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[cosmic-engineer.livejournal.com]

[Look, Omega's back on the Plane! This time, though, he's not focused on the scenery. Instead, he's leaning on a laboratory table that appears as though it was appropriated from Ertikus's TARDIS. Spread across its surface are half-finished pieces of machinery, spanners, microwelders, and other various tools, all of which are Gallifreyan in origin.

What has Omega's interest, however, is a small, unassuming lump of coral. Time Lords and anyone sensitive enough with notice that it is far from the kind of coral found on Earth -- it's absolutely humming with energy, and there is a spark of awareness, of sentience.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a baby TARDIS.

Omega picks up the coral, holding it with surprising gentleness, and studies it quietly. The bond between a TARDIS and its pilot is a powerful thing, after all, and theirs is just being established.]

Comments

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[by the Sandals of Rassilon, he has to steal that TARDIS]

I didn't know our great Founder was into TARDIS horticulture.

[cosmic-engineer.livejournal.com]

[glances up from the coral]

And why should I not be? They are, after all, just as much my creations as Rassilon's.

[look, a mention of the other Founder(s)! someone's feeling a bit nostalgic today, it seems]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you have any extra?

[cosmic-engineer.livejournal.com]

None that I would entrust to a renegade.

[charmandsmiles.livejournal.com]

[Oh fantastic, the person he wanted to see more than any person ever! The Doctor can't resist stopping to watch the baby TARDIS for a moment, though, because...b'aww, baby TARDIS. Also, hello emo, nostalgia, and general brooding. So have a Doctor sort of avoiding you, Omega, and watching from a safe distance. :|b]

[cosmic-engineer.livejournal.com]

[to his credit, Omega is actually trying to tone down his anger at the moment (he doesn't want to upset the young TARDIS, after all), so when he notices the Doctor hovering in the background, his tone is merely one of irritation.]

Doctor.

[charmandsmiles.livejournal.com]

[Damn. Caught.] Er. Hello, Omega. Just passing through, don't mind me.

[notsomechild.livejournal.com]

[This does not go unnoticed. Clef is staring from a safe distance.]

My, what could that be?

[cosmic-engineer.livejournal.com]

[barely glances up]

It is an infant time ship. A TARDIS.

[notsomechild.livejournal.com]

... Incredible.

Is it... alive? [He's not sure what he's sensing.]

[oldoldghost.livejournal.com]

[Brigitta shall just be over here, staring] ...Well, that's interesting [she really doesn't sound interested, for she is dumb]

[cosmic-engineer.livejournal.com]

Indeed? Do you even know what this is?

[oldoldghost.livejournal.com]

It's a.. [Pause] It's something that you've grown.

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

{...:|...}

What is that? {She has an idea because of the sound, but :|...}

[cosmic-engineer.livejournal.com]

[oh, look, it's the Vampire. :|]

It's a TARDIS. [a pause] Or it will be, eventually.

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

... Ne, why would you want it?

[brigadiertardis.livejournal.com]

[awwww, baby TARDIS! guess who's stopping by to see?]

[cosmic-engineer.livejournal.com]

[looks up and frowns, setting the baby!TARDIS down gently. you feel vaguely familiar, TARDIS -- at least, to the Doctor part of Omega's mind.]

Hello.

[brigadiertardis.livejournal.com]

[awww, hi Doctor! though she remembers you, Omega. good thing she doesn't hate you like she does Rassilon]

Lord Omega.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[softly] Lord Omega...is that what I think it is?

[cosmic-engineer.livejournal.com]

[smiles very slightly] It is.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

Remarkable. I've never seen one in this early stage of development.

[miseardae.livejournal.com]

[his smile is bright and gentle when he approaches] I haven't seen a newborn TARDIS in centuries. [tilts his head slightly] I wouldn't have at all, were I not so deft at sneaking about.

[cosmic-engineer.livejournal.com]

The Time Lords do make an effort to keep them secluded, yes. [a sideways glance at the Doctor] Although I can hardly disapprove of such curiosity.

[miseardae.livejournal.com]

I had an idea you wouldn't. I think I may have made that very argument, actually...