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|featuring6 = Slyne | |featuring6 = Slyne | ||
|enemy = [[Dalek| | |enemy = [[Supreme Dalek (Ascension)|Supreme Dalek]] | ||
|setting = [[Gallifrey]], [[the Matrix]] | |setting = [[Gallifrey]], [[the Matrix]] | ||
|writer = [[Justin Richards]] | |writer = [[Justin Richards]] | ||
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'''''Ascension''''' (identified on the cover simply as '''''Chapter Twenty-Four''''') was the third and final story in [[Gallifrey VI|series 6]] of ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]''. It was written by [[Justin Richards]]. | '''''Ascension''''' (identified on the cover simply as '''''Chapter Twenty-Four''''') was the third and final story in [[Gallifrey VI|series 6]] of ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]''. It was written by [[Justin Richards]]. | ||
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Romana realises that Slyne is still awake and he admits that there is no Slyne in this world; he is the Slyne that they knew on the [[Regenerator]]'s [[Gallifrey (Forever)|Gallifrey]] and managed to get here by taking advantage of K9. He engineered this situation to get the Time Lords put to sleep and used the presidential codes to open the Matrix doors across the Capitol to release his masters, who waited in the Axis for Romana to discover a cure for the Dogma Virus, an infection which they developed. They are now hidden in the Matrix and drained the power to ensure that the backup was taken to be used in the real world. | Romana realises that Slyne is still awake and he admits that there is no Slyne in this world; he is the Slyne that they knew on the [[Regenerator]]'s [[Gallifrey (Forever)|Gallifrey]] and managed to get here by taking advantage of K9. He engineered this situation to get the Time Lords put to sleep and used the presidential codes to open the Matrix doors across the Capitol to release his masters, who waited in the Axis for Romana to discover a cure for the Dogma Virus, an infection which they developed. They are now hidden in the Matrix and drained the power to ensure that the backup was taken to be used in the real world. | ||
Several Daleks emerge from the Matrix door before it and all the other doors are closed, preventing the main invasion force from arriving. Romana presumes that it must have been Trey who closed them. The Daleks exterminate Slyne, who has served his purpose as the [[multiversal anomaly]], and order Romana to hand over the presidential codes to reopen the Matrix. Romana, Leela, Narvin and K9 run, with K9 returning the Daleks' fire until his batteries are severely depleted. In the Presidential Office, K9 activates the defence grid and Leela gives Romana Trey's message. Romana considers why Trey had created a copy of the Capitol in the Matrix and sends Leela and Narvin to hide, having worked out what the message meant. Romana accesses the Matrix. | Several Daleks emerge from the Matrix door before it and all the other doors are closed, preventing the main invasion force from arriving. Romana presumes that it must have been Trey who closed them. The Daleks exterminate Slyne, who has served his purpose as the [[multiversal anomaly]], and order Romana to hand over the presidential codes to reopen the Matrix. Romana, Leela, Narvin and K9 run, with K9 returning the Daleks' fire until his batteries are severely depleted. In the Presidential Office, K9 activates the defence grid and Leela gives Romana Trey's message. Romana considers why Trey had created a copy of the Capitol in the Matrix and sends Leela and Narvin to hide, having worked out what the message meant. Romana accesses the Matrix and the Daleks break in. | ||
''to | Leela and Narvin head towards the [[CIA Tower]] by way of the [[Transport Controller]]'s office, but Leela stops as she does not want to abandon Romana. | ||
The Daleks take Romana prisoner and take her to the [[Supreme Dalek (Ascension)|Supreme Dalek]] in the Panopticon. Leela and Narvin arrive return to the office to find Romana gone and K9 sealing the Matrix on Romana's orders. | |||
In the Panopticon, the Supreme Dalek tells Romana that the Daleks will take her codes and authorisation from her mind to lower Gallifrey's defences and allow the main invasion fleet to arrive. Trey arrives and Romana reveals that they are inside the Matrix, K9 having opened a Matrix door in her office. | |||
K9 tells Leela and Narvin that Romana and the Daleks are trapped within the Matrix, the world sealed in a data pocket. With Romana's absence meaning that Valyes or Matthias might become President and that nobody but her can rebuild Gallifrey, Narvin believes that it is worth attempting to prevent the [[creation of the Daleks]] and goes to find Valyes. He watches Matthias wake up and, after explaining what has happened, puts him back to sleep and awakens Valyes, taking him to the CIA Tower; he tasks Valyes with going to [[Skaro]] and getting the [[Fourth Doctor]] to avert the Daleks' creation. | |||
Leela and K9 return to the Presidential Office and find Romana there, learning that she did not enter the Matrix but instead used an avatar to deceive the Daleks. When Narvin comes, he realises that he has risked temporal war for no reason. All Time Lords have now awoken and Romana says that it is a new dawn for Gallifrey, believing that the Daleks will no longer be a threat. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
