The Time Witch

STORYLINE

In a galaxy far away, before the Earth was even formed, a young lady with psychic powers is being imprisoned for conspiring to pervert the course of destiny. Brimo is put into an eternity capsule, where she will stay for the rest of her life. Eons pass, empires rise and fall, and still the capsule remains Fiinally the sun itself goes nova. Brimo's capsule is sucked into the black hole created by the collapsing sun and finally Brimo is awakened. What she finds is emptiness all around, but she soon discovers that whatever she wishes for, now becomes a reality. In the TARDIS, the Doctor and Sharon discover a hole in the fabric of time and space forming. The hole causes the time continuum to rupture, splitting the TARDIS in two. The Doctor realizes that someone inside a blank dimension is drawing energy from this dimension and sucking in everything in its path, including the Doctor and Sharon…

A hole in space has opened in the TARDIS and sucked the Doctor and Sharon in. On the other side of the hole. they find themselves in a cavern confronted by a very large armored figure. The figure claims to be the guardian of the gate, but for some reason he doesn't attack the Doctor and Sharon. Instead, he offers tea. It seems they are now in a blank dimension where a very powerful psychic named Brimo has set up shop. Brimo has been draining energy from the Doctor's dimension, and using it to create anything she can imagine in her current dimension. Except something about the Doctor's arrival is interfering with the flow of energy.

Brimo interrupts the Doctor's tea time firing bolts of psychic energy at him. oddly though, the bolts keep missing him. The Doctor's own mental abilities allow him to deflect teethe blasts, so Brimo ores her giant, Meltron to attack instead. The Doctor would rather have Meltron fix a cup of tea, and a great mental struggle ensues between the Doctor and Brimo. They are so evenly matched in their influence, Meltron is split in two. The two Meltrons continue their struggle while the Doctor corals Sharon and drags Brimo back into her palace room. Brimo isn't done, however, and she creates an army of killers.

The Doctor easily deflects the army by creating a hole in the ground beneath their feet. It also seems Brimo's grip on their environment is beginning to waver. her energy source from the other dimension has been limited by the TARDIS acting as a sort of plug. The Doctor has only to wait while Brimo uses up all of the energy available. The more energy she uses to attack him, the more she has to draw on the energy already in the blank dimension. Things keep disappearing as her attacks get larger. The Doctor taunts her that she better create the most terrifying thing she can think of, before the energy is used up. Of course, what she is most afraid of is the eternity capsule which she was imprisoned in for thousands of years. The stray thought makes it happen and she finds herself trapped once again in the capsule, never to get out again. The Doctor must now use the TARDIS to try to return to his own dimension. The effort has side effects, however, both the Doctor and Sharon have aged four ears in seconds. Sharon is a bit shocked to find she is now a grown up...

Warlord of the Ogrons

STORYLINE

We begin on a rocky, unfriendly planet that looks like the kind of place you’d film a low-budget sci-fi serial if all you had was a quarry and a dream. This, of course, makes it the perfect home for the Ogrons, the universe’s most loyal, most obedient, and most spectacularly dim mercenaries-for-hire.

And wouldn’t you know it?
They have a problem.

Their boss — the self-appointed Ogron Warlord — has vanished. Gone. Missing. Presumably wandered off in search of a sandwich and got lost. The other Ogrons, displaying the leadership instincts of a fruit salad, immediately panic because they have no idea what to do without someone yelling orders at them. So they do what any reasonable group of musclebound potato-men would do:

They kidnap the Doctor.

Naturally.

Cut to the Fifth Doctor, who is having a perfectly normal wander with Tegan and Turlough until a group of hulking Ogrons appear, grab him like a misplaced action figure, and haul him away. Tegan and Turlough shout and give chase, but this is not their comic, and the plot demands they stay behind and worry artistically.

Meanwhile, the Ogrons drag the Doctor to their base — a massive stone fortress that looks suspiciously like someone glued horns onto a medieval castle and called it alien architecture. Inside, they explain their dilemma: without a Warlord, the whole tribe is confused, bored, and dangerously close to thinking for themselves. This is not a stable situation.

They want the Doctor to become their new leader.

The Doctor, understandably, responds with a very polite version of, “Absolutely not.”

But the Ogrons insist. To them, the Doctor is smart, authoritative, and capable of speech longer than four words at a time — a clear qualification for upper management.

The Doctor, desperately attempting to talk them down, tries appealing to their reason.
This fails immediately because the Venn diagram of “Ogron” and “Reason” is two circles in different postcodes.

But then — plot twist! — someone else arrives.

A tall, menacing, and suspiciously familiar figure steps out of the shadows:
An Ogron… wearing a cape.

This is the missing Warlord, alive, well, and now indulging in a level of fashion drama that Ogrons are simply not equipped to handle. The cape swishes. The Ogrons gasp. The Doctor sighs.

The Warlord immediately begins shouting orders, claiming he faked his disappearance as a test of loyalty or courage or something equally vague that sounds like it came from a managerial seminar. The Ogrons buy this explanation instantly, because they are Ogrons.

But the Doctor?
Oh, he sees the truth.

This Warlord is not just unusually commanding — he’s unusually articulate. Unusually strategic. And unusually good at complete sentences.

Because he’s not an Ogron at all.
He’s an impostor.
A disguised alien using the Ogrons as muscle to build his own little empire.

So the Doctor does the most Doctor-ish thing possible: he outs the Warlord as a fraud in front of the entire tribe.

Chaos erupts. Loyalty is challenged. The Ogrons argue among themselves using logic that would struggle to pass a kindergarten puzzle test. The impostor attempts to rally them, but being deceived triggers exactly one emotion in Ogrons: rage.

A brief Ogron civil war breaks out (lots of shouting, club-swinging, and a few panels of dramatic tumbling). In the confusion, the impostor tries to flee — but the Doctor trips him, because frankly someone needed to.

The Ogrons capture the impostor and proudly declare that they will now choose a new Warlord the traditional way: by seeing who can hit the hardest.

The Doctor does not stick around for this cultural display.

He makes a tactful exit, reunites with Tegan and Turlough (who have been alternately worrying and complaining in equal measure), and hustles everyone back to the TARDIS before the Ogrons decide he’d make a great runner-up leader after all.