Crossing the Streams Chapter 03 - Outline (Mostly)

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Crossing the Streams Chapter 03 - Outline (Mostly)

Postby P.H. Wise » Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:34 am

What we have here is an incomplete draft/outline of chapter 03 of 'Crossing the Streams.' I wasn't sure if it belonged in 'Outlines and Scenes' or in Fic C&C. Figured I'd post it here and see what was thought of it.

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Crossing the Streams
by P.H. Wise
A Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2, Doctor Who crossover

Chapter 03: The Great and Bountiful Human Empire

Disclaimer: I don’t own Ranma. I don’t own Sailor Moon. The BBC owns Doctor Who. Please don’t sue me.

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It's a little known fact that time travel in itself isn't anything particularly unusual. Everything travels through time, after all, passing from one moment to the next and the next and the next in more or less a straight line, continually traversing into the future. What's more unusual is to travel from one point to another and to totally skip the intervening moments. As it flew through the howling, red-tinged space-time vortex, the TARDIS was doing just that. Such was the nature of the Time Lords.

Within the vessel, Ranma stared at her surroundings, still not quite believing that she had left Nerima and everyone she knew behind. And yet for all the alienness of the situation, there was something about the strange, flowing columns, the lights, the green glowing panels in the center, and the way the Doctor fiddled with the controls that seemed almost... no. Whatever it was, it was gone. It hurt to think too much. Actually, it hurt to do much of anything. Even breathe. Now that she had been extracted from the dangerous situation, her exhaustion was hitting her with a vengeance, and she found that for all her endurance training, she could barely stand.

He was looking at her out of the corner of his eye, she realized, even as he fiddled with the controls. "... Martha," he said, and Martha looked up from where, on the other side of the control panel, she'd been pressing down a button that the Doctor had instructed her to hold down. "Why don't you show Ranma to the medical bay?"

Martha nodded, releasing the button and moving to help the pigtailed girl. "Come on, then. Just hold onto my arm," she wrapped her arm around Ranma's unresisting body, "One step at a time."

Utterly exhausted and in too much pain to argue, Ranma let herself be led out of the console room. She wasn't sure how much time had passed when she felt herself being helped onto an earth-toned bed set in the midst of a number of panels and vaguely familiar looking instruments.

Martha. Martha was at her side. She felt a finger against her neck. Martha's finger. It stayed there for what felt like an eternity.

"Pulse is strong," Martha said, but Ranma could no longer see her. It had grown unexpectedly dark, and she was sleepy.

Sleepy...

'That damned Tomboy had better be ok...'

Ranma drifted off into unconsciousness.

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Martha Jones studied the unconscious form of the strange young woman who had gotten caught up in the Doctor's affairs with a doctor's eye, taking in her general condition in the course of a few seconds. Ranma, whatever her last name was, had two things going for her, at least: she was in excellent shape, and she'd been very healthy before she'd been tortured. That helped.

Tortured.

This girl couldn't be more than sixteen years old, and she'd been tortured.

Martha swallowed to stop the bile that was rising up in the back of her throat, and went to work, putting Ranma on an IV drip and firing up the TARDIS's medical scanners.

The console whirred to life with a cheery greenish glow, sputtered, and died.

"Oh no you don't," Martha said, and fiddled with a few controlls, turned a few knobs, and then finally picked up a small clawhammer set on a nearby table, gave the console a few solid whacks, and then smiled a satisfied smile as it whirred back to life. A beam of blue light swept across Ranma's body once, twice, three times, and then a holographic view of her naked body materialized in the air over the bed.

Martha fiddled with the controls, and on the hologram, the layers of skin faded away to show Ranma's internals, with lines of information streaming all around it, displaying such things as her blood oxygen level, an analysis of her genetics, an analysis of the energy she was emanating, her heart rate, her rate of breathing, and so on.

... the girl had two hearts.

The girl had TWO HEARTS!

Martha's eyes widened. She quickly typed in a rapid series of commands and brought the genetic analysis to the foreground. And there it was, clear as day on the holographic display:

Subject: Susan (TARDIS medical file #0002)
Status: Time Lord (apprentice)
Species: Galifreyan
Warning: Significant abnormalities detected in regeneration cycle.

