A/N - I really love this chapter. I hope you do too!
They went back to their respective TARDIS' and sent a message to the High Council.
It read "Gallifrey Stands".
The High Council chamber popped up on their screens.
"Hello, hello, Gallifrey High Command, this is the Doctor speaking," the Doctor said.
"Hello! Also the Doctor. Can you hear me?" Ten asked.
"Also the Doctor, standing ready," the older Doctor said.
"Dear God, three of them. All my worst nightmares at once," High Council members said.
"General, we have a plan..." Ten started.
"We should point at this moment, it is a fairly terrible plan..." the Doctor said.
"And almost certainly won't work."
"I was happy with fairly terrible."
"Sorry, just thinking out loud."
"We're flying our three TARDIS's into your lower atmosphere."
"We're positioned at equidistant intervals around the globe. Equidistant. So grown up."
Elise giggled, happy that the two versions of her father were finally getting along.
"We're just about ready to do it," the older Doctor said.
"Ready to do what?" the General asked.
"We're going to freeze Gallifrey," the Doctor told him.
"I'm sorry, what?"
"Using our TARDIS's, we're going to freeze Gallifrey in a single moment in time," Ten said.
"You know, like those stasis cubes? A single moment in time, held in a parallel pocket universe," the older Doctor explained.
"Except we're going to do it to a whole planet," the Doctor said.
"And all the people on it," Ten added.
"What? Even if that were possible, which it isn't, why would you do such a thing?" the General asked.
"Because the alternative is burning," the Doctor said.
"And I've seen that," Ten said.
The Doctor looked at Elise, who stood next to him. "And we never want to see it again."
"We'd be lost in another universe, frozen in a single moment. We'd have nothing," the General told them.
"You would have hope. And right now, that is exactly what you don't have," the Doctor said.
"It's delusional. The calculations alone would take hundreds of years."
"Oh, hundreds and hundreds."
"But don't worry, I started a very long time ago," Ten told them.
An older, much older, Doctor's voice was heard. "Calling the War Council of Gallifrey. This is the Doctor."
"You might say I've been doing this all my lives," the Doctor said.
One by one, new voices were heard. Voices from the Doctor's younger incarnations.
"Good luck."
"Standing by."
"Ready."
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