User blog:The Weary TimeLord/Memoir of a Dimension Hopping Madman: Love in the face of pain. Chapter 2.

Chapter 2: Timey Wimey Terrors.

“Well, best get to it” “Cas did make it sound urgent” with that I begin dashing around the console flicking levers, mashing coordinates into the assorted keyboards and having a hell of a time. This here, in the TARDIS this is my element, my bailiwick as it were. Of course all the while I’m working the controls I am talking to the TARDIS herself. “I do love a toggle switch” “power up the Helmic Regulator” as I throw a lever. “Can you believe Riker says I am “Wonderfully eccentric” huh I suppose it’s true, ah well worse things to be called after all.” I make a few final calculations, check the scanner and throw the main dematerialization lever. The characteristic wheezing and groaning noise can be heard from the engines and the gears above the console begin to rotate counterclockwise.

I must admit when I first began piloting the TARDIS I was not very good. It was usually random chance that I would end up where I wanted to go. As the years have gone by I have become somewhat better, I can usually hit my target seven out of ten times! (I know, seven out of ten not great odds, but when one simply used to careen about the Omniverse with no rhyme or reason seven out of ten starts to seem positively lovely.) Well regardless of whatever odds are on my side I still have to get where I’m going, I move the scanner screen nearer to me as I watch the vector reading move around. “This isn’t so bad, maybe I’ve gotten better” wrong, just wrong, suddenly the entire room shakes and I lurch to one side grasping the rim of the console for support. The scanner begins relaying data on my trajectory through the Time Vortex.

>''Course Destabilized: Rectify Immediately! ''

“Oh dear, that’s not good is it” I mutter as I begin typing in new commands for the computer. >Command Error Code 1-7B Alpha: Stabilizers Unresponsive

>Replace Stabilizers 1C Through 12J In Main Core

 “What?!” “This is really not the time” I rush to one of the secondary consoles and order up replacement stabilizers from the deep storage vaults to be sent to the areas the computer specified. Thinking that would fix the problem I lean back in one of the chairs lining the railing next to the console and take a breath. Of course nothing in life is usually that simple. Moments after taking a seat I hear a Beep so I move to check the scanner, I smile slightly the screen proclaims all the stabilizers have been replaced. While this is undeniably good news, I like an idiot, had to read the rest of the text on screen.

>''Course Trajectory Deteriorating! Temporal Wake Imminent! Mauve Alert! Mauve Alert!''

“Shit, not mauve anything but mauve.” (In case you didn’t know, to the rest of the species in the Omniverse, Mauve means danger, I’ll never understand humans and their “Red Alerts” to everyone else red is camp.) Now I was really screwed, the TARDIS began to shudder and groan under the forces of the Vortex. The scanner could barely keep track of the variables and waves of energy as they buffeted the ship which such ferocity. “I have to get things under control or I’ll be jumping time tracks soon” If I had been dashing around the console before things went bad, I was now akin to manically sprinting as I worked to land the TARDIS safely and avert catastrophe. The panel I was working at caught fire as the TARDIS lurched through the Vortex; I moved and activated the fire suppression system. “Bloody hell, that was navigation” at this point I only had one option left, using the Telepathic Circuits to land the TARDIS. It’s not that I was out of practice; in fact I was very skilled when it came to telepathy, I simply didn’t relish using the circuit as it could at times be painful for the TARDIS and me.