A Jedi, A Timelord, and A Death Star

Another Dimension

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“Alright Donna, where do you want……”

The sad Doctor faded out of his sentence, for he was used to having his old companion Donna around.  But he had wiped her memory, and The Doctor had to constantly remind himself that he had done the right thing.

“Alrighty then.” He spoke softly, because there was nobody around to hear him. It was moments like these when he had no companions that really brought out the worst of The Doctor.

After a few moments of saddened silence and deep thought, The Doctor picked his head up once again, grinning ear-to-ear.

“I can’t believe I’ve never thought of this! Ugh, sometimes I can be so stupid. Here I am, with my own personal time machine, and I never even bother to travel BACKWARDS in time. I can witness the Old Gallifrey, back in the time of the natives. I can return to my home planet.”

With this newfound thought in his head, The Doctor scurried over to the TARDIS controls and hit the buttons like a madman. He managed to get the TARDIS in flight within a record 15 seconds.

The Doctor stood anxious, waiting for the moment when the landing signal would sound and he could shimmy out of the door and onto Gallifrey.

But then something unexpected happened. The TARDIS shook, and its signature “whooshing” sound tripled in volume. The Doctor collapsed, too shocked to react. There had been times when his TARDIS had misbehaved, but never like this. The room itself began to shift, and cracks appeared on the walls. The glass on the windows exploded, and the energy of the Time Vortex spilled into the room, devouring everything in sight.

The Doctor had mere seconds to scramble up and into the downstairs room-sized closet, heading all the time for the escape pod.

But suddenly the Doctor stood still. He knew what was happening. This had only occurred to him once before, when he had time-locked Gallifrey. The Doctor was creating a paradox, and the Time Vortex wouldn’t stop eating until the paradox had been corrected. The Doctor knew that there was only one thing he could do. Summoning all of his courage, he turned the other way and began to run back towards the control room. At the same time, he took out his sonic screwdriver. Just as the vortex energy was about to devour him, he activated his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the control consol. The TARDIS now shook even worse, but the Vortex energy began to fade. Simultaneously, the TARDIS began to reappear. But then all went silent, and an ominous Pang! signified the complete loss of power

The controls were now dead, and the TARDIS silent and drifting in space. But The Doctor had done right. The Vortex was gone. Immediately, his mind began to make sense of what had just happened.

I tried to return to my planet before I was born, but the universe wouldn’t have that. It was still crossing my own timeline.

Somehow, my TARDIS managed to defy the universe and made the landing on Gallifrey. In response, the Time Vortex attempted to eat everything until the paradox was corrected. So I did the only thing I could.

I jumped dimensions through a hole in the void, and went to the only dimension where I could be on Gallifrey.

This was all The Doctor could think of to explain what had just happened. This had happened before, so he knew exactly what to do. He extracted the only remaining power cell, and put it into a recharge loop. Then he sprang up to go outside, excited at the fact that he would be able to see his planet and return home to his own dimension.