"You can't do this!" Mechanicles screamed as Cyber Planner placed him in the Suppression Ring along with the others. "I am your creator!"

"We understand this," Cyber Planner said, his monotone voice never altering as he checked the Greek's bindings. "You sought to perfect us but did not see that you yourself were flawed. We do not blame you for this mistake... you are only human, after all. It is not your fault that you are the imperfect creature you are. We shall soon correct this mistake."

"Aladdin, please!" Jasmine pleaded.

For just a moment the Planner paused only to tremble slightly and make his way back to the switch. "You are all flawed. You fail to see these errors. The flaw will be eliminated. They will be removed and you shall be upgraded." He flipped the first switch and the group tensed as electricity arced through them. It felt as if they were all suddenly suffering from a massive migraine. After several moments there was a lull and they all slumped forward, panting.

"Mechanicles!" the Doctor shouted, struggling against his restraints as the Cyber Planner readied for Phase 2. "There must be a fault in the design! Tell us!"

The inventor moaned, eyes blinking as the Planner began to ready the second stage of the Conversion. "I made them too perfect. My genius created a machine beyond even me. Oh, what a horrid-"

Kristoff arched forward, spittle flying from his lips as he roared, "listen to me you overgrown watchmaker! You think you're so smart? PROVE IT! You invented these things you can sure as hell defeat them! Now think!"

The Doctor hadn't been paying attention to Kristoff. Instead, he'd been watching the Cybermen that waited in the wings, ready to begin the process of armoring them once the Cyber Planner was done with the mass conversion. Something touched the back of his mind but it wasn't the Upgrade Device... no, this was a familiar feeling, the sense that he was missing something important, something he had to notice.

"Aladdin!" Jasmine screamed.

The Doctor's eyes widened when he saw the Planner and his soldiers stutter for a moment. "Of course... oh, this is brilliant, utterly brilliant!"

"Doctor?" Anna asked, her face ashen from the throbbing pain in her skull. "What is it?"

"The fatal flaw," the Doctor said with a smirk.

The Planner turned. "You are incorrect, Doctor. We are perfected. You are bluffing... a rather human trait."

"Lucky for me then that I'm not human... because I'm certainly not bluffing. Mechanicles here DID make a mistake... not a large one, mind you. An itty bitty one... barely noticeable. It wouldn't be a bother if it hadn't been for you, Cyber Planner. You've taken that mistake and nurtured it and made it grow into the fatal flaw that will bring you and your entire Cyber Army crashing down."

The Planner merely stared at him. "You are attempting to elicit an emotional response in the hopes it will return me to the error-ridden being I once was. It will not work."

"But it already has," the Doctor said with a laugh. His mood instantly changed, growing dark and fierce. The Cyber Planner found himself taking a step back... and for the first time since being turned on the calm darkness within his head flickered with pinpricks of light. He dimly recalled such a feel was called… fear. "Did you know that chaos is a natural result of any intelligent system? They've done studies about it-"

"Enough talk," the Planner commanded, throwing the second switch. The group went tense as the second blast went through them, their bodies trembling and shaking in agony. They could feel something clawing at their minds, like a wolf trying to sneak in so it might rip apart anything it found and leave only emptiness in its wake. The Cyber Planner watched as they screamed. "The pain is caused by your emotions. Only by embracing the Upgrade will it end."

The Doctor forced himself to sit up a bit more, his eyes snapping open as he glared at the Planner. "You can try with all your power to keep a system stable but every time you add a new variable the chance for chaos increases. One has a slight delay, a mistake is made, and slowly things become more and more compounded until all order is loss! Oh, you can set up safeguards and try to create course corrections but no matter what you do chaos will always return."

"D-Doctor..." Anna gasped out.

The Time Lord however didn't pay any attention to the pain he and his friends were suffering. "You made a mistake, Cyber Planner! By creating your hive mind it allows you better control of the Cybermen but the neural pathway runs both ways! You aren't just in contact with us... we're in contact with you! And while you might be able to handle one of us I doubt even you can handle us all!"

