It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 131.1[204]

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

 

AlphaOmega could 'project himself' out of the GrandTARDIS, as an avatar-clone, but was otherwise trapped as others were there. Even projecting himself took much energy.

 

The Doctor, in the DocTARDIS, and the Master in the MasterTARDIS, materialised to find themselves in low geostationary orbit of Jannifrey. They had been drawn there, somehow, by a very powerful Timelord technology of an exotic kind; both the Doctor and the Master soon realised it 'smelt' of Rassilon. Rassilon had worked with numerous exotic Timelord technologies not touched by the vast majority of Timelords for good reasons.

 

The two TARDISes were soon being stalked by Timeforcer Timehunters, deadly stealth timespaceships designed for one main function only and that was as hunter destroyers.

 

The Rani continued to lead the group deeper into the Jannifrey research development complex that was not only extremely ancient but which started to show exotic architecture indicating the works of the GrandAncients though not the AraAncients. RosiJane, who was still getting used to her 'new name' was realising that the Rani was under some kind of stress, was fighting some kind of brutal internal battle. She 'sensed' this with her own psychic-spiritual abilities. To her surprise she realised that the human Thals, with their inherited psychic-spiritual abilities, were assisting the Rani in her bid to be free. Thals were humans but not totally the same as Terran humans.

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 132.1[205]

Timelords in Conflict

 

The Rani fell to her knees as the Thals assisted her to fight the secret force that partly controlled her. The elegantly beautiful Thals were of the Thal Order of Harmonious Strength and were not Thal soldiers, workers, servitors or specialists who had been allies of the Timeguardians during the TimeWar.

 

RosiJane assisted as much as she could, which turned out to be a good deal more than she had expected. Still, even with the Thals and the Rani herself fighting, she feared that the fight was being lost.

 

Which was when two TARDISes materialised being the DocTARDIS and the MasterTARDIS. The two Timelords stepped out of their TARDISes, both looking like metallic silvery cubes of exactly three metres high and wide. They seemed to walk ghost like out of the walls. Then others came including MaryJane.

 

The Master gave the Rani a cold look of contempt. "If the message, from a mysterious source, had not convinced me that you must be free, that you must live, I would kill you, mother."

 

The Doctor said nothing but began to assist the Rani. With obvious reluctance, then so did the Master. They were fighting Rassilon, that is the real Rassilon and not the fake that had helped start the 'drumming' that sent the Master insane during his childhood.

 

Then the Rani was free. She stood up and stretched before looking around with ice cold eyes. For a moment she studied her son before reaching into a pouch and giving him a glittering silvery object. "This will do much to help heal your TARDIS. It is a gift. From the first moment that I was created, as were others like me who became the Timeforcers, we were slaves of Rassilon. He is far from responsible for all of the evil that I have done but he forced me to help start the drumming in your head. The false Rassilon is a superclone of the real Rassilon and is enslaved by the real Rassilon."

 

The Master shrugged. "I helped to hurl the false Rassilon into the Nullvoid, along with his Timelord cronies."

 

The Rani nodded. "You did but Rassilon used his clone-link, with his superclone, to save him and other Timelords from the Nullvoid." She changed subjects. "When Rassilon first arrived at Gallifrey, he had others with him. One of those is right here with us."

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 132.2[206]

Timelords in Conflict

 

The Doctor nodded. "We were GrandAncients of a less well known group. We were often called the TimeAncients simply because that is where our knowledge, our technologies, our special powers, were focused. Rassilon was more powerful, and brilliant, than myself but I was told that I was wiser and more aware than he was. That is why I joined the plot to get rid of him but in such a way that left him still looking grand in the common history of the Timelords. We sealed him into the TimeCitadel, along with much else, but also sealed him into his very own Tomb of Eternity that he used to artificially boost his powers, his abilities and his later regenerations."

 

The Doctor shrugged. "Much is lost to me about my existence as a TimeAncient. I can not tell you why I chose to transform into one of the first Timelords or how I came to be regenerated as a Timelord child actually born to a Timelord woman. I suspect it was done to escape from a terrible dark force of some kind. It was not Rassilon himself but an entity that Rassilon served, that I once served along with the other TimeAncients that arrived on Gallifrey with Rassilon. It was called the Retirweht."

