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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
When trying to reach [[1985]] for a shopping trip, [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] drags the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble|Donna]] off course by | When trying to reach [[1985]] for a shopping trip, [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] drags the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble|Donna]] off course by twelve hundred years, landing them in [[Belgium]] in the year [[800]]. They arrive in a pantry used for storing vegetables and meat. Using his [[sonic screwdriver]], the Doctor opens the only door available but is told to stop by two guards who take them into the kitchen. A man named [[Baldebert]] confronts them and declares the Doctor the Emperor's official food taster. Baldebert welcomes them to the court of [[Charlemagne]]. He lets the Doctor taste several dishes to see if they are [[poison]]ed. In the middle of testing, a young boy named [[Macon]] runs in, declaring that Charlemagne had disappeared. The Doctor becomes worried, because the Emperor had a meeting with [[Leo III|the Pope]] later that day and if that meeting did not happen, Charlemagne would never have been crowned head of the [[Roman Empire]]. The Doctor and Donna follow Macon to where Charlemagne had disappeared. There the Doctor finds [[quantum detritus]], left behind when someone or something has been taken out of [[time]]. | ||
The Doctor and Donna disappear and find themselves in a long abandoned palace. A booming voice informs them that they are in the [[Palace of Hy-Ridion]]; the Doctor looks out the window. They are not on [[Earth]]. The voice introduces itself as [[Momus]] and says they are on [[Planet 12 of the Ridion Alliance]]. Momus says that the Doctor is the final guest in the Great Dinner Party, which Momus has spent a long time gathering. Momus himself is a small computer hovering in the air. A hidden door in the wall opens to reveal some of history's greatest leaders, artists and scientists (including Charlemagne) who are arguing and demanding that they be released. The Doctor has a talk with Momus, who says that after his planet's population of great scientists decreased after the [[Seven Hundred Year War]], he decided to bring all of Earth's greatest minds to bring the planet to a new age. The Doctor reasons with Momus and persuades him to take the people home. | The Doctor and Donna disappear and find themselves in a long abandoned palace. A booming voice informs them that they are in the [[Palace of Hy-Ridion]]; the Doctor looks out the window. They are not on [[Earth]]. The voice introduces itself as [[Momus]] and says they are on [[Planet 12 of the Ridion Alliance]]. Momus says that the Doctor is the final guest in the Great Dinner Party, which Momus has spent a long time gathering. Momus himself is a small computer hovering in the air. A hidden door in the wall opens to reveal some of history's greatest leaders, artists and scientists (including Charlemagne) who are arguing and demanding that they be released. The Doctor has a talk with Momus, who says that after his planet's population of great scientists decreased after the [[Seven Hundred Year War]], he decided to bring all of Earth's greatest minds to bring the planet to a new age. The Doctor reasons with Momus and persuades him to take the people home. | ||
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[[Category:WEB short stories]] | [[Category:WEB short stories]] | ||
[[Category:Winston Churchill stories]] | |||
[[fr:The Lonely Computer]] | [[fr:The Lonely Computer]] | ||