Author Notes: I've finally decided to sit down and type out the prequel for The Time Lady and Her Boys after 5 years of writing that story. I've been keeping it off because I didn't know exactly how I wanted to write out the prequel, but now I do. It helps that I sat down and typed out my complete timeline I have for The Fighter by each of her regenerations. This story will mostly be coming from The Fighter's P.O.V and be focused on her. This has been running around in my head for the longest time so I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do. I'll try to update it whenever possible.

~ Jamie

Story Details:

Title: Gallifrey's Secret Weapon

Rating: Rated T for violence, language, adult material and dark themes in later chapters.

Spoilers/Warnings: Trigger's in this story include: mentions of rape, abuse, manipulation and suicide - character development - Doctor who time wimey continuity stuff - Time Lord stuff - Gallifrey - darkness - romance - uhh, that's just the start of it. Read on for more.

Pairings: Main pairing is The Fighter/The Master with hints of The Fighter/The Doctor (one sided unrequited), The Fighter/Irving Braxiatel (one sided unrequited), The Fighter/Romana (Sister and sister family relationship)

Story Tags (just to help readers prepare themselves. Warning, SPOILERS follow): Alternate Universe, Big Sister Protective Over Younger Sister, Forbidden Love, Unrequited Love, Angst, Family Feels, Family Problems, Taken Over By Evil, Original Female Character, Strong Language, Mental Breakdown, Good Girl Gone Bad, The Chosen One, Break the Cutie, Character Development, Grief and Loss, Mistakes, Disconnected Feelings, Abandonment Issues, Manipulation, Time Lady, Strong-Willed Heroine, Overcoming Obstacles, Doctor Who/Dollhouse Crossover (with my own twist), Dollhouse Parallels (with my own twist), Slowly Developed Romance, and Fluff.

Side story to this: The Time Lady and Her Boys is a sequel to this story that was written first before this one.

After 5 years, I proudly present the long awaited prequel:

Gallifrey's Secret Weapon

Chapter 1: Destiny and Fate

Being born on Gallifrey was almost like a privilege, especially if you were born into one of the fancy, high ranking blood houses. This big orange and red planet was a grace with its red grass, silver tree branches and twin suns. Time Lords are a powerful and wise race, with the ability to travel throughout time and space with the advance technology and devices they have.

No other race or planet could compare.

This seemed to be the luck of a certain blonde hair and brown-eyed girl, born into the House of Dvora, whose members were known not only for being voraciously animal, but for their ambition, pragmatism, and refusal to let go of any power they possessed. Despite being born into the House of Dvora, she was to be raised in the House of Heartshaven, a sub-house of Dvora.

Given an especially long name, as per Time Lord tradition, her parents had shortened it down to Missy. Missy was not only lucky to be born on Gallifrey, but to also have a father who happened to be a Keeper of the Matrix. The Matrix is a supercomputer on Gallifrey that houses the old regenerations of Time Lords, even after their permanent deaths. In other words, it is a graveyard for Time Lords.

Missy's mother was a kind, but timid woman, who stayed at home watching over Missy. The young girl enjoyed spending time with her mother, who would tell her stories and play games with her. It almost made Missy sad to have to leave when it became time for her to attend the Academy, which wasn't far away.

She would realize too late though, that that would be the least of her worries.

Everything changed that one day when her father came home from work. It was like he was a completely different person. He didn't greet her happily like he usually did. Instead, he sneered at her and said he was suffering a very bad headache. He went to go lie down and she thought he would be better, but...

Her father walked back into the living room and Missy greeted him warmly. "Papa, are you feeling better now?"

"It's going to burn. Gallifrey is going to go through a terrible war! Everyone is going to die! We are all going to die!' He shouted, panicked.

Missy looked to her father, confused and afraid for him, not understanding what was going on. "Papa, what's wrong?"

In that instant, he jerked toward the girl, causing her to feel like all the blood had left her body and she was cold. There was a dark look in his eyes. Something she couldn't describe, but it made her want to run and hide. "I need to come with a plan to stop this from happening. I-I need..."

Missy grabbed her father's hand, causing him to look down at her. "Papa..."

With that, a grin came upon his face. "A subject." He kneeled down to her level, putting on a fake smile. Missy didn't know any better. "My dear, how would you like to help your father out with something?"

