-The TARDIS-
David began messing with some of the controls, plotting their destination, the origins of the angels.
“Why am I starting to have a sense of deja vu!?” Leo screamed as she started to fly from one wall of the TARDIS to another and back again in a repeating loop.
“Stabilizers keep getting thrown off,” David yelled, hanging onto the console and slamming down some buttons. “Come on, old girl!” The TARDIS stabilized, dropping David and Leo to the floor with a thud.
“Finally… it's over... “ Leo said before running out the doors of the TARDIS and proceeding to throw up. “I still don't know how it's possible for a digimon to vomit!” she shouted when she finished vomiting.
“Well,” David said, peeling himself off the ground, “it’s probably magic, as usual.”
“Um… we may have a problem!” Leo shouted from outside the TARDIS, she then ran inside and slammed the doors behind her. “We're on Earth!” she said.
David peered outside, “Where on Earth?”
“My old hometown, where I lived before Crux brought me to equestria!” Leo responded practically hyperventilating. “The question is when!?” she screamed beginning to rummage around the tardis in hopes of finding a cloak. “Disguise, I need a disguise. I don't want to become a lab rat!” she said before finding and pulling out a large grey rain coat.
“One second,” David began messing with the console and swung the monitor in front of him, “The year is… 1999.”
“Great! we’re at the time where I was Dropped off at the orphanage…” Leo said with a bitter tone. “Let's find that portal and get out of here…” she said while buttoning up the rain coat and pulling the hood over her head.
“Allons-y,” David opened the door, holding it for Leo.
Leo rolled her eyes at the doctor and walked into the alleyway that the TARDIS had landed in. “So which way?” she said approaching the end of the alley.
David reached into his pocket and pulled out a small device, pointing it both ways before gesturing left. “That way.”
The two walked down the street in the direction that the device was pointing in and the closer they got the more nervous Leo became. “Are you sure this is the right direction?” she said with fear in her voice.
“Yes,” David said, looking at Leo with a bit of curiosity.
“Why did it have to be here!? WHY!?” Leo whispered looking at a certain building down the street.
“They probably chose you because you have a link to Equestria,” David said, peering up at the building for a second before pointing the sonic behind himself. “Well, well…” He turned around, the angel behind him frozen, “So, what’s your plan for my friend? Send her back in time? Feed off her potential, because let me tell you. I’m the Doctor, and I have a TARDIS.”
While David was looking at the angel Leo noticed something that they had nearly missed. She was stunned, running away from them was what looked like Crux but much younger than the one she knew and in his arms was a baby. then she heard something that sent a chill down her spine.
“Don't cry Leo I'll make sure they can't get you, I won't let you be used as food!” the much younger Crux yelled from down the road before going into the orphanage that Leo had been watching warily just moments before.
“Doctor? I think we just saved my past self from becoming angel food....” Leo said in complete shock from what she had just discovered.
“Well, that’s not much of a paradox,” David shrugged, “However, we still need to poison the well.”
Leo noded and turned to face the angel that David was staring at. “So what now?” She asked while staring at the angel with a dazed expression.
“Into the orphanage, of course,” David said.
When David said the word ‘Orphanage’ a chill went down Leo’s spine but she shrugged it off and got ready to go in that direction with him until a thought occurred to her. “Wait, what will we do about this one?” she asked.
“Its stuck for now,” David said.
“How? Wait let me guess, something to do with the sonic screwdriver?” she said before turning around to face the orphanage.
“Yup, it thinks its being seen,” David answered, already walking off.
Hurrying to catch up Leo sprinted towards the orphanage that she had spent the majority of her life in before waiting in front of the door for David and led him into the orphanage waiting room, where they saw crux in the corner with Leo as a baby in his arms.
“So do we find out why Crux has a baby version of me in his arms first or just ‘poison the well’ and hope we figure out this mystery eventually?” Leo asked David with a bit of concern in her voice towards the recent events.
