Long before her sixth regeneration, Candace (the original incarnation of Neas) had once taken an earlier trip into the macabre universe known as "The Twilight Zone." Along with her companion/adopted son, Alan Harris, they arrive in the desolate, iso...
Alan never knew a gym existed in Candace's Type-Z TARDIS. There were a lot of places in it he hadn't explored yet – some of which Candace often talked about and Alan sometimes doubted she'd ever been to. According to her, she was inspired to install a gym in an area she called the "Zero Room" (a tranquil space reserved for Time Lords who need relief from stress or anxiety).
But Candace had made it into the opposite. Now she used it as a place to exert all the energy she constantly built up in her Time Lord physique. For a woman who physically looked fifty years of age, she had the body of a thirtysomething. It was virtually superhuman.
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That was clear when Alan spotted her during a round of bench-presses.
She requested him to load on a nerve-wracking four hundred and fifty pounds, which she handled as if it were half as much.
"What's it like?" Alan brought himself to ask.
"What's what like, honey?" Candace returned in-between breaths.
"What's it like being a Time Lord?"
"Well, for starters, I wasn't always one. I was once just a normal kid like you, albeit one-half human and the other half Gallifreyan. It wasn't 'til I was about your age when I had the Gallifreyan half of my genes enhanced by a guy named Rassilon. Ever since, I've felt more and more powerful...like a superhero brought to life."
"Sounds pretty legit."
Candace racked the four-hundred-pound bar without need of Alan's assistance. "I'll admit it has been cool. But I am a little worried about my future in it... specifically the whole 'regeneration' thing."
"Regeneration? What does that mean?"
"Something the Doctor said would happen to me one day. He calls it 'cheating death' but didn't specify the whole process. He only said that I won't be me anymore...that I'll be someone else."
Alan noticed how much the topic unsettled her, so he decided not to press her on about it. Instead, they finished their workout and showered, making their way thereafter back to the control room. Candace had the controls on autopilot as they traversed the infinite dimensional corridor. She successfully dematerialized them out.
From the viewscreen, they saw that they arrived in a withered cornfield.
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