Missy's eyes shined. "Really?"

"Yes. All I would need is for you to let me test somethings out on you." He looked around, making sure his wife wasn't listening, before whispering to her. "Just don't tell your mother, okay."

"Deal!" Missy readily agreed, not knowing what she was about to get herself into. Then again, that's how naive children were. Innocent.

While other children got to play outside, Missy was inside with her father, in his secret lab, helping him out with his plan. In order to help him out with the upcoming war, he had to experiment on her in order to find a way to make the perfect soldier that would be able to win the fight.

All Missy knew was working in the Matrix, sometimes it would present visions of what was to come or things to happen. Her father, being the Keeper of the Matrix who watched over it and ran tests to make sure everything was working smoothly, must have gotten a premonition and wanted to stop it. Little would she know, it wasn't exactly Missy's father who was behind all this, even though it was his body doing the work.

Someone had taken control of him inside the Matrix and was using his body.

"There were so many possible outcomes of the war, I need to be prepared for any possible attacks." He remarked, just as an idea popped into his head. He looked to his daughter and began strapping her onto a cold, table. He pulled out a needle, causing Missy to flinch. "Don't worry young one, this will make you stronger."

"W-What is that?" Missy asked, nervously, looking at the needle that contained a glowing chemical of energy in it.

"Regeneration energy." He bluntly stated. "I'm going to give you this more and more everyday to try and increase your regeneration energy and make it unlimited! By the end of this, you should be able to use your regeneration energy as a weapon and have no consequences with running out of it."

With that, he stuck the needle into her. Missy let out a painful yelp and the regeneration energy seeped into her. Just when she thought it was over for now, he had something else in mind as well. He held out a single key. "I'm going to make you one with the Key of Rassilon, which will give you access to enter the Matrix whenever and wherever you please. You could use the souls of dead time lords to help you defeat enemies and save Gallifrey!" He began laughing madly to himself. "It's perfect!"

Missy gulped just as he put the key in her hand. It began to burn into her, literally, causing her to scream out in pain. It was agonizing and in that moment, Missy wished she had said no to helping her father with his plans.

And this was childhood for Missy for 7 years. Being part of her father's experiment and watching the other kids play outside the window, wanting to desperately join in.

One day, however, her father and his rule about staying inside seemed to change. For a minute, Missy seemed to think maybe he had left his mad ways behind, but that wasn't the case. Despite this, Missy wasn't going to question the fact of him letting her outside to play with other kids finally.

That was when she came across two boys that would happen to be her childhood friends for life. She accidentally ran into them and shyly looked down. "S-Sorry, about that. I'm just so excited to be outside."

"No harm done." The Blonde boy with blue eyes said. "Name's Theta Sigma. This here is Koschei Oakdown." He motioned to the boy with black hair and blue eyes beside him. "What's your name?"

"M-My name's Missy. Uh...Missy Heartshaven."

"Heartshaven?" Koschei questioned, raising an eyebrow. "So, you're from the house of Heartshaven?"

"Well, I'm really from the House of Dvora, but I live in the House of Heartshaven." Missy scratched her head, nervously.

"Ah, gotcha. I"m from the House of Lungbarrow." Theta proudly declared. "It's all the way over by Mount Lung!"

Missy looked over to Koschei, who seemed a bit distant, but noticing her looking at him, finally spoke. "I'm from the House of Oakdown, obviously."

"It's a pleasure to meet you two." Missy giggled happily. Both of the boys seemed sweet and warm. Missy definitely wanted to spend as much time with them as she could. "Do you guys mind if I play along with you?"

"Be our guest! It'd be good to have a girl in our gang. Koschei and I met like 3 hours ago." Theta told her, motioning to his recently new found friend. "What do you think?"

Koschei had his arms crossed and looked her over, observing her rather closely. Missy hoped he didn't notice anything wrong with her, especially after all the experiments her father did on her. A warm smile soon came to the boy's face. "I suppose she is rather...cute with her little "Miss Good Girl" kind of attitude. Besides, it would be interesting to have a girl on our team. Why not?"

Theta jumped up into the air, excitedly. "Yay, it's settled. Welcome to the team, Missy Heartshaven!"