“Likely, we’ll figure it out as it goes,” David said, making his way towards the stairs
Not knowing what to do first Leo looked back and forth between David and Crux multiple time before following David to the stairs. “Fine, but I really want to know what connection I have to him and why he would be dropping my past self off at an orphanage!” Leo said sending a last glance in Crux’s direction which did not go unnoticed.
“Yeah, yeah,” David muttered heading up the stairs.
As they reached the top of the stairs they began to hear whispering, “You think they captured the child of light yet?” a voice said. “No but when they do we’ll know!” said another.
“Did you hear that?” Leo whispered to David, “Sounds like there is someone in charge of or controlling the angels!”
“That’s odd, usually the angels are going for food,” David muttered.
“I have the strange feeling I recognize those voices too…” Leo said getting ready to sneak closer to the voices to find out what was going on.
David motioned her to ‘Go for it’.
Leo crawled across the hall until she was directly under the window of the room that the voices were coming from. then she peeked over the edge to see who was in the room and what she saw made her blood run cold. “This just reached a whole new level of bad…” she said before sinking to the ground and curling up into a ball.
David raised an eyebrow before looking in himself, inside he saw a man made of shadow and The Merchant!? David began muttering to himself, “That’s weird, very weird.”
“That's it, we're doomed! we are completely and utterly doomed!” leo whispers to herself curling up into an even smaller ball. “Not only do I have some guy from RE4 after me for who knows what reason, I also have a bloody Anti Spiral after me…” she said before looking to David for a solution to their predicament. “What do I do?” she asked beginning to break down, she had just found a clue to her origins which she had been searching for her entire life and now she finds herself being hunted by what she believed to be two of the most dangerous beings she had ever heard of.
“First, we take care of the Angels. Second,” David said, “We find Crux.”
Leo just nodded her head and followed David, who she believed to be her last strand of hope in the current situation she found herself in. After taking a deep breath she tried to compose herself as best she could before they began to walk down the hall and away from The Merchant and Anti Spiral.
David opened the door, revealing a room full of Weeping Angels, “Here we are,” he reached into his pocket and placed down the pocket paradox before leaning over to Leo, “Get ready to run!” He grabbed her and they turned around. seconds later, the room exploded as the ran downstairs and outside the orphanage. David brushed off his pants, “Well, good thing the orphanage was empty.”
“And also Explains what happened to the left wing that vanished around the time i arrived…” Leo said her eye twitching at the giant gap in the building.
David felt someone tap him on the shoulder, before turning around. “Yes?”
“Would you like to explain who you are, why you're here, and how you got ahold one of my patented pocket paradoxes?” the much younger Crux asked David before crossing his arms and taking notice of Leo in his arms, “And who is that?” he said while looking at Leo.
“Well of course, you gave it to me, and this,” David put his hands on Leo’s shoulders, “Is the kid in your arms. Try to keep them apart, the paradox would be horrific.”
Crux just stared at him then asked while backing up a few feet in case David was telling the truth, “Ok… I'm going to go with time travel and don't need to know should it change the space time continuum, after all I've had enough trouble fixing the current paradoxes left behind by other void beings…” before rocking Baby Leo a bit and pulling the pink blanket down a bit to show her face.
Leo just stared perplexed, “Wait a minute, when I was a baby i was female!?” Leo said before looking at Crux. “But i remember growing up in that orphanage as a boy…” she said giving Crux an idea.
“Interesting choice of words!” He said before waving his hand over Baby Leo turning her into a boy. “That should deceive them for now.” he said giving Leo a smile.
“He was a girl, she was a boy, can I make it any more obvious,” a familiar voice sang from above them.
Crux seemed to go rigid at the sound of the voice, “Where are you! I won’t let you do anything to my DAUGHTER!” he said whipping his head around as if searching for something.
“Oh come on DUDE, you know who it is,” Essence floated down into his vision, flicking her tail about.
