Free World Event: Jenny is Born.
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'The Doctors Family'
Free World. It was the Doctors favourite planet. The people were so diverse. It's nations ranging from advanced cities to rural farmlands and castles, hundreds of years old. But whilst he loved it here he currently wanted to be anywhere else. Not because of his struggles to stay in one place too long. Not because of his loneliness.
But because he was being chased by a mutated dragon.
"I'm sorry I didn't know it was your tail!" He shouted back as he fled from the massive lumbering creature across the shore of Dragonia's Charred Land. He leapt over a large rock feeling it shatter behind him as the dragons fire hit it. His eyes popped up. "You looked like a tree! I've always found trees confusing". It roared.
The Doctor again ran hearing it's footsteps gaining on him, with the blue box shaped ship, his Tardis, just in reach. He ran faster, his hat flying off and on to the floor as he leapt into his Tardis, slamming the door behind him. He stumbled into the quirky looking time machine and pulled a lever, sending him travelling anywhere... Any when. Until the vessel finally hummed to a halt.
Outside the hissing blue box three humanoids stood, there strange weapons pointing at it. They glanced to each other, curious. They were advanced as a species, advanced enough to know of other species existing. But this was not something they had ever seen. Finally one of them lowered his weapon and stepped forward. Three times his knuckle knocked on the door.
Nothing.
Suddenly the door creaked open. "Are their any dragons out there?" He whispered. They looked curiously at each other. "Dragons" the voice asked again "big things, large teeth...".
"No... Um, sir can you step out of the box please?" The guard asked.
The doctor checked his hair and fixed his bow tie then stepped out. "Certainly, now where am I exactly? This looks like I'm underground and why is it so cold?"
"Your in the polar regions of the planet..."
"Polar!" He called out "oh that's wonderful I haven't seen snow in a long long time!" He pushed past them, running through the corridors with the guards in chase. He ran up the stairs and swung the door open, looking around the white coated planet. "Well now that is a beautiful site!"
"Sir, I'm going to have to ask who you are and what your doing here". The guard asked trying to maintain his polite nature. "Our systems registered your ship as bring made of elements not found on this planet".
"What planet would that be?" The Doctor asked.
"I knew it... Your from another world" one of the younger guards stated, excitement in his voice. "With your help we can win this war!"
The doctors face turned colder than the surrounding snow. "War?" He shook his head "young man, and trust me I say that with a lot of gravity given my own age, war is something I have had my fill of. I don't want to know where I am or when I am... I won't help you". He turned and walked back into the bunker. Two guards turned to follow when the youngest pulled the commander back "sir, I scanned him against our data base. Including the data base we took from the crashed alien vessel several years ago". The commander nodded impatiently "and?".
The young man smiled "he is a time lord".
The doctor remembered the horrors of war as he walked back to his Tardis, suddenly wishing he had stayed with the dragon. "You seem like good men, you honestly do. But I can promise you that this war, any war. Whatever started it... It isn't worth it".
The commander, stepped forward "you think we don't know that? We don't want this life. It's the life that's been forced on us. I never wanted to be a soldier, I wanted to be a medic. I wanted to heal people but I was forced into war. Can you imagine that sir".
The doctors face turned sad " yes. Yes I can". He placed a hand on his shoulder "but I've seen my wars. And I'm not a weapon you want to use". He turned to go into the room his Tardis was in. "Let me in please".
The youngest soldier stepped forward "of course sir. I just need to check you for virus and radiation since you went to the surface before I can open that door. You did land in our food storage after all". The device rubbed over the doctors skin, causing a slight tingle. Then the guard opened the door.
The doctor opened his Tardis "what are your names?" He asked. The commander stepped forward "I'm Paisley. These are Cuzco and Foster". The doctor smiled "I managed to leave my war behind me. I hope one day you can do the same.
The doctor closed the door and whisked away. He walked around his Tardis scratching his arm. It itched badly. He looked, and noticed an indentation. "They took a skin sample!" He shouted. He grabbed onto the Tardis handle trying to reverse it back but it stuttered and refused. "What?" He asked. The place and time was time locked? He couldn't return! He typed in to the memory banks to find out where he had been, and his stomach sank when the name appeared.
Skaro. The home of the Dalek race.
Back on skaro commander Paisley accessed his com. " This is polar base four to command. We have a new DNA sample for the Dalek program. Time Lord DNA".
Several months later...
