CHAPTER 3
"EVERYONE GETS A DE MAT GRENADE I THINK"
The Warrior and Mona make there way to the great hall of the Council of Timelords. The Doors , just like Romanas office doors, are quite Daunting. Before they can knock, or even just push open the doors Rassilon arrives in there periphreal.
"DOCTOR, How to see you again. I will say, without your Galifreyan ID in the database i wouldnt have had the slightest idea whom you are." Rassilon greets them and shakes The Warriors Hand.
"I thought you had surely perished in the abyss of this bloody war." Rassilon attempting to be melowdramatic.
"Yes well, it has been a while since I have stood here. Had a lot of unfinished business to attend to before I came here to fight the good fight."
"And who might this be?" Rassilon motions to Mona.
"Uhm, Hello Lord Rassilon." Mona awkwardly bows.
"Oh come now.." Rassilon motions for her to stand up straight. "Pleased to meet you Mona." Rassilon turns his attention back to the Warrior after he shakes Mona's hand.
"Well Doctor, I see you have regenerated, what is it now Eighth, Ninth?" Rassilon Motions them to follow him through the now open doors leading them to his legislative office inside.
The Warrior ignores Rassilon's question. They Make it into the office and all sit down as the guards close the door. "Right, to the point Rassilon. Ive been informed of your moving to revive The Master."
"Yes Doctor I -"
"NO,there is no reasoning that you can sit here and elaborate upon that will make this a goof thing. Has everthing hes done to not only to me, but to countless planets across the stars all of a sudden dissapeared? THE Daleks wanted him. He was so certifiably insane that the same putrid beings, who want to kill unjustifiabl mind you, wanted him executed for his crimes."
"Yes yes I know all of that. That's why we've had this revelation. His insanity can be a key asset to us defeating those same Daleks." Rassilon laughs as he elaborates his plans.
"Rassilon, this war is wiping everything from existence. So many planets are caught in the crossfire, so much innocent life lost. By bringing back the Master all your doing is risking so many more lives!" The Warrior pleads in anger of Rassilon.
"What would you have me do, Doctor?! Run away as you have done for eons?! We are losing millions up there in the sky trenches, and TARDIS after TARDIS is being destroyed. We build more yes but the Daleks are destroying more than we can commison. Gallifrey will stand, and if it takes a mad man to help lead us out then so be it!" Rassilon shouts the last statement of his rebuttal.
"The Master will betray you Rassilon. He will Betray all of us, he has, and he will. Its his nature and you will have no one to blame but your self. If im back here for anything, it must be to delegate this entire situation. If you-"
Rassilon motions for him to stop talking.
"Doctor, there is nothing else to say. The process was voted on last evening. The Movement won." Rassilon interrupts.
"YOU DID WHAT! ALREADY,HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE, THE LORD PRESIDENT WAS NOT INFORMED! YOU ARE A FOOL RASSILON!" The angry Warrior stands and shouts. Mona stands up and backs towards the door attempting to leave the argument.
Rassilon stands as well. "Yes,Well Romana isnt apart of this decision, i still hold some executive powers. So say what you must, do as you must. But if you interfere with this process I will hold it as an act of Treason.
The Warrior stands and then turns around to head for the door. But before he can push it open, with Mona standing by speechless. He hesitates. The Events of recent fore across his eyes like cannon balls across the bow.
"Rassilon I regenerated to end this war...The Doctor Died...to end this war. And end it I will, one way or the other." The Warriors voice in nothing but a sinister like growl, then pushes the door open and walks out. Mona quickly sucrries behind him.
"Doctor...!?Doctor, what do you mean?!" Rassilon stands there confused and angry, very angry."GET BACK HERE THIS INSTANT!" The Warrior doesn't reply, he just walks out.
The Warrior is silently filled with rage as they walk back to the lift, Mona doesn't say a word until they are in and on there way up. He takes his sonic out once more ,as they begin there ascension, to make it operate a bit quicker than last.
"So its too late then?" Mona sighs.
"No, Mona, its never too late.I could meddle, i could stop it, i could interfere in his insane plans. No...no more, Rassilon will just have to see the error in his ways. Unfortunately I fear that Gallifrey in some way will have to pay for his mistake." The Warriors voice, wise and raspy, fades near the end of that last statement.
"Well what are we doing now then, ole timer?" Mona asks as they both wait to reach the top.
"Well, Mona, I am going to go do what I came here for. I'm going to the sky trenches above the citadel. Millions are dying and being brought back, or regenerating but eventually that wont be possible. Eventually you can't bring one back, they just die." The Warrior's stern voice returns.
"And what am I to do?"
"You are going to stay with Romana, and do as she says." The Warrior commands.
"Yea I don't think so, ole timer. I'm not some dainty little flower. I can handle a weapon, the only reason you had to save me from that Dalek is that I didn't have my gun at the time." Mona spouts back.
"No...you will not go, it is to dangerous." The Warrior scolds.
"There is no decision for you to make old timer. I'm going with you whether you like it or not." Mona folds her arms as she tells the Warrior what's going to be.
The Warrior smiles a bit. It almost makes him reminisce to the days of traveling with another live pistol companion, an Ace he always had up his sleeve.
Ace had been so young. So protective over her Professor. Carrying that Nitro NIne around in her book bag, that couldn't have been safe. But those were the days when it was fun, when it was worth it, when he was really the Doctor.
"Doctor?" Mona attempts to bring him back to reality. " Hey, ole Timer!" She calls again and this time the Warrior does come back. He blinks a bit and becomes aware of his surroundings.
"Hmm yes uh...Do Not call me Doctor..." The dumbfounded Warrior replies.