The Cyber Planner merely shook his head. "You fail to understand, Doctor. The pathway that has been created via the repression gems is guarded... your pain will not affect me. Now, we must-"

YOU'RE RIGHT, DOCTOR... THE CUSTARD REALLY MAKES THE FISH FINGERS TASTE BETTER

The Cyber Planner let out a cry, clutching his head. Flashes of the Doctor sitting on a couch with two people, enjoying their strange treat, burned through the peaceful darkness that was his mind. The mental attack on the others suddenly faded as the Cybermen struggled to remain standing. Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Jasmine, and Mechanicles all stared in shock then turned to look at the Doctor, who was smirking in triumph.

"You can handle one emotion, block it off... but introduce a conflicting emotion and it befuddles you!" The Doctor exclaimed. He looked at the others and nodded as the Cybermen struggled to regain control of themselves. "No time to gloat... we need to end this right now before the Cyber Planner is able to correct the flaw."

"Doctor, what was that?" Jasmine asked. She had seen the memory the Doctor had been focusing on... no, no she had felt it. Lived it. She could taste the custard on her tongue and for a second the hard chair she was strapped to had become a comfortable couch. Glancing around she could see that the others had felt it just as she had.

"The pathway is open to all of us. By using it we'll be able to free Aladdin and the rest of the Cybermen."

"What do we do?" Elsa asked.

"Each of you needs to focus on a different emotion. We have to bombard them with thoughts and feelings from across the spectrum. Only the most extreme, so sadness, hate, love, and happiness will do just fine. Keep cycling through them, any order you want. They have to be memories seared to your soul, ones you will cling to until you're dying day. The more painful or wonderful, the better!" The Doctor looked up as the Cyber Planner began to stand again. "Everyone ready? No? Too bad! NOW!"

The Cyber Planner stood up, trying to grab for the final switch, but before he could he felt himself being struck by a flurry of emotions and memories.

OH, LOOK AT YOU CUTIES... I'M GONNA KEEP YOU!

GET OUT OF HERE, EGGHEAD!

HELLO SWEETIE

YOUR SISTER'S DEAD... BECAUSE OF YOU

A WHOLE NEW WORLD

WE ONLY HAVE EACH OTHER... WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?

DO THE MAGIC, ELSA, DO THE MAGIC

YOU'LL NEVER WIN, MECHANICLES

SVEN, COME ON, THEY'RE LEAVING! DON'T LEAVE WITHOUT US!

I LIKE THE GATES OPEN

THE PRINCESS CAN MARRY WHOEVER SHE WISHES

ALLOW ME, ELSA! POW!

OH, MY DARLING MACHINE... SO PERFECT

I CAN'T GO BACK! JUST GO ANNA

HE NEVER RAISED HIS VOICE, THAT WAS THE WORST THING...

YOU'RE… YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A THIEF!

MOTHER... NO, MOTHER NO, DON'T GO

YES... I WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN...

YOU SACRIFICED YOURSELF FOR ME?

YES... I DID IT! THE PERFECT DEVICE!

I COULD KISS YOU... CAN I? I MEAN...

JAFAR! I'LL NEVER BE YOUR SLAVE

The Cybermen were screaming, their metal-covered hands gripping their helmets as they fell to their knees in agony. The raw emotions were flooding through them, overloading the Suppression Crystals on their foreheads. The Cyber Planner was on one knee, still struggling to fight off the mental attack. His hand lashed out and struck the container holding Genie, cracking it.

The glass shattered and Genie, resembling the wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin, burst out amid a blast of fireworks. "What? What?" Genie exclaimed before zipping over and freeing Jasmine, Elsa, Anna and Kristoff from their chairs. He transformed into a little old lady in a blonde wig and patted their heads. "Now just sit right there and rest up, your Auntie Genie will take care of the rest."

