# X-NEWS: spcvxb rec.arts.drwho: 5815 I Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0 13.10.90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu w Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!njin!princeton!udel!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ndc.UUCP!mak  Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho/ Subject: repost - Doctor and the Tardis part II ( Message-ID: <9103251655.AA06258@ndc.com> From: mak@ndc.UUCP (Mike Klaus)  Date: 25 Mar 91 16:55:22 GMT" Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
 Lines: 133     	Doctor and the Tardis - II     ; Continuing the Dr Who movie outline.  Our story so far.....   I Several different Doctors and Tardii have been: Summoned to; 'Scooped to; I Purposely travelled to; and Stumbled upon; A large underground chamber on J Earth in which "several temporal vortices have converged and intertwined".  G Various companions have gone with various Doctors to extreme reaches of E space and time, leaving from the chamber and following the different  J vortex threads in an attempt to understand and unravel them.  It proves toE be impossible to eliminate the causes, so the respective Doctors are  H concluding that they must learn to live with the compond vortex and it'sJ effects.  During the travels, various of the companions have been strandedH all over the place, and most of them have been rescued by a Doctor whoseL regeneration they do not recognize.  More than one Tardis contains more thanF one copy of a companion.  Mel leaps from one Tardis shortly before it K materializes, catching herself in a recursive timeloop.  There seems to be  ; a million Mels, following Mel Prime in a long Lambada line.   K A cosmic xerox machine is discovered, which can make three-dimensional real L matter copies of anything which is placed on it's window.  Doctor #6 is ableM to leave a note for Doctor #3 by copying his note and leaving the copy in the O machine's bin, which temporarily circumvents the ripple effect.  Several of the I companions press the green button without first placing an object on the  L glass, and are rewarded with a three-dimensional copy of the copying machineH lid.  Sarah Jane makes a reduced size copy of the lid, which she uses toJ replace a melted panel cover in the Tardis.  She also makes several copiesH of a useable dematerialization circuit, and one unuseable.   Jamie triesK to copy a mirror, which overloads the copier, which implodes as the copier  I attempts to make a copy of it's own internal workings.  Zoe, looking over L Jamies shoulder, sees him and the copier both shrink to a singularity, whichG glows brightly in her hand as she catches it from falling to the floor.   M The doctors have streched the compound vortex while searching for it's roots, M so it snaps back and pulls all of the Tardii back to the underground chamber, N even pulling in the non-functional Tardis (which is a stroke of luck for Mel).F We see a huge number of Tardii appear in the chamber, which eventually' coalesce into a small clump of seven.     J Most of the Doctors are becoming stressed out and are collapsing, some dueK to the laws of time, and some because they hadn't eaten since last Tuesday.   K Also, most of the old, unused 'blooper' footage from the cutting room floor L has been used up, and therefore it's time to shoot some new film.  The scene
 shifts to:  D Colin Baker and Peri in a Tardis Control Room.  She's looking at theE viewscreen at the Doctors wandering around outside, leaving notes for N each other and making small piles of stones.  She is shreiking, "Look, Doctor.K That Doctor is ill!  Can't you help him?"  Colin has his eyes tightly shut, J shakes his head.  She shrieks some more, "That companion is trying to talkK to the other Doctor, but he keeps fading out!"  Colin puts fingers into his I ears, turns his back to the console.  She goes on, "All you have to do is K go out there and act as an intermediary.  Listen to the one, and then relay K the message to the other.  All our lives depend on it!"  She is now jumping 3 up and down, pulling on Colin's arm, "Doctorrrrrr!"   I Colin refuses to open his eyes.  "Ohhh, don't you see what's going on out J there, Peri?  It's a compound time vortex, in some ways more illogical andL confusing than the Matrix itself.  There is nothing I can do that won't make matters worse."   D Peri shrieks in reaction to something on the viewscreen ( which we, H thankfully, do not see ).  "But, you're a tiiiimelord!  You all have theG ability to deal with that!  Aaaak!"  Her eyes are still riveted to the  ( screen.  Which begins to shake and melt.  M Colin replies, "Yes, yes, but only if just one of us is looking at it!  Since N I have been here many times before, and I will doubtless be here again, exceptI that I will be out there,  I know that they will all fail.  And they are  L killing themselves while they do it.  If not for a loyal companion like you,H Peri, to drag their lifeless bodies back into their Tardis, I would haveC died long ago and you never would have met me.  Why, I remember..."    Colin fades from existence.   H Peri really hasn't been listening.  "Doctor, she's dragging his lifeless- body back into that other Tardis!  Shriek!!!"   L Colin fades back in, "... so that's how I know that the others will survive,H somehow.  Wait....They are going to...", ( points index finger up ), " IJ think...Yes...", ( opens one eye ), "Wait..." ( looks around with the one K open eye), "I think they're gone."  He opens the other eye, and with a look I of sudden resolve, spins around and begins to manipulate controls on the  	 console.    I Peri watches in disbelief as the viewscreen melts and drips down the wall G towards the floor.  She touches the slag.  Quietly this time, she says, 9 "It's cold.  Doctor, how can it be melting if it's cold?"   I "Time itself is melting, Peri.  Now that all of the other Me's have been  M disabled, perhaps I can do something about it without having one of them undo H the pattern inadvertently.  Too many timelords spoil the soup.  At least4 I can read the console now, and touch the controls."  0 "Can you see what the other Doctors are seeing?"   "Yes, peri, I can."   8 "Is that why you couldn't grab the control knob, there?"  I "Yes.  Although this one is in the 'up' position here, it's in the 'down' L position in all the other copies of this Tardis, so I thought it was in the L 'down' position here.  I couldn't touch it when I reached for it, but there 3 are several other reasons that can happen.  Usually K it's the Tardis herself telling me not to do something.  Other times, it is H simply impossible for the Tardis to respond, but since she must respond,L she excludes the possibility of a control input.  Otherwise, it's the rippleL effect which makes me seem insubstantial to with respect to the control knob itself."  O "Is that all.  I thought that you were going loony, like all the rest of them."   L "Well, Peri, maybe I am.  Is it alright with you if I ask you to tell me theJ control positions and readout numbers?  Your perception doesn't seem to be affected, yet."   G "Yes, Doctor, I will help you with the controls.  My perception is good K because I'm sure that there is only one of me.   So far.  But, I'm curious. B What are the other Doctors looking at right now?"  Her tears fall.  K "The inside of their own eyelids.  As soon as one of them wakes up, I will    likely be non-functional again."   								MORE TO COME      							-mak   O "We're not all dead.  Annihilation occurs in pairs, and we're an odd number..." 