Time Lord. ... Apprentice? Martha wasn't sure what to make of that particular bit of information, but it was no use worrying about it now. Susan, or Ranma, or whoever she was, was clearly in terrible shape, and she wasn't going to get better if all she did was scan the girl. Going into a bit more detail, she quickly discovered that every single one of Ranma's bones were covered with microfractures, and the muscles in both her arms and legs were just short of outright torn off of their respective bones. And yet... the damage was actually visibly reversing itself before her eyes.

That was when the door to the medical bay slid open, and the Doctor came walking in. He looked haunted, Martha thought.

"Doctor..." she said, and trailed off. Even if the news was very good, how do you tell someone that there's another member of his species alive and well after all, and a female member at that? Martha's thoughts raced. If Ranma survived, and if she got on well with the Doctor, it could mean a new future for the Time Lords. Except that would leave no place for... she cut off that line of thought before it went any further.

The Doctor, his hair all askew, glasses on his face, studied the holographic display for a long moment, taking in the information displayed there, his expression totally unreadable.

"Surprise?" Martha said, and it was more of a question than a statement.

"I knew it," The Doctor murmured. "It IS her." He met Martha's gaze for a moment, then glanced down at Ranma's unconscious form. "... But that's impossible."

"Who is she, Doctor?"

The faintest ghost of a smile appeared on the Doctor's face, then. "She's my granddaughter," he said.

Martha stared. "Your GRANDdaughter?" The jealousy that she hadn't even realized she'd felt vanished in an instant. "You have a granddaughter?"

"Isn't that what I said?" the Doctor asked, his smile becoming a little more playful.

"Cheeky. Keep that up and I won't tell you what I've found about her condition," Martha said, though now she was smiling too.

The Doctor gave Martha a look.

Martha's smile bloomed into a full blown grin. "All right, all right. You already know that she's from Galifrey. As for her condition, I'm not sure what to make of it." She gestured to the holographic display. "She's in bad shape, but it looks like her body is regenerating the damage somehow."

"Regenerating," the Doctor murmured, and glanced at the blinking words, 'Warning: Significant abnormalities detected in regeneration cycle.' He brightened. "Well then. Are you hungry, Miss Jones? Because I know a place at the end of the universe with food like you've never dreamed of..."

"Doctor," Martha cut him off, her grin fading. "She's your family. Shouldn't we wait until we know she's going to be all right?"

"Oh, I know THAT. Just a question of how long it will take." He brought out his sonic screwdriver and passed it over Ranma's still form. "I'd estimate at least a few hours."

"Does that thing actually scan anything, or does it just give you an excuse to make authoritative statements?"

The Doctor thought about that for a moment, then shrugged. "Little of both." Then the grin was back. "Come on Martha, we're about to arrive in the midst of the First Great and Bountiful Human Empire. She'll be fine until we get back. With dinner."

Martha shook her head bemusedly, glanced at Ranma one last time, and then went arm in arm with the Doctor, heading for the exit.

As the door slid shut behind them, Ranma stirred uneasily in her sleep.

A minute and a half later, Martha stepped out of the TARDIS and into the morning light, and immediately she put her hand to her mouth as she stared about in amazement, her self-consciousness obliterated by sheer beauty. “Doctor,” she said.

Standing there on the grass not two feet in front of her, with the skyline shining in the sunlight behind him, the Doctor grinned a showman’s grin. “Welcome to Crystal Tokyo, Martha Jones: Capital of the First Great and Bountiful Human Empire.”

The TARDIS had come to rest in a grassy park all full of cherry trees in full bloom, their petals drifting in the faint breeze. A dozen yards away, children played on the shores of a small pond, their parents watching over them from a park bench close at hand. The park ended about a hundred yards from where the TARDIS had landed, and beyond were the streets of the city. The great crystal spire of the palace rose high into the air. The air was dazzlingly clear. It was morning, and the sun had not yet cleared the spire: dazzling arrays of rainbow light refracted across the landscape, and Martha couldn’t but put a hand in front of her open mouth and stare. “It’s beautiful,” she managed at last.

