The Mercy Seat

 

I am The Bad Wolf -- I create MySelf. 

I take The Words : I scatter them, 

in Time and Space;

A Message to lead MySelf, Here.

TIME LADY : 

Sir, we have a security breach 

to The Time Vaults.

GENERAL : 

The Omega Arsenal, where all 

the forbidden weapons 

are locked away --

ANDROGAR : 

They're not forbidden any more. 

We've used them all 

against the Daleks.

GENERAL : 

No. No, we haven't.

[Omega Arsenal]

(A plinth is empty.)

GENERAL : 

The Moment is gone.

ANDROGAR : 

I don't understand. 

What is The Moment? 

I've never heard of it.

GENERAL : 

The Galaxy-Eater. The final work 

of The Ancients of Gallifrey. 

A weapon so powerful, 

The Operating System 

became sentient. 

According to Legend, 

it developed a Conscience.

ANDROGAR : 

And we've never used it.

GENERAL : 

How Do You Use a Weapon of 

Ultimate Mass Destruction, 

when it can 

STAND in Judgment on You? 

There is only one man 

who would even try.....

[Desert planet]

The Warrior : 

Time Lords of Gallifrey, 

Daleks of Skaro, 

I serve notice on You ALL -- 

Too long I have stayed 

My Hand.... No More. 

Today, You leave Me NO Choice --

Today, This War will END. 

No More. 

No More.

(The Warrior shifts the sack he is carrying 

on his back and enters a lonely barn.)

[Barn]

(He puts down the sack and reveals 

a brass inlaid clockwork box.)

The Warrior : 

How.... How Do You work...? 

...why is there never a big red button?

(He hears scuffling noises, and opens the door.)

The Warrior : 

Hello? Is somebody there?

The Moment : 

It's nothing.

(A blonde woman who looks exactly like Rose Tyler 

is sitting on The Clockwork Box.)

The Moment :

It's just A Wolf.

The Warrior :

Don't sit on that!

The Moment : 

Why not?

The Warrior :

Because it's not A Chair, 

it's The Most Dangerous 

Weapon in The Universe..!!

(He hurries her from the barn and closes the door behind her. And there she is, sitting on the box.)

The Moment : 

Why can't it be both? 

Rangers, as a reward for coming on this trip,

I have gotten you each Two Gifts.

Go ahead. Open 'em.

What is this?

That is a Canvas Sheet,

The Most Versatile Object Known to Man --

It can be used to make tents, backpacks,

shoes, stretchers, sails, tarpaulins,

and I suppose, in the most dire of circumstances,

it can be a surface on which to make "art."

What's the second gift?

The Second Gift, 

is The Box, itself.

You have 10 minutes 

to assemble A Shelter,

using only your 

Two Gifts -- Go.