Storm troopers and Science Labs

by TeggieLady

Disclaimer: I do not own the TV Show Doctor Who, all I own is a mug and a calendar. (Mind you I've got some converse, a leather jacket and a really long scarf…)


The Doctor and an Assistant travel through time and space.

Sometimes it's just the Doctor and his Assistant. Sometimes it's the Doctor and the Assistant's Assistant. And on those rare occasions, many many years ago, it was the Doctor and the Assistant's Assistant's Assistant.

The Master was sure these 'Assistants' had had names; he can even remember a few of those. But what would be the point of recalling them all, when the ultimate Assistant stands before him.

The Master knew the other Time Lord called them 'friends' or 'companions'. Nonsense, really. So the Master wasn't sure what to refer to them as. That is, until he had been introduced to an 'Assistant' at a UNIT base. Then, he had learned how to refer them as. These stupid group, mostly composed of humans, were simply people the Doctor would give his life for. More importantly, they were rather easy to hold hostage.

Only when necessary, of course…

They are called 'Assistants', because they are really useful in 'assisting' him in hurting the Doctor.

And, as Rose Tyler stands, her clothes covered in bullet-shaped holes and vivid red blood from no longer existing wounds, The Master knows.

He will use Rose Tyler to assist him in hurting the Doctor, permanently.


"So where are we then?" Number Five questioned as he looked around the room.

The Master and the armed guards had brought the Doctors, Jack and Martha to another dark room, only this seemed to be clearer on its purpose. It was a test lab, full of bright bottles and dangerous sharp looking equipment. In the middle of the room stood a machine. It reminded Martha of one of those old hair dryers at the hair dresses. Or the machine the Doctor had used to alter his DNA with. Only this one looked even more complex and alien. With a metal hat and a steel box with wires coming out of both sides, an a old dentist chair. Jack was eyeing it from the corner of the room they were being held at with a mixture of terror and hatred. A small space cleared especially for them, just to hold them hostage. After taking them into the room the Master had then left, with Rose. Now he had come back without her.

"How are you even alive, that's not possible… I would have sensed you before." Roared number Nine. "You are not alive!"

"How did you get into this Universe, the Gallifreyian Council would have never granted you access." Cried Number Three.

"Where is Rose, what the Hell have you done to her!" screamed number Ten. "Where is she?!"

All the Doctors were yelling different things, each trying to rise above the others voice. The Master just smiled from the opposite side of the room, cold and uncaring. Eventually the voices stopped.

"Where is she?" number Ten repeated what he had previously said, only now he growled.

"Right here." Answered Rose walking into the room casually.

Rose had taken a shower. She was now clean and wearing different clothes. A dark purple tight-fitted shirt with jeans and she was even wearing makeup. The sudden appearance of this more familiar Rose made both Nine and Ten hurt. What was going on?

Her hair was drastically shorter then it had been the last time Ten had seen her, while he was in his TARDIS and she a universe away. Her dark blonde hair ended about an inch after her ear in choppy uneven parts and her bright red high heeled shoes clicked along the floor.

"You shot me." She said to the Master simply.

"Yes, am I forgiven?" The Master spoke, full of charm.

"You're not sorry." Rose stated.

The Master almost laughed, he killed so many people by now he was never sorry. "No".

"Well go on then, at least your honest. I've been shot too many times to hold a grudge." Shrugged the blonde Londoner.

"How are you alive?" asked number Nine, the question directed at the Master. Everyone else in shock as Rose wondered over to the Master and sat on the worktop next to him. The Master stood by her side and his face split into a wide grin.

"How did I survive the Time War that killed everyone of our kind? Easy… I hid. Ran and hid, hid as a human. Changed my biology to live like one of them." The Master pushed off the table and walked around the machine. He watched it carefully, his dark brown eyes full of excitement. His hand rose and then hovered as if afraid to touch it incase he would somehow harm it.

"How I came to be in this Universe, however, is a completely different matter," he turned sharply on his heels to grin at the Doctor.

"And it is quite simple really, even young Martha here should be able to understand." Martha glared at him, the man she had watched die and felt glad… the Doctor may have been crying over his dead body, but she was glad he was dead.

"I'm not real." Although, it was obvious he was still completely insane.


"Piss off!" Yelled Nine.

"Oh now that's not very nice," the Master turned to Rose, whispering in her ear conspiratorially. "He doesn't like me very much."

"Well, you did murder over twenty billion people in ten seconds flat" Said Jack

"A new record!" cried the Master, his arms spread wide, a child like grin on his face.

"Mum must be so proud," uttered Martha bitterly.

"I doubt it." Said number Five. "Mum was human."

Silence.

"So was yours." The Master said almost conversationally, if it weren't the venom in his voice, that is.

"You're brothers?" asked Rose, looking vaguely interested.

"Yep, twins… though I was always better at well……..everything." He leered at Rose. She just tilted her head and smiled sweetly. "You didn't know?"