The young woman sat naked on a cold operating table. She had her arms crossed over her chest and tugged a strand of hair behind her ear while she looked around. “Hello?” She exclaimed rather quietly and felt disoriented. She had no memory of how she had come here nor what had happened before. Still she was aware of herself and looked into the mirroring image of herself in a window. Long, blonde hair and baby blue eyes, a slender face, female curves. So she was obviously female, which almost surprised her. She had half expected herself to be a man and half wished she was a redhead.
“Hello?” She called a little louder and began to look around for something to wear. Her eyes caught a dozen medical instruments and then she looked at the label on her wrist. She read aloud. “J3-NN-Y.” She didn’t know what the number stood for but it looked almost like “Jenny”. She tried to make sense of her name and tried to remember who had last called her Jenny. She looked at the tag closer. “Alpha version, code 180571, programmed, prototype.”
Jenny rubbed her neck and felt a sting. An image lit up in her mind of a bright light, the electrical humming sound and metallic taste as something was probing the back of her neck and entered her cerebellum. But why couldn’t she remember how she came here? She remembered voices and a face. No, it was many faces and many voices. “I’m Jenny?” She listened to her own voice and was surprised. She had expected to sound like one of those voices.
She slipped off the table and her feet dragged over the cold, tiled floor. She shivered and when she tried to walk away from the operating table she felt the pull of infusion tubes, which she tore off. “Better.” She spoke to herself and liked the sound of her voice. Her head cleared quickly and finally the disoriented feeling faded. She rubbed her eyes and saw a ledger on a small table by the door. She picked it up and ran her fingers over the pages. At first they didn’t make sense, but then the letters seemed to dance and make patterns, which her brain quickly assembled into words.
“Two hearts and several other doubled organs. Quick recovery and resilience to poisons, as well as other environmental influences. Prototype – J3-NN-Y - only successful offspring of the Doctor. All male versions flawed for unknown reason. Fighting sequences induced and movement patterns programmed...” She stopped reading aloud and scanned quickly over the pages. Quickly she had absorbed all information. She didn’t like the last bits of what it said. She was meant to be a soldier and to breed more soldiers.
Jenny slammed the papers into the corner when she heard steps outside. She hurried back to the operating table and laid down. She closed her eyes. She barely managed to pick up the infusion tube when the door opened and a couple of men in uniforms entered.
“He’s back. Maybe we should get more of his DNA to make a mate for this one.” A finger poked her naked skin. Jenny tried not to move. The first man was young and the way he poked her made her feel uncomfortable. “No, Sergeant, she is a weapon and we should use her for our advantage. If the time lord doesn’t agree to help us out of his free will then we will use her to make him. One way or the other. He is alone after all and she might be the only thing close to family.” Jenny’s mind raced. So someone like her was out there somewhere. “As you wish Commander Cuzco, but I thought that General Paisley wanted to transfer into the Dalek program. Her neuron pathways have already been altered.”
The General shook his head. Jenny peeked at them from under her lashes. It became harder and harder to lie still. Her muscles tensed and in her mind she was already putting down plans down how to take these men down. After she had taken them down she’d be able to run. She knew she would be able to run. “What a waste to put her into a machine.” The General ran his fingers over her body. Jenny grabbed his wrist. The man gasped, the young commander drew his weapon. “No!” Jenny pulled the General in front of her and the blast hit him right in the chest. His body disintegrated. It gave her enough time to overwhelm the commander though. She knocked the weapon from his hand and her punch landed right on the tip of his jaw. He fell back, knocked out.
She ripped the infusion tube off and quickly undressed him. His clothes fit her loosely, but good enough to let her slip away dressed. She tied him up and left the room. She looked around and then ran. She ran as fast as she could.
Someone else was running too. She heard heavier steps just when she turned a corner. She suddenly stood face to face with someone she knew and didn’t know. It was not the face she expected, but something in her knew immediately who he was. “DOCTOR!”
The Doctor stood, a beard masking his features and strange weapon in his hands. Behind him several Daleks fizzed and sparked. "That's Dad to you". He smiled dropping the weapon and held her tight. A yellow aura flowed from him into her mind, filling the gaps in her genetic memory.
They showed her that she was a clone of him, a Time Lord. They showed her how the soldiers had tried to convince him to join their war, then had stolen his DNA. How he had been time locked out of Skaro, his Tardis unable to return and so he had worked day and night for thirteen years to find a way to catapult himself here. And how by taking his daughter from him... They had brought out the war time doctor one last time.
