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Subject: repost - Doctor and the Tardis part II
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Date: 25 Mar 91 16:55:22 GMT
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	Doctor and the Tardis - II


Continuing the Dr Who movie outline.  Our story so far.....

Several different Doctors and Tardii have been: Summoned to; 'Scooped to;
Purposely travelled to; and Stumbled upon; A large underground chamber on
Earth in which "several temporal vortices have converged and intertwined".

Various companions have gone with various Doctors to extreme reaches of
space and time, leaving from the chamber and following the different 
vortex threads in an attempt to understand and unravel them.  It proves to
be impossible to eliminate the causes, so the respective Doctors are 
concluding that they must learn to live with the compond vortex and it's
effects.  During the travels, various of the companions have been stranded
all over the place, and most of them have been rescued by a Doctor whose
regeneration they do not recognize.  More than one Tardis contains more than
one copy of a companion.  Mel leaps from one Tardis shortly before it 
materializes, catching herself in a recursive timeloop.  There seems to be 
a million Mels, following Mel Prime in a long Lambada line.

A cosmic xerox machine is discovered, which can make three-dimensional real
matter copies of anything which is placed on it's window.  Doctor #6 is able
to leave a note for Doctor #3 by copying his note and leaving the copy in the
machine's bin, which temporarily circumvents the ripple effect.  Several of the
companions press the green button without first placing an object on the 
glass, and are rewarded with a three-dimensional copy of the copying machine
lid.  Sarah Jane makes a reduced size copy of the lid, which she uses to
replace a melted panel cover in the Tardis.  She also makes several copies
of a useable dematerialization circuit, and one unuseable.   Jamie tries
to copy a mirror, which overloads the copier, which implodes as the copier 
attempts to make a copy of it's own internal workings.  Zoe, looking over
Jamies shoulder, sees him and the copier both shrink to a singularity, which
glows brightly in her hand as she catches it from falling to the floor.

The doctors have streched the compound vortex while searching for it's roots,
so it snaps back and pulls all of the Tardii back to the underground chamber,
even pulling in the non-functional Tardis (which is a stroke of luck for Mel).
We see a huge number of Tardii appear in the chamber, which eventually
coalesce into a small clump of seven.  

Most of the Doctors are becoming stressed out and are collapsing, some due
to the laws of time, and some because they hadn't eaten since last Tuesday.

Also, most of the old, unused 'blooper' footage from the cutting room floor
has been used up, and therefore it's time to shoot some new film.  The scene
shifts to:

Colin Baker and Peri in a Tardis Control Room.  She's looking at the
viewscreen at the Doctors wandering around outside, leaving notes for
each other and making small piles of stones.  She is shreiking, "Look, Doctor.
That Doctor is ill!  Can't you help him?"  Colin has his eyes tightly shut,
shakes his head.  She shrieks some more, "That companion is trying to talk
to the other Doctor, but he keeps fading out!"  Colin puts fingers into his
ears, turns his back to the console.  She goes on, "All you have to do is
go out there and act as an intermediary.  Listen to the one, and then relay
the message to the other.  All our lives depend on it!"  She is now jumping
up and down, pulling on Colin's arm, "Doctorrrrrr!"

Colin refuses to open his eyes.  "Ohhh, don't you see what's going on out
there, Peri?  It's a compound time vortex, in some ways more illogical and
confusing than the Matrix itself.  There is nothing I can do that won't make
matters worse."

Peri shrieks in reaction to something on the viewscreen ( which we, 
thankfully, do not see ).  "But, you're a tiiiimelord!  You all have the
ability to deal with that!  Aaaak!"  Her eyes are still riveted to the 
screen.  Which begins to shake and melt.

Colin replies, "Yes, yes, but only if just one of us is looking at it!  Since
I have been here many times before, and I will doubtless be here again, except
that I will be out there,  I know that they will all fail.  And they are 
killing themselves while they do it.  If not for a loyal companion like you,
Peri, to drag their lifeless bodies back into their Tardis, I would have
died long ago and you never would have met me.  Why, I remember..."

Colin fades from existence.

Peri really hasn't been listening.  "Doctor, she's dragging his lifeless
body back into that other Tardis!  Shriek!!!"

Colin fades back in, "... so that's how I know that the others will survive,
somehow.  Wait....They are going to...", ( points index finger up ), " I
think...Yes...", ( opens one eye ), "Wait..." ( looks around with the one 
open eye), "I think they're gone."  He opens the other eye, and with a look
of sudden resolve, spins around and begins to manipulate controls on the 
console. 

Peri watches in disbelief as the viewscreen melts and drips down the wall
towards the floor.  She touches the slag.  Quietly this time, she says,
"It's cold.  Doctor, how can it be melting if it's cold?"

"Time itself is melting, Peri.  Now that all of the other Me's have been 
disabled, perhaps I can do something about it without having one of them undo
the pattern inadvertently.  Too many timelords spoil the soup.  At least
I can read the console now, and touch the controls."

"Can you see what the other Doctors are seeing?"

"Yes, peri, I can."

"Is that why you couldn't grab the control knob, there?"

"Yes.  Although this one is in the 'up' position here, it's in the 'down'
position in all the other copies of this Tardis, so I thought it was in the 
'down' position here.  I couldn't touch it when I reached for it, but there 
are several other reasons that can happen.  Usually
it's the Tardis herself telling me not to do something.  Other times, it is
simply impossible for the Tardis to respond, but since she must respond,
she excludes the possibility of a control input.  Otherwise, it's the ripple
effect which makes me seem insubstantial to with respect to the control knob
itself."

"Is that all.  I thought that you were going loony, like all the rest of them."

"Well, Peri, maybe I am.  Is it alright with you if I ask you to tell me the
control positions and readout numbers?  Your perception doesn't seem to be
affected, yet."

"Yes, Doctor, I will help you with the controls.  My perception is good
because I'm sure that there is only one of me.   So far.  But, I'm curious.
What are the other Doctors looking at right now?"  Her tears fall.

"The inside of their own eyelids.  As soon as one of them wakes up, I will 
likely be non-functional again."

								MORE TO COME


							-mak

"We're not all dead.  Annihilation occurs in pairs, and we're an odd number..."