Doctor Who: The George Brind Fan Series | Story 6: Black Dawn - Special Edition

In the sixth of the Special Editions to “Doctor Who: The George Brind Fan Series” (2013-2023) based on the well-known BBC sci-fi TV series “Doctor Who” (1963-), here is the sixth story “Black Dawn” which also served as the first episode of Series 2 when it was first released on KZbin on 31 December 2016. All stories in the fan series take place in creator of the series George Brind’s own unique “Doctor Who” reality and/or universe, and a strikingly different reality to the officially established one at that, in terms of writing new stories and ideas around what had been established on-screen in the official series up to November 2013.
At the end of Series 1 of the fan series, the Twelfth Doctor (George Brind) came face-to-face with the psychopathic time-meddling warlord Xavier (Thomas Brind): the person responsible for killing the Doctor in his previous incarnation (played in the official series by Matt Smith) and his very good friend River Song. Unfortunately, the Doctor’s plans to stop Xavier failed when Xavier incapacitated the Doctor and revealed many things. The three most notable revelations were, firstly, that Xavier instructed his fellow time-meddler the Meddling Monk to install another regeneration into the Doctor after he was murdered; secondly, Xavier was now calling himself “The Other” (a name the Doctor called himself, presumably during his days at the Time Lord Academy); and thirdly, but most importantly, the Other was the Doctor’s son (the father of Susan Foreman, the Doctor’s granddaughter), who had a very troubled upbringing on Earth which led to his presumed death. As it turned out, the Doctor’s son actually survived to become the time meddling psychopath he is now. The Doctor managed to escape from the Other, who killed the Meddling Monk after the Monk failed his master, but the bad guys had officially won. By then, the Other took the Doctor’s TARDIS, brought back the Time Lords by bringing Gallifrey back from a pocket universe to our universe, stabilised the timeline damaged by his misdeeds using a massive paradox machine he created to stop a total event collapse, deactivated a stolen weapon from the Dark Times (or maybe even before) named the Sceptre of the First, and framed the Doctor for his own crimes.
In September 2014, about four months after the events of the Series 1 finale “Gallifrey Rises”, the Other has placed Earth under a Level 5 quarantine to stop any messages or people getting in or out. There is even corruption within the UNified Intelligence Taskforce (U.N.I.T.), as they, along with MI5 are out to get the Doctor on suspicion of murdering the Meddling Monk. Although the Doctor has enough sufficient evidence to expose the Other’s lies, he cannot simply get a message to Gallifrey because of the quarantine. The only possible way to send a message to Gallifrey is to get a non-corrupt UNIT officer to rise through the ranks of the Other’s network. With that, Major Charles Hoffman (Sonny Kelly), the only member of UNIT who believes the Doctor is innocent, teams up with the Doctor to do just that. The first step towards Hoffman gradually rising through the ranks revolves around an assignment Hoffman is to undertake under the orders of his superior Field Marshal Jeremy Greaves, involving an escapee radioactive and genetically-modified animal which may be more dangerous than first suspected…

[@The_Cosmic_Yog-Sothoth]

Much better than the post 2005 crap.