
This is the crossover fanfic in my series featuring Doctor Who (the Fifth Doctor - played by Peter Davison in the classic BBC tv series - and the Sliders.
Story (C) 2001-2008 Mr SciRev.The TARDIS is still on its surface, in the building. Could you get a lock
on it and beam it aboard the Enterprise?" The Doctor asked Archer.
Archer gave the information on the TARDIS to the technicians who set themselves
to the task of locating by precisely triangulating the position of the TARDIS
within the building. Fortunately, it was a straightforward task, and the TARDIS
was beamed on board the deck of the Enterprise.
"So is this your ship, Doctor?" Archer enquired. "It is, more than
a ship, almost a companion. In its own way."
"Our scans indicated an interesting paradox, Doctor. Inside is definitely
bigger than outside, in the TARDIS. Your technology is definitely superior
to anything we have encountered, Doctor."
"Really?" the Doctor humbly replied. He was cautious of Archer. What intentions
could he have? The Doctor had trusted the X-Men earlier on, their reputation was
well known. But this Archer was not that well known. He was an alternate of
another Archer that the Doctor had once met, who was the first Captain of a
starship Enterprise in F-Space (Federation Space i.e. the parallel Universe with the original Captain Kirk).
Meanwhile in F-Space, a certain lieutenant Reginald Barclay had just attempted to communicate with the lost Starship Voyager. Illegally, as he had been ordered not to. His idea was seen as too unusual. He sent out a tachyonic pulse through the MIDAS array towards a pulsar, creating a mini-artificial wormhole. He was successfull in communicating with Voyager, and his superiors forgave his infraction, so important was his result. What he did not know, however, was that this same pulse had been split and diverted in two, because the pulsar was a binary pulsar! And the second wormhole which was created, tunnelled into a completely different parallel universe universe because the target location was an imaginary number!
Back in the other universe, aboard the Parship Enterprise, the Doctor was listening
to Archer.
"So you say you require a dimensional pinpointer?"
"We would need two actually. One for the TARDIS, and one for the Sliders' Timer."
"We'll give you what you need. Even a new Timer, fresh from production. Your current
Timer is not your original one, Quinn."
"Great! How did you notice our timer is not the original one we started with?" Quinn almost shouted with joy.
"Your current Egyptian timer uses a scarab crystal which is decaying rapidly. It should be replaced soon.
It's better if we give you a more modern Timer." Archer said.
"There's one more thing." Archer continued.
"What's that" Arturo asked.
"It seems that you have altered quite a bit of history. There has been
quite a bit of collateral damage. Your meeting the Doctor has been
providential to you, but perhaps not to the other people you would have
met" Archer explained.
"I wouldn't have met anyone. I would be dead, killed by that madman Rickman." Arturo said,
he was starting to get angry.
"It might have been a double of yours." Archer said. "Or it might be me", Arturo rebuffed.
"What's done is done now." Arturo said.
"No. We must mop up the effected universes. Go where you would have gone.
Another thing. Wade, remember when on the X-Men's Earth-616 you
had an alien implant, well a Kromagg one, embedded in your skull and I removed it from you."
"The Kromaggs had implanted it when they had captured us."
"Aliens captured you? You must have had very interesting adventures before
meeting us, then", Tegan said.
"Sure did." Wade replied.
"This will have changed the timeline, in that many worlds you went to in the
other timeline were all tracked by the Kromaggs, but not in this one. Our position
is stronger now." Archer said.
Justine interrupted and said "Captain, I have determined how the centre's
power source works. It is based on a tachyonic flow whose wave polarity is
reversed."
"It's put out of phase then.", the Doctor commented.
"An entire race, the reetwo's were all like that", Archer said.
"All of them invisible", the Doctor said. "Could the local technology have
been augmented by the reetwos?"
"They hate humans" Archer said.
"Perhaps this was the best alternative to getting rid of humans."
"We shall have to reinvestigate this dimension later on. Could the reetwos
have entered this parallel universe however?" Archer asked.
"Do they Slide?" Quinn asked.
"We don't know that they can." Justine said.
"The modifications to our timer are ready - basically the crystal has
been replaced, and Archer has given us a new Timer.", Quinn noted.
Suddenly the White Guardian appeared out of nowhere and said:
"I am the White Guardian, an angel of God who has helped the Doctor,
and been helped by him in the past. The leisure centre world you went
to, was one of the worlds visited by the 'other' Sliders who would have
been if Arturo would have died. So now it has not been visited by 'them',
but by all of you instead. The matter is very urgent Doctor...
You must take the Sliders to the worlds they would have visited, to
make things right. The Sliders will increase in number, becoming Seven.
Connect the Sliders' new Timer to your TARDIS to improve its dimensional
travelling precision. I have provided them a list of dimensional
frequencies which are the worlds you have to go to. I must leave
you now before the Black Guardian finds out..." and he promptly disappeared.
"Seven Sliders?" Quinn was surprised.
"The others will be those who would have taken your place, Arturo and the
place of some others of you who would have died eventually." the Doctor explained.
"Wade for instance would have been most likely captured by the Kromaggs.
What can you tell me about the Kromaggs? They do not exist in my universe."
"The Kromaggs, Doctor, are a very dangerous race. An evolved form of
Cro-Magnons." Quinn said.
"They are your cousins, so to speak." the Doctor said.
