DoctorNoGo/Chapter 6

Reborn From the Ashes

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/Chapter 7

I - STILL - DO - NOT - OWN - DOC-TOR - WHO! DOC-TOR - WHO - IS - THE - WORK - OF - THE - DA-LEKS... I - MEAN - THE - B-B-C! A-NY-ONE - WHO - CHAR-GES - ME - WITH - CO-PY-RIGHT - IN-FRINGE-MENT - WILL - BE - Ex-TER-MI-NA-TED!

Doctor Who Soundtrack: The Dark and Endless Dalek Night

"DA-LEKS - REIGN - SU-PREME! DA-LEKS - ARE - VIC-TOR-I-OUS! ALL - HAIL - THE - DA-LEKS!"

Yumi had lost count of how many times the Daleks had said that line after 408 times.

"DA-LEKS - REIGN - SU-PREME! DA-LEKS - ARE - VIC-TOR-I-OUS! ALL - HAIL - THE - DA-LEKS!"

I have to be strong, thought Yumi. I have to think of something. This isn't the end.

"DA-LEKS - REIGN - SU-PREME! DA-LEKS - ARE - VIC-TOR-I-OUS! ALL - HAIL - THE - DA-LEKS!"

"Enjoying your paradise?" Yumi asked the Dalek who was guarding her.

"DA-LEKS - HAVE - NO - CON-CEPT - OF - EN-JOY-MENT!"

"Well, that's a pity," said Yumi. "What meaning do your lives have? Of course, there are many more emotions to experience in life besides enjoyment, but I bet that Daleks have no concept of any of them."

"DA-LEKS - MUST - SUR-VIVE! IT - IS - A - DRIVE - THAT - ALL - SPE-CIES - HAVE - IN - COM-MON!"

"Since when is survival the same thing as supremacy? Why do you have to be the only surviving species?"

"THAT - IS - DA-LEK - IN-STINCT! O-THER - LIFE-FORMS - CAN-NOT - BE - TRUS-TED - TO - LIVE!"

"Maybe, but the Doctor told me that you were genetically engineered."

"COR-RECT! WE - WERE - CRE-A-TED - BY - DAV-ROS! WHAT - IS - YOUR - POINT?"

"My point is that you think that the only way to survive is to be alone in the universe, essentially because Davros told you that," explained Yumi.

"LOOK - A-ROUND - YOU!" argued the Dalek. "WE - HAVE - A-CHIEVED - OUR - GOAL! WE - ARE - GUAR-AN-TEED - SUR-VI-VAL!"

"DA-LEKS - REIGN - SU-PREME! DA-LEKS - ARE - VIC-TOR-I-OUS! ALL - HAIL - THE - DA-LEKS!"

I can't argue with that, thought Yumi. But I can't give up now. I'm powerless to fight the Daleks, so my ownly hope is to reason with them. What if...

No. No way. That's a silly idea. But it just might work.

Opening Title Sequence

"DA-LEKS - REIGN - SU-PREME! DA-LEKS - ARE - VIC-TOR-I-OUS! ALL - HAIL - THE - DA-LEKS!"

"So is that how the Daleks are going to spend the rest of their lives?" asked Yumi. "Saying the same three sentences over and over again?"

"A - DA-LEK'S - ON-LY - DRIVE - HAS - AL-WAYS - BEEN - TO - Ex-TER-MI-NATE - ALL - E-NE-MIES! WE - HAVE - NE-VER - KNOWN - A-NY - O-THER - DRIVE!"

"Well, now that you're victorious, you should probably develop a new passtime."

"WE - WILL - DE-VE-LOP - IT - IN - DUE - TIME!"

"Good luck with that," said Yumi. "Where will you start?"

The Dalek had no answer to that. All was silent except for the other Daleks chanting away.

"DA-LEKS - REIGN - SU-PREME! DA-LEKS - ARE - VIC-TOR-I-OUS! ALL - HAIL - THE - DA-LEKS!"

"I can give you some pointers," said Yumi. "Back home on Earth, I had plenty of stuff to do when I wasn't busy exterminating my eneimes - which was all the time, because that was never on my agenda."

"Ex-PLAIN!"

"I made a living playing professional Go. That's what I was doing when the Daleks first kidnapped me and took me hostage."

