"You can't escape, Doctor!" The Rani yells out. "Say
goodbye, Doctors! You're all going on a long journey! A VERY
long journey!"
The Fifth Doctor begins walking toward the Rani, followed
by the others.
"The Rani. I take back what I said about an ingenius
operator being behind these time jumps," the Doctor remarks to
Peri and Nyssa.
"What's going on, Doctor?" Peri asks. The Rani, in the
meantime, is walking toward them.
"Who else could master such a difficult operation?" The
Rani remarks proudly. She looks over toward the group of
monsters. "Back to my TARDIS!" The Fifth Doctor suddenly presses
his hands to his head, and a look of intense concentration comes
over his face.
"What are you doing?" Nyssa asks the Doctor upon
noticing this.
"Why bother trying to summon up your remaining selves?
I've weakened you," the Rani remarks. Suddenly, there is a
bright flash of light. Now the Third Doctor and Liz Shaw are in
the park. The Rani spins around and aims her gun at the Doctor.
"I've got a few more tricks up my sleeve yet, madam!
It's time for you to start losing!" The Third Doctor calls out.
"You! Earth female! Come here!" The Rani points toward
Liz Shaw. Liz starts walking toward the Rani. The Third Doctor
looks at Liz in horror.
"No, Liz. No, Liz, you mustn't," the Third Doctor
orders. Liz is still walking toward the Rani.
"Leave this to me, I'll take my chances," Liz responds.
The Doctor comes up behind Liz to grab her.
"No Liz!" Liz brakes into a sprint, running towards the
Rani. Liz struggles with the Rani to gain control of the gun.
Suddenly, a girl, Mandy, walks up to the Rani.
"What are you doing? Leave her alone!" Mandy orders,
pulling Liz away from the Rani. Liz instinctively runs away, as
Mandy and her friend does when the Rani points her gun at them.
The Third Doctor looks on anxiously. Suddenly, a yellow
Edwardian roadster, Bessie, pulls up to the park, driven by
Captain Mike Yates of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce.
Mike slams on the brakes and looks around, finally spotting
the Doctor.
"Doctor! Come on! Quickly!" He yells to the Doctor. The
Doctor runs to Bessie, as Mike shoots the Rani's gun out of her
hands. The Rani immediately runs inside of the bar. The Third
Doctor hops into Bessie.
"I can't thank you enough!" He exclaims to Mike. "Now
get me to the TARDIS! As quick as possible!" Acknowledging this,
Mike drives off. The Doctor taps Mike on the shoulder and points
skyward towards an incoming helicopter.
Brigadier Lethbdrige-Stewart is sitting in a helicopter
in the air, looking down at Bessie driving up. The Third Doctor
jumps out of Bessie and runs to the helicopter, which has just
landed.
"Brigadier!" The Third Doctor yells into the helicopter.
"Come on, Doctor, not far now." The Brigadier extends
his hand to the Third Doctor, helping him into the helicopter.
Aboard the helicopter there is a bright flash and
suddenly, to the Brigadier's surprise, the Sixth Doctor appears.
The helicopter lands elsewhere, and the Brigadier and
the Sixth Doctor get out and start walking away from the
helicopter. The two have to talk very loudly to hear each other
over the raucous noise of the helicopter.
"I'm finding it very difficult to keep up with all of
you these days, Doctor!" The Brigadier yells to the Sixth
Doctor.
"Some other time, eh, Brigadier? Alas, there's no time
for pleasantries! I must find my young friends!" The Sixth
Doctor responds, while shaking the Brigadier's hand.
"We'll speak soon, old chap! To all of you, I hope!"
The Rani is pacing to and fro in her TARDIS.
"I now have everything I want apart from one earthling.
My menagerie is almost complete. Prepare to re-materialize at
the center of the Earth Time Meridian: Greenwich.
Two men walk into some sort of warehouse. One pushes the
door open.
"I thought you said you locked it," the guy who opened
the door says to the other.
"I did. Someone must've broken in," the other responds.
"What's going on here?" One of them asks. Suddenly they
notice a figure crouching behind one of the cars.
"Here, you! What's your game?" The figure stands up. It
is the Lady Romanadvoratrelundar, in her second incarnation.
"I was looking for the Doctor, if it's really any of your
business," Romana answers, as she walks toward them.
"Well you won't find him in here, he lives at number one
Albert Square over there." One of the men points toward the
Square. "I suggest you leave."
"Have you seen the Doctor?" Romana asked him.
"Yeah, Doctor Legg, he's the only doctor around here,
though."