“Isn’t it?” the Doctor asked. “Here we are: the Great and Bountiful Human Empire, currently spanning every planet in the solar system except for Pluto, and here we are at the heart of it. Well, at least the heart of it for the next two thousand years. They move the capital to Alpha Centauri in the year 5000. I bought a dog there, once.”

Martha laughed delightedly, and the pair of them, arm in arm, made their way out of the park and into the shining streets of Crystal Tokyo.

It wasn’t more than a half hour walk to their destination, and every step of the way, the place seemed more beautiful. The streets were full of fanciful vehicles that glided along a foot or so above the pavement, and the sidewalks full of happy, smiling people, and though at least half were Japanese, every ethnicity was represented amongst the rest. Clean people, too. Actually, everything was clean. The buildings, the streets, the people, the sky were all spotless.

The Doctor played the Tour Guide to the T, pointing out landmarks and historic sites, calling attention to this person or to that person, pointing out the castle and the crystal points and the remnants of the old city in the distance.

Then they rounded a street corner and at last came within view of their destination.

Martha blinked in surprise. “Ruben’s Taco Stand?” she asked.

They were somewhere in what had once been Minato-ku, and Ruben’s Taco Stand was little more than a hole in the wall (albeit a clean, well maintained one) next to a clothing shop.

She gave the Doctor an incredulous look. “An entire future full of choices for dinner and you pick this?”

"I'll have you know these are the best tacos you'll find this side of Alpha Centauri,” the Doctor replied cheerfully. “Not to mention you don't have food like this in England. This is way better than one of those fancy restaurants: this is REAL culture. And it’s a bit early for dinner, don’t you think?"

Martha couldn’t help but laugh.

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Life is full of branching paths. This is a fundamental truth. A woman goes right instead of left, and his whole day is changed - maybe his whole life. A young man deciding between two women marries this one instead of that man, and the children they create are utterly different from the ones he might have had if he had married the other, and the world is changed.

Sailor Pluto knew the truth of branching paths.

That was the problem.

When she left her post at the Gates of Time and materialized on the streets of Crystal Tokyo, nothing seemed particularly different. The city was as beautiful as ever, the citizens seemed happy, and the power of Serenity radiated out from the crystal spire like a beacon to her magical senses, just as it always did. The now she had come to was a good year before the Black Moon War, and from all appearances, everything was in order.

Pluto let out the breath she hadn’t realized she’d been holding, straightened to her full height,

Scene: Sailor Pluto encounters Uranus and Neptune in the streets of Crystal Tokyo. They tell her the Queen wants to see her, and when she turns to go with them, Uranus knocks her out with a blow to the back of the head.

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Scene: As Martha and the Doctor eat, a group of three girls and a seemingly young woman walk by. These are Arashi, Yuubiko, Mirai, and Hitomi (the young woman). They're debating what costumes to get for their school's masquerade ball. Arashi wants them to dress up like the Sailor Starlights, and the others don't understand her obsession with extra-solar Senshi.

Hitomi points out that such a costume would be a great way to pick up guys.

Yuubiko says, "Sure, mom, if you're trawling for pond scum."

Mirai says she should go as Beryl, Yuubiko as Queen Serenity, and Arashi can go as Endymion because she's so mannish.

Arashi gets insulted, and they vanish into the store. It all seems very normal, even if Martha doesn't recognize many of the names and references that are dropped.

Very, very normal.

Martha gives the Doctor a questioning look. "Do you suppose she's really their mother?" she asks.

The Doctor says he wouldn't be surprised. Human lifespans are exceptionally long in this time period: most people live to be at least three hundred, and the nobility and the royal family didn't age at all.

“What’s the downside?” Martha asks.

“No downside. This is the first time in human history where you people finally get it all right. Peace on Earth, good will towards men. Everything your species has been dreaming of since you first began to dream dreams.”

And that’s when the Crystal Tokyo police force materializes all decked out in black jumpsuits and carrying energy weapons. One of them holds a scanner, which beeps loudly.

“May I have your attention, please,” the lead officer announces. His family name is written on his uniform: Shima. “Ladies and gentlemen, please remain calm. We’ve detected the presence of two uncleansed individuals in this area, and it is imperative for your safety that you cooperate with our search until such time as the e-capable beings are located and detained.”