"These cousins are obliterating whole parallel earths!" Quinn replied.
LATER...
Everyone said their goodbyes. The Enterprise was due on another assignment,
and as a result, the Doctor, his companions and the Sliders left in the
newly equipped TARDIS.
"We should go to the first destination on the list." the Doctor said.
"But, Doctor, couldn't you go to Deva Loka first. I remind you, it's
stuck in a time loop!" Hindle commented.
"True. We can go there now then. Deva Loka-777 it is then!" the Doctor replied and set the
navigational controls.
The TARDIS arrived at its destination.
"This does not look like Deva Loka to me." Hindle said.
"I'm afraid the TARDIS has a mind of its own at times. This is also the wrong parallel universe.
We are on Earth-2001.", the Doctor said.
"It seems this is the Chandler Hotel from the iron plates on the walls. We used to
find ourselves in the Dominion Hotel before..." Quinn remarked.
"But we are in 1691. The technology of this world is greatly
accelerated." the Doctor pointed out. "Your alternates would not have
been in this time period according to the frequency list, however
for some reason the TARDIS has brought us in this time period and
on this parallel earth instead of the planet Deva Loka in our universe."
"There must be a connection between the places, Doctor!" Nyssa said
in a convinced voice.
"Indeed there is. This earth is in synchronous orbit with this universe's
planet Deva Loka. And this Deva Loka is located in the solar system.
It has advanced the world's technological development,
somehow." the Doctor explained after analysing more sensor data which came
in.
"This is unusual." Nyssa said.
"What is?" Quinn asked.
"Can we go out?" Remmy asked. "I'd like to see this world."
"Wait. A tachyonic beam emerging from an artificially created mini-wormhole
is hitting another planet in this solar system." the Doctor replied.
"Ah. That explains everything. Can you use normal-speak, please?" Remmy said
sarcastically.
"A mini-wormhole has been created artificially, much like the ones created
by your Timer. Actually it will be created hundreds of years from now. Only this
wormhole is emitting a Starfleet-issue tachyonic particle pulse. Tachyons
are minute subatomic particles which have to do with time travel usually.
Its effect goes back to this present time on this world. It might even have
altered the flow of time on this world,as there are many traces of tachyons
on this world.
Now it is striking another planet, which does not exist in our time
in the other universes we know of, let's call it Planet K." the Doctor explained.
"So the planet K will have it's orbit altered as a result." Arturo explained.
"The problem is its new path will bring it very close to earth and Deva Loka."
the Doctor was very upset. "Tachyonic traces on this Deva Loka might have subtly
affected the Deva Loka of our universe, also. Parallel worlds are interconnected
tachyonically. It is likely to be the real
cause of the time loop being experienced in our universe's Deva Loka."
"Finally, what will happen is that this earth will be destroyed completely,
all life will be wiped out, similar to what happened to the dinosaurs!"
"The news reports indicate that the seas are going crazy, even the weather."
Wade said.
"How much time do we have to save this world, Doctor?" Nyssa asked.
"I'd say a week." the Doctor replied.
"Sorry, Doctor, but how can we do that?" Tegan asked.
"We will see.." the Doctor replied.
THE END...
Continued in the next Fanfic Who Sliders 3 'Doing the Deva Loka Dev Null Device'
All Marks are owned by their owners.
Doctor Who, Tegan, Nyssa, Adric, Hindle are the BBC's
The Sliders are Fox/Universal/Sci-Fi Channel's
10/8/2008:
Added new gallery for X-Files: I Want To Believe Movie Covers
7/8/2008:
Added new fic: WhoSliders #28.
This story leads into the conclusion of Rose's WhoSliders KeyQuest saga. Starring: a parallel earth
Quinn Mallory! Where will the final two segments of the Key to Time be found?
4/8/2008:
In time for the 1st anniversary of the first part of The King and Max, here's the
second part and the
third part. It continues in WhoSliders 29 which is the conclusion of
the Rose's WhoSliders saga, guest starring Mulder, Scully, Stargate SG-1, the First Ones - the original
WhoSliders!
28/7/2008:
Something new, for a change. Here's an X-Files Myspace Pictures page for you myspace
folks, with codes you can use too. Enjoy!
27/7/2008:
Site was under a denial of service attack by the guy who was hotlinking a picture.. but like Malta it resisted
the siege.
25/7/2008:
The ċuċ as we call them here is up to his games again stealing bandwidth from this site. Like a spammer
he does not know one thing about internet netiquette. If I'm paying for the images they will do my switcheroo
bidding...
23/7/2008:
Updated Malta X-Files page Other Characters with information on
Monica Reyes, Skinner, etc.. found some new stupid hotlinkers too.
3/7/2008:
Added new fic: WhoSliders #27.
Popular actor Don S. Davis, who is best known for his role as Major General George Hammond
in Stargate SG-1, as well as other appearances such as Scully's father in X-Files,
passed away last Sunday from a massive heart attack at the age of 65.
21/5/2008:
Added new fics: WhoSliders #26 & WhoSliders #25.
6/12/2007:
Added a Photo Galleries List page.
Latest fics added are WhoSliders #22,
WhoSliders #23 and
WhoSliders #24, which introduce the new KEYQUEST arc where
Rose's Sliders have to find the segments making up the Key to Time once again...
Latest news is that Billie Piper is returning to Doctor Who, playing Rose again. Good stuff!