She stepped back, gasping as she processed the memories into her own brain. "You... You don't have your Tardis?! You came here by way of a time warp slingshot!"
The doctor nodded taking her hand and guiding her through the Dalek remains. "That's right, it's not the most comfortable of ways. I only have a few moments before I am snapped back through time and space". He pushed through a door, several guards laying around on the floor. "Don't worry they are stunned, not killed" though something in his tone said he had considered it.
"Dad, I don't understand how will I escape if...". Her eyes fell on the strange object in front of her. The creaky looking exterior didn't fill her with confidence. It looked like something. "A Volkswagen Van? It's a Tardis isn't it?"
The Doctor nodded "A Time Lord crashed here many years ago, it's been sat here since. I don't have much time, you must meet me on a planet called Free World... In the year..." And then with a flash he was gone. Jenny took a deep breath. Again, she was alone. But this time she had memory's. And among those memory's of his was something she hadn't noticed at first. It was something that, instead of remembering she could feel. It was love. His love for her had kept him searching for a way to save her. And with that love she knew she wasn't alone.
She leapt inside her Tardis, and eyed the controls, so strange and yet so familiar. "Okay baby, let's head to Free World! Time period.... Well, let's start at the very beginning" she yanked back the lever "it's a very good place to start!"
The controls of the Tarids hummed and Jenny looked at them with curiousity. Something deep in her knew exactly which button to press and which lever to pull. She didn′t know why or how - well, she did know, that her dad′s memories were part of her DNA now. At least the bit he was able to share in such a short time before the time wrap slingshot pulled him back into his timeline. But it was reassuring to see how the lights went on and ancient circuits sprang back to life. This Tardis must have had been stuck here on Skaro.
She was surprised it hadn’t been taken apart or discovered. Her dad, the Doctor, had discovered it of course. And now she was in it. She had to leave before they found out that she was gone. The main drive gave off a comforting wailing sound and the whole Tardis began to shake. She had managed to take off. “First thing first. Free World… time unknown… early… very early…” She manipulated a few knobs and kicked a circuit to wake it up.
“BLIMEY!” She heard a male voice yelling from one of the corridors. She let go of the panel and hurried down the corridor to find an old, small man with fuzzy white hair and dressed in an old bath robe on a large bed, surrounded by robots. He leaned up to sit and looked rather frail. He looked at Jenny with a shock. “Doctor?”
Jenny shook her head. “No, Jenny. The Doctor’s daughter.” The Tardis shook and stumbled through time and space. Jenny held on to the doorframe, but the old man was knocked out of bed and hit his head against the floor. “I’m sorry!” Jenny exclaimed. She let go of the frame and hurried to tend to the old man. “I didn’t know this Tardis was still inhabited. I’m not sure my dad knew that either.”
The old man groaned and looked at her with tired eyes and confusion. “The Doctor has a daughter?”
Jenny nodded. She tried to help him up. “And you are?”
He scratched his head. “I forgot. I can’t remember. I haven’t been able to get up and leave this planet. Tardis took care of me. Good girl, she is. But soon she’ll be alone. Well, maybe now she won’t.”
Jenny looked at him and noticed that his legs wouldn’t move. He looked down and nodded. “I broke my spine while landing on Skaro. I managed to lock myself in and avoided getting dragged into this war. Not that I would have been of much use.” He smiled at her.
She looked confused. “But why didn’t you just regenerate? I mean, you could have fixed this.” She pointed at his legs then hoisted him back up into his bed.
The old time lord shook his head. “No, this is my last regeneration. I stayed locked in here for nearly a hundred years. Afraid of dying alone and afraid of letting my Tardis sit here. But now you’ve come.”
She had just managed to place him comfortably onto the bed when the Tardis hit ground with a thud. Jenny toppled over and looked down at the old man. “We must have arrived in Free World.” He nodded. “Good. Once I am gone, she’ll be yours. I just have one last wish – I don’t want to die alone.”
Jenny swallowed hard. “I’ll be here. But I need to check the outside. If we are lucky then I am not just in the right place, but the right time also. My dad is waiting for me.” She smiled a little brighter at the possibility. “I’m sure the Doctor can help.”
She made sure the old time lord was comfortable before she went outside. She set up a small camp and just when she was finished a stranger appeared out of nothing.
This is how Jenny met Seven. And what their adventures are and how she’ll find her dad again is a tale for another day.
