Alyssa sat in the Master's office for hours, one guard was standing by the door refusing to let her leave. She had watched from the gigantic windows the Toclafrane fly down, knowing the Master had just killed one-tenth of the population of earth She sighed as she put her head in her hands. If she was the Master's sister why couldn't she remember him? The door opened and the Master came in. She jumped out of her seat and said: "how dare you." She said raising her hand so she could slap him but he grabbed her hand and said: "now now Tanda."
"Don't call me that! That is not my name!" He let go of her hand and said "sit." She did what he asked and crossed her arms and said "I don't know who you think I am but I can assure you that I am not her!"
"No I can feel it, you are Tanda." The Master said feeling her subconscious brush his but she didn't realize what it was doing. "But why you can't remember I really don't know." He walked over to her and said "may I?" Holding up his hands wanting to enter her mind. She shook her head and stood up "no," backing away from him.
"If it makes you feel better, I won't hurt you." She still shook her head and said "I have many things in my head that you can't know."
"Close the door." He said, Alyssa sighed as she wanted to know if what the Master said was true. She nodded and the Master put his fingers to her head and looked inside her mind, looking for the reason she couldn't remember her past life. He saw a scar like something had been wiped permanently. "Someone wiped your memory." He said, but he found two little details that were still there but locked up tight. He broke the lock and took him out of her mind. He opened his eyes, and saw that Alyssa still had her eyes closed. she opened them and looked at the Master and a look of came across her face and said "Koschei?" Everything the Master told her was true, she was his sister but besides that memory and her birth name being Tanda and that she over 800 years old but she had no other memories of her past. He smiled and said "what else do you remember?"
"Nothing, absolutely nothing, I remember growing up in a different universe but nothing from Gallifrey."
"You were in a different universe?" The Master asked, Alyssa nodded and said "yeah a universe where you are just TV character everything that is happening and happened were events of a TV show."
"What's going to happen here?" The Master asked "I'm not telling you anything. You may be my brother but I'm not telling you anything." she said, The master sighed and said, "Do you know how you got to that universe?"
"No, I said it before I don't remember anything before I remember growing up in the other universe."
"Those memories are fake." Alyssa looked up mad and said, "For me they are real!" he put his hands up. "Can I see the Doctor?" The Master shook his head and said to the Guard who was by the Door. "take her to an empty room and keep her there." The guard walked over to grab her arm but Alyssa stood up and glared at the man before he left the room Alyssa following.
Months passed as Alyssa was trapped on the Valiant, the Master kept visiting her but because of the lack of memories of Alyssa. She only saw him as the enemy. She heard rumors about Martha walking the Earth, knowing exactly what she was doing. Going around the world telling the story of The Doctor.
Soon the months turned to a year and Martha had returned to the UK. Alyssa smiled when she heard the news because of the time left in this prison was about to be over. A guard came into he room and said "up, the Master wants you in the flight deck." Alyssa sighed, as she stood up and followed the guards up to the flight deck. Alyssa walked in and saw the Doctor, who was an elderly man "Doctor." She said and started to move over to him only for the Master to yell "No, keep her away from him." The guards that were behind Alyssa grabbed her arms and pushed her up and sat her in one of the chairs at the council tables. Alyssa looked at the Doctor who was looking at her with a hidden sadness, and the Master started his address "My people. Salutations on this, the eve of war. Lovely woman. But I know there are all sorts of whispers down there. Stories of a child, walking the Earth, giving you hope." Mentioning Martha Jones he moved the camera so they could see the Doctor "But I ask you How much hope has this man got? Say hello, Gandalf. Except he's not that old, but he's an alien with a much greater lifespan than you stunted little apes. but what if it showed? What if I suspend your capacity to regenerate? All nine hundred years of your life, Doctor. What if we could see them?" He said taking out his screwdriver and aiming it at the Doctor and pressed the button making the Doctor convulse. Alyssa then screamed "Master please stop it!" but the Master didn't stop and kept saying "Older and older and older. Down you go, Doctor. Down, down, down the years."
