THE VICTORIOUS TIME LORD AND THE BATTLE OF 9 11

Chapter Nineteen

While the Doctors and Rose were waiting for the trial to begin, there were two enormous flashes of light and a long wooden table appeared in front of them with five chairs. Another even longer table appeared on the other side of the room and the Eternals sat down. The Doctors looked at each other and they and Rose headed to the table.

"Sit in order of your ages," a young woman on the Eternal's side said.

She had a young face, flowing blonde hair and blue eyes and looked like she was in her early twenties. The other Eternals sat on either side of her with Lorlana sitting on the end on the far right. The Doctors sat down, youngest to oldest. They asked Rose to sit in the middle chair so she would have two Doctors on either side of her. She sat down between the two Tenth Doctors with the Older Doctor on her left and Ten on her right. Nine was to the right of Ten and Eleven was to the left of the Older Doctor. Rose glanced at the Older Doctor who was taking his glasses out of his jacket pocket. He put them on and slowly turned his head, staring at her with wide eyes.

"Are you trying to make them think you're smarter?" Rose said.

"I don't have to try, I am smarter," the Older Doctor said.

She felt a tap on her shoulder and turned her head. Ten waggled his eyebrows as he peered at her out of his glasses.

"I can be smart as well," he said.

"Oh, God, I'm dreading my regeneration," Nine said as his head fell into his hands.

"Damn, I need my fez," Eleven grumbled. "Ah well, bow ties are cooler than brainy specs."

Rose glanced at the Older Doctor. The Older Doctor felt her eyes on him and turned his head, gazing at her with wide eyes.

"You look older," Rose said.

"I am older," the Older Doctor said.

"Yeah, but…you look a bit different. Oh wait, you have your hair cut shorter than my Doctor," Rose said, running her finger down the back of his head.

"Well, you see, my hair is perfect unlike Sergeant Slaughter over there and Floppy Doodle Doo to my left."

Ten chuckled while Nine and Eleven gave the Older Doctor dirty looks. The Older Doctor ignored the scathing looks.

"You see, instead of both extremes, I have a happy medium right here," he said, tapping the side of his hair. "Not too short, not too long, just right."

"I agree," Ten said.

"I am not Floppy Doodle Doo, thank you," Eleven said to the Older Doctor while he sniggered.

"Please be silent," the blonde haired Eternal said to them. "We call this tribunal to order. I am Saphira, the head of this tribunal. We are assembled here to try you for breaking the laws of time and space."

"Excuse me, but are we also here to try her?" Eleven said, pointing to Lorlana.

The other Eternals looked at Lorlana. Lorlana feigned confusion.

"I have no idea what he's talking about," she said.

Eleven stood up.

"I'm talking about the fact that she has possessed this man," he said, pointing to the Older Doctor, "in order to kidnap her," he pointed to Rose, "and cause disruption to a fixed event on the timeline. Not to mention caused the death of several innocent people, kidnapped me and Rose and tortured Rose in that cell over there. If there is a trial, she should be at this table with us."

"Lorlana is beyond reproach," Saphira said.

The Doctors stared at her in disbelief.

"Excuse me, but do you even know this woman?" Eleven said, pointing to Lorlana. "Because if she's beyond reproach, I'd hate to see what you'd consider a dirty reprobate Eternal."

"She's causing havoc on Earth," Rose protested, pointing to Lorlana. "She tried to mess up the timeline and tried to kill the Doctor, she's not beyond reproach. She's evil."

"The human child has obviously been coached on what to say by the Doctor," Lorlana said to her fellow Eternals.

"Yes, that's right," Nine said. "Rose has been brainwashed and she's nothing more than a mindless puppet that we control, makes as much sense to me as that bitch over there being beyond reproach."

"You will curb your tongue during this tribunal," Saphira said. "We will hear evidence of the Doctor contravening the laws of time and then you will have a chance for a rebuttal."

"You mean we get to defend ourselves before you toss us into the disintegrator?" Eleven said. "Gee, that's big of you."

"Now, I believe Councilor Lorlana has the floor," Saphira said.

Lorlana smirked at the Doctors and Rose before rising from her seat. There was a flash and a large round two sided mirror appeared in between the two tables. Everyone watched while the Older Doctor's memory of Adelaide and Mars played on both sides of the mirror.

"This was a research team on Mars," Lorlana said while the images played out. "They were destined to die on Mars and it was a fixed event. However, the Doctor showed up and…"

"They watched the Older Doctor as he decided to save the survivors. The Older Doctor flinched when he saw himself telling Adelaide that the laws of time and space were his to control."

"Have a big ego, do you?" Nine said to the Older Doctor. "Get a slightly swelled head?"

The Older Doctor glared at him.

"Um…excuse me, table of Eternals, this has nothing to do with me, this hasn't happened to me yet," Ten yelled.