Before he could free the Doctor though the Cyber Planner, struggling with all his mental power to overcome the emotional assault, hurled himself at the Time Lord, his cold hand wrapping around the Doctor's throat. "No... more!" the Cyber Planner shouted.

The crystal that was still upon the Doctor's head sparked and glowed. The Time Lord stared at the creature that had been Aladdin and felt something click in his head. A door he had long sealed, that he'd thought buried and forgotten, cracked open and before he could stop it he let the memories slip forth.

No more.

TIME LORDS OF GALLIFREY, DALEKS OF SKARO.

DID YOU EVER COUNT?

I SERVE NOTICE ON YOU ALL

HOW MANY CHILDREN THERE WERE ON GALLIFREY THAT DAY?

FOR TOO LONG I HAVE STAYED MY HAND; NO MORE

2.47 BILLION

TODAY YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE

ONE DAY, YOU WILL COUNT THEM. ONE TERRIBLE NIGHT

TODAY THIS WAR ENDS

NO MORE

NO MORE

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Aladdin screamed, ripping the helmet and mask from his face, the Suppression Crystal cracked and its surface a smokey black as he hurled them away. His hands fell from the Doctor's throat and instead grabbed onto the Time Lord's lapels, clinging to them like a child would his mother's skirt. Tears poured from his eyes as he stared at the Doctor, utter despair and terror written across his features. And then... just as quickly as the terror had appeared, it faded and left only a quiet, morose acceptance. "What I did, I did without choice. In the name of peace and sanity."

The Doctor's hand shook as Genie freedom him, the others quiet and still as the Doctor gently reached up and took Aladdin's head in his own, pressing hsi forehead against the hero's. "No... not you. Not you." He did not know where the words came from but the Doctor could not stop them from pouring from his lips. It was like the lyrics to a song he'd long forgotten the tune to. "You are a great man… forged in fire… and it is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame." A pulse of orange energy was pulled from Aladdin and he slumped down, out cold. The Doctor slowly stood, Jasmine rushing to her husband's side. The Doctor looked towards his companions and, for the first time, they truly saw him as he was: the old man who bore the weight of the universe upon his shoulders.

"Doctor..." Elsa said softly.

The Doctor held up his hand. "It's over... it's all over."

~MC~MC~MC~

~MC~MC~MC~

"And you're sure Mechanicles will be secure?" Jasmine asked.

"He'll never be a threat to you again." The Doctor said simply.

It had been two long days after they'd rescued Aladdin and ended the threat of the Cybermen. Genie and the Doctor had worked to free the men and women captured by Mechanicles and undo all he'd done to them. Luck had been on their side; unlike the Cybermen the Doctor had faced before, Mechanicles had merely covered them in armor and allowed the Suppression Crystal to do most of the work. The kidnapped people had been unharmed physically.

Mentally was a different story.

The Doctor had assured them that none would remember what had occurred to them. But the brain was a funny thing and he knew that buried deep within were the memories of their time as Cybermen. They may bubble up within their darkest nightmares but, at the very least, such thoughts would not haunt them when the sun shone bright. Mechanicles' victims were given back their possessions and allowed to go on their way, given a bit of small compensation in the form of gold seized from the madman's lab.

As for the mad inventor that had started the entire mess the Doctor had decided he simply could not leave him running around in the past. Mechanicles had come too close to dooming them all and he wouldn't risk this world on the chance he would never attempt to make the Cybermen again. The Time Lord got the impression that Mechanicles was not the type of man to just give up when an invention failed; it was more likely he'd continue to try and create better Cybermen that were free of the 'flaws' that had seen them turn on him. The Doctor was kind… but he wasn't a fool.

"Where did you send him?" Anna asked as she passed Abu a piece of banana. The Doctor had left them in the care of their new Agrabah friends while he took care of Mechanicles, disappearing in the TARDIS for half a day before returning.

The Time Lord smirked. "Have you ever heard the saying 'A genius ahead of his time'?" When the others nodded the Doctor continued, rubbing his hands together in glee. "Well, I decided to do the reverse."

