.  Something bad had happened ? 		      there, but she couldn't remember what.  Heading for the > 		      exit, she sees a man hiding behind a pillar, wearing a< 		      floppy hat and a long scarf.  She panics.  She runs.  ? 		      She runs back to where the detectives are still looking ? 		      for a body on the tracks.  Someone recognizes her, says = 		      " That's her!  She was talking to Bob right before he = 		      was murdered!".  This brings back some memories that  ? 		      Sarah can't deal with - sweaty palpitations & hyperven- < 		      tilations.  She wants to run away, but that man withB 	  	      the hat frightens her and she  won't run past him to the< 		      exit.  She faints and rolls off of the platform onto> 		      the tracks.  The unfamiliar scene there does not bring? 		      the bad memories; Her head clears a little, and she can : 		      think again; which is unfortunate, because now she. 		      can feel the bumps from when she fell.  = 		      She sees the pink granite rock!  It's leaning against : 		      a rail on the other side of the tracks, a virtual < 		      mirror image of the rock that Doctor #4 picked up.  @ 		      She knows that it's important because she had seen it in? 		      the Stasis Box on the Tardis.  And, although the Doctor = 		      told her that it was only an image, she had been able . 		      to pick it up and feel it's texture.    > 		      On the Tardis, Doctor #4 places the pink stone in the ; 		      Stasis Box.  He sighs.  In order to be free of it's ; 		      influence, he must see to it that the rock stays in > 		      the stasis box forever.  Anyone who touches it becomes@ 		      dual-determined, and then everything must be done twice.@ 		      The doctor talks to himself about this at length, having; 		      no one to converse with yet needing to talk through < 		      his theory of Simultaneous Coexistence of Chaos.  He< 		      walks around on the cinders and railroad ties as he 0 		      talks, losing his footing now and again.  = 		      The satanists had liked being dual-determined because @ 		      they could touch someone with the rock and then torture < 		      or kill him, asking him for cooperation.  Then, the > 		      second time, leave the individual alive.  This left no6 		      evidence of wrongdoing, and produced malleable> 		      individuals.  They could take over anything, anywhere.  @ 		      Back at the train station, Sarah picks up the pink rock.  @ 		      In the Tardis, the Pink Rock disappears from the Stasis  		      Box.    ; 		      Sarah struggles to remember her special relativity. 8 		      Clocks run more slowly in a gravitational field.@ 		      By tossing the rock up into the air, it will be in free-? 		      fall for awhile and thus it's 'clock' will run a little < 		      faster.  After many such tossings, the rock's clock < 		      will be fast enough to aquire an additional chronon;: 		      it will be one quantum time state into the future.> 		      In theory, it would emit a graviton when it came back > 		      to the ground state - giving up it's extra chronon and= 		      once again being in time sync with it's surroundings.  		  > 		      However, ground state for this particular rock was not9 		      a local earth-normal parametric coordinate.  She  ; 		      suspects that the rock would be teleported to some  = 		      other place and time, if the theory was correct.  Her > 		      head throbbed.  She doesn't care much if she was going: 		      to be killed in the resulting release of energy - ; 		      the Doctor was gone and that was a tremendous loss.s; 		      At least, the damn thing would be gone from London.u   	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-   	More to come.					-maku   	e