THE LAST TIME LORD
Disclaimer I dont own Doctor who Author note chapter is now up , please review it helps me to improve. Thank you to XtimeGirlX for Beta reading this chapter. ############################################################################## Everquest wandered down the long, pale white corridors of the TARDIS. It seemed bigger than it once used to be, back in the days of old. The interior of the TARDIS looked different to how it used to look; back on Gallifrey, they didn't always call them TARDIS'S, they were simply called Time Capsules. At one point, Everquest had owned her own Time capsule; it had been slightly more advanced than the Doctor's and hers had been shaped into a pink car. It had been a type 50. She used to be able to find her way round the Doctor's TARDIS blind folded, but not so now. Finally she found the workshop; the workshop had been a dull, lifeless little room but now it looked more like a science lab, filled with lots of equipment. The room was shaped like an oval, the desks were also oval shaped and the floor was black and white. Noticing the Robot Dog in the corner, Everquest stepped towards it. It apparently had not been in use for some time. For someone as brilliant as the Doctor, he never seemed to be able to fix Robot Dogs and broken chameleon circuits; she had never seen the fascination he had with keeping it as an old police phone box. She knelt down before K9 and within moments he was fixed. He started whizzing around her. "K9!" she exclaimed. "Mistress." "Did you miss me? How are you?" she asked. "All circuits in working order, Mistress." "Good, now can you tell me how to make this teleport device work so I can travel back to Gallifrey?" "Negative, event is time locked." "What if I travelled in a different time?" Everquest pushed with a thoughtful frown. "Do not mess with the time lines, Mistress." "Hmm. Why am I listening to a tin dog?" she thought out loud, standing up. "Sticks and stones." "Oh do be quiet, K9," she snapped. "Silence mode adopted Mistress." "Could there be others that survived like Everquest?" Sally curiously asked. "There was, but I don't think there are any more now." he trailed off, eyes widening. "No, no, no!" he shouted to himself. He knew then what Everquest was planning to do - trying to visit a locked event. He swore he could see an evil glint in her eyes earlier; the same glint he'd seen in the Master's so many times. He turned down the corridor towards her room, pushing the door open. "Everquest!" he called out her name but she wasn't there. She was nowhere to be found at all. He looked in the library, the swimming pool then the workshop... she had been there. He sensed it, but then a bad feeling arose in him. No, she hadn't. She wouldn't have. Running back into the console room in a blind panic, he called out "Show me the last movements of Everquest!" Images came on the console of Everquest in the workshop fixing K9, then creating the dimension cannon. "NO, NO!" The loud shout rebounded off the walls as the Doctor clutched his head in fear and watched his Sister transport herself. He ran back towards the workshop. "K9, give me her co-ordinates!" he shouted in a panic. "Master, 075498/quest." He ran back to the console room, inserting them. Rushing around the console, he opened the TARDIS door as she flew towards the TARDIS and finally crashed onto the floor. Everquest pulled herself up. "What in the world of sanity were you thinking?" The Doctor yelled at her, his eyes wide with a mixture of rage and concern. "I just wanted to see..." she whined in a child like voice. "Do you know what would have happened if you had broken the time lock?" He paused. "The Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child that Could've Been King with his Army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres... the war that would have turned into hell!" "I didn't know," she told him as she stood up, attempting to get away from the Doctor. He was treating her like a little child. He was about to say more but what would be the point? She wasn't there during any of the Time war. She never saw what was born in the very last days of the time war; in a way he was glad, but maybe she needed to know, no matter how painful it was. "I'm going to my room," she announced. "Not until I've checked you over," he said in a concerned voice. "I'm fine, stop fussing. I'm- " she mumbled pathetically as she passed out on the TARDIS floor. "Everquest," he was at her side, "Talk to me." He scanned her with the sonic screwdriver. "She'll be fine in half an hour," he muttered to Sally upon noticing her concerned face. He carried her towards the sofa, placing her gently onto it. She briefly stirred, but her eyes remained close as she slept. Suddenly she stirred as she thrust about on the sofa as if she was having a night mare. "Everquest, open your eyes, wake up." But she couldn't. It was almost like she was in her worst nightmare and couldn't escape. She was walking towards the untempered schism Rassilon was walking behind her. She could see her parents in the distance, as she tried to run,Rassilon grabbed hold of her. She struggled like a captured animal. She'd heard the stories of the untempered schism; it was what had made the Master go mad. "Please," she whispered as a single tear fell down her face. Finally they were there. "State your name," demanded Rassilon; his gaze never left her. "Annabellakastrekella," she stated her birth name. "Your name!" he shouted in rage at her. "Everquest," she stuttered. She never wanted to lose her name; after this she'd be someone else. Her whole body shook in fear in the presence of Rassilon; she was absolutely terrified of him, but then again, most children in the Academy were. She didn't want this; she didn't even want to be a