The white void churned like an ocean in the middle of a storm. Winds tore fragments from other worlds—chunks of buildings, twisted metal, entire trees ripped from their roots. And in the center of it all, the anomaly blazed like a wounded sun, a sphere of pure light spinning in madness, surrounded by lightning bolts that slashed through space itself. Each strike ripped open fresh cracks in reality.
"Endeavour! See that shiny ball over there that looks like it wants to kill everything that's ever existed?" the Doctor shouted, springboarding off a floating beam. "That's where we're going!"
Endeavour glared at him, his body blazing with blue fire, steam curling off his skin.
"You're insane!" he barked, blocking the creature's clawed strike with his forearm. The Void-Eater roared with animal fury, its charred body still moving, still hungry.
"Me? Oh, completely!" the Doctor yelled back, spinning in midair to land on a slab of debris. "But guess what? It works!"
The beast lunged again. Endeavour met it head-on, his fist a comet of blue flame smashing into its skull. The blow cracked through the void like a cannon blast, scattering debris like paper. The monster reeled back, hissing, its skin splintering like burning coal.
Inside the TARDIS, Usagi peeked out the door, eyes wide and trembling.
"What is that thing…? It's horrible!"
Shiryu stood with arms folded, trying to keep his composure, though his furrowed brow betrayed him.
"That… is not of this world. Nor of any world I know. But…" He glanced at the Doctor. "That man… no cosmos. And yet he moves as if danger doesn't exist."
"Because it doesn't!" the Doctor shouted from a distance, his voice carrying perfectly through the impossible acoustics of the void. "Well—actually it does! I just choose to ignore it!"
The Void-Eater suddenly lunged for the Doctor. Endeavour cut it off, slamming his flaming body into the monster's path.
"Stay focused on your job!" Endeavour growled, shoving the beast back with an explosion of fire. "I've got this!"
"Oh, I love this! Improvised teamwork!" the Doctor called as he kicked off a floating chunk of steel toward the sphere of light.
Now, he was face-to-face with the anomaly, a swirling, incandescent heart tearing the void apart. Bolts of energy cracked through the space around him, ripping shreds of entire worlds into the storm. The Doctor whipped out his sonic screwdriver, aiming it at the sphere.
"Come on, beautiful… tell me what's hurting you," he murmured, scanning the wild pulse of data streaming from it like a panicked heartbeat. The readings were chaos incarnate.
"Oh, that's not good… that's very not good. That's—oh, absolutely catastrophic! But nothing a little quantum balance can't fix!"
A lightning bolt nearly vaporized him. The Doctor ducked in midair, clinging to a jagged metal shard.
"Whoops! Almost fried me before I even got to save you! Bit ironic, don't you think?"
Meanwhile, Endeavour was locked in a savage brawl with the creature. Every strike was an inferno of blue fire ripping across the void. The Void-Eater, weakened but rabid, snapped its jaws, trying to crush his arm—only to choke on a blast of fire that erupted straight down its throat. It reeled back with an unearthly scream.
"Doctor!" Endeavour roared between breaths, still hammering the beast. "You'd better finish this fast!"
"Oh sure, because I wasn't already trying!" the Doctor shot back, spinning the sonic in his fingers and cranking up its frequency. Its hum cut through the roar of the storm.
"Come on, come on… stabilize…" He slammed the final setting, and the sonic flared like a spark in the darkness. The anomaly shuddered—its lightning slowing, its glare dimming.
"Yes! That's it, darling! Breathe! Well—you don't have lungs, but you get the idea!"
The void convulsed one last time. The Void-Eater gave a final, guttural roar before erupting into a cyclone of ash and smoke, consumed by blue flames. Endeavour floated in the aftermath, chest heaving, sweat vaporizing on contact with his heat.
The Doctor twisted the sonic one last time. With a deep, resonant hum, the anomaly contracted like a collapsing star… and then held steady, glowing like a harmless little sun.
Cracks in reality began to knit shut. Winds faded. Silence crept back in.
The Doctor floated, grinning like a madman.
"See, Endeavour? Easy! Well… easy in my language, which translates to 'extremely dangerous but ridiculously fun.'"
Endeavour stared at him in disbelief.
"You're out of your mind."
"Correct!" the Doctor beamed, pointing toward the TARDIS. "Now… let's go home! Well—temporary home. Because something tells me… this is just the beginning."
The camera drifted wide as they pushed off toward the TARDIS, the last remnants of chaos vanishing into the void behind them.