"Were here, ready to go?"
"Hmm, yes, yes. To the TARDIS then." The Warrior walks out of the lift and Mona is quickly on his both make there way through the winding corridors and out under the orange sun again until they come upon the TARDIS.
"I never knew Gallifrey was as beautiful as it is." Says Mona as they walk into the TARDIS.
"I have so many great memories here, it was a great home to grow up on, " smiles the Warrior. "Rolling through the red grass, running in the streets of Arcadia when we would visit." There is a smile of memories on his face, he turns around and into the TARDIS he popps followed by Mona.
"So, what exactly is a sky trench?" Asks Mona as she goes to the seat she was in before.
"Well its actually hard to explain..." He begins to program coordinates, "Sky trenches are like great walls of air and floating steel. The atmosphere on Gallifrey is a bit harsher than any other planet in the Kasterborus system. The high winds spin around the planet so fast they create an impenetrable wall of air. Now before we created the regulators, that are on the panels over the cities of Gallifrey, the wall of air did protect us, but it was uncontrollable and unreliable. The regulators..." He stops to pull the lever that makes the TARDIS dematerialize. "ahem...The regulators keep the wind at a steady pace instead of a changing natural speed. It's so the wall of air stays constant. Where we are headed is one of the many control panels." The Warrior explains all of this as his sonic comes out, and so does his laser rifle. He then raises the power level of his weapon. Taking it from a class two security protocol laser, to a class four military grade phaser rifle. He then walks over to a staircase leading to the under carriage of the console console."Stay here I'll be right back!" He shouts as he walks down.
He goes down under the console and gets on both knees as he pops some screws that hold a partial vent over a hiding hole of his. He then pulls a wooden chest from the hole in the TARDIS. His hearts pound, this chest is full of dangerous materials that only he knows of. The seal of the Time Lord's rests upon it as he opens it to display an arsenal of weapons which includes several De-Mat grenades, phasers with the incendiary setting, and several other death machines he had collected over the years. Then through it all he finds a bar of Ace's Nitro 9 with an old sack she would put her things in. Tears well up in his eyes but no time to reminisce now. He quickly bundles what he needs in the old sack and goes back to the console room with Mona.
"Right now we should be landing, when we go out there remember there is a war going on. You stay with me. Keep your head down until we reach the tower on the panel. There we can find command and begin maneuvers to join the fight, in whatever means necessary!" The Warrior orders.
Mona sarcastically salutes and goes to the door behind the Warrior. The doors open and the blasts from Daleks and Time Lord are deafening. Immediately the warrior begins counter fire trying to move Mona and himself to the tower sixty yards away. The blasts from the rifle shoot Dalek after Dalek out of the sky but it seems there are two in every ones place. As they sprint for the tower, they run into Time Lord military command ,also defending the Sky trench. As Mona sprints she catches a glimpse of one man falling off the Sky Trench after being hit by a Dalek ray. Terror fills her mind as blood rains every where from fallen Gallifreyans. The ones that weren't completely disintegrated lay disfigured and deformed awaiting death like a gift. These atrocities were also noticed by the Warrior as they ran under the burnt orange sky getting closer and closer to the Tower. Then at almost the last second A Dalek swoops down to block there path.
"EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE!" Screams the Dalek.
The Warrior intuitivley goes for his screwdriver. He uses the sonic wave to defend and stall the Dalek Death ray. But it wont last for long.
"MONA PICK A DE MAT GRENADE FROM MY POCKET YOU WILL SEE A FOUR NUMBER SETTING. INITIATE IMPLOSION SETTING ONE!" The Warrior shouts over the sound of his screwdriver repelling the Daleks death ray.
Mona quickly grabs one and is able to place it on the correct setting. She then throws it onto the Dalek. The Dalek stops his assault and in the same second The Warrior tackles Mona to the ground, shielding her from the implosion energy above them. Without words the Warrior looks up and grabs Mona to burst in through the entrance where they would be safe.
The tower is filled with other Gallifreyan commanders and,soldiers arriving there by trans-mat.
"Mona, are you OK?" Asks the Warrior as he puts his sonic back into his pocket.
"Yeah I should be OK. For an ole timer you sure can move fast!" Mona teases as she brushes her shirt, and then wipes some splattered blood off of her forehead.
"I really do wish you would quit it with the old timer bit. I'm really not that old you see-" The Doctor is interrupted by a Time lord Commander who approaches them.
"Identify yourselves!" Orders the Time Lord commander.
"I am Doctor John Smith, sent by the Madame President herself,and this is Mona. Were here to help end this war."
"Welcome to tower Koreen." Says the commander sternly.
"Well well thank you there, now what's the report?" The Warrior points toward the screen on the north wall showing a tactical map of the area around the tower.
"Same as most of these other sieges. They continue to attack, we continue to hold the trenches here. However the mens morale is getting low. We do keep losing men.
"Blimey my head hurts!" Complains Mona.
"Are you sure your alright there Mona?" The Warrior puts his hand on her back, concerned.
"Yea yea I'm good, its just really loud out there."
"Do you need medical attention?" Says the commander.
"No, no, no, I'm fine I'm OK."
"Well commander do you have a name?" Asks the Warrior.
"Commander Edvar Pemdas sir." He salutes the Warrior as he answers the question.
"Yes, yes, yes, don't salute me." The Warrior states.
The Warrior makes himself at home in the tower. Remote matierializing the TARDIS there so his lab could be close by. He knew he couldnt always be on the battlefield, but he could very well start his own personal armory there.
"Everyone gets a De-Mat grenade i think Mona." The Warrior smiles at Mona and she grins back.