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| :''For the name given to the [[Seventh Doctor]], see [[Aliases_of_the_Doctor#Time.27s_Champion|Time's Champion]]''. | | [[File:Seventh Doctor Birth.jpg|thumb|With the sacrifice of his previous incarnation, the Seventh Doctor was born. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'')]] |
| | '''Time's [[Champion]]''' was a title used by various individuals, most notably the [[Seventh Doctor]], after making a deal with the [[Menti Celesti]] [[Time (mythology)|Time]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'', ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'', et al.) It signified a responsibility to protect [[history]], no matter the cost. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') |
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| '''''Time's Champion''''' is an un-authorized novel based upon a story by the late author [[Craig Hinton]] and completed by his friend Chris McKeon. The story is a thematic sequel to Hinton's earlier ''[[Millennial Rites]]'' and ''[[The Quantum Archangel]]'', and to ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]''. Published as an unauthorised publication with all profits going to the [[Wikipedia:British Heart Foundation|British Heart Foundation]] (a charity chosen by Hinton's family). | | During the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s lifetime, Time was looking for a [[champion]] to make the difficult decisions needed to save [[time]] and [[space]] from a [[War prediction|coming conflict]]. [[The Valeyard]] told the [[Sixth Doctor]] that he planned on applying. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'') [[Elektra]] and [[Prometheus (The Quantum Archangel)|Prometheus]] hoped their child, [[Kronos]], would become Time's Champion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') Ultimately, the Seventh Doctor agreed to become Time's Champion. As payment, he [[suicide|sacrificed]] his prior incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'', ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') |
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| | To protect history, the Doctor set a complex array of plots and counterplots into motion. He and his [[companion]]s would often became trapped in his own schemes, relying on his future self to arrange things so they would turn out right. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') These designs would often involve the Doctor's [[companion]]s without their knowledge or consent, placing them in harm's way. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'', ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'') [[Ace]] notably rebuked the Doctor for sacrificing [[Jan Rydd]] as part of a plan to stop the [[Hoothi]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') The Doctor struggled with his culpability for these deaths; he started [[sleep]]ing less to avoid [[nightmare]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'') of the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s voice taunting him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad (novel)|Return of the Living Dad]]'', ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'') In response to one of these dreams, he remarked, "I am Time's Champion, and [[guilt]] is a luxury I can no longer afford!" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'') |
| novel name= Time's Champion |
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| image= [[Image:Times_Champion_cover.jpg|250px]]<br>Cover by [[Alister Pearson]] |
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| series=[[Charity Publications|Charity Publication]] in the style of the Missing Adventures |
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| doctor=[[Sixth Doctor]] |
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| companions= [[Melanie Bush]], [[John Benton]], [[Romana]] |
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| enemy= [[Valeyard]]|
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| year= Earth 1908, Earth 2008, Caliban 9908, Gallifrey, Matrix, Six-Fold Realm, Time Lord Gods' Dimension|
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| writer= [[Craig Hinton]] (completed by [[Chris McKeon]] |
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| release date= July 21, [[2008]] |
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| format= Book, 404 Pages |
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| isbn= ISBN 978-1-84583-999-4|
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| previous story=-- [[The Wishing Beast]]-[[The Vanity Box]]|
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| next story= -- [[Spiral Scratch]]/[[Time and the Rani]]}}
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| ==Cover blurb==
| | At different times, the Doctor was addressed with the title by the [[Hoothi]], the [[Puterspace]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') the [[Grandmaster]] gestalt, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'') and the [[Carnival Queen]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') [[Iris Wildthyme]] laughed in the Doctor's face when he said he was Time's Champion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'', ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'') When Time appeared to [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart]], she directly named the Doctor as her champion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Piece (novel)|Set Piece]]'') |
| '''IT SEEMS THAT WE HAVE FINALLY FOUND EACH OTHER, DOCTOR. A PITY. I HAD HOPED TO AVOID THIS REUNION; I'VE BEEN DISAPPOINTED ENOUGH ALREADY.''' | |
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| [[2008]]: John Benton is celebrating his birthday by having a few friends | | After [[Roz Forrester]]'s death, the Doctor felt ready to abandon the Champion role by [[regenerating]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors (novel)|The Room With No Doors]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] included "Champion of Time [[Life's Champion|and Life]]" among his titles when repelling the [[Ice Warrior]] invasion of the [[United Kingdom]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') but later grew to regret his past incarnation's actions. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'', et al.) The [[Ninth Doctor]], when criticising the [[Unon]]'s goal of "stitching up" the [[Post-Time War universe]], sarcastically asked if they wanted his blessing to become "Time's new Champions." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Weapons of Past Destruction (comic story)|Weapons of Past Destruction]]'') |
| round to his house at Hilsley Halt. But the monsters are lurking.