"The reverse?" Aladdin asked from his spot on the lounging couch; Jasmine had given him strict orders to rest while he recovered from his ordeal and Genie had been very watchful of him, not letting him even feed himself. While some might have enjoyed the pampering Aladdin was aching to get back to normal.

"I sent him to the year 789,455. Very highly advanced... I'd say that all his knowledge would rank right up there with one of their 1st graders but I've seen the spelling lists those tykes have to study..."

Kristoff chuckled at that, checking Sven over one last time to make sure they had everything. "Well, I say even that is too good for him."

"As do I," Jasmine said before walking over to Elsa. "You don't have to leave so soon... you only just got here."

"I know but this was always just supposed to be a short trip. The Doctor wants to show us so many things and I'll admit I'm quite curious to see just what he has planned."

"And it isn't like they can't visit!" Genie said, zooming over to give Anna and Olaf a hug. "I mean, come on, the throne room is always open! And if you get tired of the phone booth we can have a sleepover in my lamp!"

"That reminds me!" The Doctor said, reaching into his pockets and, after a few seconds of rummaging, finally found what he was looking for. He held out the cell phone that would have been better placed in Amy and Rory's time than in their current era and handed it to Aladdin. "Simply press the blue button and it will dial me right up. Try not to do it unless I'm really needed or you are having a swinging party... cellular plan isn't the greatest."

"Thank you," Aladdin said, handing the phone off to Genie; he figured his friend would better understand how to work the device.

"Genie," the Doctor said, holding out his hand. "I have never been so happy to be wrong about another being as I am right now."

"Me too, Doc, me too," Genie said, sniffing back fat tears. "Oh, what the hay! Group hug!" His arms stretched out and he drew everyone in, giving them a giant hug. "Don't be strangers now, ok?"

"We won't!" Anna said as Genie released them and they headed for the TARDIS. "We'll see you later!"

The Arendelle group waved one last time before the Doctor shut the TARDIS' doors, Aladdin, Jasmine, Abu, and Genie watching as the box faded out of sight... and out of their lives.

Inside the TARDIS the Doctor moves about the controls. "Now then, where to next? China just before the Mongol invasion? San Frantokyo? Treasure Planet-"

"Uh, Doctor?" Kristoff called out. "Something just spat out of this... thing." He gestured towards a device that resembled a futuristic fax machine. A sheet of paper had popped out and was barely dangling from the lip of the device. Kristoff was avoiding it, lest it be some monster that would attack him. Knowing the Doctor, he wouldn't be surprised if that happened.

"What does it say?" the Doctor asked in interest.

Elsa grabbed the paper and looked it over. "It says: 'Hey, I just met you... and this is crazy... so here's my number... call me maybe?'." The snow queen looked up at the Time Lord in confusion. "What does that mean?"

The Doctor's face split into a wide grin as he threw a switch. "It means our next stop is Olympus!"

~MC~MC~MC~

NEXT TIME:

The Doctor: (Emerging from the TARDIS and looking about a landscape made of clouds) Ah, leave it to you glowy fellows to always make a Time Lord feel welcomed!

(The scene shifts to a gathering of gods. Hercules holds out his hand to Kristoff.)

Hercules: So, are you in the hero business too?

Kristoff: Ice, actually... (he glances at Anna). But somehow I keep ending up playing hero...

(Scene cuts to a Greek island. We see the Doctor, Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, Sven, Hercules, Phil, Pegasus, and Meg walking along the beach, other Greek heroes spread out along the shores as well)

Zeus (voiceover): We've been having problems here for a while and decided to make a game of it. Each of us picked a hero and whichever one defeats the monster wins.

Anna (Voiceover): And just what are we looking for?

(The Doctor, his Companions, and Herc's team all freeze as the forest trembles, a terrible howl coming from its depths. We see shots of them running, with the final moment being Kristoff in a dark cave, eyes wide as a massive red beast slowly moves towards him.)

Hera (Voiceover): A hound.

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