"Like he'd tell me anything like that. The conversation would start with 'what are your hopes for the future?' and end with the 'Russian spacecraft of 2012 crash landing into an unsuspecting pigeon'" Rose said this almost like reading the news. No emotion, just do what you need to do.

"Half human, on my mothers side. The biggest, and most horrifying, secret in Time Lord history. Dad watched her grow old and die, while he stayed the same." More silence. "Guess the Doctor, who is lord of all that is right and good in the universe is trying not to let history repeat its self. Or at least he was, now….." the Master laughed, hard and cruel. While he turned to face Rose. "Now I guess he'll be the one to grow old and die. And you will have to watch."

"Rose..." Murmured Ten, he looked at her in shock, suddenly realising what she would have to see and what she could have already seen in the time since he saw her last.

"Something happened when I was about two hundred. I first died way before that but at two centuries I realised, how alone you really am, it really did take that long. I really am just a 'stupid Ape', after all." she laughed lightly and swung herself down from the table and walked casually towards his enemy. "You were right, why fall in love at all. You're just gonna have to watch them die in the end and how could they really ever understand what it's like? So much death and pain, it might as well be on repeat."

Never-ending.

"I never said that." Ten shook his head. Is this what she was like now? Cold and broken? What was it that had broken her?

"No, you just said 'human's age, you withier and you die…' Guess that means I'm not human then, 'cause I don't age and I don't die. I'm a freak." She looked him straight in the eye, until she laughed and broke his gaze, turning to the Master instead. "Well, I'm not really that, 'cos I do die I just don't stay dead. I mean Jack ages, he will eventually die, I won't….ever." She turned to the Doctor again, tears in her eyes. "The perfect companion. Someone to out live you."

"Anyway, originally yes." He clapped his hands together happily breaking the moment and making them jump.

"I was from the other universe. But after I had taken control of the entire planet, I got bored. I needed a way to hurt you. Hurt you more than I had ever done. Martha would have been useless, I already had Jack. And the TARDIS… what else was there? Then I remembered you talking, me and the Freak heard you over the intercom… About Jack being a fixed point in Time and how he had been ready to face three Daleks, already dead, really. And then she came. And the way you said her name, the way you both did, it told me all I needed to know. Trapped in a parallel universe, you said. A Goddess, who managed to absorb all the power of the Time Vortex. A being so powerful that she was able to create life and take it away… The final act of the Time war. Ironic really, you ended it with the most brutal massacre in…well ever, now that killed more than twenty billion, you gotta admit that. Twenty billion per planet really, and how many planets burned with Gallifrey at the heart?" the Master turned to Rose.

"And you killed all those Daleks with a wave of your hand." He laughed.

"Do you know what they call you? Both of you? The Legends woven through history? The Oncoming storm and the Bad Wolf. The Lonely God and the Valiant Child. The Destroyer of Worlds and the Abomination. You, Rose Tyler, are what the Daleks think is so bad, it must be a myth. You're the Devil to the Daleks" he glowed with glee.

"Why not? I killed their God, didn't I? But I'd rather be hated and feared by Daleks, then every man, woman and child on Earth". Rose looked at the Master, a neutral expression on her face. No clue to what she was thinking, or planning. The Master just grinned.

"I'm not real, I'm a copy." The Master waved his hand and then put it on Roses' shoulder, it went straight through no imprint or sign that it was ever there. "Think about it. How many 18th century Mansions have you seen with their own Storm troopers and Science labs? None of this is real, and neither am I, that's why he didn't sense me. Everything in this world bends to my will. The guards however are very real, to prove it that's why I shot you. Bad Wolf may mask you from the real world but in mine you are very much full of the Time Vortex, still running through your head."

Turning back to the Doctors, "I was projected from the other universe by the real version of myself to find Rose. Once I capture everything. Every thought, every feeling, every idea. Put it on a tape then send it back. He's got you captured, tortured. Somehow, you've escaped, but it doesn't matter. Once I've got Rose, I'll kill you. Oldest first, I think just to make you suffer. It's the other universe timeline at risk… I don't really care. The other me gets the tape and plays it to you again, and again, and again. Until you die. I disappear when he's got what he wants. I can't get her to the other universe, but I don't need to. I'll put it all be on camera then send it back."

"The Imaginetric!" Yelled Jack.

"Finally, the Captain speaks,"

"What's a..." asked Martha.

"Imaginetric, it's like a video recorder, but you plug it into someone's head. It plays out your memories, right in front of you for everyone to see, while you're unconscious. Everything from your earliest memory to your latest. You can see, hear and feel what it was like for them at the time, everything. It plays everything out and records in onto a tape, but if it's programmed up wrong-" Explained Number Ten.

"It will erase your memories." Finished Jack. "A good two years of your memories if your lucky, if not, it could be all of them."

"I am not going in that thing" said Martha determinedly

"Oh, you don't have to". The guards pointed their guns at Martha and The Doctors.

"You chose Rose Tyler. Let us see your memories, or they all die."


Right……. Tell me what you think and if you don't get something, (Rose isn't friends with the Master it is a plot, don't worry) Hope you like it and hope you review.

Please.