"So... how do I spin this?" I asked
I know it seems obvious, you just spin the wheel and get on, right?
Well... nope
From what I'm looking at in front of me, this wheels are endless
And I don't mean it figuratively, ironically, metaphorically or any other fancy way
They're endless
Straight up.
You might ask
Well if they're endless how are they on the table? Wouldn't their weight break it? or be too big to fit?
And my answer to that question will be
How should I know?!
I mean give me the right tools and 30 seconds and I can definitely pull this off too, but right now? yeah let's chuck it up to mysterious godly powers, I mean all she did was snap her fingers and boom, there they were.
Come to think of it I could probably do the same someday.
What if all this godly nonsense is just people with enough knowledge and time on their hands to build stuff like this?
For all I know, I might actually be in a simulation right now, hooked up to wires while someone toys with my brain.
For all I know this 'god' may very well be an NPC designed to introduce me into the simulation.
Maybe all these wishes are part of a character creation screen and reincarnation is just someone pressing "New Game."
Alright enough thinking, she's saying something
Afterall game or not I still have to listen if I want to break out of this simulation
"To spin the wheels, you simply need to wish for them to spin, the amount of force they spin will be how you wish" she said with something like amusement, with a hint of pity?
Whatever that pity meant, I ignored it. I already had plans forming.
Simulation or not, I'm breaking out the moment I leave here.
"Oh ok.." I said
I looked at the first wheel, the one with names and wished for it to spin
The very next moment the wheel began to spin with so much force that normally there would have been a space hurricane level of wind destroying this whole place, but seeing as it doesn't happen it seems their system's stronger than I think
What, you thought I was actually going to wait?
Nah I lied incase you were listening, yeah you, I'm getting out of here and coming for that ahh
While I was busy ranting in my head for (who knows how long), the wheel slowly began to stop, and as I turned my focus to it, it slowly stopped at a character I knew all too well
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I remembered the day I first saw him on TV
I was 5 years old at the time, I walking back to the orphanage from the public library, when I saw him playing on a TV through a house window.
I was so entranced by it that I didn't even realised when I snuck to the windowpane.
There he was fighting off Dalek invasion, using nothing more than his intelligence and pure chaotic brilliance.
"The Doctor..." I whispered in amazement, as a tear rolls down my cheek
All those memories came rushing back,the afternoons watching through that window,
the library days hunting down anything Doctor Who,the promise I made to myself to watch everything from the First Doctor onward.
I never got the chance.
Dying kind of ruined the schedule.
After a moment, I pulled myself together and turned to the goddess.
"So.... how does this work? Will I become the doctor?" I said with excitement in my voice
I know I should be worried about losing who I am and becoming the character for real, but who's to say if who I currently think I am isn't some character made up in the mind of some broke ass madman
[A/N: Ouch]
Anyways with my intelligence I don't believe I would lose myself to some memory of someone else.
I'll just compartmentalize it
"Yes and no" She said with that sound of pity again in her voice
"Yes you'll receive most of all the doctor has, his memories, experiences, tools... but you won't become him. Your identity will be protected during the transfer. You will absorb the Doctor, not be overwritten by him."
"OK I understand, let's start please, this shouldn't take long, unlike the other times" I said with confidently
"Oh foolish child..." She said as she snapped again
And before I could begin to realise my foolishness, everything hit me at once.
New memories, knowledge I never knew I was missing
Habits, new instincts, quirks, pains triumphs
Strange energy surged through me.
Another heart began to grow.
My biology shifted into something… else.
Through all of it, I heard something.
A voice.
My voice.
Trying to ignore the biological chaos, I focused on the words spilling uncontrollably out of my mouth
"Hmm? Yes… quite so, oh my giddy aunt!, Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow! Would you like a jelly baby? BRAVE HEART, TEGAN! CHANGE, MY DEAR! UNLIMITED RICE PUDDING!"
My voice echoed through the space like a deranged cosmic echo chamber having a meltdown
I clutched my head as the torrent continued
"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning"
"NO MORE"
"Just this once, EVERYBODY LIVES!"
I could feel nine hundred years of moral speeches, witty comebacks, and accidental genocide trauma settle into my mind as my mouth continued to move
"Allon...sy! Geronimo! Fantastic! Oh, brilliant!"
"Do you know what I am?"
"I am an idiot with a box and a screwdriver, trying to help!"
"I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes, the dreamer of improbable dreams!"
"I've seen fake gods, bad gods, would-be gods, demigods!"
"No one else would ever have to live like this, no one else should ever have to feel this pain!"
"Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and... then! do the smart thing, let someone else try first"
"Come on then, take my memories, I've lived a long life, and seen a few things, I walked away from the last great time war, I marked the passing of the Time Lords, I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out!, moment by moment until nothing remained, no time, no space, just me, I walked in universes where the laws of physics where divined by the mind of a mad man, I've watched universes freeze and creation burn, I've seen things that you won't believe, I've lost things that you will never understand and I know things, secrets that must never be told, knowledge that must never be spoken!!"
"The man who stops the monsters"
"Hello, I'm The Doctor"
I said finally as I passed out for the nth and hopefully last time
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"Ugh, did anyone catch the plates on that truck?" I said
I could feel the memories, knowledge even habits begin to settle into my mind, how I still remain myself I don't understand but I'm grateful
Although I won't mind being the doctor but it's the principle, you know?
So now...
I'm the doctor 'Wait where's my Time and relative dimension in space'
"Where's my TARDIS?" I asked as the memories finally settle, I guess I was still a little glitchy
"You'll get it once you settle on the new world you're going to, now spin the wheel"
I look at the second wheel that would decide my next world and I hope I don't get one of those high-power-scaling death world.
I nudged the wheel to spin with a thought and after awhile it slows down
It passes pokemon
Avatar
John Wick...
It stops at a world I was hoping it didn't
"...Well f*ck me"
"Very well, good bye child, let's hope we do not meet again"
"Wait wait wait, let me choose another ple..."
"Sorry child, that's not how this works" She said as she snaps her fingers and I passed out... again
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A/N:
Hey everyone! Yeah… it's been a while. I know some of you have probably been wondering if I vanished into the Void, got kidnapped by time-traveling aliens, or simply abandoned the book altogether.
Well i got good news (depending on if you're my opp or not, yeah I see you😑)
I'm still here, and I'm NOT dropping this story.
Life just decided to hit me with a combo attack of work, stress, responsibilities, and a few unexpected quests. You know how it is.
But I'm back now, and I'll be upping the updates. I won't promise insane daily chapters (I value my sanity or whatever is left of it just a little), but I will be posting more consistently from here on out. Thank you all for your patience, for sticking around, and for still caring about this weird, wonderful story I'm building.
Your comments, reviews, and votes have honestly kept me going more than you know.
So buckle up, updates are coming.
Until the next chapter ✌️