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At the pit, Chad Boyle confronts them, and stabs the Doctor — a mortal wound, but he will be slow in dying. Ace drives Boyle off, and helps the Doctor down to the bridge over the pit. She confronts the Timewyrm, which reveals its plan: this is not just any mindscape, but the Doctor's, where she hid herself [[Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)|long ago]] in [[Mesopotamia]]. As well, she has been able to exercise control briefly on several occasions, and has used the Doctor and the TARDIS to set the pieces of this complex plan in place; hence, the Doctor's mysterious nighttime excursions. If she can destroy the Doctor here, she will take over his body and powers, and consume the universe. Meanwhile, the group in the church, still following the Doctor's message, are stunned when the amulet opens into a portal into the Time Vortex. Working together, they find a path leading to the Doctor and Ace, and Emily goes through to rescue them. She successfully brings out the Doctor, but Ace is trapped. Ace is confronted by the dead companions again, who tell her to go into the pit and free the Doctor's [[Fifth Doctor|conscience]]. She finds it in the form of the Doctor's incarnation two regenerations ago, tied to a tree; she frees him, restoring the Doctor's conscience. Enraged, the Timewyrm attacks her, and Chad Boyle as well. | At the pit, Chad Boyle confronts them, and stabs the Doctor — a mortal wound, but he will be slow in dying. Ace drives Boyle off, and helps the Doctor down to the bridge over the pit. She confronts the Timewyrm, which reveals its plan: this is not just any mindscape, but the Doctor's, where she hid herself [[Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)|long ago]] in [[Mesopotamia]]. As well, she has been able to exercise control briefly on several occasions, and has used the Doctor and the TARDIS to set the pieces of this complex plan in place; hence, the Doctor's mysterious nighttime excursions. If she can destroy the Doctor here, she will take over his body and powers, and consume the universe. Meanwhile, the group in the church, still following the Doctor's message, are stunned when the amulet opens into a portal into the Time Vortex. Working together, they find a path leading to the Doctor and Ace, and Emily goes through to rescue them. She successfully brings out the Doctor, but Ace is trapped. Ace is confronted by the dead companions again, who tell her to go into the pit and free the Doctor's [[Fifth Doctor|conscience]]. She finds it in the form of the Doctor's incarnation two regenerations ago, tied to a tree; she frees him, restoring the Doctor's conscience. Enraged, the Timewyrm attacks her, and Chad Boyle as well. | ||
Outside, the Doctor has the power now to crush the Timewyrm; but doing so will kill Ace as well. With his conscience restored, he cannot do that. He pilots the TARDIS into his own inner landscape, and confronts the Timewyrm there, and offers it not death, but peace. In terror, it destroys Chad Boyle to unleash its full power on the Doctor. He locates the humanity inside, [[Qataka]], the woman it once was, and offers it peace. Qataka agrees, and he absorbs her into himself. The Timewyrm's power, now a facet of the universe itself, becomes dormant. The Doctor and Ace return to the church, and he releases Qataka's essence into the baby, which the Hutchings will now raise and name Ishtar. Qataka will have her chance at redemption. | Outside, the Doctor has the power now to crush the Timewyrm; but doing so will kill Ace as well. With his conscience restored, he cannot do that. He pilots the TARDIS into his own inner landscape<ref>According to the [[First Doctor]], [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] was a [[metaphysical engine]], meaning that along with traveling through space and time, it was also capable of entering into a person's mind. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Every Day (short story)|Every Day]]'')</ref>, and confronts the Timewyrm there, and offers it not death, but peace. In terror, it destroys Chad Boyle to unleash its full power on the Doctor. He locates the humanity inside, [[Qataka]], the woman it once was, and offers it peace. Qataka agrees, and he absorbs her into himself. The Timewyrm's power, now a facet of the universe itself, becomes dormant. The Doctor and Ace return to the church, and he releases Qataka's essence into the baby, which the Hutchings will now raise and name Ishtar. Qataka will have her chance at redemption. | ||
The Doctor and Ace return the church to Earth, where the explosion never happened, now that the Timewyrm is removed. They spend some time wrapping up loose ends, obtaining the baby from a lab and placing it with Emily, stopping the childhood version of Chad Boyle from killing childhood Ace [and realising that Chad turns out well in the end], and finally, departing. Trelaw, meanwhile, buries Hemmings' head, and pondering the outcome of it all. | The Doctor and Ace return the church to Earth, where the explosion never happened, now that the Timewyrm is removed. They spend some time wrapping up loose ends, obtaining the baby from a lab and placing it with Emily, stopping the childhood version of Chad Boyle from killing childhood Ace [and realising that Chad turns out well in the end], and finally, departing. Trelaw, meanwhile, buries Hemmings' head, and pondering the outcome of it all. | ||
