The 2nd and 7th Doctors have set the TARDIS to track the companions via the other TARDIS’ time track. However, while they reminisc and sing old Prydonian pep rally songs, they are pulled off course by some mysterious force.
Thanks to my wife for writing the Prydonian glee-club song.
holy hell I love these two traveling together, thahahahaha
I too have some nasty suspicions. You may yet be trying to bring in some of the more nefarious villains of the series.
Can you give us a list as to “when” each incarnation is from? Because I’d wager that 7 is from the timeline between “Dragonfire” and “Rememberence of the Daleks,” since his personality is closer to what it was in Sylvester McCoy’s first season than the “Darker Doctor” persona he developed later on.
Sure, here’s the list:
1st Doctor: Pre series. Shortly before he arrived in England before “An Unearthly Child”, the pilot.
2nd Doctor: Sometime during the fanon Season 3a. A presumed time after his trial in “The War Games” and before he was ACTUALLY regenerated and dropped on Earth as the 3rd Doctor in “Spearhead From Space”. This was invented to try to explain his appearances in “The Three Doctors”, “The Five Doctors” and “The Two Doctors”. Story is that the tribune were actually working for the CIA and while they publically banished the Doctor to Earth and regenerated him, it was actually postponed and he was sent off on little errands with some of his companions before finally being forced to regenerate and his memory tampered with.
3rd Doctor: Sometime between “The Three Doctors” and “Carnival of Monsters”.
4th Doctor: After “Shada”, before “The Leisure Hive”
5th Doctor: Right after “The Five Doctors” and before “Warriors of the Deep”
6th Doctor: Sometime between “Revelation of the Daleks” and the Trial, during the cancelled season that would have featured a return of the Ice Warriors and Sil.
7th Doctor: After “Dimensions in Time” and before the Fox Film (aka “The Enemy Within”).
Yes, the Doctor does become somewhat darker during his run. But he doesn’t competely lose his sense of silly, I found. He’s still got some delightfully daft moments in the later episodes. Especially when he’s goofing off and relaxing. And yeah, I’ve made some artistic decisions… I wanted him to stil have his knack for misquoting adages so I could get the “Too Many Bakers” line in there. I do plan to play up that mysterious side later on, once things really get dangerous.
8th Doctor: After the Fox Movie and before he regenerated. *shrug* Not counting any other media, this one’s a no-brainer.
9th Doctor: Between “Father’s Day” and “The Empty Child”. So that Rose could have an understanding of the importance of interfering in one’s own timeline.
10th Doctor: After “The Runaway Bride” and before “Smith and Jones”. This was the “Current” status when I started writing it.
So nice to see different Doctors getting along right from the get-go, for once.
Love the Prydonian College alma mater, or whatever you want to call it =) Go Reds!
“I too have some nasty suspicions. You may yet be trying to bring in some of the more nefarious villains of the series.”
I echo your suspicions, Inutashio. Who knows what intergalactic evil may be trying to stop the Doctors. Could it be the Mara? Davros? The Animus? The Krillitanes? Britney Spears?
Whoever diverted them has a TARDIS…..with a current design, no less (note the roundells in the BG)
A TARDIS inside a TARDIS? Now that’s some funky geometry goin’ on there.
Sorry, I meant the 2nd Doctor’s season 6a, not 3a. *shakes head* I’m ruining my geek cred here.
And as for a TARDIS in a TARDIS… maaaybe. Maaayybe not.
It’s happened before, EML. 3rd Doctor’s “The Time Monster”, 4th Doctor’s “Logopolis”. It’s never a good thing, though.
YES!! These are two of my favorite Doctors, along with the 4th! Wonderful!
Lovely song, by the way!
This is truly one of the best fan stories I’ve read, and done in a sequential format at that! Kudos!
It’s funny; up until now, I had never realized how the Second and Seventh Doctors are so alike… even if the latter is a bit darker.
Spectacular as always. =)
2 and 7 seem to be a perfect match.
Has anyone else noticed that the Doctor goes in cycles?
1&6 Tetchy and impatient
2&7 Silly Hobos
3&8 Dandies
4&9 Admittedly, this is where it goes awry since 9 is in shell shock, but they do have a similar wild grin going on.
5&10 Young and Spry
Just something that’s been nagging me.
