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Chapter 24: The Universe that never was

Three days later, our friends and the Master are still in the TARDIS, and as soon as they enter the console room, every lights turn to red and the cloister's bells start ringing. The Doctor, the Master and Yaz all run to the console while Jenny and Jack stay behind.

JENNY: What is it, what's going on?

JACK: I nearly missed that sound ... What's the problem this time Doc? Who's requesting our help?

DOC: It's no fun Jack, the entire universe is at stake.

JACK: Oh, I see, so it's pretty bad this time, isn't it?

DOC: Yes it is! And I can't even take Yaz and the baby home.

MASTER: The baby?!

DOC: No time for this ...

JACK: I don't understand, why can't you?

DOC: Because your home doesn't exist anymore!

JACK/JENNY: What?!

MASTER: The whole of time and space is disintegrating, erasing itself from reality, it's like if the universe itself was never born, but that's totally impossible! I've never seen something like this before!

DOC: I did.

YAZ: What happened?

DOC: Someone once took the control of my TARDIS and it exploded ...

MASTER (smiling): That would have never happened to my TARDIS, you're not a very good pilot then.

DOC: Oh shut up, it's not funny. Anyway, it caused a sort of massive time explosion, annihilating every moment of history simultaneously, but I rebooted the Universe.

MASTER: How did you manage such a thing?!

DOC: There was this box, a sort of quantum prison, designed for me, with every kind of safeties, deadlocks, time stops, matter line, and this perfect prison hasn't been affected by the explosion, and within it, a few billions of atoms of the original universe. Theoretically, you could extrapolate the entire universe from only one atom, so I drove this box into my exploding TARDIS–

MASTER: And the atoms she contained have been spread and scattered at every single point of time and space simultaneously, that's brilliant!

JACK: No, no, too fast, don't get it, come again?

YAZ: She thrown herself into an explosion that could destroy the entire universe in order to reverse the process and compensate the explosion.

DOC: Well, basically, that's the idea.

MASTER: But wait a minute, the only thing powerful enough to create that kind of explosion is a TARDIS, but that's impossible, I mean, they all died! The Time Lords, every single one of them died! We're the only two left!

DOC: Apparently not ... And I think I know which one survived ...

YAZ: Why are we still alive then? I mean, not that I'm complaining or anything, but shouldn't we have been erased from time and space?

DOC: Oh, of course! The TARDIS, she's maintaining the paradox in place to save us! She won't handle it very long tho, we have to move.

YAZ: Move where?

MASTER: I don't like the sound of it ...

DOC: The only point in the universe that's still standing: the eye of the storm.

YAZ: You mean, directly in the explosion?

DOC: Yes, but if I'm brilliant, and I am, I could supposedly desynchronise the time circuit of the TARDIS engines and allow us to land a few minutes before the detonation, and maybe, I say maybe, stop it.