A Mastery escape
"I know the shady details, you turned yourself human to escape. But what happened before then" asked the Doctor
"You mean when I was bought back from the dead" Said the Master "I thought you were against that, I mean poor Jack. Left alone in a distant time because of your selfish prejudice views. He muse have been so scared"
"We've all made mistakes. I bet you wish you had taken my hand back in San Francisco"
"Never." The Master sat in silence for a few moments. "The pain" he said breaking the silence "The never ending time winds ravishing every piece of me".
"You were alive?" asked the Doctor.
"Every second. You see I had taken so many forms. That Trakenite, A feral cheetah creature. Due to that oh so wonderful virus of course, and a shapeshifter. And because all those changes I existed as compressed matter. It was like the Vortex was a knife and was cutting me , but I became too small to be cut again. It seemed like forever. But then I was alive, regenerating. Have you ever been alive during regeneration? It hurts so much. But I was alive. I was lying naked in a holding cell in the Capital. They told me that my essence was bought to them through the aid of the Time Scoop.
"The time scoop. I thought that was destroyed after that business with Bourusa"
"Oh yes, when there were five versions of you being plucked out of time. No, Flavia kept it hidden. It was only before her death that she revealed to Romana that it was spared. They scooped me up, plunked me in a Time Lord body. And sent me to war, they told me that if I helped fight the Daleks. I would be given a pardon for my crimes and a TARDIS, and the other half of my new regeneration cycle. The first half came as standard In case I got unlucky half a dozen times. Time Lords are…Were always thinking the worst."
"The Worst always happens when it comes to t he Daleks," said the Doctor
The Master got up out of his and knelt down next to the Doctor so there faces were level
"The worst always happens when it comes to me Doctor. The Daleks screamed as I killed them in new ways every time. They begged for pity, for mercy. I was a Hostile element that they couldn't exterminate. I had them on the ropes Doctor. My battle tactics were winning the war…. But then, they caught me. Led into a trap. My final mission was to destroy the Emperors ship with a genetic gas bomb. All I had to do was set it of in the mother ship engine room and the explosion would destroy the entire Dalek fleet. But they knew what they were planning. They let my TARDIS through their shields.
"You didn't think it was all too easy." Asked the Doctor
"They staged their shields failure to make it look like the Time Lords attacks were weakening them. They wanted me caught you see. Or rather Davros did"
"Why"
"To make me a Dalek, A Dalek emperor, the current emperor had began to rise against him and soon factions of Daleks began questioning Davros's authority. He needed a new Emperor to bring order back. And I was the perfect candidate. But he began using mind probes, And torture for information. Information I would forget as a Dalek. The torture was endless. I fought back regenerating at the risk Id let something slip thought my new voice, just in case I said a bit more then HELLO" The Master smiled and sat back in his chair. " I was dying. But I summoned enough mental energy to attack Davros's Mind. I forced him to let me go. The Time Lords had attacked the mother ship. It being burned from the inside, Daleks screaming as the flames devoured them.I found my TARIDS, dematerialised and returned to Gallifrey. My lifespan needed collecting. But I got there and it was... like hell. Burning, death, decay and Daleks everywhere. The emperor was leading the assault. The Capital had fallen.
So I ran. I got in my TARIDS and I flew so far. But soon. My regeneration kicked kin. I woke up and… I was a boy. I looked no more then fifteen. Perhaps that's why I did what I did. The youth of my new incarnation. All for finding the closet solution even if it's not the smartest one. I set the coordinates. They were totally random and I didn't even bother look. I set the TARDIS to land and leave me on wherever it landed.
"Bit of a risk that. Could have landed on metabliis 3." The Doctor and the Master both laughed. The Doctor felt. if only for a second. The mutual respect they once shared "But why turn human, you had escaped"
"I was…. Terrified Doctor. Terrified the Daleks would find me. The last thing I remember before turning human. Lying in my TARDIS. And my cells being re-written and then there was nothing. Until the earth child Martha Jones woke me up. All this Doctor. Is because of her. I must thank her before I kill her Doctor."
The Master got up and walked towards the door of the Valiant bridge The Master stopped short of the door.
"Oh Doctor, My Toclafane found an old friend of ours. Miss Grant."
"Leave her alone Master. Bellowed the Doctor "You can conquer but why do you have to kill, what's the point."
"Fear Doctor, is the most powerful emotion in the universe. That's why. I kill a few so many fear. And don't worry Doctor. I bought Miss Grant up see you. And don't worry…" The Master reached his pocket and got an urn. I personally made sure she got a great send of" The Master chucked the urn and it shattered revealing it contents, human ash. With that the Master left the room. The Doctor sat alone for hours. Sleep not even half crossing his mind. He was staring at the remains of his former travelling companion.
"For you Jo" whispered the Doctor " If not for anything else for you. I'll make it so you never suffered. I'm sorry" The Doctor closed his eyes and began tuning himself into the psychic network of the Masters archangel signal. His key to victory would be his downfall. If Martha succeeded with the task he'd gven her.
