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just_the_doctor) wrote2006-01-17 11:52 am
just_the_doctor) wrote2006-01-17 11:52 am
Dalek
The relative peace of the control room is shattered by an alarm. Granted, this tends to happen fairly often in these older TARDISes. Most are nothing more than the TARDIS equivalent of the "Check Engine" light. This one, though, is different.
Which is why the Doctor is at the console in a matter of seconds, running scans along all available frequency bands and tying the TARDIS navigational array into the output. It was definitely a distress signal. And a recognizable one. Not specifically Gallifreyan, but one of a number of standard forms used by any of a hundred planets in the general vicinity. Very faint and weak, but still there. Whatever was calling was in trouble, and had the technology to call for help.
A spike of hope rose in the Time Lord; was it possible that another Time Lord had been thrown clear of the blast, as he was, and was calling for assistance?
Which is why the Doctor is at the console in a matter of seconds, running scans along all available frequency bands and tying the TARDIS navigational array into the output. It was definitely a distress signal. And a recognizable one. Not specifically Gallifreyan, but one of a number of standard forms used by any of a hundred planets in the general vicinity. Very faint and weak, but still there. Whatever was calling was in trouble, and had the technology to call for help.
A spike of hope rose in the Time Lord; was it possible that another Time Lord had been thrown clear of the blast, as he was, and was calling for assistance?
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She asks if some of his people might have survived, and he has to tell her there's no way. He'd know; he'd hear them. But there's nothing. He's really alone. Except for her, she reminds him.
That's what it's all about, in the end. Not being alone. Which is why he doesn't really protest when she asks to bring Adam along (even though he knows it probably won't end well).
And they're off again. Off to the next adventure.