Space, 2001:

Mac and the amnesic man were on a spaceship. In front of them was a throne with a man sitting on it. Surrounding him, were guards dressing all in black and white carrying big guns. On the wall behind the throne were body parts from various aliens species.

“Are you awake my friend?” The man sitting on the throne said. He raised his head. It was the man with the iron mask. “Lost your voice? From a man like you it’s weird. Well..my friend. Where do I start? From your birth? Your death? No it won’t be fun to kill you if you don’t remember any of your story. You won’t be able to say after all this time I was right.”

The amnesic man looked at him. “Kill me. Stop torturing me.”

“I have never tortured you. No, I'm a liar. When I killed all of your friends it was indeed torture.” The man stood up, walked to the man, took out of his pocket a little pill and gave it to him. “Take it.” The man didn’t move. “I said take it.” He shouted.

“What is it?” The man asked. Mac was trying to tell him not to.

“The RETGAIN. Your memory. Take it so I can kill you with all of your memory back.”

The man didn’t hesitate. He wanted so bad to have his memory back. He took the pill and closed his eyes.

The amnesic man opened his eyes. He was inside of a ship. The ship was all white with circular cold lights on the walls. The man saw a young girl with short black hair. She was touching the control panel.

“Hello. Where am I?” he asked her gently.

“This must have hit you hard, Grandad.” the girl replied.

The man didn’t understand why she called him Grandad. He thought he looked young, so how could he have been a Grandfather. A blue light was flashing from one of the circular lights. The man kept staring at it. The blue light changed. He looked like a camera now. He made 2 steps behind and saw a robot.

“WHO ARE YOU? DALEK ASKS WHO ARE YOU?” It was a Dalek, the most deadly warrior race of the universe.

“Dalek? What?” the man saw everything changed around him. He was in the middle of nowhere with only the robot thing in front of him. “I don’t who I am. Can you tell me? I was with the Doctor and now..”

“THE DOCTOR? THE DOCTOR IS AN ENEMY OF THE DALEKS. EXTERMINATE.” The Dalek shouted before starting shooting laser blasts.

The man avoided several shots but one quite hit him. He turned his face to see the shot hitting a rock on the ground. When he wanted to face the Dalek again, everything was different around him. He was in the middle of a big city. The walls of the houses were crumbling. Shots could be heard from where he was. On the wall next to him, there was a writing: No more. He kept staring at it until there was another writing: Bad wolf. This time he wanted to understand what was happening to him.

He saw the TARDIS behind him and he ran towards it. When he opened the door, it was a completely different TARDIS than the one he knew.

“It looks like a kitchen. There is a board there. Thank God he redecorated it.” The man was talking like someone could hear him. Actually, a small bald man also entered the TARDIS.

“Doctor, you are here. It was your turn to keep the safe.” the small man said, “ You must stop travelling with Bill and stay here for our mission.”

The man wasn’t listening to a word the other man was saying. He looked at the small mirror in the room and saw his face. It was the face of a stranger. He was old with grey hair.

“My eyes. I look like an owl.” He turned to see the man, he was not here anymore. He was in a cell. “Hey please. Where am I? Release me.” He screamed hoping someone would hear him. He saw a window and decided to look by it. He saw nothing, just the space void, a star was brighter than the others. He saw it as a sign of hope. He kept staring at it. He felt the wind on his skin.

“Doctor. You need to accept it. You need to live again.” He recognised this voice. It was a familiar voice. He turned back to see the face of the woman. It was Daniella.

“Daniella?” he said, “Where am I ?”

“Salvador, Brazil.” She answered. She was crying. “Please Doctor, regenerate. I need you. We already lost Mac, I can’t lose you too.” Daniella was begging.

“I will. For you.” The man started crying. He felt energies passing through his body. His right hand released a bit of the energy then his left one. “What is happening?” The final blast came, this time, from his head. He was regenerating. The man entered in the TARDIS, he went straight to the small mirror of his control pit. He saw his face. The real one. The face that he always remembered.

“I am me. I am me.” He screamed and started jumping in TARDIS. Daniella was looking at him happily. Her hero wasn’t dead.

“This is me. Look at my face. I look like myself. It is working.” He said to Daniella. His moment of happiness didn’t last long. The man, suddenly, fell to the ground.

His eyes started opening. He was on a field by himself. He wondered for the hundred times where he was. He walked in the corn field for at least an hour until he found the Doctor’s TARDIS. Inside was the woman he dreamt of. She was reading a book and didn’t notice him.

“Hey.” He said with a quiet voice.

“Oh, Doctor. You are back. Did you catch the alien?” She got up from the chair she was sitting and kissed him.

“Unexpected.” He said.

“Are you okay or are you tired of kissing me?” Her mood has shifted.

“No. No. Something hit my head earlier. I must still be confused.” He was looking all around him and recognised the TARDIS of the Doctor who rescued him. He was starting to assemble all of the pieces of the puzzle he had.

“Am I a Doctor?” He asked the woman.

“Apparently. You’ve never shown me your PhD.” She was slowly starting thinking it was not the Doctor in front of her. “When did we meet?”

“A few years ago. Why?” It came out like that. He didn’t even think about what he was going to say.

“When exactly?” She asked twice, getting a little bit angrier.

“I took the RETGAIN.” He shouted.

“You are not my boyfriend. Who are you?” The girl took out a knife from her pocket and pointed at him.

“I don’t know. I still don’t know who I am.” He answered. “Your face looks familiar. You are the girl from my dream.”

“Oh. It’s already the time..”She stopped and sat. “3 years ago, I’ve met one of your past incarnations. He told me everything about your future. Especially my death.” The man looked confused. “After my death, you travelled to the past to look for help but to not be found you used an alien technology capable of erasing your memory.”

“I’ve seen death. A battlefield. Is it about it?” He asked her.

“I guess, yes. You are the Doctor. The most wonderful Time Lord ever. You’ve met your past incarnation in order to help you fight him.”

“Who? The man with the iron face?”

“I have already said too much. If I talk too much you won’t act like you should win.”

The man kept looking at her but her face slowly shifted. She became whiter. Blood was running on her face. She was lying down on the ground. She was dead. This was how the man remembered her. Dead, lifeless. He felt the pain from the man he was supposed to be.

Suddenly his eyes opened. He was back in the man’s spaceship. The Doctor, Jack and Daniella were behind him. They were shouting but he couldn’t hear them. He closed his eyes again and then he woke up on the TARDIS. Everyone was there.

“Hi guys. Was I dreaming?” He asked.

“Unfortunately not, Doctor.” Mac answered.

“Doctor? Am I really..” He was stopped by the Doctor itself.

“I am you. You are me. I’m still more handsome and intelligent but I recognised your good taste in clothing.”

“What the fuck is this?” The man aka the Doctor from the future was still lost but his memory was slowly recovering.

“You are the Doctor. One of his past incarnations. We are here to help you now. We are going to save the Doctors’ lives through the multiverse.” Daniella said thinking about all the new adventures they were going to have.