"Please! Master stop it!" the master finally did look up at Alyssa and stopped only for the Doctor to be gone his clothes on the floor. Alyssa stood up and walked over and took the clothes off the floor showing that the Doctor had been reduced to a tiny creature, with big eyes. Alyssa looked at him sadly and the Master went up to the Camera and said "Received and understood, Miss Jones?" he turned off the Camera and turned to Alyssa and said, "Take her back to her room." Alyssa didn't fight as one of the guards walked over to her and grabbed her arm forcing her to feet and out of the Flight deck.
A couple weeks passed and the next day was when the Master was going to use the Toclafane to start a war against the rest of the universe. The Master came into her room and said: "guess what."
"You found out where Martha is." She said staring out the window of her room and the Master pouted a bit and said: "Oh you're ruining my fun."
"Go get her then, why are you wasting time talking to me?" The Master frowned but still turned around and left the room. The next morning a guard came to collect her but she was already at the door and followed him to the flight deck where she saw The Doctor in a hanging bird cage she walked over and stood by him. This time the Master let her stand by him. She watched as Martha was walked in and looked at Alyssa the Doctor and Jack. "Your teleport device, in case you thought I'd forgotten." The Master said when Martha reached the stairs. Martha took out the Vortex manipulator and through it forward "And now, kneel." Martha did what he asked and The Master continued "Down below, the fleet is ready to launch. Two hundred thousand ships set to burn across the universe. Are we ready?" He said asking if the rockets were ready to launch. Running to the window and looking at the rockets.
"The fleet awaits your signal. Rejoice!" Someone said on the comms
"Three minutes to align the black hole converters. Counting down. I never could resist a ticking clock. My children, are you ready?"
"We will fly and blaze and slice. We will fly and blaze and slice." The Sphere's said who were in space "At zero, to mark this day, the child Martha Jones will die. My first blood. Any last words?" he said turning back to Martha who said nothing, "No? Such a disappointment, this one." He said as he walked down the stairs "Days of old, Doctor, you had companions who could absorb the time vortex. This one's useless. Bow your head. And so it falls to me, as Master of all, to establish from this day, a new order of Time Lords. From this day forward." The Master was interrupted by Martha and Alyssa laughing "What. What's so funny?" he asked the two of them "A gun." Alyssa said, the master turned to her and said
"What about it?"
"A gun in four parts?" Martha said, bringing the Master's attention back to her
"Yes, and I destroyed it."
"A gun in four parts scattered across the world? I mean, come on, did you really believe that?" Alyssa said, walking forward from the Doctor "I mean you of all people should know, that the Doctor would never ask someone to kill."
"Oh well, it doesn't matter. I've got her exactly where I want her." The Master said, raising the screwdriver once more, "But I knew what Professor Docherty would do. The Resistance knew about her son." Martha said, "I told her about the gun, so she'd get me here at the right time."
Alyssa then said "Really, I don't think it's worth traveling across the world just to get four pieces of a gun just for a slight chance that she might be able to shoot you with it. But maybe I should let Martha explain everything." Martha smiled at Alyssa and started her story
"I told a story, that's all. No weapons, just words. I did just what the Doctor said. I went across the continents all on my own. And everywhere I went, I found the people, and I told them my story. I told them about the Doctor. And I told them to pass it on, to spread the word so that everyone would know about the Doctor."
"Faith and hope? Is that all?" The Master said, not getting what was going on but Alyssa was grinning like a madwoman "No, because I gave them an instruction, just as the Doctor said. I told them that if everyone thinks of one word, at one specific time." Martha said, standing up
"Nothing will happen. Is that your weapon? Prayer?" The Master said,
"Right across the world, one word, just one thought at one moment but with fifteen satellites." "What?"
"Seriously brother you should know about it you created it. The Archangel network." Alyssa said, standing by Martha who said "A telepathic field binding the whole human race together, with all of them, every single person on Earth, thinking the same thing at the same time. And that word is Doctor." The Countdown reached Zero and the Doctor's caged started growing white as the Doctor started going back to normal. "Stop it. No, no, no, no, you don't." He said as everyone began saying, Doctor. Alyssa closed her eyes and whispered "Doctor."