The year she spent with those boys was the best year of her existence, probably. They spent their time having so many adventures and even getting into trouble at times. Theta and Koschei seemed to be troublemakers and it was up to Missy to help get them out of trouble. She was like the voice of reason among the group. Koschei would always tease her about it though, causing her to blush.

They spent most of their days playing in the red grasses of Koschei's father's estate. The Oakdown's were probably the richest house on Gallifrey, Missy assumed. The estate was really big and his house looked more like a mansion.

But sadly, childhood would have to come to an end as the reality of going to The Time Lord Academy had finally arrived. Theta was just as nervous as her, but Koschei seemed unfazed by it. As tradition, they bid their families goodbye and made their way to the academy, where they would be living and spending a century of their lives. They could only go home to visit on special occasions.

In a way, it was a breath of fresh air for Missy. It was a chance for her to get away from her Dad and his constant experiments on her. But...it was also sad because of the fact she would miss her mother greatly.

Arriving at the academy, she was separated from Koschei and Theta. Girls and boys were sent to different rooms to put on their ceremonial robes. After that, they were lead to the main room where Missy was happy to be reunited with her good friends.

"These robes are so weird." Missy said, looking over the black and white fabric on her.

"Yeah, you could say that again." Koschei agreed, going right along with her.

"Do you know exactly what the initation ceremony entails?" Theta asked, looking rather nervous while the line moved up. They were all standing in one huge line while people went one at a time. It was moving slowly.

Koschei rolled his eyes. "You're telling me you actually didn't read up on the initiation ceremony? They sent the book on it and about the academy to our houses."

Missy slowly put up her hand. "I got the book and read it, but might have happened to skim over the section about the ceremony as well. I know we're suppose to look into something."

Koschei sighed, feeling like he was the only one who did the homework. "That something we are suppose to look into is the Untempered Schism."

"Oh, what's that exactly?" Theta asked, lost on it completely.

Missy stepped in, calming down the annoyed Oakdown boy. "It's cool Koschei, I got this. The Untempered Schism is an opening to the space and time continuum, right?" She was just taking a wild guess at this, remembering what she skimmed over last night.

"Correct!" Koschei said. "And everyone reacts differently to it. Some will be inspired, some will run away and some will go mad."

"I hope the last doesn't happen to me." Theta commented, watching them get closer in line.

Missy took Theta's hand to help comfort him. "It's going to be okay. We will make it through this together! Remember, we're a team!"

"That's the spirit, Missy!" Koschei exclaimed, cheering her on. "See, the girls got guts over you, Thete." Theta just crossed his arms and stuck out his tongue.

Missy suddenly grabbed both of the boys hands, sighing happily. "Wouldn't it be awesome if the three of us were classmates as well with the same teacher? I mean, that means we're meant to be friends forever!"

Theta blushed, looking at her holding his hand. Koschei on the other hand, replied. "I doubt that would happen, but anything is possible."

"Theta Sigma!" One of the head initiators announced. Quickly, Missy let go of his hand and Koschei's, acting like they had been standing still and not holding hands the entire time. Public Display's of Affection were against the rules and seen in their society as vulgar. You were only suppose to do them at home among family or loved ones.

The blonde haired boy turned to look at his friends. "Well, it's time for me. See you two on the other side!"

"Best of luck, Theta!" Missy and Koschei said, biding their friend goodbye. Theta followed them in to finally gaze among the Untempered Schism.

This left Missy and Koschei wondering. "How do you think he will react to it?" Missy asked him.

"Knowing Theta, he will probably be inspired or run away. The second one is more likely with him."

Missy chuckled at his answer. "Wow, Koschei, such faith in our friend I see."

The boy chuckled right back at her. "Well, I'm right, aren't I?"

"Yes, you're probably right about that. Still..." She paused, looking to the front of the line she currently was in and finally realized she was next. "I wonder how I will react. What do you think, Koschei? What is your opinion on your faith in me?"

"Oh, you, You'll definitely be inspired. No doubt about that. You seem to be in awe about practically everything after all. Even just being outside."

Missy took in a breath. "I certainly hope so."

The ceremony initiators came back in that moment, looking upon her. "Missy Heartshaven!"

She turned to bid her friend farewell, taking his words to her hearts so she wouldn't be as nervous. "Thanks Koschei, I think I've got this thanks to what you said. I wish you luck as well."

