GC9GMX1 The Ruddy Doctor 11: The Tenth Doctor (Unknown Cache) in East Midlands, United Kingdom created by RuddRobins

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Welcome to the Ruddy Doctor Caches, a series of puzzles linked together loosely with a whimsical story following the various regenerations of my favourite Time Lord.

The puzzles are nestled away in passages linking the various Doctor’s regeneration scenes, so you’ll need to skim at least through to find the goods and the occasional clue. You can assume coordinates are N 52° 53.XXX' W 001° XX.XXX' and will need you own pen and tweezers. All were conceived and placed by Doctor RuddRobins + checked and difficulty assessed by Mrs RuddRobins.

The notes at the end are random Docfacts not needed to complete the puzzle. I hope you find it all mildly amusing and it keeps you out of trouble for at least a little while J

The Ruddy Doctor 11: The Tenth Doctor

(The new DOCTOR dashes to the console and flicks a few switches, checking the monitor.)

DOCTOR: 6 PM... Tuesday...

(The DOCTOR turns a knob.)

DOCTOR: October... 5006... On the way to Barcelona!

(Straightens up and faces YOU, grinning as if extremely pleased with himself).

DOCTOR: Now then... what do I look like?

(Gives you no chance to reply before holding up a hand to silence you)

DOCTOR: No, no no, no no no no no no no. No. Don't tell me.

(YOU look completely bemused.)

DOCTOR: Let's see... two legs, two arms, two hands...

(Tests his wrist, circling it).

DOCTOR: Slight weakness in the dorsal tubercle.

(Hands fly to his head).

DOCTOR: Hair! I'm not bald!

(YOU now look shocked. The DOCTOR runs his hands through his hair gleefully.)

DOCTOR: Oh, Oh! Big hair!

(Feels his sideburns, looks and sounds delighted)

DOCTOR: Sideburns, I've got sideburns! Or really bad skin. Little bit thinner...

(Slaps his stomach).

DOCTOR: That's weird. Give me time, I'll get used to it.

(With the air of someone making a most wonderful discovery)

DOCTOR: I... have got... a mole. I can feel it. Between my shoulder blades, there's a mole.

(Rotates his shoulders).

DOCTOR: That's all right. Love the mole.

(Grins at YOU).

DOCTOR: Go on then, tell me.

(Stands straight up before YOU, ready for assessment. His hair is all ruffled)

DOCTOR: What do you think?

YOU (quietly, timidly): Who are you?

DOCTOR (crestfallen, slightly surprised): I'm the DOCTOR.

YOU: No... Where is he? Where's the DOCTOR? (Voice rising). What have you done to him?

DOCTOR: You saw me, I, I changed... (Indicates over his shoulder, the spot where he regenerated) ... right in front of you.

YOU: I saw him sort of explode, and then you replaced him, like a... a teleport or a transmat or a body swap or something.

(The DOCTOR does not interject. He seems lost for words.)

YOU: You're not fooling me.

(The DOCTOR rocks back on his heels as though he cannot believe what he is hearing.)

YOU: I've seen all sorts of things. Nano genes... Gelth... Slitheen...

(The DOCTOR raises his eyebrows.)

YOU: Oh, my God, are you a Slitheen?

DOCTOR: (calmly): I'm not a Slitheen.

YOU: (voice rising to a shout): Send him back. I'm warning you; send the DOCTOR back right now!

DOCTOR (pleadingly): It's me.

(He leans forward in his urgency to make you believe him.)

DOCTOR: Honestly, it's me. I was dying. To save my own life I changed my body. Every single cell, but... it's still me.

YOU (whispering): You can't be.

(The DOCTOR takes a few steps closer, looking straight down into your eyes.)

YOU: Can you change back?

DOCTOR: Do you want me to?

YOU: Yeah.

DOCTOR: Oh.

YOU: Can you?

DOCTOR: No.

(He seems rather disappointed. He glances briefly down at the floor)

DOCTOR: Do you want to leave?

YOU (shocked): Do you want me to leave?

DOCTOR (quickly): No! But... your choice... if you want to go home...

(He goes to the console again.)

DOCTOR: Cancel Barcelona. Change to... Nottinghamshire... Ruddington . . . There.

(He steps back, his arms tucked under his armpits in an almost defensive manner. YOU look at him, then back at the console. The TARDIS shudders as it changes direction.)

YOU: I'm going home?

DOCTOR: Up to you. Oh, come on, all I did was change, I didn't...

(He suddenly gags as the TARDIS shudders.)

YOU: What?

DOCTOR: I said I didn't...

(The same thing happens again, more violently. He makes nasty retching noises.)