That’s an interesting observation, Jonn. Guess we’ll end on a dandy…
Now, here’s something I’m curious about. I know they’ve all got to keep focused on the problems at hand, but I find myself wondering how the various classic Doctors are feeling about their newly-discovered destiny as last of the Time Lords. How does one react to such foreknowledge? I can’t help getting the impression that Two and Seven are trying to distract themselves. It’d surely be a hard thing not to think about… finding out that you’re fated to survive an apocalypse, and furthermore, that you yourself are to be the instrument of fate… Maybe some of them are questioning whether or not that’s the sort of future they should be fighting to preserve.
It all comes down to putting yourself in perspective. Who is the current Doctor? Prior to them, do you have the right to try to change things?
I just realized something…
Who’s TARDIS is this?! Both their TARDISes were supposedly shutdown by the Ninth Doctor’s blind panic.
Damn. I hoped you wouldn’t notice that.
I guess they’re borrowing the 6th Doctor’s TARDIS.
Well yes, they wouldn’t have the right, it’s one of the oldest tenets of time-travel fiction and of Doctor Who in particular. Once history is written, to tamper with it is to invite disaster. But it must bother them an awful lot, indeed, all the more because of their inability to act in defiance of fate.
This is the first time I’ve said anything here but I rather liked this bit. I have soft spots for 2 and 7, but my favorite by far is 4. Can’t wait to see more of them! : D
Come on you REEEEDS!!!!!
I mean, really… they’re singing a varsity song from a university that they know they’re going to outlive. Doesn’t that inspire melancholy? The distinguished campus with its dimensionally transcendental dorm rooms and sentient computer labs, the time/sports teams and the cheer-lords, the nine-dimensional chess club, the cosmic faculty and student high council… all dust…
Long time lurker here who absolutely loves the comic.
Just thought I’d point out that in the third panel it should be ‘In so long’ not ‘Is so long’.
Keep up the fantastic work – I’ll be checking this website everyday!
P.S Are we going to be seeing any more of Romana and the companions soon? I miss the Rose/Ace interaction XD
Joe England: Yes, you’re right. It’s a depressing prospect. Personally I figure 1: that the Doctors’ haven’t injested it yet, or aren’t connected to the event yet and 2: it’d made a very dull story if ALL the Doctors were brooding for the whole story all the time.
My wife has a theory: The Doctor can and has traveled into the future so often that he can and has seen all the civilizations he’s helped to build and save eventually crumble to dust. Everyone he knows and loves he will and has outlived. Why would his own be any different. He’s put all his brooding and sulking into one incarnation (#9, who actually experienced it) and the rest are being their good-ole’ pragmatic selves.
Megalomaniac: Yeah, sorry. Caught the typo, didn’t bother to fix it. There’s a few in the comic I might go back sometime and correct them. Thanks for pointing it out. Thank you for reading!
As for the companions, yeah, I’ll get back to them at some point.
How do you keep it all straight? Do you have a written outline, stick-figure storyboards, or WHAT? There are so many threads I’d never keep them all in line. I’m more in awe every time I see a new page (or pages, as I don’t check up on it as often as I should).
Sounds harder than it is. I actually have the plot scribbled down on a page with notes and little arrows pointing every which way. The rest of it I make up as I go along.
absolutely crazy!
#2 +#7 = Wow! two short hobo Doctors singing their alma mater anthem!
I wish I was there, beats working any day…
Soooo many plot threads! How will you ever manage to pull them all together?
Hmm… I wonder if we’ll finally find out what happened to Ace…
Awesome awesome work so far. I wasn’t as immersed in the Doctor mythos as some..being from the States we pretty much got the 4th Dcotor and a bit of the 5th, the Fox movie and now the new series. But I’m enthralled with this story so far.
Depends on where you were in the States, I guess. Cause I managed to watch from the later eps of Pertwee (#3) to the end of the McCoy eps. But then my local PBS stations were big on Who. Even had a few Doctor Who fan clubs in the area…Go Seattle
I love my country, but TV in the United States is often hard on Who. Did anyone else catch the season finale tonight? They cut so much material it’s absurd. They cut the Master’s dance number, for crying out loud! And Martha’s mom having a breakdown! Really disappointing. But I guess we can’t live without our precious commercials.
oh wow this is good!