"Don't. Stop this right now. Stop it!" on a screen people were joining together and shouting it, as
"I've had a whole year to tune myself into the psychic network and integrate with its matrices."
"I order you to stop!" The Master said, trying to stop the human race from saying, Doctor.
"The one thing you can't do. Stop them thinking." The Doctor said as he returned to his normal appearance "Tell me the human race is degenerate now when they can do this." and began floating "No!" The Master shouted and began firing at the Doctor but the energy-field around the Doctor stopped the shots. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." The Doctor said,
"Then I'll kill them." The Master said, pointing the Screwdriver at the Jones family. But the Doctor held out a hand and made the screwdriver fly out of the Master's hand. "You can't do this. You can't do it. It's not fair!" He said and the doctor started flying over to him and said: "And you know what happens now." The master started repeating no and backing up to the wall "You wouldn't listen. Because you know what I'm going to say."The Master curled up into a ball and the Doctor hugged him and whispered "I forgive you," The master then looked up and said "My children." and all the spheres descended down to protect the Paradox machine. "Captain, the paradox machine!" The Doctor yelled and Jack said to some guards that were nearby "you men, with me! You stay here." telling the Jones family to stay where they were. The Master grabbed the Vortex Manipulator planning to teleport away but The Doctor and Alyssa noticed and grabbed it too and the both of them teleported away. They landed on a cliff looking over Rockets and the Master said "Now it ends, Doctor. Now it ends."
"We've got control of the Valiant. You can't launch." The Doctor said in disbelief that he could do anything "Oh, but I've got this. Black hole converter inside every ship. If I can't have this world, Doctor, then neither can you. We shall stand upon this Earth together, as it burns." The Master said taking out a remote detonator. Weapon after weapon after weapon. All you do is talk and talk and talk. But overall these years and all these disasters, I've always had the greatest secret of them all. I know you. Explode those ships, you kill yourself. That's the one thing you can never do. Give that to me." The Doctor said the Master looked at Alyssa who was watching him also holding her hand out. "You're wrong about one thing, I could kill myself, but her." He said looking at Alyssa "after just finding her again I couldn't kill her." and he handed the device to Alyssa who was watching him in shock but her hand tightened around the trigger and grabbed the Vortex Manipulator and they teleported back onto the ship. Which was shaking heavily. The Doctor grabbed Martha and smiled at her and yelled "Everyone get down! Time is reversing!" Before falling to the floor. Alyssa grabbed the Doctor's hand he smiled at her and laughed. Soon the shaking stopped and the Doctor got up and ran around flipping buttons and said
"The paradox is broken. We've reverted back, one year and one day. Two minutes past eight in the morning." And he clicked on something that made radio turn on and a man said "This is UNIT Central. What's happened up there? We just saw the President assassinated."
"Just after the President was killed, but just before the spheres arrived. Everything back to normal. Planet Earth restored. None of it happened. The rockets, the terror. It never was." The Doctor said,
"What about the spheres?" Martha asked,
"Trapped at the end of the universe."The doctor said answering Martha's question
"But I can remember it." Francine, Martha's mom said
"We're at the eye of the storm. The only ones who'll ever know." He then saw another man who was Martha's father and ran over to him "Oh, hello. You must be Mister Jones. We haven't actually met." While the Doctor was distracted the Master tried to escape only to be caught by Jack and turned around pushed back in "Whoa, big fella! You don't want to miss the party. Cuffs." He said and a man gave him cuffs which he put on the master and walked him to the middle of the room and said: "So, what do we do with this one?"
"We kill him." Martha's father said, and Tish, Martha's sister agreed "No, that's not the solution.
"Oh, I think so. Because all those things, they still happened because of him. I saw them." Francine said holding up a gun "Go on. Do it." The Master said, but The doctor walked to her and said: "Francine, you're better than him." he finally got her to lower her gun and hugged her, before handing her to Martha and walking forward to the Master again "You still haven't answered the question. What happens to me?" the Master said
You're our responsibility from now on." He said meaning him and Alyssa who had joined him "The only Time Lords left in existence."