DOCTOR: Uh oh.

(YOU edges cautiously around the console.)

YOU: Er... are you alright?

(A piece golden time vortex issues from the DOCTOR's mouth.)

YOU: What's that?

DOCTOR: Oh... the change is going a bit wrong and all. Hang on – if this goes like last time I was here I’ll be sparko for a whole episode (yeah, bit meta, I know) so what I should do is solve the latest puzzle and pull myself up by my bootstraps. I know a race that can really do that too. Sooo – what have we got to catch this time?

(The Doctor activates the central scanner) Ooooh you’re beautiful, look at you! Not sure quite where you fit into the universe, but I should be able to cross-reference with the TARDIS Index file, poke ‘em on and – yess! Numbers as required, THANK you very much.

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DOCTOR: So, if all goes as expected, I’ll skip through to my next regeneration without all that conking out and being woken up by tea business. Oh hang on – Rassilon on the starboard bow – that’s always bad news . . .

RASSILON: This day was the day upon which the whole of creation would change forever. This was the day the Time Lords returned. For Gallifrey!

MASTER: This is fantastic, isn't it? The Time Lords restored.

DOCTOR: Oh, you’ve popped up have you? Well, no: you weren't there in the final days of the War. You never saw what was born. But if the Timelock's broken, then everything's coming through. Not just the Daleks, but the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could-have-been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres. The War turned into hell. And that's what you've opened, right above the Earth. Hell is descending.

MASTER: My kind of world.

DOCTOR: Just listen! Because even the Time Lords can't survive that.

RASSILON: We will initiate the Final Sanction. The end of time will come at my hand. The rupture will continue until it rips the Time Vortex apart.

MASTER: That's suicide.

RASSILON: We will ascend to become creatures of consciousness alone. Free of these bodies, free of time, and cause and effect, while creation itself ceases to be.

DOCTOR: You see now? That's what they were planning in the final days of the War. I had to stop them. Get out of the way. The Master moves and the Doctor strides into the unstable opening to Gallifrey. He seems to split into 11 different forms for a moment then the link explodes and the Time Lords are sucked away. The Doctor is left tattered and injured)

DOCTOR: The link is broken. Back into the Time War, Rassilon. Back into hell.

(Rassilon is forced to his knees. The Time Lords and the Master disappear in a bright light and Gallifrey fades away from the sky. The people rejoice. Red light floods over the Doctor. It hurts a lot. The Doctor curls up into a ball. After a few moments, the Doctor gets up.)

YOU: What? Hello.

DOCTOR: Hi.

YOU: Still with us? You're in quite a state. You've got some battle scars there.

(The Doctor rubs his face and the cuts vanish.)

YOU: But they've. Your face. How did you do that?

DOCTOR: It's started.

(The DOCTOR staggers painfully back towards the Tardis.)

OOD VOICE (don’t ask): We will sing to you, DOCTOR. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending, but the story never ends.

[Tardis]

(Golden energy streams from his hand. He sets the Tardis going.)

DOCTOR: I don't want to go.

(The golden energy begins to regenerate the 10^th Doctor, and starts a lot of fires in the Tardis)

Notes:

The Ninth Doctor regenerated into the Tenth at the climax of the first series (2005) finale, "The Parting of the Ways"; he re-introduces himself to his companion Rose Tyler in a Children in Need mini-episode called "Born Again". In the 2005 Christmas special, "The Christmas Invasion", he is in a comatose state for most of the episode, following his regeneration.

In the two-part send-off "The End of Time", he is led to contemporary Earth where, in the second part, the again-resurrected Master restores Gallifrey and the Time Lords to existence, although he redeems himself by assisting The Doctor to defeat Time Lord President Rassilon before disappearing alongside the other Time Lords. However, Wilfred finds himself trapped in a chamber that is about to be flooded with radiation. He knocks on the glass door four times, fulfilling the prophecy of the Doctor's death.

The Doctor sacrifices his life to prevent Wilfred's death, exposing himself to 500,000 rads of deadly radiation and triggering his regeneration. He holds it back and is shown visiting several companions. He gives Donna a winning lottery ticket on her wedding day, buying it with money he borrowed from her late father in the past, saves Martha and Mickey from a Sontaran sniper, saves Sarah Jane's son Luke (Tommy Knight) from a car, introduces Jack to a romantic interest, and finally, just before regenerating into the Eleventh Doctor he informs Rose in 2005 that she is about to have a "great year". As he begins regenerating once in the TARDIS, his last words are "I don't want to go".

Caches in this series

The Ruddy Doctor 0: Gallifrey Falls (GC9GNNW)