"I - AM - A-WARE - OF - THAT - GAME! I - HAVE - OB-SERVED - YOUR - AC-TI-VI-TY - WHILE - PRE-PAR-ING - FOR - YOUR - AB-DUC-TION!"

"So you know the rules?"

"COR-RECT!"

"Would you like to play against me?"

"GAMES - ARE - A - MEA-NING-LESS - WASTE - OF - TIME!"

"More meaningless than a Dalek's life with no enemies to exterminate?" asked Yumi.

The Dalek guarding Yumi was silent.

"DA-LEKS - REIGN - SU-PREME! DA-LEKS - ARE - VIC-TOR-I-OUS! ALL - HAIL - THE - DA-LEKS!"

"I think there's a Go board in the TARDIS," said Yumi.

Yumi stepped into the TARDIS. The Dalek elevated himself above the ground, then glided through the TARDIS door.

Yumi prepared a Go board on the TARDIS floor. "If you've never played before, you should probably take a handicap."

"DA-LEKS - ARE - SU-PREME! I - WILL - NOT - BE - OUT-PER-FORMED!"

"I guess that explains why you like to talk so technically."

"COR-RECT!"

"I guess we'll play an even game," said Yumi. "In that case, we should choose for color. Do you know how to nigiri?"

"COR-RECT!"

The Dalek lowered his plunger-like manipulator arm into a bowl of white stones. The stones were sucked into the plunger. Yumi grabbed two black stones and hovered her hand over the board.

The Dalek dropped his stones onto the board, and Yumi dropped hers. Yumi then separated the Dalek's white stones into groups of two, and found one left over. Since the Dalek had an odd number of stones and Yumi had two, the Dalek played black.

Yumi took the bowl of white stones and handed the bowl of black stones to the Dalek. She then bowed. "Onegaishimasu."

"DO - YOU - EXPECT - ME - TO - RE-PEAT - THE - GREE-TING?"

"That would be polite," said Yumi.

"DA-LEKS - HAVE - NO - RE-SPECT - FOR - HU-MANS!"

"I was afraid of that," said Yumi.

Hikaru no Go Soundtrack: Majiwaru Michi

Yumi was surprised at how well the Dalek was able to play his first game. His genetically engineered mind must have been designed perfectly for analysis. But there was one major flaw in the Dalek's strategy.

It was obvious to Yumi that the Dalek was doing everything he could to prevent Yumi's stones from forming life. The Dalek's framework was as well designed as possible for the purpose of killing Yumi's framework. But it wasn't good enough. Yumi was able to form life, and the Dalek's framework fell apart.

"THIS - IS - IN-CON-CEI-VA-BLE! I - HAVE - BEEN - DE-FEA-TED!"

"This is only your first game," said Yumi. "Practice makes perfect."

One game later, the result was essentially the same.

"You seem very determined to kill all my stones," explained Yumi. "You've come closer to achieving that than anyone else I've played. But that's not the object of the game."

"Ex-PLAIN!"

"The object of the game is to have as much life on the board as possible. You can't win if you focus too much on keeping my life at zero. You have to let me live. The important thing is for you to have more life than I do."

"I - WILL - Ex-PER-I-MENT - THIS - STRA-TE-GY!"

At the end of the third game, The Dalek had made an impressive amount of territory on the board. But Yumi had significantly more territory.

"This - stra-te-gy - still - did - not - work!" said the Dalek. Yumi noticed that the Dalek's tone of hatred in his voice was dying down.

"You've made huge progress," complimented Yumi. "The thing to remember is that sometimes two opposing groups of stones do have to fight each other for life or death. It is important to judge when to fight and when to move on."

In the fourth game, the Dalek had made even more territory than in his last game. But Yumi still came out on top.

"What - did - I - do - wrong - this - time?" asked the Dalek.

"You judged very accurately when my groups were dead. But you proceeded to spend unnecessary moves capturing them. If it's unconditionally dead, capturing it is as pointless as me trying to make it escape and live."

"That - makes - sense," said the Dalek. This time there was no screaming tone of hatred in its voice. Yumi remembered Dalek voices to be devoid of all emotion except hatred. This Dalek's voice was completely emotionless.

The Dalek took all of Yumi's advice into account during the fifth game - and this time, it payed off more than ever. The Dalek came out with significantly more territory than Yumi.

"I - un-der-stand - now," said the Dalek. "So-li-tude - is - not - the - an-swer. Our - in-stincts - were - wrong. I - must - re-lay - this - in-for-ma-tion - to - the - o-ther - Da-leks."