I’m not much of a one for fan fic, but this is so good its more the real thing!
please keep it up becasue I will die if i don’t find out how this all ends
I agree Joe, how could they cut the “I Can’t Decide” number, and the scene with Mrs. Jones was one of the most dramatic bits. It’s criminal I say!!!
*concurs with Joe and DrkFire666*
I know, and they cut the scene with Martha’s family bonding, and I’m pretty sure they edited the “escape” scene and the Master’s message to Martha, and, and, and…! I mean, I know it’s an extra-long episode, but couldn’t they have spared a little extra time just for the season finale? That was one of the most memorable scenes in the series!
just came across your story thru the Facebook group. GREAT job! can’t wait for more. hope it is printed up one day for purchase…
First time poster here. I’ve got to say, in all this is a pretty rad piece of fan fic. Probably the best of it’s kind.
Two things
1. You’ve got a grammar typo in panel 3. Doctor #2 says “I haven’t sang that one IS so long”. I assume “Is” should be “In”.
And
2. I’m no expert, but the “I Can’t Decide” bit in Doctor Who Season 3 Episode 13 was probably cut due to over seas broadcast licensing issues. Not necessarily run time related.
-just came across your story thru the Facebook group. GREAT job! can’t wait for more. hope it is printed up one day for purchase…-
What Facebook group is that?
-1. You’ve got a grammar typo in panel 3. Doctor #2 says “I haven’t sang that one IS so long”. I assume “Is” should be “In”.-
Yeah, you’re quite right. I caught it myself shortly after it went up on the site. Eventually I’ll go back and fix the little errors. Thanks for pointing it out and thanks for reading and enjoying!
Either way it’s still crap! Bloody heathens!!
what kind of monster would cut the number???
poor David sitting in a wheelchair in prosthetics…
mind you, poor john simm having to run around like a loon…
lol college songs
Hi Rich, the Facebook group is called “I want a TARDIS.” I started a discussion post there to share this comic with other fans.
I can’t wait for the next installment!
Joined!
Am I the only one who was hearing the Prydonian Glee-Club Song sung to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire”?
It scans pretty well in the first panel, but breaks down in the second…
Oh Rich, I was wondering if you have a button so that I can link here from my LJ userinfo?
By button I mean banner, lol sorry.
Yeah I’ve got two sizes. Where do you want them sent?
undeniablynikki.lj at gmail.com, please.
It says something, how Two is willing to let Seven play his recorder. He wasn’t that generous with Three. I wonder why it is that consecutive Doctors never seem to get along? At least in fan fiction. Probably something to do with perspective and the passing of time. Of course, Two seemed to respect One to some degree in “The Three Doctors.”
I don’t think it’s consecutive Doctors. The 2nd Doctor couldn’t stand the 6th Doctor from the start. They all seemed grudgingly respectful of the 5th. Seems to be more of a personality thing.
any idear when the next page will be put up
loveing the comic by the way
(got to get round to whatching the first epesod of doctor who!)
Love it! Can’t wait for the rest of the story!!! You really capture their personalities in the facial expressions!
I’ll get to it when I can. Promise. Busy at home.
Take your time. Like Billy Crystal said, “you rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.”
Indeed. Or as the 7th Doctor would say, “You rush a miracle man, you get rotten tomatoes.”
I think of another big baddie who has yet to make his entrance: the Valeyard.
Hehehe you might want to read some of this comic over again more carefully.
Cutest. Doctors. Ever.
I love Two wearing Seven’s hat and Seven playing Two’s recorder. One tiny problem — in State of Decay the Doctor had never heard of bowships until he dug up the Record of Rassilon in the TARDIS’s archives, so it’s doubtful they would have been mentioned in an old Prydonian drinking song.
Erm…..
Uh…
Call it an UNTELEVISED ADVENTURE!!
Yeah! That’s it!
Heheheh
Good call. My bad.
joe england says: “Well yes, they wouldn’t have the right, it’s one of the oldest tenets of time-travel fiction and of Doctor Who in particular. Once history is written, to tamper with it is to invite disaster. But it must bother them an awful lot, indeed, all the more because of their inability to act in defiance of fate.”
I think of it this way: 10’s history is 5’s future, but *not* 5’s history. In that sense, 5 has every right to try to “change” that which has not yet happened to him!
Don Kelly Says: “being from the States we pretty much got the 4th Dcotor and a bit of the 5th, the Fox movie and now the new series.”
