TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: THE VALEYARD

Chapter Twenty Nine

"There," the Valeyard said as he finished shutting down the last of the golems, "they're deactivated."

"What about this place though?" Rain asked. "What's to stop someone from just walking in here and starting them up again?"

"I have plasma explosives. We can time them to explode after we leave and hopefully they'll turn this place to rubble," the Valeyard replied.

"What about you?" Amato said to him. "Are you staying with us?"

"Um...I don't think so. I think I'd like to go back to my original universe. If the clone is here..."

"Adam, his name's Adam," Alan said angrily. "We're not called Clone, we're not called Halfling, we clones do have names, yeah?"

The Valeyard nodded.

"If Adam is with you then I better go back and look after that universe," he said.

"Well, when Namid gets back, we'll tell her and she can take you over there," the Doctor said. "But be warned, if you muck up that universe and we find out about it, you better start running and hide yourself well because I'm not sorting out another mess made by the Valeyard. I've had my fill of him, the original and those from other universes. So I sincerely hope you are cleansed."

"I am. I feel it," the Valeyard said. "Your daughter cleansed me inside and out. I no longer want to be evil."

"Good," the Doctor said, patting his shoulder.

They all looked behind them when they heard the TARDIS's wheezing sound and saw Compassion materialize behind them. They smiled when Thirteen embraced her.

"How's your leg, Daddy?"

"Better. I finally got to use the rejuvenator on it and it's as good as new," he said, patting it. "Looking forward to going back home and having a nice long kip."

"What about the rest of you? Are you ready to go back?" Compassion asked them.

"He wants to go to Adam's original universe to stay," the Doctor said, pointing to the Valeyard.

"And I want to go to Torchwood as well so we can destroy those copies of me," the Valeyard added.

The Doctor rolled his eyes and muttered, "Bloody Torchwood, the other bane of my existence," under his breath.

Compassion told them to come close to her. One by one she touched them and converted them into energy. The Doctor was amazed as he felt himself being converted into energy and taken inside his daughter.

Um...is there a chance she might eat us? Alan thought to them as the Doctor went inside her body with the others.

The Doctor floated around inside his daughter while she entered the vortex. He felt someone nudge him and figured it was Rain.

Cool. I'm a miniature sun, Alan thought as he nudged him. I can blind Rainy now.

Not if I blind you first, Rain thought back.

The Doctor floated around, wondering where they were inside her body. He sensed nothing except darkness but then he figured it would be dark since a normal body doesn't have any windows. He floated up and bumped into something that wasn't a family member. He figured it was an organ but once again, it was too dark to see anything. He hovered there, once again marveling at what his daughter could do and how far she had come from the little blind girl he sired and raised.

When Compassion finally landed and brought them back out, the Doctor looked around once he had regained his corporeal form and noticed they were in a corridor. The walls were clean and white with no adornment. He looked at his daughter.

"Is this Torchwood?" he asked her.

"Yes, I brought us as close to the duplicates as I could," she replied as she turned off the Compassion side of her.

"Then we better get moving," the Doctor said. "I'm sure CCTV cameras are watching us at this very moment and we don't wanna get caught before we destroy these other clones."

Meanwhile back in the Doctor's timeline, Rose and Marion were sitting in the living room shaking their heads while their husbands danced around in front of them.

"Ha! See, you can't get rid of us!" Alan said as he and Adam danced. "We may come close to death but we'll never cross the threshold!"

"Because we're too good for the afterlife!" Adam crowed. "They wouldn't know what to do with us!"

"No argument there," Marion said to Rose while she giggled.

Their eyes widened when Alan bent over and mooned them while he pointed to his ass.

"Kiss this, Grim Reaper!" he yelled.

Meanwhile, the others in the house were watching them and laughing. Namid walked up to Alan and he took her hand as they danced around in a circle.

"Yup, your other father is just too good for death," Alan said as he danced with Namid.

"Um, you do realize that the Doctor, Rain and Hamish aren't back yet," Rose said as Sokanon, Hope and Chaska joined in the dance.

"They'll be back," Adam said. "We're alive which must mean they succeeded in defeating Valleri. It's only a matter of time until they come sauntering through that door and then we can par-tay!"

"Looks like you're already par-taying," Rose said.

Alan danced over to Rose and kissed her cheeks.

"And you love it! Don't sit there and pretend you're upset when I know full well you're happy I'm alive," he said.

"I am happy but I'll be a lot happier when the Doctor, Rain and Hamish are back safe and sound."

"All in due time, Starlight, all in due time. For now, let's boogie down and celebrate our victory over death!" Alan yelled.

Meanwhile, the Valeyard led the others to the lab where the clones were being stored. While they walked, everyone looked around, making sure that no one was going to sneak up on them while they fulfilled their mission.

To their relief, no one found them by the time the Valeyard reached the lab door. He tried it and found it locked. The Doctor came forward, tried his screwdriver and to his relief, the door unlocked. They went inside and shut the door behind them. In front of them were several tubes similar to the ones the Doctors had been imprisoned in. Scattered around the room were computer consoles, a few tables and some laboratory equipment. Along the walls were white cabinets and the counters underneath them contained more lab equipment. The Doctor stared at the clones, identical to the man standing beside him and he felt sick to his stomach knowing that Torchwood was responsible for not only resurrecting one of his deadliest enemies but possibly unleashing them on the universe. His jaw clenched for a moment as he stared at these abomination and he fought that rising sense of uneasiness that came from being around something unnatural. Ignoring the sensation, he looked at the Valeyard.

"Okay, how do we destroy them?" he asked him.

The Valeyard was about to say when suddenly they heard voices out in the hallway.

"Quick, hide!" the Valeyard said as they ran behind the tubes.

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