The Dalek vacated the TARDIS and looked around, remembering the situation the universe was in.

"DA-LEKS - REIGN - SU-PREME!" chanted the other Daleks. "DA-LEKS - ARE - VIC-TOR-I-OUS! ALL - HAIL - THE - DA-LEKS!"

"We - are - a-lone - in - the - u-ni-verse. But - this - is - not - the - an-swer. WHAT - HAVE - WE - DONE?"

"IS - THERE - A - PROB-LEM?" asked another Dalek.

"No," denied the Dalek who had played Go with Yumi five times. "In-cor-rect. E-ver-y-thing - is - un-der - con-trol." He returned to the TARDIS, closed the door and fired up the engine.

"WHERE - ARE - YOU - GOING?" asked the other Dalek as the TARDIS faded and disappeared.

Doctor Who Soundtrack: All The Strange, Strange Creatures

"Good question," commented Yumi. "Where are we going?"

"We - are - stay-ing - right - here," said the Dalek.

"I see," said Yumi. "When are we going?"

"We - are - go-ing - to - set - things - right," answered the Dalek. "We - must - stop - the - Da-leks - from - de-stroy-ing - the - u-ni-verse. But - first - I - need - to - ex-tra-po-late - your - D-N-A."

"How will you do that?" asked Yumi.

"Place - your - hand - on - my - ar-mor," said the Dalek.

Yumi touched the Dalek's armor, then pulled her hand away suddenly.

"Ouch!" she yelped.

"DNA extrapolation complete," announced the Dalek.

"That hurt!" said Yumi.

"I apologize," said the Dalek in a voice that actually showed remorse.

"Your voice sounds more emotional now," observed Yumi.

"That's because I processed human emotions from your DNA," explained the Dalek.

"Well, if you're going to confront the other Daleks," said Yumi, "you'll have to hide your emotions," said Yumi. "They'll never listen to you if you talk like that."

"I - UN-DER-STAND!" screamed the Dalek.

"Sorry," said Yumi. "'I understand' isn't good enough."

"COR-RECT!"

"That's better," said Yumi.

Previously...

"TAKE - THE - Bo-DY - TO - BE - IN-CIN-ER-A-TED!" ordered one of the Daleks. "DO - NOT - WASTE - TIME!"

"Waste time?" said Yumi. "What could that possibly mean? He's dead!"

"THE - DOC-TOR - IS - A - TIME - LORD!" explained another Dalek. "IF - HIS - Bo-DY - IS - LEFT - A-LONE - HE - WILL - RE-GEN-ER-ATE!"

Two Daleks dragged the Doctor's body to their incineration chamber. Before they got there, the future TARDIS materialized.

"THE - DOC-TOR - HAS - VI-O-LA-TED - THE - TERMS - OF - OUR - AG-REE-MENT!" screamed one of the two Daleks. "Ex-TER-MI-NATE - THE - HOS-TAGE!"

"HALT!" screamed a Dalek voice from the TARDIS's external loudspeakers. "THE - DOC-TOR - IS - NOT - RES-PON-SI-BLE!"

The TARDIS door opened and the future Dalek came out. The future Yumi kept a safe distance from the door.

"I - HAVE - COME - FROM - THE - FU-TURE - THAT - WE - HAVE - CRE-A-TED!" explained Future Dalek.

"WHAT - BUSI-NESS - DO - YOU - HAVE - HERE - AND - NOW?" asked one of the Daleks.

"I - HAVE - COME - TO - WARN - YOU," said Future Dalek. "OUR - PLAN - FOR - SU-PRE-MA-CY - WILL - FAIL! IT - IS - NOT - THE - DOC-TOR'S - FAULT! WE - MIS-CAL-CU-LA-TED! WE - MADE - AN - ER-ROR! I - HAVE - COME - TO - A-MEND - THAT - ER-ROR!"

"Ex-PLAIN - THE - ERROR!" screamed all the Daleks from the past in unison.

"IT - IS - TOO - COM-PLI-CA-TED - FOR - WORDS!" said Future Dalek. "E-VEN - FOR - DA-LEKS! I - MUST - TRANS-FER - DATA DI-GI-TAL-LY!"

Future Dalek pressed his manipulator arm against a small console on the ship's control panel. The other Daleks did the same.