 

The Eternal Guardian, Grahen Maharg, stood there almost as if she had always been there. "The Retirweht, the LittleFatFamily, that is one that is many that are almost one. The LittleFatFamily that is fighting a dreadful, brutal, internal battle with its darker self, selves. The TallThinFamily is what they call themselves. The Retirweht was created by the Grand Celestial Godhood, that it served, even after it became the Great Enemy. But it began to suffer deep doubts, about the Great Enemy, that manifested itself as the schism that led to the creation of the LittleFatFamily and TallThinFamily."

 

The Rani frowned. "The TallThinMan is deep within this complex along with the majority of surviving Timeforcers. Rassilon is also there along with Cantreaz, Sotofazi and Shellemlo who were probably once TimeAncients, from what you say. There is also one called the TimeManipulator that the Timeforcers serve."

 

Grahen Maharg responded. "The TimeManipulator is the dark core of the Retirweht but is not the TallThinFamily. Yes, Cantreaz, Sotofazi and Shellemlo were once TimeAncients. We must go deeper into the complex but know this, they have all gone now. Once they 'sensed' our collective presence, they decided to retreat to fight another day. We have much evil to put and end to and many victims to save."

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 133.1[207]

Timelords in Conflict

 

The group fought grimly at times, fighting waves of robots and cyborgs (not all of which were part human) at times along with turrets and cunning booby-traps. Often they knocked out robots and cyborgs only to have the Mysterious Stranger send them to Sanctum along with equipment and supplies found. Status-capsules were sent with experimental victims and distorted products of experiments. Exotic finds were often sent except some kept by the Eternal Guardian for the sake of the mission.

 

Graham Maharg provided more information. The LittleFatFamily was all, now, in a special subsanctum of Sanctum where they fought against the influence of both the TallThinFamily and the Great Manipulator. It was the madness of Retirweht that was pushing to free the Great Enemy in an attempt to make it try to conquer the Multiverse, to confront the power of GodGoddess. The Great Enemy, alias the Grand Celestial Godhood of the last Grand Cycle, had been contented to remain in the transdimensional Coreworld but now it seemed to be trying to get out to be free, to perhaps attack GodGoddess.

 

In that complex the group found experimental projects aimed at trying to break out the Grand Enemy from the Coreworld, often by pressuring it to do so in some way. Many seemed crazy. More than one was linked to the launching of gravity-globes from Terra to Luna and the return launching of comet-projectiles from Luna to Terra. Not only Timeforcers had been busy there but also rogue Timelords who served no particular factions, other rogues of other peoples and mysterious things.

 

For a while things quieted down as they got deeper into the complex but became worse in some ways. Nothing attacked them but they came upon increasingly larger amounts of horrible distorted, desiccated, corpses of all kinds of life-forms. Some terrible form of undead entities had fed upon them. The victims had fought back, often killing attackers that died to leave small piles behind of strange greasy ash.

 

The worst discovery was that the attackers seemed to be some kind of former Timelords with lethal, exotic, powers unlike any more common, better known, kinds of undead such as vampires or lichs.

 

At the door to the most secretive, protected, inner core to the complex, Graham Maharg asked the others to return to the TARDISes but he was overruled as the Eternal One appeared as an old man in a hooded robe and odd furry slippers, with a great staff with a big black crow perched on top of it. A shrivelled skull like face grinned at the group and then spoke.

 

"Go! Even you, Eternal Guardian, would be outmatched by what lies ahead of you. Those that created it abandoned it in terror and sealed it in with multiple layers of armour but the thing has been slowly getting out, has even managed to attack and create monsters out of victims. The Necrolords are former Timeforcers that fell before it such was the surprise that it struck at them. They killed many before Timeforcers managed to destroy most of them and push them back to the False Great Enemy. I will deal with it as only I can but even so I will do so with the assistance of the GodGoddess and others."

 

Eternal One: "As you return back to the TARDISes you will need to divert to certain hidden areas, areas you failed to discover because of the way you came or things you simply overlooked; there you will need to carry out certain tasks. You will instruction in your minds, along with other necessary information."

 

Then the Eternal One was gone, almost as if he had never been there, but did not go into the core of the complex by opening the very heavy armoured door.

