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With [[Great War (The Library in the Body)|the war]]'s aftermath causing [[Parallel universe (Sympathy for the Devil)|the universe]] to face collapse, the Doctor travelled to the prime universe to find Professor [[Bernice Summerfield]], hoping that he could latch onto her unique [[artron energy]] signature to anchor him to that universe so he could escape. Instead, it dragged her back into his own. Returned to his dying universe, they visited to [[The Library (The Library in the Body)|the Library]] to find [[knowledge]]. He wanted to protect the Library from the [[Kareem]], until he realised the Library was a parasite after reading one of its books. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Library in the Body (audio story)|The Library in the Body]]'') | With [[Great War (The Library in the Body)|the war]]'s aftermath causing [[Parallel universe (Sympathy for the Devil)|the universe]] to face collapse, the Doctor travelled to the prime universe to find Professor [[Bernice Summerfield]], hoping that he could latch onto her unique [[artron energy]] signature to anchor him to that universe so he could escape. Instead, it dragged her back into his own. Returned to his dying universe, they visited to [[The Library (The Library in the Body)|the Library]] to find [[knowledge]]. He wanted to protect the Library from the [[Kareem]], until he realised the Library was a parasite after reading one of its books. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Library in the Body (audio story)|The Library in the Body]]'') | ||
Despite the Doctor's protestations that [[Planet X (Planet X)|Planet X]] was boring, Bernice managed to persuade him. He was arrested upon arrival for being too interesting. He discovered that the populace was decreasing due to the population being processed to be boring, believing that they would be protected from the wider universe if nobody was interested in them. He was to be processed but the gas they used didn't affect him. He worked out that 20 million people were killed in 5 years. He escaped and met [[Ego (Planet X)|Ego]] where he was invited to a suicide party and re-arrested. In the final confrontation with [[Prime Minister 470]], he exposed the truth about her reign while she was trying to torture him, encouraging the rest of the population to explore possibilities rather than being boring all the time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet X (audio story)|Planet X]]'') | Despite the Doctor's protestations that [[Planet X (Planet X)|Planet X]] was boring, Bernice managed to persuade him. He was arrested upon arrival for being too interesting. He discovered that the populace was decreasing due to the population being processed to be boring, believing that they would be protected from the wider universe if nobody was interested in them. He was to be processed but the gas they used didn't affect him. He worked out that 20 million people were killed in 5 years. He escaped and met [[Ego (Planet X)|Ego]] where he was invited to a suicide party and re-arrested. In the final confrontation with [[Prime Minister 470]], he exposed the truth about her reign while she was trying to torture him whilst broadcasting to the entire planet, encouraging the rest of the population to explore possibilities rather than being boring all the time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet X (audio story)|Planet X]]'') | ||
The two of them then visited Tramatz to stop an imminent attack but got distracted by the singing river. [[Megatz]] inquired into why they were there but he had forgotton why after a couple of weeks on the planet. When Benny saw a unicorn he told her to talk to it to calm it down. He spent his time listening to the world. He wouldn't allow Benny to keep the unicorn. It became glaringly obvious that a weapon that had ended the war was warping reality and making people unaware of their impending doom. After the weapon was disabled, he decided to visit Admiral [[Effenish]] in order to try and stop the war from restarting. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Very Dark Thing (audio story)|The Very Dark Thing]]'') | The two of them then visited Tramatz to stop an imminent attack but he got distracted by the singing river, wandering off until Benny finally found him again. [[Megatz]] inquired into why they were there but he had forgotton why after a couple of weeks on the planet. When Benny saw a unicorn he told her to talk to it to calm it down. He spent his time listening to the world. He wouldn't allow Benny to keep the unicorn. It became glaringly obvious that a weapon that had ended the war was warping reality and making people unaware of their impending doom. After the weapon was disabled, he decided to visit Admiral [[Effenish]] in order to try and stop the war from restarting. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Very Dark Thing (audio story)|The Very Dark Thing]]'') | ||
The TARDIS then received a distress call | The TARDIS then received a distress call from the [[Mother Superior (The Library in the Body)|Mother Superior]] to take a crowd of refugees to the Emporium, as the end of the universe appeared to be nigh. There he met the Manager, the Master in disguise, and found him familiar. He was escorted out of the building for trying to sneak around the Master's offices. He later decided to sell his memories to help people escape this universe, only to learn that he had already sold them to keep this universe alive. With this revelation, and his subconscious recognition of the Master, the Doctor realised that the Master's portal, which was allegedly sending lucky people to an alternate universe, was actually disintegrating them and creating the illusion of accelerated universal destruction so that the Master could guarantee his own escape. The Master was subsequently thrown into the portal by the angry sisters and seemingly disintegrated, leaving the Doctor and Benny to explore this universe and find another way to save it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emporium At The End (audio story)|The Emporium At The End]]'') | ||