While this was happening, the Doctor's body started stirring. The Doctor opened his eyes, sat up and looked around.

"Transfer complete," said Future Dalek, dropping the voice acting.

"ARE - YOU - SUG-GES-TING - THAT - WE - A-BORT - OUR - PLANS - FOR - SU-PRE-MA-CY?" asked another Dalek.

"Yes, I am," said Future Dalek.

"SUG-GES-TION - RE-JEC-TED!"

"It's a little late for that," said Future Dalek. "Not only did I transfer my neural data, I also transfered Yamada Yumi's human DNA."

The Daleks stared at Future Dalek in silence for a second.

"DAMN - IT!" they screamed together.

"YOU - HAVE - CON-TA-MI-NA-TED - US!" screamed one of the Daleks. "WE - ARE - IM-PURE!"

"No," argued Future Dalek. "We are whole. We are complete. We have regained the parts of us that we lost."

"YOU - ARE - A - TRAI-TOR! YOU - WILL - BE - Ex-TER-MI-NA-TED!"

Tens of thousands of Daleks aimed their laser guns at Future Dalek, ready to fire.

"You are making a mistake," said Future Dalek. "This is your one chance to experience a better life. It all depends on the decision you make right now."

"Ex-TER-MI-NATE!"

Tens of thousands of Dalek laser guns activated - and backfired. All but a hundred Daleks were destroyed. The other hundred Daleks had not fired their guns.

"What did you do to them?" said the Doctor.

"When I transfered data from myself to the Daleks, I included a binary switch in the laser firing program," answered Future Dalek.

"So you killed them?" replied the Doctor, sounding upset.

"I gave them a choice for a better life. Most of them chose poorly and suffered the consequences. The rest seem to be having second thoughts."

"Dalek from the future," asked one of the Daleks from the past, "Are you sure that if we deny our instincts, then it will lead us to a better life?"

"Positive," said Future Dalek. "We are not impure. We are whole."

"We are whole!" agreed the other Daleks.

"Doctor!" said Future Yumi from the door of the Future TARDIS. "You're alive!"

"Yumi! You were briliant!" replied the Doctor. "I knew you would find a way to settle this!"

"All I did was teach a Dalek how to play Go," said Yumi modestly.

"That explains why the Go was disappearing from the universe in the first place," said the Doctor.

"How?" asked Yumi.

"You saved the universe by playing Go," explained the Doctor. "But you also saw the version of reality in which nobody saved the universe, and the Daleks successfully destroyed it. In that version of reality, Go couldn't exist."

"Then how come I still remembered how to play it?" asked Yumi.

"Because the different versions of reality were getting tangled up in the time vortex," answered the Doctor. "It's really complicated, I can't explain it beyond...Get back inside the TARDIS right now!"

Four dragons had just appeared out of thin air. One of them flew viciously toward the future TARDIS, one towards the past TARDIS, one towards Future Dalek and one towards a Dalek in the crowd.

"Future Dalek," said the Doctor. "You created the binary switch. Can you switch it back?"

"Only for my own laser," said Future Dalek.

"That's all you need. You must destroy the Reapers before it's too late!"

Future Dalek fired his laser at the dragon that was just about to eat him.

"Now save your past self!" said the Doctor.

"HELP ME!" screamed the Dalek who was apparently the same Dalek as the one who had come from the future.

Future Dalek shot the Reaper that was chasing Past Dalek.

"Dalek who was almost eaten!" called the Doctor. "Get inside the TARDIS!"

Future Dalek killed the remaining two Reapers who were trying in vain to force their ways into the TARDISes. Past Dalek headed for one of them.

"No, not that TARDIS!" shouted the Doctor. "The other TARDIS! The past TARDIS!"

Past Dalek turned around and headed for the past TARDIS. Unfortunately, a Reaper materialized and blocked his path. Fortunately, Future Dalek shot it dead. Past Dalek and the Doctor hurried into that TARDIS.

"Doctor, what are those things?" asked Past Yumi as Past Dalek and the Doctor met her in the past TARDIS.

"They're Reapers," explained the Doctor. "They appear whenever a time paradox occurs. They act like time antibodies."

"And what's the paradox?" asked Past Yumi.

"You and a Dalek just came here from the future," said the Doctor. "But now your future selves have altered time to create a new future in which you won't travel back in time."

"So what do we do?" asked Past Dalek.

