Thanks for the reviews, favourites and follows, guys. The Doctor is finally in this chapter! - W

After dropping Clara off on Earth and Missy having disappeared along the way, the Doctor found himself alone. At first he had the urge to find Missy and make sure she wasn't wreaking havoc, but he knew full well that if Missy wanted to disappear, she would be very hard to find. He began his search through a scan through the TARDIS, but knew it would likely take several days to find her. Therefore, the Doctor found himself unoccupied.

At first, he stopped off at a planet nearby to the Earth who had been having trouble with the local plant life. Due to high levels of radiation on the planet, the eco-system rose up as a new mutated sub-species and waged war on the species living in the planet. The Doctor spent a day there levelling the planet radiation and subduing plants, before he returned to his TARDIS. He checked the ongoing Missy scan, and when it returned no results, he took the TARDIS to another random destination.

The TARDIS had been acting strangely after the first trip, the Doctor noticed. He assumed that the radiation of the planet had gotten to his TARDIS and affected it, and decided to see if it continued or returned to normal after time. He found himself on Earth in Australia, 1916, the middle of World War One. After the military got over the shock of a blue Police box materialising in their base, they locked him away while they attempted to test on the TARDIS. After convincing them of his "British" nationality with his psychic paper, and assuring them that the TARDIS was simply a new piece of British equipment that the military had asked him to test, the Australian military decided to let him go. The Doctor made a mental note to watch out for military bases in his next mid-war trip, and returned to the TARDIS.

The TARDIS, still acting strangely upon his return, was beginning to worry him. "What is it, old girl?" He asked, stroking the TARDIS console. He checked the Missy scan and found a slight blip on the radar, but couldn't lock on to the coordinates. The scan wasn't yet complete. He turned to the monitor, to check the TARDIS' status. Everything seemed to be fine. Still, the Doctor sensed something was wrong, so he decided to return to Earth and collect Clara.

He opened the doors of the TARDIS and stepped out into Clara's home. "Clara! I'm back!" He called. When silence met his call, he frowned. Clara was always here at this time. He stepped back into the TARDIS and travelled forward two hours, before stepping back out into Clara's home. "Clara?" He shouted. "Something is not right." He muttered to himself, returning to the TARDIS. As he entered, the TARDIS whirred and beeped. "The scan!" He grinned, running to the ongoing Missy scan he had been waiting for. "There we go. Gotcha." He said, locking the TARDIS on to the coordinates. Just as he was about to pull the last lever that would send the TARDIS through time and space, a message came up on the monitor of the TARDIS. He frowned as he read the message, and pulled the last lever. "We have your companions. You have no choice. Follow the coordinates provided" was spelled out on the monitor, followed by a set of coordinates. The Doctor rolled his eyes. "I could've just waited for their message." He mumbled, noting that both Missy's scan coordinates and the coordinates provided by the unknown kidnappers were the same.

As the TARDIS materialised on the planet, the Doctor check the outside cameras to make sure it was safe. The TARDIS seemed to be in a small empty room. Noting that there was no one outside, the Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS and into the unknown. He sensed the abundance of nearby telepathic minds and searched through them, seeing if he could find Missy's. "There's too many." He muttered. Missy? He projected to her. He smiled as he sensed her mind nearby, reacting to his call of her name. She did not reply, however, which the Doctor found worrying and odd. I'm coming for you both. He said telepathically, before venturing off into the corridors.

Missy jumped when she heard the Doctor's voice enter her head. She had begun tapping the four beat drum rhythym that haunted her, and felt as if she couldn't escape the sound. The silence and darkness made it worse, as did being left alone with only her memories. In the last hour the beings had done another rifle through both Missy and Clara's brains, resurfacing memories that had long been forgotten. Both Clara and Missy sat in silence afterwards, both trapped in their own personal hells once more. "He's here." Missy mumbled. She was surprised that she even managed to get the words out to Clara, as her thoughts raced and her memories attacked her. Clara's head shot up. "The Doctor?" She exclaimed with a smile. Missy nodded slightly, although it seemed to Clara to be more like a twitch. Clara leaned back against the wall. "We're going to get out, then." She said. When she didn't receive the typical sarcastic and pessimistic reply Missy generally gave to Clara's remarks, she turned to face the time lady. Missy had brought her knees up to her chin and was cradling them as if she was trying to make herself as small as humanly possible. "Missy, are you alright?" Clara asked gently. Missy's head snapped to look at her with manic eyes, searching for something that no one else could see. Clara worriedly reached out to Missy, but Missy seemed to growl and moved further away. The drums in her head had grown louder than they had been in a long time, and Clara could see Missy visibly becoming more and more agitated, as well as dangerous.

"Missy?" She whispered, trying to bring her back to reality. Missy brought her head into her hands and began rocking back and forth. Clara noticed the crescent shaped indents in Missy's palms that were forming and beginning to bleed due to her nails and tightly gripped hands. While Clara felt she should intervene, she knew that doing so would be unsuccessful and that Missy would not appreciate it, so she decided to wait for the Doctor. He'll know what to do. Clara thought, watching Missy worryingly. "Theta?" Missy whispered, seemingly to Clara. "No... no I'm Clara." Clara replied, unsure of what else to do. Missy frowned sadly, and pushed herself back against the wall. Clara sighed, and prayed the Doctor would not be long.