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| [[1908]]: Writer George Mackenzie-Trench is suffering from writer’s block unable to foresee the ending of his novel, Time’s Champion, nor the consequences of its completion.
| | Other claimants to the title included [[Iris Wildthyme]], [[Daedalus]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'') and [[Sabbath Dei|Sabbath]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Obscura (novel)|Camera Obscura]]'', ''[[The Domino Effect (novel)|The Domino Effect]]'') |
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| [[9908]]: The planet Caliban is under attack from Cyber-forces, and governor George Mackenzie-Trench intends to save their world by unleashing Abaddon, a powerful computer virus. But Abaddon has other instructions.
| | [[Category:Champions of Eternals]] |
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| Meanwhile [[Gallifrey]] is under attack and the Keeper is seeking answers within the Matrix. President Romana is helpless: no-one is who they seem and the conspiracy goes even deeper than she can imagine. She needs the Doctor...
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| But the Doctor is on Earth in [[2008]], fighting to save the life of a child who must survive at all costs.
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| As Gallifrey is attacked by ghosts from the past, the Doctor, Mel and Benton find themselves in the middle of an epic and final battle as the ancient Gods choose their Champions and allow chaos to reign across all of time and space.
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| ==Characters==
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| *[[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]]
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| *[[Melanie Bush]]
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| *[[John Benton]]
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| *[[Romana II|Romana]]
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| *[[The Valeyard]]
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| *[[Spandrell]]
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| *[[K9 Mark I]]
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| *[[Vansell]]
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| *[[Time]]
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| *[[Death]]
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| *[[The Keeper of the Matrix]]
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| *[[Kronos]]
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| *[[Paul Kairos]]
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| *[[Arlene Kairos]]
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| *[[The Chaplain of Spite]]
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| *[[Madame Clacice Beauvier]]
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| *[[Maxil]]
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| *[[The Celestial Toymaker]]
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| *[[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]
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| *[[Mike Yates]]
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| *[[Sarah Jane Smith]]
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| *[[Jo Grant]]
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| *[[Stuart Hyde]]
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| *[[Cybermen]]
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| *Jorvic Chen
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| *Abbadon
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| *Christina Melanie Kairos
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| *[[Morbius]]
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| *[[Lady Peinforte]]
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| ==References==
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| *[[Leela]]
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| *[[Rassilon]]
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| *[[Omega]]
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| *[[The Other]]
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| *[[Faction Paradox]]
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| *[[The Master]]
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| *[[The Rani]]
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| *[[The Monk]]
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| *[[Borusa]]
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| *[[Daleks]]
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| *[[Silurians]]
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| *[[Great Old Ones]]
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| *[[Fenric]]
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| *[[Gods of Ragnarok]] and Armageddon
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| *[[Black Guardian]]
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| *[[White Guardian]]
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| *[[Transcendental Beings]]
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| *[[Chronovores]]
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| *[[Eternals]]
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| *Pain
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| *Fate
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| *Life
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| *Hope
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| *[[Ice Warriors]]
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| *[[Quarks]]
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| *[[Great Intelligence]]
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| *[[Autons]]
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| *[[Sea Devils]]
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| *[[Susan]]
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| *[[Ace]]
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| *[[Jack the Ripper]]
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| ==Notes==
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| *The phrase "Time's Champion" had been used in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] to refer to the [[Seventh Doctor]], often with an implication that the [[Sixth Doctor]] was "sacrificed" to create him.
