THE VICTORIOUS TIME LORD AND THE BATTLE OF 9 11

A/N: This is based on an idea from AceTrax2007 and a video he did on You Tube that was so awesome it just inspired me to write the story for it. I've always loved Dark!Doctor so any excuse to make David evil is okay by me. Hope you enjoy this! If you want to see the video that inspired this, go here…You Tube .com/watch?v=vpzYLdTqGGc

Also, this is AU beginning at the end of Waters of Mars and it also features spoilers for Death of the Doctor.

Chapter One

The Doctor closed the door on Adelaide and locked it. He paused a moment feeling the power and the freedom that came with knowing that no longer did he have to be a slave to time and space, rather time and space was now a slave to him and he could do whatever he wanted. His mind boggled as he thought of all the lives he could now save, all the injustices he could correct, how he could make the Earth a better place to live, perhaps even a paradise because the power to rid the world of evil was his now, without any boundaries or barriers. For the first time in his ten lives, the possibilities truly seemed endless. He ran to his console, feeling like a new man. No longer would he have to stand back and watch people die, watch evil win, watch tragedies unfold. He was well and truly a Time Lord now. A lopsided grin spread over his face as he wondered what he should do with this gift that the universe had given to him. And it truly was a gift, the death of the Time Lords and their rules and restrictions were no more. He was the Doctor and he would do whatever he wanted now.

As the TARDIS dematerialized, he failed to see a burst of light from the window of Adelaide's house as she ended her life and stopped her personal time line from changing.

(In the far future…)

Amy laughed and Rory grinned and shook his head while the Eleventh Doctor sat with them in the TARDIS kitchen. He was telling them about what happened when they went to the Honeymoon Planet and he ended up helping Sarah Jane Smith and Jo Jones defeat the Shansheeth.

"So while we were having a proper honeymoon, you were off battling huge vultures," Amy said when he paused in his narrative.

"Well, not battling, more like avoiding," the Doctor said. "Oh, but I wish you could have been there and seen Sarah and Jo and the kids. I'll have to take you lot to meet them sometime."

"How about now?" Rory asked.

"Yeah, let's go meet these former companions of yours," Amy said.

"Nah, too soon. I have something else in mind first," the Doctor said dismissively. "I want to show you the Moon of…"

The smiles fell off Amy and Rory's faces when they suddenly saw an odd look on the Doctor's face.

"Doctor? What's wrong?" Amy asked.

"Something's gone wrong in the time lines," the Doctor muttered.

"What does that mean?" Rory asked.

But the Doctor didn't answer; he seemed to be thinking, searching his mind for something. Then suddenly he got a frightened look on his face.

"Doctor, what's wrong?" Amy said, suddenly alarmed at the scared look on his face.

"Time is beginning to change, I can sense it. Oh…he wouldn't dare!"

"Who wouldn't dare?" Amy said. "And what do you mean time's changing? Changing into what?"

"I'm afraid we might have to cancel the plans for the trip I had in mind for you. There's a dire emergency I have to take care of now!"

"Okay," Rory said. "Mind filling us in on what the dire emergency is?"

The Doctor fell silent again and Amy gave Rory an exasperated look. Rory nodded in agreement.

"I think perhaps I'll try the direct approach first," the Doctor said. "Perhaps if I talk some sense into him. Make him see reason…"

"Are you ever going to tell us what this is about?" Amy asked.

"It's about the future of the entire universe. The fabric of space and time is being threatened."

"By who?" Rory asked.

The Doctor gave them a grim look.

"By me," he said.

Meanwhile, the Tenth Doctor, after some deep thought, suddenly realized what he could do with his new found power to control time and space. He had told Adelaide that he had never saved anyone as important as her before but there was someone even more important that she was, someone who was much more important to the universe. Someone he longed to have back, without the added burden of one metacrisis version of himself. He knew where he could go and what he could do.

He would go back to the day of the Battle of Canary Wharf and stop Rose Tyler from going to the other universe. He would save the woman he loved and change history for the better. He and Rose were always the perfect team and with her by his side, there was nothing they couldn't accomplish. As he thought about it, he saw in his mind the pesky fact that her "death" was a fixed point in time. For a moment that fact stopped him cold and then he brushed it aside. The Time Lords were the ones who had made the laws for time and space and they were gone. He was the one in charge now and he had the right to ignore fixed points in time if he thought that he could change the outcome for the better. Rose didn't need to be stuck in the other universe with Pete and Jackie and Mickey, working for bloody Torchwood, wasting her life and her talents when she had a much greater destiny as his companion. No, he knew that this was the correct thing to do and once he accomplished it, he would show everyone that the fixed point in time was just a fluke. It wasn't fixed; it was in flux, he was sure of that. His hearts raced as he ran around his console, powering up his TARDIS. The thought of seeing Rose again, of holding her in his arms without some clone staring at him, the fact that he could tell her that he loved her without hearing it secondhand from some abomination thrilled him. He couldn't wait to change history and see the joy on Rose's face when she realized that the man she loved had saved her from an unjust fate.

Meanwhile, the Eleventh Doctor was at his console, looking at his monitor and having his TARDIS search the timelines to see the best spot to land so he could confront his former self and talk some sense into him. He gave his companions the barest of facts, leaving out the fact that Rose had been his lover, only saying that he lost a companion once and his former self was violating the laws of time and space trying to get her back.

"So this is one of those fixed things, it's not an opportunity?" Amy said to him.

"Yes, exactly. This isn't like the meeting with the Silurians. Rose going to the other universe is a fixed point in time that must stay the same no matter what."

"Then why is your past self going to save her?" Rory said.

They saw a guilty look pass across his face in the space of a heartbeat.

"Because I was once tempted to do the same thing," he said. "Except I came to my senses. Apparently the timeline has veered off course and my former self still thinks himself a god."

"God? You were tempted to think of yourself as a god?" Amy asked.

The Doctor didn't answer that and Amy decided it would be useless to keep asking since she knew he wouldn't say anything unless he was willing. But the thought that he had been tempted to flaunt the laws of time and space and control history intrigued her. Her friend always projected an image of being in control, of always doing the right thing no matter what the cost was. For the first time since she'd known him, she saw that he could be tempted to do the wrong thing under the right circumstances. This realization didn't make her lose respect for him, in fact, it was the opposite since she found that she could relate to him just a little more than before. The Doctor didn't tell them the circumstances surrounding his temptation and Amy herself was tempted to ask but once again, she knew he would only tell them if he was willing to share the information so she did what she usually did and trusted him as he ran around his console and piloted his TARDIS.

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