"See you soon, Goody two shoes."

And with that, Missy followed them into a room. Sand covered the room along with torches that lead the way right up to a big hole, which she assumed to be the Untempered Schism itself. Taking in a breath, she calmed herself down. Realizing the initiators had stopped, she turned to look at them as they motioned her forward.

This was it. No turning back now.

Missy walked forward, thinking about her friends until she was all the way forward and practically staring into the Untempered Schism. Suddenly, it was like her mind shut off and she was stuck there. Her thoughts began to change from her friends to different people and places. Things she had never even seen. Faces she didn't even know.

A smile came to her face, seeing all of these fantastic things.

But then, the scene changed before her. Blood, fighting, screaming, dark things to come. Her smile faded, looking into it with wide eyes. Was this what she was meant to stop?

Being completely hypnotized by it, she didn't notice some other people enter into the room. Among them was her father.
"Hault! We are currently undergoing an initiation. No interruptions."

"Easy there. I have orders from the High Council." Her father said, waving them away. He spotted his daughter and that evil grin came to his face. He opened the box he was holding as suddenly light left it and went straight into her. Missy was completely unfazed by this.

"What did you do?" One of the initiators asked.

He barked at them. "This is official business of the High Council. You will do best to stay out of it!" The initiator nodded. "I will need to do the same thing to boy next." He went to hide away in the shadows, waiting for Koschei's arrival next.

The initiators went up to Missy to her her away from the Untempered Schism, but she didn't want to be pulled away. "Child, you've been looking into it for too long."

And suddenly, it was like her brain turned back on and Missy looked to them. "Is it time to go already?"

"Yes."

She was lead down a corridor and into a huge room where someone else met with her. A group of students were waiting and among that crowd she met back up with Theta.

"Theta!" She called out, running towards him happily. "Omg, that was so cool. I mean, it became a bit dark at the end, but it definitely made me inspired to do something. How'd it go for you?"

Theta looked a little nervous, playing with his hands. "I, uh-"

"You ran away, didn't you?" Theta nodded, shamefully. "It's okay, at least we both did it. We're here now."

Soon after, they saw Koschei walking through to greet them. He seemed a little out of it.

"Hey Kosch, how'd it go?" Theta asked him.

"I didn't run away if that's what you want to know." Koschei teased, touching his head like he was having trouble getting something out of his head.

"You okay?" Missy asked, looking to her friend with worry. She put her hand to his forehead in reflex.

A warm smile came to his face as he looked back to normal again. "Y-Yeah. I just suddenly had a strange headache, but it seems to have gone away now."

"Good." Missy said, pulling away and smiling. "So, what was your reaction? Were you inspired like me?"

Koschei looked at her, almost like he was hesitating before nodding. "Yes, you could say that."

Missy took him into a hug. "Yay! That is something we share in common."

Koschei looked to Theta, teasing the boy as he hugged Missy. "Yeah, sorry Theta. No runaways here."

Theta pouted, looking at his friends. "Stop teasing me you two! I didn't mean-"

"Koschei, stop teasing Theta." Missy reprimanded the boy. "He reacted the way he did and that's settled."

The Oakdown boy just looked to her, playfully teasing her as well and smirking. "Whatever you say, Little good girl."

The friends spent the rest of their time teasing and talking among each other. Soon after, attention was called to everyone as they were about to enter the Great Hall where they would be sorted into their classes and be assigned their teachers.

This was it. Missy smoothly took the boys hands into her, hoping she would be able to be in the same class as them. If not, she would only be able to see them during passing, and even that wasn't enough. They would hardly see each other for centuries and she feared her friendship with them would diminish.

And then, the sorting began.

Koschei ended up being sorted into Professor Borusa's class.

It felt like forever before Missy ended up being sorted into the same class. She happily jumped up at this, but looked to Theta with worry.

But as if fate had destined it, Theta was announced to be in Borusa's class as well.

"Wow." Koschei said, surprised Missy's wish had come true. "I guess you were right. The three of us seemed to land in the same class with the same teacher."

It was official, the three of them were going to be together forever.

Author's note: So the next chapters are going to Academy Era based pretty much. I'm so happy to be writing this story. See you all in the next chapter.

The Fighter's 1st Incarnation is played by Keira Knightley.

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