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| ===Publication History===
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| In 2000 an American writer and fan of Doctor Who Chris McKeon submitted a story to [[Big Finish Productions]], known as 'The Seventh Door' exploring elements of ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' and featured revelations concerning the Valeyard and the [[Seventh Doctor]], this story was rejected by Big Finish. Undeterred McKeon continued to work on another story featuring the Valeyard and began to investigate other authors who had successfully written stories featuring the Valeyard.
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| While investigating previous authors' efforts to feature the Valeyard, McKeon discovered Hinton's novels and the two met online in Doctor Who forums to discuss the Valeyard. This correspondence led to McKeon learning of Hinton's intent to write a novel ''Time's Champion'' for the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]], which was to feature both the Sixth Doctor's regeneration and the origins of the Valeyard.
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| However in 2004 the novel was rejected by the BBC.
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| The decision to reject the Honton's McKeon to return to his earlier (rejected) Valeyard story concepts in the hope of eventual publication, but when he told Hinton of this, Hinton instead gave McKeon permission to complete ''Time's Champion'' itself, with the goal of working together to finish the draft for an unofficial online presentation. Before, during and after this period, Hinton and McKeon developed a strong friendship over discussing their ideas (and met personally at the 2005 GallifreyOne convention in Los Angeles), and when Hinton died on 3rd December 2006, McKeon progressed by himself, determined to complete the novel in his friend's memory. | |
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| Upon Craig Hinton's death, McKeon announced his position as the co-author of ''Time's Champion'' (Hinton had previously mentioned online that he was working with another, anonymous author). Within days, McKeon was contacted by [[Simon Guerrier]], editor of the ''[[Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio adventures at Big Finish, who expressed his interest in attempting to publish the book through the company's Short Trips anthologies. Guerrier, however, informed McKeon that the chances of clearing the book's publication with the BBC were slim, and indeed this did not materialise. However, almost immediately after, McKeon was also contacted by [[David Howe]], owner of [[Telos Publishing]], a publishing company which had, until 2004, produced ''Doctor Who'' novellas and later the spin-off series ''[[Time Hunter]]''. Howe offered McKeon the chance to publish ''Time's Champion'' as an unofficial work, using Telos' printing facilities to produce the novel (though not as a [[Telos Publishing]] book), whose profits would go to the [[Wikipedia:British Heart Foundation|British Heart Foundation]] (a charity chosen by Hinton's family, as the author had died of a heart attack). Howe himself offered to serve as the book's editor.
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| [[Image:Times_Champion_full_cover.jpg|thumb|right|''Time's Champion'' full cover]] | |
| McKeon accepted the opportunity and continued to complete the novel. In February 2007, Howe and McKeon met at the GallifreyOne convention to discuss preliminary publication details. On August 27, 2007, McKeon completed the text's first draft, which came out at 170,477 words. This, when examined by Howe, proved to be too large and very shortly thereafter McKeon went to work on the second draft with the goal to cut the word count to 90,000 words. This second attempt he completed on December 27, 2007, albeit with approximately 115,000 words. Howe began to edit this draft over in early 2008, and on February 10, 2008, McKeon received the edited third draft of ''Time's Champion'', coming in at about 103,000 words. This text he subsequently re-read (at Howe's suggestion during their meeting at the 2008 GallifreyOne convention), to which he made some final revisions. This fourth draft was returned to Howe for final editing. Howe then submitted this draft gto an independent reader for further alterations. By late March, this draft had been completed and turned over to another reader for a final read-through and opinion. On July 6th, 2008, the completed text and a cover drawn by renowned Doctor Who artist [[Alister Pearson]] were turned in for final publication, and the novel was released on July 21, 2008.
