Crossing of my ways season 1 (Doctor Who fanfiction) #Wattys2016

Episode 9: Masters without name

Hello whovians!

New week, new episode. Today, not just an avarage episode but first part of two-part mid-season finale.

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"Are you three sure you want to go out?" Doctor asked nervously, looking at us three, dressed in orange spacesuits.

We landed on a planet similar to Mars in Andromeda galaxy. We all were very excited about going out and explore, maybe even discover water but Doctor wasn't sure it was such a good idea.

"Well, you don't always get a chance to set foot on a planet in another galaxy," Patricia shrugged and William and I agreed.

I smiled. "Hey, Doctor, don't worry. We'll be safe and you're coming with us anyway, right?"

He murmured something I couldn't understand and walked to the door, when someone knocked four times.

I frowned. I knew the rhythm. Patricia and William looked at each other and then nodded in agreement.

"So, what do you think it was, Doc?" William asked.

"Pressure, I guess."

"I'd still insist that we should go out but I just remembered I wanted to see something really important," I joined into conversation.

The thing is we all agreed that the knocking was the four beats from the series 4 and we didn't want to risk Doctor dying too soon. And Doctor's reaction was why we decided to get the hell away from the place.

Doctor nodded, agreeing with us. He started the TARDIS again and when the time lord space ship calmed down in the time vortex after taking off we got out of the space suits.

"I think we just saved the universe from a paradox," I happily announced to William and Patricia when we reached the control room.

"Please, Alya," rolled her eyes Patricia, "this one would sort itself out anyway."

I nodded, but I disagreed.

If the Doctor died there, he wouldn't regenerate into 11.

If he wouldn't regenerate into 11, he won't become Peter Capaldi's 12 either.

And this is not a thing I'd like to experience.

Plus we'd be left with a crappy regeneration story.

Just as I finished my thought the TARDIS started violently shaking. Doctor, who was standing next to the controls as before, tried to calm the shaking down, but nothing he did helped.

"Doctor, what's going on?" I asked as I finally got to the controls. It was terribly hard to do so, since the whole TARDIS was shaking as it was the end of the world, but I did somehow manage to do it.

I was raced over by Patricia who somehow got to the controls by jumping at right moments.

She was raced over by William who ran there like shaking never happened.

"Well," the Doctor answered, "I scanned it and it seems we are being pulled-," he was interrupted by a button that started glowing for no apparent reason and loud cracking noise in the distance that he quickly fixed by pressing another button and pulling an extremely big lever, "-as I said, we are being pulled into a time fully opposite of where we were going-," the TARDIS started loudly beeping, "-by a space-time tractor beam."

"Brilliant," I sarcastically replied.

"Where are we going?" Patricia asked.

"Well, ugh, a time-space that was kind of deleted ... do you ever think time travel is the most confusing thing like ever?" He looked at us.