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The [[Fifth Doctor|Doctor]], [[Nyssa]] and [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] hear a loud distress signal coming through the [[TARDIS]] console. They lock on and travel to the source. They arrive and step outside, only to be greeted by a Hargreaves, the ship's computer and valet. | The [[Fifth Doctor|Doctor]], [[Nyssa]] and [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] hear a loud distress signal coming through the [[TARDIS]] console. They lock on and travel to the source. They arrive and step outside, only to be greeted by a Hargreaves, the ship's computer and valet. | ||
Tegan wonders off, and looks outside the ship's large windows. They appear to be orbiting a massive black hole as explained by Hargreaves. Despite the momentary distraction, the Doctor asks Hargreaves why he launched the distress signal and Hargreaves reveals that a little while ago his crew just disappeared. They hear a scream but Hargeaves tells them to ignore it as it is an ephemeral echo, so least he claims. They go to investigate anyway. | Tegan wonders off, and looks outside the ship's large windows. They appear to be orbiting a massive black hole as explained by Hargreaves. Despite the momentary distraction, the Doctor asks Hargreaves why he launched the distress signal and Hargreaves reveals that a little while ago his crew just disappeared. They hear a scream but Hargeaves tells them to ignore it as it is an ephemeral echo, so least he claims. They go to investigate anyway while he prepares tea for them. | ||
They arrive at the source of the noise in the botanical garden aboard the ship but they meet Hargreaves again and it turns out Hargreaves is the ship's central computer and simply takes over the robot body closest to the person requesting service, in this case the robot gardener's body. They ask him about the noise and he assures them that they are corporeal, not real. They look around and ask him about the plant life, it seems to be growing at an unrealistically unheard of rate. The Doctor and Tegan go to find something else but Nyssa notices writing on the plants. Tegan and the Doctor are off discussing the origins of the ship when they hear Nyssa scream. They run back and find she got stabbed by a plant she was trying to inspect. The Doctor worries about poison and infection and Hargreaves directs Nyssa to the medical bay to get the injury inspected and mended while they hear another scream and the Doctor and Tegan go back to investigate. | They arrive at the source of the noise in the botanical garden aboard the ship but they meet Hargreaves again and it turns out Hargreaves is the ship's central computer and simply takes over the robot body closest to the person requesting service, in this case the robot gardener's body. They ask him about the noise and he assures them that they are corporeal, not real. They look around and ask him about the plant life, it seems to be growing at an unrealistically unheard of rate. The Doctor and Tegan go to find something else but Nyssa notices writing on the plants. Tegan and the Doctor are off discussing the origins of the ship when they hear Nyssa scream. They run back and find she got stabbed by a plant she was trying to inspect. The Doctor worries about poison and infection and Hargreaves directs Nyssa to the medical bay to get the injury inspected and mended while they hear another scream and the Doctor and Tegan go back to investigate. | ||
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=== Part 4 === | === Part 4 === | ||
The time fracture opens and past and future crash with the present. Tegan and Savinio experience another time storm and Savinio believes the Doctor fellow that Tegan had so much faith in is not coming. | The time fracture opens and past and future crash with the present. Tegan and Savinio experience another time storm and Savinio believes "the Doctor fellow" that Tegan had so much faith in is not coming. Unable to hold off the plant from fully killing him, he dies. The Doctor takes Hargreaves in the form of his head with him through the newly created hole in space-time, leaving Dr. Akunin in their wake. They arrive in Tegan's time zone and with the help of this time zone's Hargreaves, try to locate her. Nyssa, with the infection getting worse and spreading, demands Hargreaves amputate her arm. The Doctor finds Tegan but she reveals that the TARDIS is not with her and he realizes the fail-safe [[Time anomaly relocation distributor|time anomaly relocation distributors]] had kicked in, explaining that they need to wait for it to arrive but there's other things they need to do in the meantime such as find a cure for Nyssa, so they set off to the garden. Nyssa realizes at the behest of Hargreaves that she can place herself in suspension to slow down the spread of infection. Tegan, Hargreaves and the Doctor are found by Dr. Akunin having gone through the hole himself and who plans to kill them but they are then discovered by an Akunite. This Akunite turns out to be the remains of Jennings and it attacks and kills Dr. Akunin as retribution for what he did to her/it while Tegan and the Doctor barely escape. Nyssa finds the transformed Captain Maynard (in Akunite form) who prepares to kill her but Nyssa orders Hargreaves to use weed killer on it, apologizes and runs off. The Doctor and Tegan feel a massive pulse from the storms occurring in the present and sending shock-waves through time. Just then, the TARDIS arrives and Tegan, Hargreaves and the Doctor get inside. He explains that Nyssa's [[time track]] will be extremely hard to find as she's been thrown back and forth and is probably several decades behind. Hargreaves suggests that they go back and put a system restore in his central processors which have not moved from their original location in the ship since the start of the mission, at every instance since the ship's arrival. The Doctor realizes Hargreaves' constant and the genius of his plan and they get to work. The plan involves going back to the start of the event and putting the crew into stasis so that they can awaken them in the present time, and Hargreaves must also send out a distress signal so the Doctor and co arrive to start the chain of events. However, the Doctor realises that by aborting the timeline they will lose Nyssa...unless, and he runs to the stasis chambers to confirm his suspicions. Before stasis, Nyssa realizes she can leave small messages on the wall with the weed killer for the Doctor but she has extremely limited time as the infection begins to take over. The Doctor in the present time finds the scrambled messages and manages to figure out that they read "Sleeping Bay Five". Nyssa, with the infection spreading, puts herself in stasis there, hoping to be found. The pod opens and Nyssa looks outside to see none other than the Doctor and Tegan standing outside and with events re-set she is no longer infected. Relieved to have found her, they head back to the TARDIS while Hargreaves completes his plans. | ||
The crew of the Aquitaine are preparing to return home after collecting plant samples from Vetrius III. Hargreaves tells them there has been a hull breach and that they must go into stasis. They do and Hargreaves waits with them for fifty three years. The stasis pods are opened and the crew finds the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa who get them on the TARDIS and helps them escape as the Aquitaine is sucked into the black hole and destroyed. Inside the TARDIS, Hargreaves is unplugged from the controls and | The crew of the Aquitaine are preparing to return home after collecting plant samples from Vetrius III. Hargreaves tells them there has been a hull breach and that they must go into stasis. They do and Hargreaves waits with them for fifty three years. The stasis pods are opened and the crew finds the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa who get them on the TARDIS and helps them escape as the Aquitaine is sucked into the black hole and destroyed. Inside the TARDIS, Hargreaves is unplugged from the controls and expresses feeling peculiar after having experienced his "death". Tegan wishes they could keep Hargreaves with them, believing it would be nice for the Doctor to have a personal attendant although the Doctor isn't fond of the idea. However, the crew explain that they will be taking Hargreaves as he is the only proof they have of the disaster that has occurred today. Additionally, the Doctor says that he's not sure he could drink that much tea. | ||
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