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| ==Synopsis==
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| On January 6th, 2008, John Benton celebrates his 70th birthday and invites to his party several old friends. Unable to attend due to work commitments, Sir Stuart Hyde sends his friends Paul and Arlene Kairos (from ''[[The Quantum Archangel]]'', to Benton's home. Arlene needs the rest as she is pregnant and also worries that as her husband, Paul, is the human aspect of the deceased Kronos, that their child may not be normal. Benton tries to assure her that all is well as they wait for the Doctor, also on the guestlist, to arrive.
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| In the TARDIS, Mel worries about the Doctor; although he knows about Benton's party via space-time telegraph, he still spends his days morose and dejected. Fed up with his attitude, Discovering that the Doctor has been deliberately avoiding the space-time location of the celebration, Mel sets the co-ordiantes and she seeks to set the Doctor straight. With a little help from the TARDIS, finds him in an art gallery. After passing through portraits of former companions, Time Lord enemies such as Borusa, the Monk, the Rani and the Master (which reveals that he was indeed the War Chief), and monstrous alien races, Mel finds the Doctor viewing the pictures of his previous incarnations. The Doctor, aware of Mel's actions, is suddenly animated, and shouts that he is finally "ready" to face his future. He races to the Console Room...
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| On January 24, 1908, a young writer named George McKenzie-Trench is staying at Hilsey Halt, an out of the way hotel (which is in fact Benton's future home), trying to finish his magmum opus, ''Time's Champion'', but he can't seem to find the right words. His hostess, the alluring Madame Clacice Beauvier, visits him and invites him to an evening costume party. She also reuquests an exclusive reading of the work for the occasion. Although shocked and feeling ill-prepared, Geroge agrees and tries to force himself to write...
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| In early 9908, on the planet Caliban, Governor George McKenzie-Trench of the Izarus Intent is struggling to finish Abbadon, a computer virus which will thwart the invasion of plans of Jorvic Chen and his Cybermen allies, who have plunged the galaxy into war. George's mentor and spiritual guide, Cardinal Leofrique Grandier, visits and offers him a datacube which he says contains vital information to complete the virus. Grandier then assigns McKenzie-Trench to speak at a mass requiem for the Calibanites. George begins his final preparations...
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| The Doctor and Mel arrive in Benton's barn, and the travellers are received warmly by their host. As Mel re-unites with her old uni friends, Paul and Arlene, the Doctor and Benton discuss the potential difficulties of the Kairos child's unique heritage. The Doctor, however, feels that there is nothing to worry about.
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| The Keeper, watching the Doctor on Earth, dtects temporal distortions both in 2008 and 1908. With so many distractions, he realizes he must consult the Matrix if he is to know how to proceed.
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| The 1908 McKenzie-Trench arrives late at Clacice's soiree, but she welcomes him happily to her Pastel Room. Alone, the two discuss her art collection from now dead artist who lived pain-filled lives, and then Clacice proceeds to tell her life-story: How she and her mother fled their home during a great conflict against her parents, and how their enemies damaged their ship so no return as possible for considerable time. Clacice details how she leanred her mother's arts, but fled home and visited the world and charmed its people with her own abilities. Eventually she returned home but found her mother gone, driven away and injured by a man from their home territory, a man who had stolen her mother's secrets. Clacice vowed vengance on the man, and his people. Listening to the tale, George cannot help but be repulsed by Clacice's masocistic tendencies, such as licking her own blood from a cut on her hand. Clacice, her tale finished, reuquests an exclusive reading of ''Time's Champion'' for the costume party. Although shocked and feeling ill-prepared, Geroge agrees, knowing he will have to force himself to write. Before he leaves, George asks Clacice if her guests are already at the Halt. She answers that they have been delayed in the storm, but not for long...
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| The 9908 McKenzie-Trench enters the Intent Compound's Auditorium of Rest to address the Calibanites- a race of sea-dwelling liquid geysers- one last time. He is overcome with emotion, knowing the same forrce which will destroy the planet's attackers will also destory its natives, but Cardinal Grandier arrives and consoles him, saying that he has been a force of good in his life. Grandier asks if his datacube helped complete Abbadon, but George says he never had time to use the cube. Suddenly enraged, Grandier assaults George, demanding that he forget the mass and return and integrate the cube's programming into Abbadon. Terrified, McKenzie-Trench obeys, and leaves Grandier to montior the progress of the incoming Cyber-fleet; he has less than an hour to ensure his plans are successful...