Martha gives the Doctor an annoyed look. “No catch?” she asks, an eyebrow raised.

The Doctor is very confused.

The officers quickly fan out through the area, cordoning the whole thing off and rounding up the people within it.

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Scene: The Doctor and Martha are identified as uncleansed, and are quickly surrounded by very nervous looking police officers with ray-guns. They are taken prisoner, and teleported back to the holding cells.

- There they find Sailor Pluto, also a prisoner. She’s sealed in one of those funky crystal cross devices in the next cell over. Martha is not impressed.

- A specialist arrives to check Martha and the Doctor. He performs a scan with a strange device, and then seems very worried. He asks them if they ever prioritize self over others. When Martha looks to the Doctor, not sure what this question is asking, the Specialist gets even more worried. He makes a note on a notebook and leaves the room.

- Pluto explains what’s going to happen next: they’re going to bring in a purification expert and have Martha purged of the ability to willingly commit acts which she knows to be wrong. The Doctor and Martha are horrified, and the Doctor decides that he’s not going to let that happen. A breakout ensues. With Sailor Pluto’s help, they escape.

Scene: Martha asks for an explanation of whether it’s really possible to prevent people from being ‘evil’ as they head back to the TARDIS through the crumbling old Tokyo sewer system (which is thankfully empty of sewage, and has been for over a thousand years). Pluto looks troubled and stays silent, and The Doctor tells her that the First Great and Bountiful Human Empire is ruled by the immortal Queen Serenity and her court, who claim to have access to powerful magic.

"You mean like the Carrionites?"

The Doctor says, "No, not at all. Well, a little. They both disguise their technology as magic, but Serenity and her Senshi drew their power from having had their transdimensionally transcendent quantum substructure fused with a part of an old, powerful technology called a Galaxy Cauldron."

“Dimensionally transcendent quantum substructure?” Martha asks.

“Well, I didn’t want to say ‘souls.’ Theoretically, they might be able to use that power to, well, edit people. Make them do what they want. I always thought one of the better qualities of Queen Serenity was that she had the power to do that, but refused to use it.”

“Well, she’s using it now,” Martha said.

Silence.

They emerge from an old rusted manhole half buried beneath vegetation in the park where they first arrived.

“There's not really any such thing as magic, is there, Doctor?"

"Naaah," the Doctor says as he unlocks the Tardis, opens the door, and steps inside.

Ranma is waiting for them, in male form.

"What?" the Doctor asks, looking from his key to Ranma.

"Who are you?" Martha asks. "How did you get in here?"

Ranma puts a hand to the back of his head and nervously scratches his pigtail. "I'm, uh, Ranma Saotome," he says. "Sorry about this."

"What?"

Martha gives Ranma an incredulous look, and Pluto's expression is unreadable.

"WHAT?"

END CHAPTER 03
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Postby Atlan » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:36 pm

It this gonna be one of those 'Evil Crystal Tokyo' stories, or is this an abberation that the Doctor will fix?

Why would the Doctor and Martha leave Ranma all alone in the TARDIS? As a doctor, Martha would want someone there watching him(her). Heck, the Doctor would want to be there when (s)he wakes up.

Where in the series is this set? Pre 'The Sound of Drums'?

I also very much liked the ending- this doctor is very fond of 'what?'ing.
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Postby P.H. Wise » Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:34 pm

Atlan wrote:It this gonna be one of those 'Evil Crystal Tokyo' stories, or is this an abberation that the Doctor will fix?


Aberration. Someone's been tampering with the timeline.

Where in the series is this set? Pre 'The Sound of Drums'?


Immediately after 'The Lazarus Experiment.'
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Postby Mitchell » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:45 pm

Hmmm very interesting. I really like this fic and seeing this makes me happy. Hmm I wonder if the evil CT could be a result from the Black Moon family or Sailor Pluto.

Now the thing with Ranma, how did he get warm water to change back or did his regeneration cycle turn him male.