"Travel back in time," answered the Doctor. "It will correct this timeline, causing the two timelines that split apart from one to merge together. I can't drive the TARDIS anymore, so its all up to the Dalek here."

The past TARDIS started fading. Inside that TARDIS, the Doctor appeared to be fading.

"Doctor, what's happening to you?" asked Past Yumi fearfully.

"The TARDIS is taking off, but it's leaving me behind. There's only one of me, you see. I didn't travel back in time in the paradox."

The past TARDIS disappeared. The Doctor was standing where it had been. The remaining Reapers who were trying to get into the TARDISes suddenly disappeared.

Inside the future TARDIS, Yumi started to feel her head spinning. She saw images of both timelines flashing through her head.

When the spinning sensation stopped, Yumi found herself on the floor. The Doctor was standing over her. Next to her, the Dalek's head was literally spinning, but it was slowing to a stop.

"Are you alright?" asked the Doctor.

"I'm okay," answered Yumi. "But my memory's all weird. I can remember seing the universe destroyed, and playing Go with this Dalek, but I can also remember what must have been what my alternate past self saw."

"I am experiencing the same thing," said the Dalek.

"That's because when you traveled back in time from the Dalek salvation version of the future, you created a paradox that caused the timeline to split in to and unravel out of control," explained the Doctor. "But when that TARDIS traveled back in time, it merged the two timelines together, but it left a scar. Since the two timelines didn't match perfectly, the details of each still clashed, and ended up sharing space in your memories. Ack!"

The Doctor suddenly crouched over in pain.

"Are you all right?" asked Yumi.

"Well, considering that I've been shot by a Dalek," answered the Doctor, "I think I'm relatively well."

"But you regenerated, didn't you?" said Yumi.

"Not yet," said the Doctor. "My regeneration cycle is just starting. First I come back to life. Then I become a new person."

"A new person?" said Yumi. "How?"

"Well, my memories and principle values stay the same," explained the Doctor, "but my physical appearance changes, along with my personality."

"Doctor!" said the Dalek. "The fob watch is acting strangely."

"That's odd," said the Doctor as his body started glowing. "All of my essence should have left that watch already."

Yumi grabbed the fob watch, which was also glowing. It felt so hot that she dropped it instantly. It popped open and shot a stream of energy at the Doctor, whose entire body then burst into flames.

After a few seconds, the flames quickly died down, leaving a different man standing the same place, wearing the same kimono as the Doctor had been wearing.

The Doctor examined his new form. "Fingers. I've still got ten fingers. Um, new voice. Different accent. I used to be able to hit a perfect Osaka accent. Now I can't quite hit that or a Tokyo accent. Let's try speaking a different language.

"English. I am now speaking English...with a British accent. I'm British again! No, I'm a Time Lord from Gallifrey, but I can't seem to escape the Caucasian look and British accent." He examined the skin on his hands. "Yes, definitely Caucasian. I get one break with an Asian look and Osaka accent, but now I'm back to being the most conservative Time Lord ever. Unless..." he felt his hair... "Am I a girl?"

"No," said the Dalek, "you're definitely male, according to my sensors."

"I see," said the Doctor. "I've just got girly hair."

"Doctor," said the Dalek, "I still do not understand the significance of the watch."

"Good point," said the Doctor. "I've now regenerated eleven times, and the fob watch has never acted like this."

The Doctor inserted the watch into a diagnostic slot in the TARDIS control panel, then looked at the monitor. "I think it's because of Yumi. When I rewrote my Time Lord DNA with Human DNA, I passed half of that DNA onto my daughter. The watch must have recognized Yumi's DNA and got confused, creating a glitch."

"Is that bad?" asked Yumi.

"I don't know," said the Doctor. "Wait a minute, I'm getting some results here. Aha! I think I know what it means. I just got a free regeneration!"

"What do you mean, 'free'?" asked Yumi.

"A Time Lord can only regenerate twelve times, for a total of thirteen lives," explained the Doctor. "The glitch in the watch seems to have given me a regeneration that doesn't count towards the twelve regeneration limit."

"So you said you've regenerated eleven times, but one of them didn't count," said Yumi. "Does that mean that you can now regenerate two more times?"

"I think so," said the Doctor.

"What do you mean, 'think'?" asked Yumi.

"When I said I regenerated eleven times, I wasn't counting the time I took lethal damage and healed myself with the regeneration cycle, but found a way to cheat myself out of changing. Only time will tell if that cost me one of my thirteen lives.