"Or me!" Nine said. "So neither me nor him can be charged with this."

The Eternals ignored him. Everyone watched the Older Doctor declaring himself Time Lord Victorious. Rose was stunned while she watched. She had never seen the Doctor act so arrogant or heartless before and it scared her. It ended with the Older Doctor going inside the TARDIS and the mirror became clear again.

"The woman Adelaide committed suicide shortly after the Doctor went inside the TARDIS, however the other two humans lived which is in direct violation of what was supposed to happen."

"Maybe Death will find them and kill them, isn't that what happens in those Final Destination films?" Eleven muttered to the others.

"Care to explain your actions, Doctor?" Saphira said to them.

"I wasn't involved," Nine said.

"Nor I," Ten said.

They both turned their heads and gave pointed looks to the Older Doctor and Eleven. The Older Doctor glanced at his older counterpart.

"Should I or you take this?" he said to Eleven.

Eleven held up his hand and rose from his seat. He cleared his throat while everyone watched him.

"Obviously, I did do wrong when I took them from Mars to Earth," he said. "I do not pretend that what I did was right, however I would like you to hear my reasons for doing it."

"Go on," Saphira said.

"Thank you," Eleven said. "As I said, I don't condone what I did or say it was right but please understand, I meant no harm when I did it."

"But you defied the laws of time and space and interfered with a fixed event," Saphira said.

"Yes, but I did what I did because I was trying to be merciful and…because, frankly, I'm tired of watching people die in front of me, especially when I felt I could step in and do something. I have lost so much, especially since the Time War and I finally snapped and had a momentary lapse of sanity. However, I did stay long enough to see what Adelaide had done and that brought me back to my senses. I thought that with the Time Lords gone, I was free to do what I liked but I see now that I was under duress and as I said, I momentarily snapped and did something I shouldn't have done. But I can assure you mucking with the timeline hasn't happened since that day, nor will it happen again. That is all I have to say."

Eleven sat back down. Rose watched him while he folded his hands in front of him and waited. She looked at the Older Doctor and remembered how forlorn he looked and she suddenly understood why. She took the Older Doctor's hand and squeezed it. He looked at her and smiled tenderly when he saw the sympathetic look on her face and mouthed "Thank you," to her.

"This is all well and good but as I said, I have nothing to do with this Adelaide and he doesn't either," Nine said, gesturing to Ten. "We weren't there so we can't be tried for this."

"However, you did fight in the Time War," Lorlana said.

"Yeah, funny how you lot didn't," Nine said sarcastically.

"But you committed genocide during that war which is another violation of the laws of time and space," Lorlana said.

"I did a lot of things I didn't want to do because I had to do what I had to in order to stay alive," Nine said. "Unlike you lot, I stayed and fought. Lots of bad things happen during wars, that's why wars are bad. And I wasn't the only one who committed genocide. The Daleks did more than their fair share, in fact, much more than I did so don't try to pin this one on me. Now…why don't we discuss Lorlana and what she's been doing lately?"

"Wait."

The Eternals looked over at one woman near the end of the table. She looked elderly with long white hair that cascaded down her back. She was holding up her hand and then used it to point to Rose.

"Her," the woman said.

"She has nothing to do with this," Ten snarled at them. "Leave her alone."

"What about her, Mirabella?" Saphira said, ignore the Doctors' anger.

Mirabella rose from the table and walked over to Rose. Rose gave her a wary look when she stopped at the table and stood directly across from her, staring at her intently.

"She has nothing to do with this," the Older Doctor said.

"Do you sense it, my fellow Eternals," Mirabella said. "This human carries a goddess within her."

"Blast," Eleven muttered while Nine gave Mirabella a confused look.

"Goddess?" Nine said, looking at his fellow Doctors. "What goddess?"

"Bad Wolf," Rose muttered.

"You mean that word that's been showing up all over time and space?" Nine said. "It's the name of a goddess?"

"I…s'pose, I didn't think that thing was still inside me."

"How is it that a goddess came to be inside you, child?" Mirabella said.

"I don't know, do I?" Rose said. "It just happened when I tried to save the Doctor."

"Which Doctor?" Nine said.

"You," Rose said. "I…"

She trailed off and didn't say anything further.

"Yes?" Mirabella said to her. "Go on."

"That's just it, she can't," Ten said. "She's trying not to say what happens because she knows that she shouldn't be telling him future events. Which is why you lot need to stop since you're endangering the timeline by letting everyone know what's coming up."

"We will erase all memory of this trial from your minds if you are found innocent," Mirabella said. "I wish to speak to the entity known as Bad Wolf."

The Doctors gasped when she put her hand on Rose's head and energy poured into her. Rose stiffened and the Doctors looked on in horror when Rose's eyes began to shine with a golden glow.

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