"Doctor Who?" Romana walks out of the warehouse, and
down a sidewalk. Outside of Vic (the Queen Victoria Bar),
Romana pauses for a second to look at something. Suddenly,
witnessed by a spectator, Romana is grabbed and dragged into the
bar. An evil woman's laugh fills the air, followed by the sound
of a TARDIS dematerializing. The spectator looks very confused.
"Well, I've seen them thrown out of Vic, but, uh, never
dragged in!"
The Third Doctor and Victoria Waterfield are walking on
the deck of the Cutty Sark.
"I should be taking it easy, not bounding around like
some megaluthian slime skimmer," the Third Doctor states.
Victoria looks a bit frightened.
"Who was that terrible woman?" she cries out. By now,
the Third Doctor is walking down the stairs leading off the
Cutty Sark.
"Oh, it's the Rani! Her handiwork is behind all this
confusion in time. And now her control is beginning to break
down." The Doctor reaches the ground, in the garden, and spots
the TARDIS. "Ah, good, there's the TARDIS. Come on Victoria!"
The two enter the TARDIS, and it dematerializes.
In some sort of courtyard, perhaps the Greenwich
Meridian, the TARDIS rematerializes. The Seventh Doctor gets out
of his TARDIS in time to see the Rani's TARDIS materialize among
the pillars of a nearby walkway, disguised as an obelisk.
"The Rani's TARDIS!" he whispers out loud. Leela walks
out of the Rani's TARDIS, looking slightly confused for a
moment. She looks around until she spots the Seventh Doctor.
"Doctor!" She runs over to the Doctor.
"I see she let you go," the Seventh Doctor responds.
"Not before she cloned me, though. She's got a menagerie
of clones in there," Leela comments helpfully.
"She's attempting to transfer a massive time tunnel,"
the Doctor explains, "to the Greenwich meridian."
"She has a computer in there with genetic codes and
brain prints of every living creature in the entire universe."
Leela struggles to remember these details.
"And with it, evolution is her's to control!" The Doctor
looks very worried. Suddenly, a thought strikes him. "Except...
What form were you in when she cloned you?" Leela stalled for
time. "Now think, it's very important." Leela suddenly
remembers.
"Romana!" A look of excitement comes over the Doctor's
face when Leela says this.
"A Time Lady! That means there are two Time Brains in
the Rani's computer!" The Seventh Doctor and Leela rush into
the Doctor's TARDIS.
"It'll overload," a mysterious voice comments.
Inside the Rani's TARDIS, her henchman are reading some
information from the console.
"Thirty seconds until computer achieving full power
status, Mistress," the henchman announces.
"Excellent!" the Rani remarks triumphantly.
Back at the Meridian, the Seventh Doctor is still
there, but now with Ace and K-9. the Doctor hands Ace a piece of
equipment. Wires are strewn all over the place, some connected
to the Rani's TARDIS.
"Hold this," he orders.
"Twenty-five seconds, Master," K-9 announces.
"I'm trying to override the Rani's computer and harness
the power of the time tunnel to pull her TARDIS in and not me,"
the Doctor explains to Ace.
"I assume it's not as easy as it sounds," Ace responds.
"Of course not!"
"Twenty seconds," K-9 announces.
"I must try and free my other incarnations!" The Seventh
Doctor presses his hands to his temples in extreme
concentration. "Join me," the Seventh Doctor says telepathically
to his other selves.
"We must pull free," the voice of the Third Doctor
echos.
"We must succeed," the voice of the Fifth Doctor
remarks.
"Precisely," the voice of the Sixth Doctor agrees.
"Good luck," the voice of the Fourth Doctor states. The
Seventh Doctor returns to reality.
"Five seconds," K-9 announces.
"K-9, activate the converter!" the Seventh Doctor
orders.
"Three...Two..." K-9 counts down.
"One... Here goes!" The Seventh Doctor flips a switch
on one of the pieces of equipment. There is a loud bang and an
explosion in the Rani's TARDIS. The voice of the Rani, screaming
'No' is heard as an aura surrounds the Rani's TARDIS, which
promptly disappears.
The images of the first two Doctors escape the Time
Tunnel, and the Rani's TARDIS is sucked into the Tunnel.
"What did you do to her?" Ace asks the Doctor. The
Doctor answers her while collecting the various bits of
equipment he took from his TARDIS.
"Well, there were two Time Brains in her computer. And I
used it to propel her into the trap she set for me!"
"So now your other selves are all free?" Ace asks.
"Certainly I, I mean we, are difficult to get rid of."
The Doctor pushes open the door to the TARDIS and laughs.
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