Mostly this is a recap of the ending of Last of the Timelords, the series 3 finale, introducing the change at the end. If you have not already seen it or The End of Time, I do not recommend reading this fanfiction. I also recommend having seen The Stolen Earth/Journey's End The events of a few other episodes will be here, but they will play out differently enough that this fanfiction will only have minor spoilers for the majority. You can review if you want, but there may not be a whole lot to review yet. It might be better to wait until chapter 2 comes out.

The Master's voice resounds across the planet, "Citizens of Earth, rejoice and observe!" It was the day his fleet launched, turning Earth into a warship. On the Valiant, the guards bring in Martha Jones. She was just captured, and the weapon she had crossed the world to retrieve to destroy the Master was itself destroyed at the hands of the Master's laser screwdriver. Two guards march Martha onto the flight deck of the Valiant, the flying UNIT aircraft carrier, which the Master had helped design and made his base when he took over the world and brought in his army of Toclafane. The Master holds out a hand. "Your teleport device, in case you thought I'd forgotten." Martha tosses the Master her vortex manipulator. "And now, kneel." Martha kneels. "Down below, the fleet is ready to launch. Two hundred thousand ships ready to blaze across the universe. Are we ready?" A man over an intercom says, "The fleet awaits your signal. Rejoice!" The Master turns back to Martha. "At zero, to mark this day, the child, Martha Jones, will die. My first blood. Any last words? No? Such a disappointment, this one." The Master walks over to the Doctor in his cage. "Days of old, Doctor, you had companions who could absorb the time vortex. This one's useless!" He walks back to Martha." Bow your head. And so it falls to me, as Master of all, to establish from this day, a new order of Time Lords. From this day forward…" He notices Martha is laughing.

"What? What's so funny?"

Martha replies, "A gun."

"What about it?"

"A gun in for parts?"

"Yes, and I destroyed it."

"A gun in four parts scattered across the world? I mean, come on, did you really believe that?"

"What do you mean?"

The Doctor interjects, "As if I would ask her to kill."

The Master replies, "Oh well, it doesn't matter! I've got her exactly where I want her!"

Martha says, "But I knew what Professor Docherty would do. The Resistance knew about her son. I told her about the gun, so she'd get me here at the right time."

"Oh, but you're still going to die."

"Don't you want to know what I was doing, travelling the world?"

The Master makes a condescending gesture. "Tell me."

"I told a story, that's all. No weapons, just words. I did just what the Doctor said. I went across the continents all on my own. And everywhere I went, I found the people, and I told them my story. I told them about the Doctor. And I told them to pass it on, to spread the word so that everyone would know about the Doctor."

The Master says, "Faith and hope? Is that all?

Martha stands up. "No, because I gave them an instruction, just as the Doctor said. I told them that if everyone thinks of one word, at one specific time…"
"NOTHING WILL HAPPEN! Is that your weapon? Prayer?"

"Right across the world, one word, just one word thought at one moment but with fifteen satellites."

The Master starts. "What?

Captain Jack speaks up, "The Archangel Network."

Martha responds, "A telepathic field binding the whole human race together, with all of them, every single person on Earth, thinking the same thing at the same time. And that word is Doctor."

The Master's timer hits zero. The Doctor's cage begins to glow, and melts from around him as he rises into the air, and begins to return to the normal form of his tenth incarnation. The Master smiles. "I really had you going there, didn't I? You really thought you had something going for you there. You thought you had finally defeated me." The Master shouts across into a radio, "Shut down the Archangel Network. Bring it back up in a few minutes." The Doctor, fully restored, collapses onto the ground, unconscious.. "Really, I was mostly just bored. Haven't had much of a thrill since I increased his age. Now, Miss Martha Jones, as a message to all those who think they can get one by me…" The Master raises his laser screwdriver and fires a bolt straight into Martha's chest. She collapses. Her mother runs to her, sobbing. Her father yells and tries to break free, but guards restrain him. Tish turns away. The Master says to the guards, "Take the body, and throw it off the Valiant to the world below, to show what happens to oppose me. The guards pull back Francine, and remove the body. The Master yells over the intercom system, "Launch the fleet!" Two hundred thousand rockets launch into space from across the world.

Martha Jones was dead. Planet Earth was at war!