Doctor Who: The Eternal Death/ The Gathering

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Original Version
Doctor Who: The Eternal Death

Episode 2: The Gathering

By Eamon

Boy: Who are you?


 * The third doctor walks in, followed by dozens of companions. The other doctor’s notice, but the master doesn’t. Romana breathes heavily and the master turns around.*

Master: Hello. Have we met?

Romana: Now!


 * The forth doctor kicks the TARDIS console, and it opens up revealing the heart of the TARDIS. The master looks over, but everyone else looks away. The master absorbs the time vortex, and having done that, stands upright with his arms outstretched, and a brilliant white energy shoots out of his arms and head. He changes into a slightly olive skinned, black haired man that appears to be nearly 50. He then faints and falls to the ground.*

Eleventh doctor: Nice.

Tenth doctor: More importantly, it got rid of him. Martha, could you take him to the holding cell? Martha: Sure.


 * Picks up the master and takes him away.*

Boy: What just happened?

Eighth doctor: Never mind that.... What was it?

Boy: J-J- John. John Smith.

Doctors: Of course it is.

John: But what is this?

Tenth doctor: Never mind. Where do you live?

John: 176, Wattle Rd, Australia.

Eleventh doctor: What Time?


 * John stares at the doctor as if he’s a mad man, then answers*

John: 7:30pm, 29th of August, 3500. Why would you need to know what time, though?

Eleventh doctor: There’s no house on that address. But there’s a building, although it says that it’s an orphanari- Oh.

John: Yeah.

Eleventh doctor: Could we talk in private for a moment?


 * John nods and walks out.*

Eleventh doctor: OK, you can come back in.


 * John sticks his head in.*

John: Already?

Eleventh doctor: Ask him (Points to seventh doctor).

Seventh doctor: Twelfth doctor, come out.

Twelfth Doctor: OK, I’m here. Well, actually I don’t exist... Wait, yes I do, but john was just a creation of the master. OK, I’ll need what I asked for earlier, but only three people will be really coming. Romana, Amy, River, Jenny, Sarah Jane, come over here. We’re taking on every enemy we have before.

Romana: You may not be the smartest time lord in the citadel, but a 2 year old human child with ADHD could count to 3 better than you, even if you have memorised the roman equivalent of the decimal remainder of the square root of pi divided by the average amount of slitheen destroyed by vinegar within the first 60 years after my 1000th birthday of by hearts.

Twelfth doctor: 1: In case you didn’t know, it’s MCIV. 2: I can smell two hearts on you River, and Amy, so clearly your both time lords, plus I can smell the same DNA twice, so that gives away the fact that River is a future regeneration of Amy, plus there’s also a small child somewhere in here with the exact same DNA, so she’s obviously an even further future version of Amy. 3: It is said that alien births can only be followed by alien births, and since Jenny was born from a tissue sample from me as well as alien machinery, and Sarah Jane’s son was created by an alien species, I put two and two and two together, the third two being the fact that I could smell two hearts in Sarah Jane. Also, I can smell two more versions of Jenny, only the 3rd one appears to be a human child, even though she acts like a human adult, and she is a time lord... let’s see, 130... She’s a Time Lord Teenager, plus the one after who appears to be a human child, acts like a time lord child, and... Let’s see, 250... Is a... Time Lord Adult.

River Song: He thinks he’s so hot when he does that.

Martha: Who was the one who married him again?

Amy I, Amy II, and Amy III: Shut up, Martha.

Twelfth Doctor: I’ll take the 3rd Amy, 2nd Romana, and the 3rd and 4thJennies.

Jenny: Why us?

Doctor: Because I need a plan, someone extremely flexible, and someone who acts human enough, but also time lord enough to get the renegade humans and possibly time lords on our side.


 * A Dalek comes in and shoots Romana, then teleports all the other doctors away, leaving only the twelfth doctor, Romana, Amy, Jenny and Sarah Jane. It then teleports away. Romana stands upright with her arms out stretched, and a powerful lime green energy shoots out of her head and arms. She changes into a schoolchild.*

Romana: Hmmm. Nice.

Doctor: We need a plan.

Romana: OK. I have one. But we’ll need time lock penetrating technology, a time lord gun, and this plan involves you dying.

Doctor: No. In this time, I am times physical existence, and therefore, I’m physical existence. The renegade time lords are corrupted, and if they held time, time would corrupt. Jenny could hold it, but if you’re plan is what I think it is, she’d never be born. Is your plan to kill the master’s parents?

