Thread:The Purpur Man/@comment-26173711-20191202211201/@comment-36309590-20191209080218

Glitchee123z wrote: As the Vortex Lance continued to slam against the Malice’s barrier, the airborne Pandora only grew larger in numbers and more aggressive, to the point where they began destroying the tendrils.

The commanding Malice’s barrier was almost destroyed. Panicked, it opened a rift and retreated through it, reappearing atop a building. The crew of the Valor powered down the beam while simultaneously retracting the tendrils back into their original spike form along the exo-shell and raising the ships Farquazi Force Field via linking the Extrapolator to the TARDIS Heart, forming a protective barrier around the craft. Removing another Time Torpedo from chronic stasis, they set it for a week long duration-skipping the bubble field portion that would allow the target to remain conscious while suspended-and launch it from one of the Valor's many warp silos. This time, however, they launch it a few nanoseconds before the Malice arrived on the rooftop and just a bit towards its back left.

The occupants of the TARDIS watch various readouts scroll along several different screens, indicating the torpedo had been successfully warped. A few seconds or so later, the entire ship shuddered as it updated its event boundaries, letting its Time Lord inhabitants watch a replay of sorts of the Malice's previous actions from a nearby viewscreen, before the torpedo slammed into it.

Dreth smiled, as the crew went about activating a transmat, bringing the creature aboard and storing it in a newly added holding cell. Their mission complete, they were just about to dematerialize, when time froze. An event that raised an interesting question, that being who'd stopped it? Granted, the inhabitants of the Valor wouldn't lose any awareness from this scenario, and Gallifrey would be completely unaffected thanks to the combination of a Transduction Barrier and Quantum Forcefield that effectively placed it in its own space-time continuum, but they still disliked the fact that something or someone else was currently bending time to their own will.