Time Lord. She just wanted to run across the lush red grass in the grounds of Gallifrey, to be carefree and to play with her friends. "State your name!" he shouted in rage for the second time. "The Dark One," she whispered, her eyes hard. An evil piercing smile came upon Rassilon's lips, as he placed her hands on the untempered schism. That's when she saw all the horrors: Daleks, a Time War, death and destruction and she screamed and screamed and screamed until she couldn't anymore. The Doctor gently stroked her hair. "Shh, Everquest, wake up. You're safe." But she kept on screaming; as he looked into her mind he saw all the memories that were hidden beyond the nursery rhyme. He saw her being forced to look at the untempered schism, being locked in the dark tower and every dark moment in her life. "I'm so sorry," he whispered. He was sorry he hadn't been there for her and now it looked like she was every bit as damaged as the Master, but she hadn't gone mad, he was sure of it. Instead she had blocked it all out, as if it had never happened. Her eyes flicked open as she saw the Doctor's concerned look for her. "I- " she stuttered, not being able find the words. He had to fix her... but how? ################################################################### Turning to Sally, he explained. "The untempered schism - that's when it started, all the madness on Gallifrey. As Children of Gallifrey, taken from our families at the age of eight to enter the Academy. And some say that's when it all began." In fact he knew it was. How could he not? He knew how he'd run from the untempered schism and never stopped. He knew how his cousin Erisa had been forced, kicking and screaming to the untempered schism, her eyes forced open by Rassilion himself. He'd known how the Master went mad. Breanna who in later years had been adopted by his parents who had been like a sister to him, had been the only one who had truly been inspired by the untempered schism. He had seen in Everquest's mind what had happened when she was just eight years old - barely a child. Rassilon had made her stare into the untempered schism, Time lords behind her as they lead her there in the dark. "What does that mean?" Sally asked. "It's a gap in the fabric of reality. You can see into the time vortex itself and it hurts. It performs part of the ceremony of becoming a Time Lord." "But, you looked?" "Some people looked and were inspired, others like the Master went mad, and me?" He paused, a bitter smile on his face. "I just ran and never stopped," he admitted. They all had to of course. Every single Time Lord had looked into the untempered schism. There was no choice. Staring at the raw power of all of time and space, barely a child. The Doctor may have run but he never escaped being forced to stand in front of the untempered schism; he never had talked about what he'd seen that had made him run Suddenly the TARDIS started rocking from side to side as sparks flew around, sending Sally and the Doctor onto the floor. "What was that?" exclaimed the Doctor as he ran out of the TARDIS. Sally ran after him. "Well we landed in one piece, that's good," stated the Doctor. But in the middle of the road, he saw it. A Dalek. He pulled a face. "That on the other hand isn't so good." "Exterminate! Extermine! Exterminate!" it screamed. "Sally, get in the TARDIS now," the Doctor ordered as he pushed her behind him. "It was real, I'm not crazy!" she gasped, her eyes wide and full of fear. "A Dalek - almost like it had fallen through time when Everquest- " he didn't continue. Quickly, he turned back to Sally. "What did you mean when you said 'it was real'?" "All the things I saw. The Weeping Angels, the Cybermen, the Daleks! I saw them all but Larry - he said I was crazy. He said there were no Weeping Angels, no Daleks or Cybermen invading the Earth. And we broke up, because he called me crazy and tried to make me see these doctors. " "Sally, he should have remembered the Daleks." The Doctor looked worried. Very worried. "He told me they weren't real, that it was just a story in my head. How could he not remember them?" "I don't know, something else is happening here and I don't know what it is." The Dalek started edging towards them. "All Time Lords will be exterminated!" it screeched, and then there was nothing as it seemed look around its surroundings. "Where am I? You will speak or be exterminated." "Earth," growled the Doctor as he pushed Sally behind him. "Have to stop it," said the Doctor. "These things will kill every living thing. These things destroyed my world. This exact one fell through time." Everquest approached the Dalek, a smile upon her face. "Dalek, do you know what's happening right now? Back on Gallifrey, your entire race is dying. Ten thousand ships, your entire race... all gone in one second." "You lie, you will be exterminated!" "I don't think so. I'm the Dark One." A piercing bright light appeared in her eyes. The Dalek moved back as if it was afraid. "You will show mercy." "NO!" she shouted. "Mercy!" it screeched. "What, like you did?" she spat back. "There was a time when I had a family, a planet to escape to, but you destroyed it." Grabbing a metal pole she had spotted, she started hitting the Dalek over the head with it. "You killed my family!" she screamed as the tears streamed down her face and she clutched her head as more memories filled her mind. Her head felt like it was burning up as she stumbled, as the pain filled her head, the memories, the song... It felt like it was slowly destroying her. "Mercy! Mercy! Mercy!" it screamed before exploding into flames. Everquest looked at the Dalek that had exploded. Did she do that? "What did I do?" she whispered before she collapsed onto the ground.
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