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 134.1[208]

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

 

The group returned fairly slowly back to the TARDISes after an exhausting list of tasks had been carried out. There had been the mercy killing of victims that could not be saved, the rescue of many more than could be, the gathering of valuable resources of very many kinds, some tasks that did not make any sense to any but Graham Maharg but he would not speak of such matters. For example they picked up a stack of books and took it to another room nearby, waited ten minutes and then returned them to where they had been on a table. They pressed ten buttons on a box like machine and then, five minutes later, the same ten buttons in the reverse order.

 

Then the Eternal Guardian admitted that it was necessary to assist the Eternal One, and those that would assist it, to deal with the False Great Enemy in a very special manner, along with its victim-monsters who would be given a chance for new, better, lives. The False Great Enemy was a monstrous, antinatural clone of the Great Enemy and it was quite like that it's existence was helping to drive the Great Enemy crazy.

 

The Rani departed with the Doctor because she knew better than to trust to the Master. All others went with the Doctor for the same reason. The Master did not care. He was set to travel as far away from the Sol System as he could through timespace. But when both TARDISes rematerialised, it was only to find that they were trapped inside the GrandTARDIS.

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'Timelords in Conflict' has come to an end!

 

Subtitles to be used:

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (same as the Title above)

A Far More Hidden and Alien Struggle

Choosing a Dark Path

GrandTARDIS Troubles

Junglenam Scattered War

Researching the Obvious

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I am considering focusing, in future, on my new story topic 'Epic Survival' but taking many elements from this story topic. I want to focus more on 'doing than on telling' the story, more on action and dialogue scenes, more on character and feelings than I have been doing. There will also be other shifts in focus. This not a decision that I am going to rush into and feedback (how much and what kind) will influence my decision.

 

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 135.1[209]

Researching the Obvious

 

While the Havenlander Empress, as thirteen women, was being investigated by the Trijudicators, it was decided that they should keep up some duties. This was done under emergency laws, and protocols, of emergency nature because the Havenlander Empire needed their Empress.

 

The concerns of ancient 'infestation' came to the fore. Anderson, the Eternal Seeker, had come to know that the Havenlanders were not infested but that those, that were once heavily infested Havenlanders, were now monstrous undead beneath the polar domed regions.

 

Anderson stood with Empress Amanda, who had shifted to be one of the Three Secondary Empresses while the one, that she had replaced, became the Prime Empress. Empress Evatane was one of the Nine Empresses while she was healing.

 

The military patrol aeroship hovered above the great dome and through a viewscreen, linked to special cameras, they could both see the horror of hordes of undead things fighting to get at the superlife creatures that fought them off. Superlife destroyed undeath and undeath devoured superlife when it could. Superlife, as monstrous plant-animal hybrids, hurled out acid that burned away hundreds of zombies, ghouls and even more powerful undead such as clumsily flying vampires. Superlife included former Havenlanders incorporated into the hybridisations or fighting as massive, monstrous, humanoids.

 

Food drops fell to the superlife, along with pristine water in orbs, and other substances that superlife devoured greedily. Laser beams seared across the undead, burning away even more of the undead.

 

Yet the greatest, most terrible, combat took place where superlife met undeath head on. The fighting, there was so violent, so gruesome, so unrelenting and merciless that it was near impossible to take in.

 

Amanda shook her head. "The plan to leave this world, by most of us Havenlanders, was cowardly. We will go to Sanctum, with all others that can go there, so that this whole world can be cleansed. Even if the Great Enemy escapes it will have no life to feed upon."

 

Armstrong nodded. "Sanctum is a fine sanctuary but all going there will have to pass a testing-transformation and face the risk of being sent elsewhere instead of Sanctum. That is the living versions of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory that are linked closely to Sanctum proper. A more terrible risk is of being broken down and returned wholly to the Multiverse, to be broken down not just of mind-body-spirit but of soul."

 

He shook his head. "Terran humanity is learning that it could face a future like this, that the infestation is to be found through out its population though it varies as does the immunity to it."