They may have aired in odd sequences, but my “local” PBS station broadcast every episode from Spearhead from Space (Jon Pertwee’s debut) through The Ultimate Foe (Colin Baker’s finale). A few years later, after I’d moved to a different city, the local PBS station *there* aired all of McCoy’s episodes. I believe some stations carried Hartnell and Troughton as well, but obviously were limited in what they could show. And never on the stations I had access to!
Singing Two and Seven make me very happy.
http://community.livejournal.com/doctorwho/2478714.html?thread=40200570#t40200570
Hah! The University of Chicago uses a cheer very much like that. Is your wife from there? Maybe other schools use it, too? Brings back memories.
Hilary here! The cheer was based on my old high school cheer, actually, from the University of Toronto Schools. The real version goes:
Themisticles, Thermopylae, the Peloponnesian War,
X-Squared, Y-Squared, H2SO4
French verbs, Latin verbs, Ancient History,
UTS, UTS, Schools of Varsity
Go Blues!
Yeah, we were nerds.
How come the 1st Doctor’s TARDIS is a Police Box if it’s pre-Unearthly Child? Unless he’d just come off a quick visit to earth.
nice to see two Doctors getting along for once
Well, I watch Doctor Who on PBS in Champaign, so I’ve seen all of the new series up to The Runaway Bride on TV. I’ve also seen every episode other than Voyage of the Damned and The Next Doctor.
As far as seeing Doctor WHO in the states, my first episode was “Robots of Death” on (I think) a Canadian station that wasn’t the CBC. I lived in Detroit then. Later, PBS ran the Tom Baker episodes…then Peter Davison (I was living in Florida at that time, and it was still on PBS) and later Colin Baker. After Baker and before McCoy, our PBS station began running REALLY OLD episodes (I finally saw “Unearthly Child”, then the “Dead Planet” and such) and finally, I saw McCoy on PBS again, but was now living in Indiana. At that time, I had the chance to buy some of the VHS copies of Troughten (”Tomb of the Cybermen”) and Pertwee (”Silurians”) episodes.
Heh … Two and Seven are brilliant! Well, I must admit Seven isn’t one of my favourites, but really … you can’t have two favourites can you? Two probably is my second fav, though, and then Four and Ten. But … so many Two stories are lost now, and I may never see them!
Gosh, you know how much I hate the lack of complete Troughton stories – hardly anyone nowadays has seen many Troughton and Hartnell episodes and even stories, because of the bloody 60’s and 70’s BBC! Stupid jerks, I want the ‘Ice Warriors’ and the Yeti stories to be complete! And ‘The Macra Terror’. And the ‘Tenth Planet’! And … well, every bloody story that has missing episodes, I want them to at least reconstruct them!
Have you seen the 2006 Cosgrove Hall recon of ‘The Invasion’? Flipping brilliant, good pacing with the soundtrack and the animation – they need to do it again! I love the Troughton era even though I’ve only seen four stories (’Invasion’, ‘Mind Robber’, ‘Tomb of the Cybermen’ and ‘Seeds of Death’)
It IS great to see these amazing interactions – it IS a personality thing!
Since I live in the U.S., right up near the Canadian border, I used to see it on CBC. ( Now I buy them on Itunes.)
My first episode was the very end of ‘The Doctor Dances’, just when he remembered he could dance, at 1 in the morning. I automatically wanted to see more, but didn’t until I stumbled on the end of ‘The Parting of the Ways.’, and thought “Now THAT was weird!”
After that, I finally saw a commercial for it, and caught a whole episode: ‘New Earth.’ ( I knew I’d seen David Tennant SOMEWHERE, but I didn’t remember where until I saw the 4th Harry Potter movie again.
)
I didn’t even know specials existed until last year, right after season 4, because CBC never aired them. (Grrr…) But now, I’ve seen every NuWho at least once, most of them 2 or 3 times, some of them up to 10 times. (Maybe.)
Sorry. Thought I’d jump in on the topic too, even if I’m over a year late.
Isn’t H2SO4 the becker the 2nd key was kept in in the Keys of Marius
sorry rich forgot the question mark
Isn’t H2SO4 the becker the 2nd key was kept in in the Keys of Marius?
Still not sure what you’re talking about. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen “The Keys of Marinus”, so you could be right. The formula was just a science reference for the song.