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==={DW:NG}===
It took a bit for Luke and Michael to read the notification the first time, but a bit longer to re-read the notification a couple more times. Neither of them could have expected that the future version of Luke was also plotting to send his own past self into other universes too, but the System itself was quick to realize that before either of them could.
"So, what's next?" Luke mentally sighed after re-reading the notification for the third time. "Will I get a call from the Galactic Republic by a Jedi Master or will there be some other place that needs my help far before I'm ready?"
"Let's hope that you didn't just raise another flag," Michael replied back, similarly sighing in contempt for his younger brother slash host. "It's bad enough that your own future self has let us gain the qualifications to go into another universe, unprompted by the System, but if you tempt fate like that, who knows what'llhappen?"
"You're right," Luke whispered to himself in exasperation. "We already have our hands full trying to deal with a regretful Time Lord over the fact of the Time War happening. We shouldn't try tempting fate like that."
Luke understood that, with events happening the way they were going, he would able to stop the Krillitanes from using the kids' souls to crack the Skasis Paradigm and probably also prevent the school from being too destroyed due to the aliens getting blown up by K9. He also knew that this would allow him to meet with Sarah Jane and potentially be able to have some semblance of trust already built up with another companion of the Doctor's when the Daleks attempt to destroy the whole of creation using the Reality Bomb.
Avoiding talking to his father about what happened with Sora's call, Luke went back to his bedroom. When he returned to his bedroom, exhaling in some small relief due to the familiar safe space, he let himself process everything. This meant that he wanted to go over his game plan for the canon event before he had to get involved.
While he went over the game plan to deal with the Krillitanes, Luke discovered that the plan carried enormous risk of exposing his existence to UNIT and Torchwood. This is mainly because there are aliens (and the Doctor) duking it out in a small school campus and both government agencies tend to investigate anything alien. Despite not being worried about UNIT knowing that someone else was there, Luke's primary concerns lay with Torchwood.
By the time of the canon episode School Reunion, both the Doctor and Rose would have already encountered the werewolf and Queen Elizabeth would have already begun establishing the Torchwood Institute in response to knowing that aliens are everywhere. The regime that would be in charge of Torchwood currently are people who adhere strongly to the original founding charter penned by Queen Elizabeth and, to Luke's knowledge, are the worst sort of humans that he refused to allow knowing of his existence. While most are scientists and more interested in studying the alien, he disliked those who were xenophobic to such an extent.
Well, he can at least understand the humans from the Warhammer Universe and the reason for being paranoid xenophobes. He never liked the Ruinous Powers and their schemes anyway.
"So," Luke muttered to himself as he reviewed what he knew would happen from the show, "the Krillitanes will use the childrens' souls to break a god-maker theory in order to turn reality into their own plaything. Their leader, Brother Lassar, will attempt to convert the Doctor to their plan by saying how he could stop the Time War using the power granted by the Paradigm, but Sarah Jane will stop him from doing so as the old order is worth keeping. This will inevitably lead into K9 blowing up the school and killing all of the Krillitanes as a result."
"That's how it is supposed to go, yes," Michael replied to Luke in his mind as he understood what Luke was doing. "But, in canon, you didn't exist. Nothing major got changed because of your presence here, but this will inevitably change a few things. We already know that Fifteen knows who you are and what you are, but we are still at the point where the Doctor only knows you from how you helped with the Sycorax. He doesn't know your true identity yet."
"In a way, I'm like River Song but a male," Luke responded with a soft smirk. "Except that River is a badass archaeologist from the future and is constantly meeting the Doctor in the wrong order."
"True," Michael replied calmly. "While we are an anomaly in this iteration of the Whoniverse. We know the important people, the crisis points, and how things are supposed to go, but not everything inbetween. It isn't even new news to point out that both the TARDIS and, eventually, River Song herself already know about us due to our future selves interacting with them."
"That reminds me," Luke said as his attention focused on a specific episode of canon. "Do you think we will be able to visit the Library with the Vashta Nerada?"
"I'm sure we will be able to," Michael replied again, but pensive this time. "It is in the quest list and is a notable point in time to visit. Perhaps you'll have something to do there with both River and Charlotte?"
"I'm sure I can give her access to Gielinor through a type of virtual reality node," Luke smiled as he remembered the poor girl hidden away at the core of the planet. "Doctor Moon too, but that's only if they both will allow me to install software that will enable a type of virtual reality node. I'd probably need the TARDIS to make such a technological node for me since I doubt I'll have anyone from Gielinor make one for me. The technological advancement of that planet is stuck in the medieval ages with the advent of runes."
"Why not use pure rune essence and inscribe the matrix into the hardware like Rune Script?" Michael inquired.
"Possibly, but that will have to wait until we get to that point," Luke replied as he stopped trying to review and went into the Voidship. "For now, I want to prepare for the worst of this. The Doctor will be able to outwit the Krillitanes and stop them from destroying this universe, but I refuse to leave things to pure chance when I can prepare to bring those that the Krillitanes kill to safety. In a way."
"What do you mean 'In a way,' Luke?" Michael inquired as they walked into the command deck of the Voidship.
"I mean," Luke began as he set coordinates to the mainland of Gielinor into the console, "that I'm going to introduce him much earlier than I originally planned to."
When he hit the "Enter" key, the engines softly whirred to life and the ship dematerialized.
===[DW:NG]===
Continued in: School Reunion III.