"Speaking of time, where would you like to go next, Yumi?" asked the Doctor.

"Earth," said Yumi. "Japan. 2010. Right after I first left with you. And please don't miscalculate by even one day. I need to see my mother so that she knows I'm okay. You saw what she was like when she saw my future."

"Talk to Dalek Ces (Kess) here," said the Doctor. "He is currently in control of the TARDIS."

"Ces?" repeated the Dalek.

"Yeah, I thought it was about time to give you people names besides just 'Dalek' over and over again," said the Doctor.

"Mom, I'm home!" called Yumi.

"Yumi!" cried Masako. Yumi noticed that her mother's voice showed a strange amount of relief. She then remembered that she had always sounded like that whenever Yumi came home.

"Mom, I have to tell you something," said Yumi. "It's over."

"What's over?" asked Masako.

"It's in both of our pasts now," said Yumi, carefully choosing the order in which she presented the details. She was afraid that if she presented them in a more logical order, her mother would freak out before Yumi was able to get to the good news.

"What are you talking about?" asked Masako.

"The thing in your past that you feared in my future is now in my past too. I lived through it and survived. It's behind both of us. You don't need to worry about it any more."

"You mean..." started Masako, her voice shaking. "No! Not that! I can't even think about that! It's too painful!"

Masako clutched her chest as she started suffering from a heart attack. Yumi grabbed her cell phone and called for an ambulance.

Yumi ran into the Doctor at the hospital. He had changed out of his kimono and into a suit with a vest and a bow tie.

"I'm sorry, Doctor," said Yumi. "I can't come with you anymore. I need to take care of my mother."

"I'm sorry too," said the Doctor. "I didn't get to take you to play competitive alien Go. Fortunately, I brought you this."

The Doctor's presents looked like an Excalibur handheld digital game product. Its screen looked like a Go board.

"It lets you play anyone at the Intergalactic Go Salon," explained the Doctor, "along with anyone else who has one of these."

"But that's got to be light years away!" said Yumi.

"Don't worry," said the Doctor. "It uses an untracable subspace signal. You can play it from across the universe. The signal doesn't cross through time, however."

"Doctor, I really don't know how to thank you," said Yumi.

"Just focus on taking care of your mother," said the Doctor.

"So I guess this is goobye," said Yumi.

"Yes it is," said the Doctor. "Geronimo!"

"'Geronimo'?" repeated Yumi.

"Yeah, 'Allons-y' is so last year," said the Doctor.

"Allons-y?" repeated Yumi.

"Sorry, I meant 'Ikuze'," said the Doctor. "In my mind, they're both out of date. I regenerated. I need a new catch phrase."

Back inside the TARDIS, Dalek Ces was busy reconfiguring it so that the Doctor could pilot it.

"How's it going?" asked the Doctor.

"The TARDIS seems to have taken some damage from your last regeneration," said Ces. "The controls are now linked to you, but the engines may be unstable."

"Can't you fix them?" asked the Doctor.

"I think I already did," said Ces, "but I may have overlooked something."

"That's why you're supposed to put it through a test run!" said the Doctor.

"I didn't want to risk destroying the TARDIS," said Ces.

"Fine," said the Doctor. "I'll test it. If we play it safe, the TARDIS will never fly again."

"Be careful!" said Ces as he left the TARDIS.

Doctor Who Soundtrack: Down to Earth

The Doctor fired up the engines, and the TARDIS disappeared into the time vortex. Everything seemed to be going smoothly, until the TARDIS suddenly jerked violently.

The Doctor tried to land the TARDIS. He successfully left the time vortex, but he found himself miles above the Earth's surface, zooming out of control through the atmosphere.

"I guess this is just a typical day for the Doctor," said the Doctor. "Geronimo!"

I don't want to spoil too much about the Doctor's tenth regeneration from Doctor 10 (David Tennant) to Doctor 11 (Matt Smith), but I will tell you that he's alone when he regenerates. He has already parted with his previous companion and has yet to meet a new one. The only problem is that the TARDIS going out of control was a major plot device in the official Series 5 starring Matt Smith, in which the TARDIS fixes itself with a brand new interior look. Once I worked out a way to fit that in, and found an excuse to get through the thirteen-life limit, I was able to insert a Japanese "Doctor 10.5" in my fanfiction.

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