Doctor Who: Changes in Time and Space - Prologue
Prologue
The Thirteenth Doctor’s TARDIS, in the Vortex
Felicia Lovell entered the console room, where the Doctor and her other companions were, observing the TARDIS’s progress through the vortex, the TARDIS had been going off course as of late, for the last (‘month? 2 months 3 months? One could never quite tell in the TARDIS’ Felicia thought), it hasn’t been going where the Doctor wanted it to go.
Felicia had washed following their last adventure, in which a Terileptil had attempted to interfere with history in Ancient Rome. She had spent some time washing, as she had gotten dirtier than the other companions. She then had wandered the TARDIS corridors, reflecting on her time with the Time Lady.
“Ah, there you are,” the Doctor said, as she entered.
“Are we off course again?” Felicia asked.
“Of course we are, it seems the console destination input circuitry, has joined the chameleon circuit in being broken,” one of her fellow companions, Daniel Hadley, said.
“That is not the reason we are going off course,” the Doctor said, with a disapproving tone.
“Do you know what the reason is then?” Sigrun Friorikadottir asked.
“The reason is that the TARDIS is going off course, is that it wants to go off course, remember that the TARDIS is alive, so to speak,” the Doctor said.
“But why would the TARDIS want to go off course, and why did it take a few months for you to determine that?” Sabir Davis asked.
“It didn’t take me months to find out that the TARDIS was going off course because it wanted to go off course, I found out almost immediately,” the Doctor said.
The companions thought for a moment, they knew that the Doctor did have a connection to the TARDIS.
“So, where are we going now?” Sigrun asked.
“If the TARDIS is going off course, we won’t know until we land, won’t we Doctor?” Daniel said, half to Sigrun, and half to the Doctor.
“The coordinates I input were for somewhere in Britain in early 2034; however we have already gone off course, and are no longer aiming for Britain, but for Ireland, and may be arriving earlier, around 2021. Not much of a course deviation compared to earlier ones,” the Doctor said.
Then they watched the console, were not that much surprised when the TARDIS materialised in the Azores, sometime in 2018.
“2018, not a bad year,” the Doctor said.
“A rather peaceful year,” Sigrun said.