Travel Companions

I've been
Traveling with the Doc, but only just for a minute
We arrived on a spot and quickly became the victims of a
Mental assault
Strange aliens attacking his brain to make it stop, he asked me to keep him chatting
It gave him a focus, so he could start to battle them
He started babbling 'bout all the people he met traveling
I didn't know so many more came before me, and in his rough state, he began to tell their stories

First: his granddaughter Susan
Loved what he was doin', even when the Time Lords refused him
Even when he stole a capsule to get in some travel
She went with him, that old man would need some humanoid companionship
And the git got more than he bargained when he parked in a junkyard on Earth
Susan got followed
Her teachers wanted to speak ta’ her guardian, but then it only got worse for Chatterton and Barbara
Now on a journey through Time and Space
Hated them at the start, but Earthlings grew on him
He knew Sue was in love with one, so he left her behind
Who wouldn't want the best for their granddaughter?

That was a trend starter, meet folks, lose folks, rescue them from slaughter like Vicky, or Stevan Taylor, stowaway on the TARDIS
Conflicts with aliens will get some of them in real danger
Sara Kingdom aged ta’ an early death was I next?
Katarina kidnapped and blown out an airlock
How long have I got?
Shook my head and ignored the thought
Meeting people didn't stop anyway
Dodo sneezed nearly killed the human race
Ben and Polly saw him regenerate to a newer face
Victoria saved from Daleks
An unlikely pair, you could say of Astrophysicist genius and the warrior that came from Scotland circa Seventeen-Forty-Six
That was Zoe and Jamie, forced to forget their trips after Doc got caught by his people again
That was a trend
Forced regeneration and left to fend for himself on Earth, he just went to work for UNIT
A Task Force overqualified to do it
In charge was the Brigadier Lethbridge Stuart, Liz
Shaw on the Science
Jo Grant got into it thanks to Daddy pulling strings, but proved herself when things got hellish won't regret it, cause the planet got defended on a weekly basis

Enter: Sarah Jane Smith, a brave investigative journalist, one of his favorites
Harry Sullivan came a few times, but faced it, he wasn't really up for the unpredictable changes in Life, and Sarah Jane was forbidden to go with him to his home
Wasn't for long that he travelled alone
He met the Sevateem Tribe warrior named Leela, put a knife to your neck if you ever displease her
But she just stayed behind with K-9 on Gallifrey, and she was safe, so that's fine, he made the Mark Two
Then forced to talk to the White Guardian and get a new partner too Romanadvoratrelundar: a sub par Time Lady at the start, but proved to have the smarts to find the Key to Time
In time, she had the heart for adventure
That led them to E-Space where she stayed aground
They found a boy named Adric, a stowaway, continued with him, met Nyssa and Tegan to know the weight of loss: to lose an aunt, a father, entire home planet, and Adric on a ship that crashed in-
To Earth in the past
This act wiped out the dinosaurs
Can't cross your timeline to save people you might've lost
That would rip a whole in the Space-Time Continuum "brave heart, Tegan"
They all got on, and continued with adventures
The venture became too much eventually
Nyssa left to heal the sick, Tegan, to save her sanity

But not before Turlough arrived alien working for the Black Guardian as a spy
This seemed to be a theme: Kamelion, an android, taken over by the Master for evil schemes
Turlough repented, went back to his people
Kamelion accepted that he'd never be free so, he
Asked to be dropped
Got stopped from kidnapping a young botany student with a very odd accent by the name of Peri, wearing very low scoop tops
Melanie was almost the opposite, ‘cause she knew lots, always had a sunny disposition and a photographic memory
If you ever need something blown to smithereens, best call an Ace But don't ever call her Dorothy, called him the Professor, while Grace called him abnormal
She had no idea when she was operating on him, he had
Two hearts
Nearly stopped his regeneration, but played a huge part in stopping Armageddon
But he couldn't stop forgetting what he did for what seemed like a lotta years, maybe nine
Then he said the name "Rose," when I tried, to find out more about her, he just said "another time, another place"
Adam Mitchell was a waste
Better off with Captain Jack, despite his flirting ways set to "maximum"
Mickey finally came, ‘cause he was jealous of the action when Rose was away
But he lost all of them, an accident, too much to explain
Martha Jones first got trapped in a Hospital on the moon
But pretty soon she was traveling with the Doc
He told me of an alt’ timeline when the Master had nearly killed them all but she acted with the utmost of courage, just to save him, her fam’ and the whole planet
She stayed, he left to hang with a temp from Chiswick who was more than she insisted she was, because, simply she was to become the most important person in the universe
Stopped the Daleks, but at a price: forget it or lose the rest of her Life
Her mind would burn, so the Doc had to block the trauma
She'd never know that aliens would be singing 'bout Donna
This drama proved to be too much
He needed a break, despite meeting Astrid, or Wilfred or Jackson Lake, or meeting Lady Christina DeSouza or Adelaide on Mars
Had a little problem there playing God
New start, met Amy Pond, “the girl who waited too long”
Nearly lost her husband to the past and her daughter to the
Future
Then there was Doctor River Song, had Romance in reverse, knew all about him while he grew ta’ fall in love
Sadly that’s not enough
Angels would stop the run of good luck with Amy and Rory
Sent back to the past
This changes the story of their whole life
They were trapped, but together, so they made it through alright
But “wrong” for the Doc, who was lost and distraught, ‘til he came across a girl of impossibilities, burnt chocolate soufflé, and stories carried in a leaf
And then a little later, he met me