Yet Another Time Round Daibhid and Bob the Muse were lost in the mists around Nameless. Again. "Trust me, Bob, I know where we are," Daibhid said confidently. "Last time you said that we ended up at Some Other Time Round," Bob reminded him. "That worked out okay in the end though didn't it?" "I don't actually *know* how it worked out in the end. Nor do you." "Oh, yeah," Daibhid mused, "I must finish that story sometime." Bob was just about to object to how meta this story was getting, which obviously would only have made it worse, when they both noticed a light in the distance. "Here we are!" Daibhid grinned, "I told you I knew where we were going." It certainly *looked* like Nameless, without the overreaching aura of sinisterness that permuated Otherside. Bob still had his misgivings, which increased when they ran into someone. "Is that ... Queenie?" Daibhid asked, "And why is she wearing a sort of Eighth Doctor costume?" "Well, because I'm the Eighth Doctor," the woman replied, "Nice to meet you both. Welcome to Flipside." Daibhid blinked confused. Flipside was another name for Otherside ... but this certainly wasn't Otherside. Bob closed his eyes. "The Eighth Doctor ... played by Miranda Richardson. As speculated about in the DWM #268 feature 'Who's That Girl'. Oh my gods, Daibid, you've managed to find *genderflip* Nameless!" The female Eighth ushered them into Yet Another Time Round. "Francoise, set these people up with whatever they want. I need to find my companions. You know, Sam, Fizz, Compassion, Tram and Isaac." "Isaac probably at Man of Steel Bar And Grill," growled the (presumably female) Ogron behind the bar. "Good thinking, I'll check there first," said the Doctor and disapeared. Daibhid ordered an Irn Bru, and Bob a pint of Turbot's Really Odd, and they looked round the bar. "Is that Fifth over there? I mean *our* Fifth," asked Daibhid. "It looks like him, only even younger. And ... wearing a school uniform complete with cap?" Before Bob could comment, a woman resembling Frances de la Tour in a bohemian dress and a ludicrously wide silk scarf burst into the room. "Ah, there you are, Roman," she said to the Fifth-lookalike, "I've been looking everywhere". Daibhid shook his head. "Weirder and weirder." "You think that's weird? There's a guy at that table who looks like Bradley James from Merlin wearing a Union Jack T-shirt, and I'm pretty sure I heard someone call him Ross Tyler." "O-kay..." Daibhid noticed someone else. A man who looked uncannily like David McCallum in a dark jacket of feminine cut. "Who's that? Another companion?" "That male Doctor from Curse of Fatal Death," explained Francoise. "You want lunch? Brother Charles very good chef." "Ah, thanks," said Bob, finishing his drink, "But I think we'd better leave before Daibhinah and Bobbi the Muse show up and *really* freak Daibh out." "Argh, yeah, thanks for bringing up *that* possibility," agreed Daibhid, draining the last of his 'Bru. "Hey," Daibhid noticed as they left, "There's a version of Look Who's Talking over there." "Daibhid," said Bob, "Do me a favour. If you ever find yourself drawn to visit the genderflipped toddlers, or indeed the evil, genderflipped, toon toddlers? *Don't* feel you have to bring me along..." [Disclaimer: This Time Round created by Tyler Dion. Francoise based on Francois created by BK Willis. The Man of Steel based on the Steel Maiden, also created by BK Willis. Some Other Time Round created by KM Wilcox. Look Who's Talking created by Imran Inayat. Miranda Richardson's Doctor, Frances de la Tour's Doctor and Peter Davison's Roman are, as Bob says, lifted from a DWM article by Alan Barnes. Other characters are the product of my own deranged imagination, inspired by that article. Written purely because TTR's TV Tropes page pointed out one standard fanfic AU that *doesn't* have its own place Outside. I think I've demonstrated why not...] -- Dave Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically ... run.