“I’m going to guess and I don’t think I’m going to like either outcome, are you a time traveler and are you the cat lady that accidentally destroyed my home?” Crux asked backing up slowly.
“Time traveler,” she scoffed, “As for the home… that was an accident.”
“Figures... “ Crux said with a sigh, “So what do yall want to know? Or are you just here to look around?” he then materialized a basket and put Baby Leo in it and put him on the steps of the orphanage before leading the others into the alleyway where the TARDIS appeared as if it had been called.
“Well, we had an issue with the Weeping Angels,” David said.
“Thanks for disposing of them by the way, I hate those things…” Crux said before shuddering. “Those pests are one of the few things that could possibly kill me.” he said before recomposing himself.
“They are pretty creepy,” Essence muttered, sitting on Crux’s head.
“I’ve yet to deal with them back home. Actually, I’m only home for a few seconds before I’m summoned or sent off, so Torchwood may do that,” David said.
“You know, you're much cuter when your shrunken Ms. MADNESS.” Crux said while chuckling at the mini Essence on his head.
“Why thank you,” she giggled.
“So, if you’re my father... who is my mother?” Leo asked getting Crux’s attention.
Crux went rigid at the question and slowly turned to Leo, “Well… the only way i can put this is that she is no longer part of the omniverse…” he said in a sad tone before turning and staring into the sky.
Taking the hint Leo changed the subject, “So Doctor, What are we going to do now?” she asked before starting to walk over to the TARDIS.
“Might as well head back to your world,” David said.
“Ok, see you in the future Crux!” Leo said before stepping inside the TARDIS and flinging the coat she was wearing off into the pile she had originally found it in. “Home, here we come!” she sighed before strapping herself to the railing.
“Allons-y!” David said, throwing his hands down onto the console.
“So what do you think will happen when we return to Equestria?” Leo asked while smirking at David.
“The Angels should be gone. I’m not sure what that’ll affect timeline wise though,” David said.
“Well let's just hope nothing goes wrong.” Leo said before wincing, “I just jinxed it didn't I?”
“Possibly,” David said.
-Equestria-
“That went a lot better than I thought it would,” Leo said as she crawled out of the TARDIS before proceeding to kiss the ground, “I am SO glad this didn’t turn into one of the doctors end of the world adventures!” she said before turning to David and giving him a sheepish grin, “No offense…”
David shook his head, “It’s fine.”
“You know I never got a full explanation about this whole Displaced thing… I’ve mostly been winging it…” she said before laughing nervously.
“Right then, long or short version?” David asked, wondering why he always got people who knew nothing of such things, before having Leo follow him back into the TARDIS.
“Crux already gave me the short version, I will take the long one this time.” Leo said before sitting on the ground preparing for this to take a while.
“Okay, there’s no known exact time, but around a one Void cycle ago, The Merchant began Displacing humans in costume. Eventually, they came to call themselves Displaced. After that, a few new forms of Displaced, not costumed, arose. As for Tokens,” David held up his sonic screwdriver, “I’ve been studying them, and I think I know how they work. Basically,” David spun the monitor to face them, “A Token is made of a shard of your Universe. Something miniscule and unnoticeable. It uses this shard to connect to another and they form a link, or bridge, between each other. However, the link is very unstable and only allows travel once before it goes dormant. When you’re allowed to leave, it reactivates and sends you home or sends them home. By this logic, I believe you can send something through to another Displaced which is how Tokens are dispersed.”
“Interesting, So can I have a copy of your token?” Leo asked while getting up from where she was sitting.
David pointed his sonic in the air and a copy of it fell into Leo’s hand, “Setting D10, you can summon me.”
“Thanks, and if you want to summon me take the digivice I gave you and hold it in front of you while saying gate open and I can give you backup whenever.” Leo said before starting to walk away. “Until next time Doctor, Good luck! and I hope Solarmon is able to help you out in the future whenever I am not available!” she said before disappearing from his sight as the TARDIS dematerialized.