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=== Degeneration crisis === | === Degeneration crisis === | ||
[[File: | [[File:Past_Lives_webcast.jpg|thumb|The Doctor [[Retro-regeneration|degenerates]] inside his TARDIS. ([[WC]]: ''[[Past Lives (audio story)|Past Lives]]'')]] | ||
While still in his early years, the War Doctor landed aboard the [[Diamond Array]], freeing [[The Monk (The Black Hole)|the Monk]] from imprisonment, attempting to guide him back to [[The Monk's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] when they were confronted by [[The Union (The Union)|the Union]]. When he confronted her, he was struck by her weapon and began feeling the immediate effects of [[Retro-regeneration|degeneration]]. Stopping the Union with a makeshift "temporal stink bomb", and aware of what was happening due to events in his relative past, the Monk adjusted the Doctor's TARDIS to take him to the nearest Time Lord [[field hospital]] while imploring him to "find the Monk". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Union (audio story)|The Union]]'') At the hospital, the Doctor began rapidly degenerating into his past incarnations, eventually shrugging off the medics as he returned to his TARIDS. With his memories of the attack and his current self scrambled by his state, he could only recall needing to "find the Monk", and as he stabilized in his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]] he sought the renegade Time Lord out, his condition allowing him to bypass the time locks surrounding the Time War. | While still in his early years, the War Doctor landed aboard the [[Diamond Array]], freeing [[The Monk (The Black Hole)|the Monk]] from imprisonment, attempting to guide him back to [[The Monk's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] when they were confronted by [[The Union (The Union)|the Union]]. When he confronted her, he was struck by her weapon and began feeling the immediate effects of [[Retro-regeneration|degeneration]]. Stopping the Union with a makeshift "temporal stink bomb", and aware of what was happening due to events in his relative past, the Monk adjusted the Doctor's TARDIS to take him to the nearest Time Lord [[field hospital]] while imploring him to "find the Monk". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Union (audio story)|The Union]]'') At the hospital, the Doctor began rapidly degenerating into his past incarnations, eventually shrugging off the medics as he returned to his TARIDS. With his memories of the attack and his current self scrambled by his state, he could only recall needing to "find the Monk", and as he stabilized in his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]] he sought the renegade Time Lord out, his condition allowing him to bypass the time locks surrounding the Time War. | ||
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After diffusing his latest scheme, the Doctor found the Monk could not help him (having not yet experienced the earlier encounter), but was pointed in the direction of his future "daughter". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Past Lives (audio story)|Past Lives]]'') As his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]], the Doctor found [[Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter)|Jenny]] near the [[end of the universe]], alongside the [[Curator]], with his time alongside them and solving the mystery of the latter's destructive art career bringing him further stability and strength to continue on. He recognized the Diamond Array from the Curator's paintings, but didn't retain the memory following his depature. ([[AUDIO]]: [[The Artist at the End of Time (audio story)|''The Artist at the End of Time'']]) Following this, he was diverted via [[Time Scoop|time scoop]] to assist the Time Lords in the supposed defection of [[Davros (Palindrome)|Davros]] from the Daleks, ultimately foiling his plans as his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]], refocusing his mind. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Genius for War (audio story)|A Genius for War]]'') On Earth in [[2006]], the Doctor was then led by [[River Song|an unseen benefactor]] to discover a plot by [[the Two]] to sabotage his TARDIS at [[76 Totter's Lane]] in [[1963]]. Foiling the plot as his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]], the Two's personality of [[The One (Time Lord)|the One]] advised the Doctor to investigate the Karpellian system. ([[AUDIO]]: [[Two's Company (audio story)|''Two's Company'']]) Upon landing on [[Planetoid 50]] in the system he found [[the Master]] was also degenerating, and learned the soil there to have been part of the weapon that had induced it, demonstrated when experimental exposures left both Time Lords degenerated forwards into future incarnations (the Master as [[Missy]], and the Doctor as his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]]). Before parting, Missy was also able to remind the Doctor that the culprit of their conditions was the Union. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 (audio story)|The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50]]'') | After diffusing his latest scheme, the Doctor found the Monk could not help him (having not yet experienced the earlier encounter), but was pointed in the direction of his future "daughter". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Past Lives (audio story)|Past Lives]]'') As his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]], the Doctor found [[Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter)|Jenny]] near the [[end of the universe]], alongside the [[Curator]], with his time alongside them and solving the mystery of the latter's destructive art career bringing him further stability and strength to continue on. He recognized the Diamond Array from the Curator's paintings, but didn't retain the memory following his depature. ([[AUDIO]]: [[The Artist at the End of Time (audio story)|''The Artist at the End of Time'']]) Following this, he was diverted via [[Time Scoop|time scoop]] to assist the Time Lords in the supposed defection of [[Davros (Palindrome)|Davros]] from the Daleks, ultimately foiling his plans as his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]], refocusing his mind. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Genius for War (audio story)|A Genius for War]]'') On Earth in [[2006]], the Doctor was then led by [[River Song|an unseen benefactor]] to discover a plot by [[the Two]] to sabotage his TARDIS at [[76 Totter's Lane]] in [[1963]]. Foiling the plot as his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]], the Two's personality of [[The One (Time Lord)|the One]] advised the Doctor to investigate the Karpellian system. ([[AUDIO]]: [[Two's Company (audio story)|''Two's Company'']]) Upon landing on [[Planetoid 50]] in the system he found [[the Master]] was also degenerating, and learned the soil there to have been part of the weapon that had induced it, demonstrated when experimental exposures left both Time Lords degenerated forwards into future incarnations (the Master as [[Missy]], and the Doctor as his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]]). Before parting, Missy was also able to remind the Doctor that the culprit of their conditions was the Union. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 (audio story)|The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50]]'') | ||
As his condition began to endanger the multiverse, the Doctor, now his future [[Ninth Doctor|ninth incarnation]], worked together with a [[Unbound Doctor|Doctor of a parallel universe]], the Master (degenerated into [[the Lumiat]]), and [[Liv Chenka]] to summon the [[Time Lord Immemorial]] to repair reality. During this, the Lumiat further informed the Doctor that the Union was an individual, not a group. Following this crisis, he received a distress call from [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], directing him to find her at the Diamond Array. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time Lord Immemorial (audio story)|Time Lord Immemorial]]'') Despite rapidly increasing degenerations, the Doctor returned to the Array, saved Susan with the aid of [[River Song]], and undid the Union's efforts to condense solar systems into decorative diamonds. With further future-degenerations up to his [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnation]], he critically sabotaged the Array before confronting the Union, who he now recognized as [[Renegade Time Lord (The Eleven)|the Renegade's]] final incarnation. Though asserting his superiority as a union of all his own selves, the Union challenged the Doctor with the knowledge of his War incarnation, and how the other Doctors feared and dreaded him. This prompted the War Doctor to remerge, remembering that he had been the one to have been shot by her degeneration gun. He refuted the Union in that despite everything, he still carried the Doctor's spirit within himself, and ultimately respected his other selves, letting his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]] retake control to finish the confrontation. With the Array's destruction, the War Doctor fully restabilized as himself, with a renewed sense of hope and reflection on his lives, as he dropped off Susan and River on Gallifrey before returning to the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Union (audio story)|The Union]]'') | As his condition began to endanger the multiverse, the Doctor, now his future [[Ninth Doctor|ninth incarnation]], worked together with a [[Unbound Doctor|Doctor of a parallel universe]], the Master (degenerated into [[the Lumiat]]), and [[Liv Chenka]] to summon the [[Time Lord Immemorial]] to repair reality. During this, the Lumiat further informed the Doctor that the Union was an individual, not a group. Following this crisis, he received a distress call from [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], directing him to find her at the Diamond Array. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time Lord Immemorial (audio story)|Time Lord Immemorial]]'') Despite rapidly increasing degenerations, the Doctor returned to the Array, saved Susan with the aid of [[River Song]], and undid the Union's efforts to condense solar systems into decorative diamonds. With further future-degenerations up to his [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnation]], he critically sabotaged the Array before confronting the Union, who he now recognized as [[Renegade Time Lord (The Eleven)|the Renegade's]] final incarnation. Though asserting his superiority as a union of all his own selves, the Union challenged the Doctor with the knowledge of his War incarnation, and how the other Doctors feared and dreaded him. This prompted the War Doctor to remerge, remembering that he had been the one to have been shot by her degeneration gun. He refuted the Union in that despite everything, he still carried the Doctor's spirit within himself, and ultimately respected his other selves, letting his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]] retake control to finish the confrontation. With the Array's destruction, the War Doctor fully restabilized as himself, with a renewed sense of hope and reflection on his lives, as he dropped off Susan and River on Gallifrey before returning to the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Union (audio story)|The Union]]'') | ||
=== Aged by war === | === Aged by war === | ||