The Expunction of Timeless History (Episode)

The Expunction of Timeless History is the sixth episode of Rebellious Projects’ Doctor Who, as The Fearmongerer came before it. It marks the finale of Season 1.

Synopsis

The Doctor's oldest enemy returns in a new form! The boundaries of Universes are collapsing and the Doctor is without his friend. Can he stop the Master in time before it's too late or must he require help from someone known to him?

Plot

Picking up immediately from the last episode, the Doctor hastens to drop Liz home. Liz protests, however the Doctor stresses how dangerous the Master is, and how he refuses to let her be harmed, and he returns back to the TARDIS. After Simon says goodbye to Liz, he also returns to the TARDIS where the Doctor reveals that the Master survived by going to Karn, stealing The Rani’s regenerations, and then destroying the planet.

The TARDIS picks up a signal, the heartbeat of a Time Lord, and uses that to track the Master’s TARDIS. Eventually they land somewhere on Earth, where the Doctor confronts the Master. He offers the Master to grant him whatever he wants as long as he stops his mad scheming, however the Master rejects this offer. the Master reveals that he plans to open up the multiverse, destroy the void, and merge their universe with the one next to it. The Doctor warns of how idiotic the plan is, but the Master ignores the warnings and zaps the Doctor to another planet.

On this planet, he comes across the Fourteenth Doctor. After introducing themselves and they immediately connect as they say the same words in-sync and at the same time, very much the same way the Thirteenth Doctor and the Fugitive met (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon). The Sixteenth Doctor informs his former self of the situation he’s in and what the Master is planning. Together, him and 14 go back to Earth to pick up Liz and ask for help to save Simon, who has been captured by the Master. 16 asks 14 to find the Master after locating his own TARDIS, whilst they look for Simon. Somehow, the ginger haired incarnation suddenly figures out what the Master intends to do, stating that he will try to merge all universes in the multiverse together.

Meanwhile, the Master somehow senses that another incarnation of the Doctor has arrived to try and foil his plans and after explaining his plan to Simon, his TARDIS lands and they go off to set up the Master’s Multiverse destroying machine. At the same time, 14 drops his future incarnation along with Liz at their TARDIS, and leaves for the time being. The Doctor uses his TARDIS to locate the Master, who has now completed his machine. To buy time, the Doctor tells Simon to keep obeying the Master’s commands as he continues to activate the machine. The machine sends out a signal which the Daleks pick up, and in doing so the Master offers a temporary alliance to which they accept.

Just in the nick of time, the Fourteenth Doctor arrives, which causes the Master to put the machine in it’s final stage, causing the entire multiverse to begin to rupture apart. The Doctors figure out that the machine can be accessed through voice control, and so the Sixteenth Doctor successfully registers his voice into the machine’s database, which reveals itself as a Type 69 Gallifreyan Time Capsule. the Doctor commands the capsule to close the portal in the sky, to which it obeys immediately. Amidst all of this, the Master stands to the side then starts getting upset over the Doctors being successful in stopping his plans. The Shadow Proclamation arrive to arrest the Master and imprison him, before the Master vows to exact revenge.

With the Master now imprisoned, the Sixteenth Doctor contacts Andy from UNIT to break up the Type 69 TARDIS and store the pieces within the black archive and Simon reveals that the machine was actually the Master’s own TARDIS, which had simply been disguised. The Fourteenth Doctor then says goodbye to his future incarnation and friends, and takes off in his TARDIS. After having saved the entire multiverse, the Doctor officially invites Elizabeth to join him and Simon in the TARDIS, to which she accepts, and off they go into the TARDIS, for more adventures yet to come…

Cast

• The Sixteenth Doctor - TheRebelOfTime
• The Fourteenth Doctor - TheGingerDoctor
• Simon Smith - TheGingerDoctor
• Elizabeth Bailey - ItsZaya
• The Master - physicalgrass
• Various monsters - TheGingerDoctor, RedMakesMusic

Crew

• Writers - TheRebelOfTime, TheGingerDoctor
• Directors - TheRebelOfTime, TheGingerDoctor
• Visual Effects - TheRebelOfTime
• Theme Tune - RedMakesMusic, featuring stems by Doctor_M1ck and Peter Miles
• Music - TheGingerDoctor
• Set Designers - TheRebelOfTime, TheGingerDoctor
• Skin Designer - TheGingerDoctor
• Mods - SWDTeam, McHorse
• Special Thanks to - TheTroughton

Trivia

This was meant to be a four part adventure back in its original state during 2021 (The Fearmongerer included as part one) with a much more ambitious plot and buildup to the Fourteenth Doctor's reveal and contribution to the plot and the story itself. The main villains were meant to be the Master and the Slitheen. Unfortunately, most of this was cut down.

Some crew members, including TheRebelOfTime, TheGingerDoctor and ItsArcticVision, think the episode was a bit of a letdown regarding its climax and exposition and that in the past six months, it hasn't aged that well but the team is happy that the series was finally over with. It is still a fun watch but albeit an alright story.