Amidst an alien conspiracy to hack a theory of everything using innocent childrens' souls, they reunite once more. The Krillitanes' plans would have been stopped and a valiant sacrifice would be made to bring them to an end, but things in this timeline would change.
Luke Stryker, the Lord of Anima, along with the original group would bring an end to the Krillitanes and save the children. From this, Luke plans to build a rapport with Sarah Jane Smith and take part in select adventures before the big end with the Reality Bomb...
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As spring came, Luke knew that events were slowly beginning to set themselves into motion. He knew that the episode would bring back Sarah Jane Smith to the forefront of the Whoniverse and even set into motion her own point of view as a true protagonist. That meant that he'd need to keep an eye on her too along with the Torchwood team, yet that thought didn't faze him as much as he thought it would.
Despite how the shows are painted to be more family-friendly on television, Luke knew that reality was not as clear as portrayed. People lived their own lives outside of what is seen on screens or read in books, but even with all of his power, that fact cannot be changed easily.
Sarah Jane, outside of being with the Doctor to help guide her away from more dangerous events, will inevitably be put on the spot to decide what is dangerous and not. Even after reuniting with Ten and his new companions, she will encounter her own adopted son with an extremely high IQ and have to help him just like how the Doctor helped her.
Luke knew that he'd have to make sure that, when it comes time to interact with Sarah Jane and the kids in Ealing, he'd only intervene when things get too much for them like with the Trickster. He even knew that, from what Michael told him about with the whole mavity joke, he wouldn't be affected by the deal the Trickster gave to Andrea to alter their fates.
"I'm still gonna beat up the Trickster for that," Luke thought to himself as Michael and he began planning out how to approach the Doctor and the group in Deffry Vale. "I mean who'd use children like that? I know that the Krillitanes are beginning to use the kids at Deffry Vale to crack the Skasis Paradigm, but there's a bit of difference to using multiple kids for one thing and switching fates for two important people in the timeline."
Michael didn't say much on that, but Luke knew that he too wasn't pleased with the Trickster either let alone any of the gods of the Pantheon that the Doctor will inevitably encounter in the future. It was a headache to think more on them at present when those encounters will come in the future, so both Michael and Luke put those thoughts aside.
"So," Michael began, "what's the plan then? Stop the Krillitanes and save K9 while bringing Hell to the aliens who hurt humans?"
They were in the Voidship as the plans were being formed since Luke needed the space to figure each step out. There was even a simulation of events where he had to go to Gielinor and recruit the dragonkin scientist Kerapac for the mission, but Luke quietly ended that simulation thinking that his recruitment was both too early and unnecessary for dealing with a very minor yet important event in the timeline.
"Well, we can't save the kids and people whom the Krillitanes devoured," Luke said with a sigh of exasperation. "Most of them were either alone in the world or had very little attention to warrant a full respawn package, but that doesn't mean Harold can't help guide them along to their afterlives. Most that I can do personally is make sure those bastards stay dead for their crimes."
Even if that meant bringing in Shadow Anima to thoroughly destroy them.
"What about The Doctor and Rose? Guthix had already mentioned that he revealed you'd come back after the events with the Sycorax, but you'd essentially be physically going into this by yourself. Guthix is not going to be there to help you this time."
Luke knew what Michael was worried about. While his physical form was still affected by the toxicity of the Abyssal Sea, making him frailer than most, that didn't mean he could withstand major exertions for too long and without help. He could drink a dose of a [Super Restore] potion and that'd help him for a good few minutes, but that would only make his condition worse.
He remembered conducting tests with Guthix after he returned from Death's Garden to see if there was a method to temporarily suspend the toxicity so he'd be a little normal, but most beneficial potions like the [Saradomin Brew] which return health points or [Antipoison] potions that remove and negate poison effects hardly did anything. What seemed to work in temporarily removing the effects of the Abyssal Sea on his physical form was, oddly enough, either a dose of [Super Restore] or a dose of [Super Guthix Rest].
"I'm thinking that both the Doctor and Rose will do what they will do in the show," Luke stated calmly while also pondering what to do. "Mickey will contact them and bring them back to Earth to solve the mystery of the Krillitanes, but I'll need some sort of excuse to be at that school at the right time. I doubt my parents will let their six year old child miss school or sneak out to stop a bunch of aliens."
He knew that his supply of [Super Guthix Rest] and [Super Restore] would take time to replenish, but the toxicity within his soul will not stop him from helping his friends.
"Then why not travel a bit ahead of time?" Michael asked Luke. "You've already travelled back in time when you went to save little baby Ruby from the goblins and set up the requirements for your involvement with Sutekh's return. Why not travel forward in time to deal with the Krillitane?"
Luke wanted to deny that plan, but found that he had no words to even form the appropriate thought. The logic was sound enough considering that this universe had time travel and that the Doctor constantly travelled back to the past and forth into the far future, even going as far as the literal end of the universe with Martha and Jack. If the Doctor and other Time Lords could travel into the future, along with agents from the Time Agency, then what was going to stop him from going to the future?
"That's actually a good idea," Luke remarked as he went into the command deck to begin setting in the coordinates. "I guess living like a normal human for so long, I forgot that I have a literal ship that can travel in time too."
Since his sixth birthday, as a gift from the System, his Voidship received an upgrade. Now, he had access to a real-time map of his current universe within the Command Deck and he could select any planet or solar system to directly travel to along with any period of time of that specific place. For exact coordinates, he'd still need to input them himself or have Michael do it. There was also a real-time tracker for the Doctor's TARDIS, but only for the current regeneration.
Meaning, he could only track the Tenth Doctor for now until it came time for Eleven to show up.
"Let's travel forward in time by a few months. If I remember correctly, the events of School Reunion and Rise of the Cybermen are roughly two to four weeks apart," Luke said out loud as he tapped on [Earth - Sol III] and went to the section for temporal selection. "I'd like to visit that parallel Earth with those three too and track the Cybermen before they planned to come to this Earth. I'm not trusting that Ghost Shift nonsense of Torchwood's."
"Thinking about crashing the party on the Battle of Canary Wharf months in advance?" Michael inquired.
"Let's just say that if there are ghosts appearing in my home, I'll call Harold to have him reap them directly," Luke replied with a smirk. "I'd use the excuse that he missed a few ghosts."
That made both Michael and Luke himself laugh at the small joke. When they finished laughing, only one question remained between them.
"Any plans for River when you eventually meet her?" Michael asked.
"You know what? I've talked about my worries for her going to Gielinor and wrecking that world up, devising plans to counter her before I would have already met her canonically, but she's still the sole daughter of two of the Doctor's best friends. I'd like to save her from her death point in the Library or at least give her a way to live again on Gielinor while still in the Library's data core, but I just don't know what to do with her yet."
Luke felt conflicted since he had prepared enough to counter River's actions in the future and the fact that the System didn't give him a quest to save Eleven when River poisoned him meant that he hadn't earned the right to interfere yet. He knew that the Kavarian Chapter wanted to make sure the Doctor wouldn't ever arrive to Trenzalore, so they kidnapped Amy and took her baby from her to raise Melody Pond (aka River Song) into an assassin to kill the Doctor with a poisoned kiss. While Luke knew he'd need a method to counter the poison of the Judas Tree, that meant going to collect a sample of it for study.
However, Luke would wait for a time to find such a sample. He had a job to do.
The very next thing that happened was the Light of Hope fading into thin air to travel forward into the future.
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Continued in: Second Meeting.