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| Benton's birthday dinner has gone well, and the Doctor offers a toast to his old friend, not knowing that in 1908, George McKenzie-Trench finally manages to conceive of a plot twist to carry his story forward: the premature birth of an important child. At this coincident moment, Arlene goes into premature, and exceptionally painful, labour. The Doctor, Paul, and Mel help Arlene to her room and prepare for a potential delivery. Benton attempts to call UNIT but his phone line inexpicably dies. The Doctor realizes UNIT cannot help them as light erupts from Arlene's stomach and time shatters.
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| On Gallifrey, the Keeper sees something in the Matrix, something he remembers from fifty years previously. Six beings, Time, Life, Hope, Pain, Fate and Death, speak, discussing a coming Breakdown which has now begun. Seeing the intruding Keeper, they instruct their Disciple to close the connection and the Keeper falls senseless...
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| At that "moment," the 9908 George McKenzie-Trench reaches his room just as the Cybermen attack. He uses Grandier's datacube and programs Abbadon, which suddenly transforms into a physical entity resembling a globular mass of chains. Abbadon then dematerializes, leaving George devastated. He retrieves a gun and raises it to his head...
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| In 2008, the Doctor knows he must remove this part of the Universe from space-time to save the rest. Paul refuses to leave his wife so the Doctor takes Mel and Benton to the TARDIS for the operation. Once there, the Doctor re-wires the console for the reality shift, and uses the transmitter from his space-time telegraph to generate the needed frequencies. The first attempt burns out the transmitter, but Benton suggests they use one from his own telegraph. Mel opts to return to the house to find the transmitter. Inside the house, Paul attempts to confort his wife but finds his hands pass right through her, a phenomenon Mel also experiences as enters the house and her hands pass through solid objects, just before she slips away. In the TARDIS, the Doctor and Benton experience temporary weightlessness as the local reality shifts completely and a hole rips open in the fabric of reality. One hope emerges: the TARDIS can still detect the Kairos child's lifesigns, although its time co-ordiantes are uncertain. With no more options, the Doctor sets course for Gallifrey...
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| Mel wakes to find herself in the same place as she left: Benton's home. She's greeted by Madame Clacice, who introduces herself and, not at all surprised by the means of Mel's arrival, informs her that two other people haeve similarly arrived, which Mel deduces by the descriptions to be Paul and Arlene. Clacice roughly orders her servant, Annie, to take Mel to see them. Mel befriends the frightened girl moments later and discovers that she and her friends have slipped back to 1908. She then hears a man crying in his room, and Annie tells her about their guest, George McKenzie-Trench...
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| The Doctor manages to slip the TARDIS through Gallifrey's transduction barrier and lands in the Panopticon, where he finds the High Council in emergency session, led by his old companion, Lady President Romana. The Time Lords have sensed the reality embolism on Gallifrey, but it is Vansell of the CIA who informs them of its true extent: the tear has penetrated the Six-Fold realm, the home of the cosmos' higher beings such as the Chronovores, Eternals, and Guardians. Romana activates a montior window into the Six-Fold realm, which reveals a scene of total war.
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| ==Continuity==
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| *The Valeyard first appeared in [[DW]]: ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]'', and has subsequently appeared in [[MA]]: ''[[Millennial Rites]]'', [[PDA]]: ''[[Matrix (novel)|Matrix]]'', ''[[Mission: Impractical]]'' , albeit only in a cameo appearnace.
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| *An alternate version of the Valeyard appeared in [[DWU]]: ''[[He Jests at Scars...]]''.
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| ==See also==
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| ''to be added''
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| ==External links==
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| *[http://www.timeschampion.co.uk/ Time's Champion website and blog]
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| ==Footnotes==
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| ''to be added''
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| {{cleanup}}
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