Romana: Yes.

Doctor: Then it won’t work, because the master is my brother.

Romana: You still have a zero room?

Doctor: Solves the first problem with your plan.

Jenny III: But how can we penetrate the time lock?

Jenny IV :We could... Romana, how’d you get out?

Romana: Time energy mixed with excess regeneration energy.


 * Everyone stares at her.*

Romana: I could... OK, that solves the next part, but we need something to kill a time lord.

Doctor: Remember the anti-matter universe?

Romana: What about it?

Doctor: Anti-Matter.

Romana: Was there anti-time?

Doctor: Yes.

Romana: And anti-life?

Doctor: Uh-Huh.

Romana: So we have a plan.

Doctor: I need to check something.

Romana: What?

Doctor: Step out, please.


 * Romana, Both Jennies, and Amy all walk out of the TARDIS. It dematerialises, then once again materialises. The doctor walks out of the doors with a grim face.*

Romana: What?

Doctor: The Master didn’t just hypnotise them. He created the original versions of all our enemies. Then he brought them onto his side. Then he decided to turn against them and become every ones enemy.

Romana: That’s horrible.

Doctor: That’s not the half of it. He created evil, by going back and demonstrating it. He created despair, doubt, old age and almost everything else horrible using the same method. Except Death.

Romana: Who created that?

Doctor: It was him. Only different method.

Romana: How’d he create death?

Doctor: Using the power from his resurrection energy, he killed someone, and then duplicated it tens of times, then dozens, then hundreds, then thousands, then millions, then billions, then trillions. So death went on. If he were never born, nothing would be evil. In fact, he caused everything not good to happen.


 * The master walks out the TARDIS door.*

Doctor: I need to remember that lock. You keep getting in and out without a sonic. Master: Didn’t I tell you? Laser screwdriver. Who’d want sonic?

Doctor: I would.

Master: But why?

Doctor: Because I bet you can’t do this with a laser screwdriver.


 * The doctor gets out his sonic screwdriver and uses it to make the TARDIS dematerialise, then materialise around him.*

Doctor: Let’s go.


 * Taps on the controls then looks at the screen. He sees the master.*

Doctor: So we’ve figured out the password, have we?

Master: The roman equivalent of the decimal remainder of the square root of pi divided by the average amount of slitheen destroyed by vinegar within the first 60 years after Romana’s 1000th birthday, or MCIV. And it looks like you’ve figured out how evil was created.

Doctor: So you know its evil. Why won’t you stop it?

Master: I have my reasons. Either that, or I’m completely mad. Or maybe both. But either way, I’m not going to stop it willingly, under any circumstances.

Doctor: I know why. Do you know evil’s true name?

Master: On Gallifrey, evil is named Cishkeo.

Doctor: Exactly. And your real name is...

Master: Don’t say it. It is evil on the planet of truth.

Doctor: So obviously, it’s true evil.

Master: Saying true evil can only be done in the actual presence of true evil, so he can absorb it. Otherwise, you become it.


 * The Doctor lands the TARDIS next to the master and walks out to meet him.*

Doctor: Evil may have many names, but only one is true. Satan, Hitler, Davros, Phobia, Hopelessness, Cishkeo, Death, The Reaper, thousands more, and its true name.

Master: Now you can say it.

Doctor: Your real name: Koschei.

Master: I hate it when you use that name.

Doctor: You know the word for true good?

Master: Its way too long to say, plus, like true evil, you must be entirely in its presence to name it, or you become it.

Doctor: You know it?

Master: Yes.

Doctor: You know my name?

Master: No.

Doctor: Good. No one has penetrated medusa’s cascade, and I intend to keep it that way.

Master: But that’s not going to always be your name, is it?

Doctor: No. Homo Sapien Odius Aldata Junkeela Rixovipad.

Master: You’re true good. I’m true evil. The Battle has begun. As it will end. The victor has won the universes. Good always triumphs over evil for you. But maybe, just maybe, that isn’t so. Maybe the victor will be evil, maybe good. But I cross my hearts that the victor will be true. The visionary herself predicted this day as the winners being their own salvation, and the fighters being each other’s. Predictions lead to the outnumbered winning. And you have the majority of the universe on your side. So I already win. Despite all of that, the battle will not happen.


 * The master kills the doctor with energy bolts from his hands, then brings him back.*

Master: We have risen .You Are gathered. You are dead, and reborn. The Reborn will soon die.

'''To be continued... '''