The Tardis is alive in someway remember but your right. Remember that Marhta and the Doctor were only going to be out for half an hour or so to get dinner, but ended up being detained.
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Postby Dumbledork » Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:48 am

Excellent chapter. What are your plans for later chapters. Will there be other crossovers?
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Postby P.H. Wise » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:37 pm

Mitchell wrote:Hmmm very interesting. I really like this fic and seeing this makes me happy. Hmm I wonder if the evil CT could be a result from the Black Moon family or Sailor Pluto.


It is not because of Sailor Pluto. In this fic, Pluto is horrified by the way in which Crystal Tokyo has been corrupted.

Now the thing with Ranma, how did he get warm water to change back or did his regeneration cycle turn him male.


Regeneration cycle did not turn him male. I'll explain more about that in later chapters. It helps to be familiar with Time Lords and the nature of their ability to Regenerate.

Dumbledork wrote:Excellent chapter. What are your plans for later chapters. Will there be other crossovers?


I think three is more than enough. I can't think of any reason to add more at the moment.
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Postby Andy2kk » Sat May 03, 2008 1:08 pm

Woah! Cool, I've been waiting for an update on this, I know this isn't that exactly, but I am a Doctor Who and Ranma fan! How many kids did the Doctor have? I know he had an adopted one... but did he have one himself? Whatever you do more soon!
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Postby P.H. Wise » Tue May 06, 2008 4:43 pm

Andy2kk wrote:Woah! Cool, I've been waiting for an update on this, I know this isn't that exactly, but I am a Doctor Who and Ranma fan! How many kids did the Doctor have? I know he had an adopted one... but did he have one himself? Whatever you do more soon!


Yes. He did, in fact, have at least one himself. Way back in 'An Unearthly Child,' the very first episode of Doctor Who ever produced (1963), we are introduced to Susan Foreman, the Doctor's biological granddaughter. In the serial, 'the Dalek Invasion of Earth,' she is left behind by the Doctor in the 22nd century, having fallen in love with a freedom fighter named David.

Note that Foreman is an alias she takes on when she enrolls in high school in the 1960s, and has no connection to her real name beyond that.
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Postby Atlan » Tue May 06, 2008 6:43 pm

Yes. He did, in fact, have at least one himself


Well, that's sorta true, but not quite.

The Doctor's granddaughter, Susan, may not actually BE his granddaughter. According to the Eighth-Doctor Novels, Susan was the granddaughter of the Other , one of the three founding Time Lords, along with Rassilon and Omega. The Doctor may (or may not) be a reincarnation of the Other. There was some time travel (in which the first Doctor broke the rules) and the Doctor went into Galifrey's past, looked around, and brought Susan back to modern Galifrey.

This plot line was actually intended to be in the series, but Doctor Who was canceled as it was begining. They carried it on in the novels.

Note: The New Season 4 of Doctor Who contains an episode called "The Doctor's Daughter" which will screen this week.

Another note, not all toghter related to Susan, but intresting to Doctor Who Geeks:
In the Fifth Doctor Missing Adventure Goth Opra, it is mentioned by the Time Lord Ruath that Galifrey dosent exist in the future. There are rule and TARDIS programming which prevents Time Lords traveling to the 'Dark Time' (a turblent period of the Time Lords past) or too far into the future. She even says that by the time of modern day earth, Galifrey is gone, and it is illegial to even investigate why.

Fits in with the time war- even though it was written in the mid 1990's.
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Postby Tovath » Tue May 06, 2008 10:36 pm

Atlan, whether or not Susan is actually his granddaughter, the Doctor has had kids. He states this in the episode Fear Her
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Postby P.H. Wise » Wed May 07, 2008 6:00 am

Atlan wrote:
Yes. He did, in fact, have at least one himself


Well, that's sorta true, but not quite.

The Doctor's granddaughter, Susan, may not actually BE his granddaughter. According to the Eighth-Doctor Novels, Susan was the granddaughter of the Other , one of the three founding Time Lords, along with Rassilon and Omega. The Doctor may (or may not) be a reincarnation of the Other. There was some time travel (in which the first Doctor broke the rules) and the Doctor went into Galifrey's past, looked around, and brought Susan back to modern Galifrey.

This plot line was actually intended to be in the series, but Doctor Who was canceled as it was begining. They carried it on in the novels.


Yes, but I'm trying NOT to give away plot twists I might end up using myself. :P
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