 

He went on speaking. The Known Ordered World was seemingly in a state of shock, of cautious curiosity as if both wanting to know what was truly going on while fearing to know what was truly going on. There was anger towards the Havenlanders but it was mitigated by the learning that the Havenlanders had done a great deal to keep Terran humans safe from the threat of infestation. This including the spreading of infestation cleansing nanobots and various means used to boost immunity to the infestation. Some very popular drinks, snacks, tobacco substitutes and medicines had done the same tricks. Havenlanders had been treated in the same ways, had consumed the same goods, as had others.

 

Amanda had been focusing on Havenlander matters and less on Terran matters. She nodded, as having expected such would happen. She sighed. "I want our daughter to go to Sanctum."

 

Armstrong nodded. "I want all three of us to go there. Sanctum could use us."

 

She gave him a curious look.

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 136.1[210]

A Far More Hidden and Alien Struggle

 

The LittleFatMan stood in Sanctum, seeding the ground with new seedlings, making the ground more fertile with a strange looking device that was hard to discern. Of course it was rainbow coloured!

 

The Eternal One, the small girl and her small dog, were suddenly there almost as if they had always been there. She smiled. "One walks in one's own shadow if one does nothing to lighten it. Your courage, struggle, successes have been well noted by the GodGoddess and the Lord-Ladies of Light. Your best achievement has been to keep your interventions to a limit, to measure them carefully, to restrain yourself when your desire most push you otherwise. The LittleFatFamily will remain in Sanctum and do much good while the TallThinFamily is dealt with along with other darkness that you are linked to."

 

The LittleFatMan smiled quietly. "We are at peace here and we hare healing, growing stronger, but we are ever aware of the growing evil of the TallThinFamily out there. They have been drawn towards the NewEarth, towards the Great Enemy that is trapped in the Coreworld but you would know that, of course, especially if you were the true Eternal One."

 

The false Eternal One shimmered and became the TallThinMan dark and hood-robed in blackest of fashions, holding a tall staff that was of dark blood-wood ending in a distorted handle that was hard to define by looking at it. The TallThinMan grinned. "See how simple it is for us to invade Sanctum. You have no chance against us..."

 

But then he screamed out in agony, in shock, in terror as his whole body was lifted up into the air inside a great bubble of burning energies. On and on he screamed and writhed.

 

The false LittleFatMan became the real Eternal One and the mean looking young woman, in her tight superhero body-suit costume, shook her head. "Really, TallThinMan, you should have known better. Please make no attempt to return here and do pass the warning onto the rest of the TallThinFamily."

 

Then the real TallThinMan was suddenly gone, just gone, as if he had never been there and in truth he had never really been there.

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 136.1[210]

Choosing a Dark Path

 

The thing, that had been Cardinal Barringja, stood trembling with exhaustion on the dais of blood stained, tainted, metallic stone and screamed defiance at fate. Then he collapsed onto his ugly, deformed, knees and bowed to the Retirweht though not willingly. The deformed ugliness, twisted perfection of beauty, that was the Retirweht was obviously enraged but piteous but pleased but untouched by what it observed before it.

 

The Retirweht spoke in a voice that grated against one's mind-body-spirit, that echoed across the hallways surrounded by blackness darker than natural darkness. "You have chosen and have been chosen. You chose the dark path and the dark path chose you. You are no longer the scum that was Cardinal Barringja but are now the Great Key to freeing the Great Enemy from its prison of the Coreworld. Now rest in the nightmare paradise of your own choosing and making."

 

The Great Key cried out as it vanished with a flickering shimmering effect, screaming out in both ecstasy and agony.

 

The Retirweht spoke to the TallThinWoman, who stepped out of the darkest darkness, in her hooded robe. "Let us hope this Great Key does better than the other 99 that went before it."

 

The TallThinWoman laughed softly, not a pleasant sound, and then spoke with a voice that was even less pleasant. "What does it matter. Anyway, each death made victory more certain. It amuses the TallThinFamily to create the Great Keys in such a manner and then observe them suffer terrible endings."

 

The Retirweht scowled. "I care nothing for your pleasure. I care to see that we succeed in freeing the Great Enemy from its bondage so that it can rule the Multiverse as the Grand Celestial Godhood."

 

The TallThinWoman glared but dared say nothing.

Edited November 18, 2014 by Maharg67