==== Leader of the Universe ==== | ==== Leader of the Universe ==== | ||
The Docfor was eventually forced to officially take on his title of [[Ruler of the Universe]] in order to try and protect the survivors of this dying reality. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The City and the Clock (audio story)|The City and the Clock]]'') Under the Doctor’s guidance, a Parliament of the Universe was founded. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The True Saviour of the Universe (audio story)|The True Saviour of the Universe]]'') | |||
The Doctor funded Bernice's mission to excavate the site of the [[Apocalypse Clock (The City and the Clock)|Apocalypse Clock]] on [[Merin (planet)|Merin]] as a potential means to save his universe from destruction, even as he admitted later that he'd never seriously expected her research to bear any fruit and mainly did it to try and secure a public victory to improve his credibility. Benny eventually asked him to come and look at her dig. He did but their friendship soured as he was grumpy at his job, due to the amount of paper work and the remedial talks he had to do. He became stuck on Merin as he hadn’t negotiated a settlement to prevent strikes of the spaceport staff, due to being busy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The City and the Clock (audio story)|The City and the Clock]]'') | |||
The Doctor began working to create a “safe zone” with the Clock and oversaw the evacuation of planets to move their populations to safety. Troubled by his inability to help others due to the bureaucracy of his position as president, he attended regular appointments with the therapist [[Guilana (Asking for a Friend)|Guilana]]. He discussed such issues as his perception of other people as tools to help him or his frustration at the bureaucracy that prevented him helping certain planets as he tried to "punish" troublesome rulers who were exploiting the situation. She helped him to remember portions of the Great War. However, his appointments ended when he was revealed to have manipulated Guilana's timeline to save her former fiancé from the shuttle accident that killed him. He did this because he wanted to make someone happy when he lost a planet and a friend. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Asking for a Friend (audio story)|Asking for a Friend]]'') | |||
The Doctor plotted to step down from running the universe, and concocted a grand scheme to make the change seem natural. He | The Doctor plotted to step down from running the universe, and concocted a grand scheme to make the change seem natural. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The True Saviour of the Universe (audio story)|The True Saviour of the Universe]]'') He absconded from his duties and went off in the TARDIS for adventures to try and find some random alien invasion to deal with, but his efforts failed as his new reputation meant that every alien he encountered immediately backed down when they recognised him. Benny eventually caught up with him and together investigated his only discovery of an actual invasion. However this proved much more morally complex than he’d hoped as the "invasion" had occurred sixty years earlier and aside from the children of the original invaders, the only member of the planet's original inhabitants left was one old woman who liked her isolation, forcing the Doctor to accept things as they were. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Truant (audio story)|Truant]]'') | ||
Upon returning to the Parliament, the Doctor was arrested and impeachment proceedings began ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Truant (audio story)|Truant]]'') as he’d planned. He appeared before the Parliament, deliberately antagonising them, and explained the Clock was ready but he couldn’t take the risk of activating it due to an unknown release of energy. This confession allowed the Master to take his place as he promised to activate it regardless, which won over the angry Parliament. The Doctor appeared to take the rejection badly and disappeared, however was actually reconfiguring the TARDIS. When the Master activated the Clock the energy discharge began to awaken the [[Great Old Ones]], as the Master had anticipated, however the Doctor used the TARDIS to steal the energy, materialising in front of Benny in the midst of a panicing crowd. In the “downsized” TARDIS, he used the energy to return Benny to her home universe. He explained that, without the Great Old Ones, the Master would be constrained by the bureaucracy and Parliament, so may end up actually being a good ruler of the safe zone in his place. He and Benny set out together to explore her universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The True Saviour of the Universe (audio story)|The True Saviour of the Universe]]'') | |||
=== Travels in N-Space === | |||
He later became of professor at a university. He told Benny to remember her real memories. From time to time he appeared to her at key points and to influence her decisions. He hoped that her memories would come back soon. Benny asked the Doctor about him and this Summerfield person, and how they came to this planet and stayed because they thought there was a mystery to solve. He could only be seen by Benny as he was her anchor. He explained to Benny how her life as Annis was remembered. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Angel of History (audio story)|The Angel of History]]'') | He later became of professor at a university. He told Benny to remember her real memories. From time to time he appeared to her at key points and to influence her decisions. He hoped that her memories would come back soon. Benny asked the Doctor about him and this Summerfield person, and how they came to this planet and stayed because they thought there was a mystery to solve. He could only be seen by Benny as he was her anchor. He explained to Benny how her life as Annis was remembered. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Angel of History (audio story)|The Angel of History]]'') | ||
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