"Yeah, but you can't trust him," Jack said walking over to the two, "No. The only safe place for him is the Tardis." The Doctor said,
"You mean you're just going to keep me?"
"Mmm. If that's what I have to do. It's time to change. Maybe I've been wandering for too long. Now I've got someone to care for." The Doctor said, but a gunshot rang out and The Master staggered back and Alyssa ran forward and caught him before he fell to the floor. She lowered him down so they were both sitting on the Master in her lap and said "There you go. I've got you. I've got you."
"Always the women." The Master said, looking at Alyssa who was showing him the first kindness since He unlocked her memories of him being her brother. "I forgot about her." she said, tears already escaping her eyes "Dying in your arms," he said, never thinking that the first time he saw her again he was dying "You're not dying. Don't be stupid. It's only a bullet. Just regenerate."
"No." The master said,
"One little bullet. Come on."
"I guess you really forgot me, I refuse."
"Regenerate. Just regenerate. Please. Please! Just regenerate. Come on." Alyssa said, tears coming faster out of her eyes and the Master said: "And spend the rest of my life imprisoned with him." He said gesturing to the Doctor,
"You've got to. Come on. It can't end like this. We only just found each other again, please Regenerate!
"How about that. I win. Will it stop, Tanda The drumming. Will it stop?" she shook her head and the Master died. Alyssa broke into sobs and pulled him into one last hug The Doctor put a hand on her shoulder trying to comfort her.
Later Alyssa watched as the Doctor lit a pyre they made that had the Master's body on it. Tears rolling down her eyes, she had lost her old family from the other universe, only to find out that she had a brother in this universe and then lost him as well. The Doctor put his arm around her shoulders and took her inside the Tardis. Hours later the Doctor found her in the Library.
"I thought I'd find you in here." He said, looking at Alyssa, she nodded and the Doctor said: "Are you alright?"
"No, but I will be." Alyssa looked up at him and said "you knew that I was the Master's sister. How?"
"When the Beast said, Tanda I kind of put two and two together."
"So you knew me on Gallifrey."
"Knew you personally? No, but I knew that the Master had a sister because you and him were best friends growing up." Alyssa smiled softly and said, "Tell me about myself when I was on Gallifrey."
"I only know what the Master told me." The Doctor said, alyssa gave him a look that said 'so?' He smiled at her and said "Your birth name was Tanda, which means The Seer of Life and Death. It fit you because according to the Master you were very attuned to the Time Vortex, you could see certain events before they even happened, you were to be a seer after you finished your training but that never happened." He said looking down, Alyssa then said "What happened to me? I remember being born on Gallifrey and The Master was my brother and that one night I was taken from my home. I remembered that detail when the Master was shot." The Doctor looked up at her and sighed, "I happened."
"What?"
"Well it wasn't just me, The TimeLords kidnapped you in the dead of night one night and me being me when the Master came and asked for help. I couldn't refuse. I spent two years trying to find out what happened to you and the truth was worse then I thought." He looked at her but her eyes told him to keep going, "The TimeLords always wanted a way to utilize the Time Vortex so with you being attuned to it. They decided that you were the perfect subject. So they spent two years putting time Vortex in you and taking it out when it began to burn you, they didn't want you to regenerate. They managed to succeed in putting some in you without you burning but before they had a chance to figure out what you could do. I found you and took you from them. I knew that they would've never stopped searching for you so, I wiped your memories, and locked away your name and your family, so you wouldn't try to find a way back to this universe. I even went as far as putting fake memories into your head of a family and growing up there. But never did I expect that the universe I dumped you in was one where I was a TV show! I also never expected you to come back, but I guess that was the Tardis who brought you back." The Doctor stopped talking, waiting for her to slap him but she never did, "You sent me away to protect me?" He nodded and she said, "but why do I jump through your timeline?"
"I don't know honestly that's the one thing I never worked out." Alyssa smiled and kissed his cheek. "I may be mad at you for wiping my memories but thank you for protecting me." She then hissed in pain and clutched her head, golden flecks danced around her and she disappeared.