TARDIS Control Room
In transit through time and space
The TARDIS once more winged her way through the space-time vortex. Story and his companions had inadvertantly set off a violent clash between the human crew of Styx Base on Pluto in the year 2112 and the bizarre alien Mi-Go when he refused to allow the Mi-Go's leader to enter the TARDIS - and killed it with a fungicide hastily weaponized by the base's chemical expert. Fortunately the crew had the fungicide weapon as well and were able to use it to effect their escape, but what happened to them after that was unknown, and they would always wonder whether they had altered humanity's future history - and whether it would be for better or for worse. Records concerning Earth in the early to mid-22nd century were spotty at best thanks to the Daleks' invasion and conquest of the planet in the 2150s, which was thankfully defeated by an uprising in 2165. Or, rather, would be. Time travel could get awfully confusing, and one often never knew whether one was coming or going.
Elizabeth Young had been fascinated by her trip into the future, which in some ways was a lot like how science fiction in her day portrayed it. In other ways, it was vastly different. 1950s science fiction authors were generally very hopeful about the future, but the time she had visited was a dystopia, a brutal dictatorship with a veneer of civilization. It reminded her of what she had heard about Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War. Still, people were people in any time and place, and it had been a delight meeting fellow Scot Robert MacCrimmon. He had been injured badly while heroically fighting off the Mi-Go, but he had survived and headed back to Earth along with most of the base's crew.
Lucius Verres had thought his trip to 1930 had been startling, but nothing could have prepared him for venturing even further into his future. The finder from the Republic of Rome had witnessed even more strange marvels, and he had to constantly remind himself that they were based on science, not magic. The idea of ships that could sail the heavens just as easily as galleys plied the Mare Nostrum in his own time still unnerved him, but not nearly so much as his encounter with the Mi-Go. He still didn't see how the others could take this sort of thing in stride, but they had been at it for longer than he had.
Brook Davies was always interested in meeting new kinds of aliens, and the Mi-Go hadn't disappointed. They were very interesting, even if they were creepy. And seeing the world a century from her time had been a blast. Now she had to wonder what thrilling adventure would await them next. In spite of the horrors, Story had guided them all through it in one piece as he always did, and she had to believe he always would.
