A/N : Thanks for the reviews, I would have got this up yesterday if it wasn't for that darn technical glitch that stopped me from getting into the login area! grrrrr, so very annoying!, I tried about twenty times but it wouldn't work until today.

Chapter Nine : Old Enemies and Escape

The Doctor opened his eyes and realised he was still lying on the floor of the Tardis...what was he doing here again?...then it all came flooding back to him. Him and Donna...swapped bodies...Rose kidnapped...shaking...blacking out. He jumped up and looked down at himself, realising something was different and a slow grin spread on his face. He had no boobs! He didn't have boobs anymore! He felt like rejoicing, he was finally back in his own and (if he did say so himself) dashingly handsome body. He looked across the room; Jack was leant over his girlfriend (except he didn't know they had swapped back yet), who was beginning to stir."Doctor...Doctor...wake up...we have to go find Rose remember?". The Doctor almost chuckled at Jack but didn't when he was reminded that Rose still needed him.

"Huh? Jack? What's going on?" Donna murmured. She slowly opened her eyes and saw her boyfriend looking at her worriedly. She accepted his hand getting up and looked across the room where her eyes locked with those of the Doctor...hold on... The Doctor, that meant... Yes!, she was a girl again, she didn't need to stand up when using the toilet anymore!.Donna jumped up and down excitedly. She finally was back in her own comfortable girlie body. She grinned widely and started hugging herself and running her fingers through her long, thick, auburn hair that she had missed so dearly. "I'm back! I'm back!" she chanted. The Doctor rolled his eyes at her; Jack furrowed his brow in confusion.

"What's going on?" he asked.

"We're us again, Jack, you can kiss me now, I'm Donna again!" Donna squealed. Jack didn't even bother waiting for a moment before cupping her face in his hands and kissing her passionately. The Doctor was getting irritated, Rose needed them and all they were doing was making out like annoying, love-sick teenagers.

"Oi Jack, Donna, mind saving your sweet reunion for later, Rose needs us right now!" he barked and the two pulled apart guiltily."Come on love birds". The two followed the Doctor outside in the horrible planet they had landed on. The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver and held it in front of him. They walked on and on for miles before the screwdriver started turning a red tint. The Doctor breathed a sigh of relief before grinning at his two friends with relief.

Rose didn't know how many days or hours she had been locked in her dark prison for, all she knew was that she couldn't take much more of this. She was secretly praying they would kill her just so the pain would stop but at the same time she was determined to live so the Doctor would know how much she loved him and if she died, she knew he would just go on to blame himself forever more. She was snapped out of her musings when the door flung open and a cloaked figure came gliding through. "Rose Tyler, still not talking?. I have to say you lasted much longer than anyone else I've had in here" the voice said with cold amusement.

"Go to hell" Rose barked with as much venom as she could muster up.

"Tut-tut-tut. You shouldn't speak so rude to your host" the voice said as if she was a naughty little girl who needed to be taught manners. Rose simply gritted her teeth and shot the figure a glare.

"Who is my host anyway?" she demanded sharply. The voice sighed deeply.

"I wasn't going to reveal myself until I'd seen the Doctor first but I suppose you will do for now and it's not as if we've met before so there will be no surprises". The hood of the cloak suddenly fell and revealed a thirty something sandy haired man with a crazy, psychotic gleam in his eyes. A insane smirk spread on his face. "I am the Master" Rose frowned before her eyes widened when the lunatic took out a whip and whacked her hard across her chest and stomach. This time she really did scream out in pain.

"Son of a-"she didn't get chance to finish her sentence before the whip hit her again.

"If you want a job done right, do it yourself" the Master muttered emotionlessly as Rose screamed. "None of my men could even get as much as a squeal out of you, I'm doing much better". Rose winced as she felt the whip hit her hard across her face.

"Master..." Rose whispered."Master, I will talk. Whatever you need to know, I'll tell you". The Master grinned and put his whip down for a second and knelt down in front of her.

"Finally, if I had known this would have gotten you to speak, I would have pulled it out much sooner. Iit's about time you learnt the Doctor is simply not worth the pain. If he had taken better care of you, you would not even be here now would you?" Rose shakily nodded her head in agreement."Firstly how is it the Doctor always somehow finds a way to thrash my plans of world domination each and every time? does he have some sort of secret power?" Rose looked at him as seriously as she could.

"He has one thing you don't" she replied honestly.

"And what's that?" the Master asked, deeply interested. Finally he would have find out how the Doctor always manages to defeat him and will be able to put a stop to it. Suddenly a slow defiant grin spread on Rose's face.

"Friends...oh and sanity, make that two things. Two things you will never have!" The Master growled angrily and whipped Rose again but she didn't scream this time. She did something the Master didn't expect in the least. She was laughing. Hard. And unless he was mistaken, she was laughing at HIM.

"What the hells so funny?"

"You. You basically admitted that the Doctor beats you every time so I don't care what you do to me now. I'm thinking of everything the Doctor will do to YOU when he finds me" she hissed.

"But he won't , he's stuck in that ginger chick's body" the Master pointed out but to his disappointment, it didn't seem to dim her spirits , the Master continued whipping Rose, taking out all his frustration and anger with the Doctor, on her.

The Doctor and co stopped outside of what looked like an old warehouse. That was were Rose was supposedly. The Doctor used his screwdriver to unlock the front doors and the threesome found themselves walking down a long dark corridor. They watched as the screwdriver went bright yellow and told them that they had finally found Rose. The Doctor exchanged a look with Donna and he nervously pushed open the steel door in front of him. What they saw in there, was what neither had expected or wanted to see. Lying in a crumpled mess on the floor, was an extremely battered and naked Rose Tyler. The Doctor rushed to her side and pushed a lock of blonde hair out of her heavily bruised face. "Who the hell did this to you?" he growled angrily. Donna knelt down on her other side looking distraught.

"Oh Rose "she whispered, holding back tears for her friend. The three were too busy staring at Rose's form to notice somebody enter the room behind them. The door slammed shut and the three immediately looked up. The Doctor's expression twisted into one of fury when he saw the Master stood near the door, grinning happily. Since when was he alive and kicking? the Doctor wondered angrily.

"I should of guessed that Rose was your weakness...it's so ironic that I was torturing her so I could find out what your weakness was, only for it to turn out to be HER" the Master smirked unpleasantly."Now nobody has to get hurt. Your companions can leave here, including Rose, all you have to do is agree to stay as my prisoner in Rose's place" Donna narrowed her eyes at the Doctor.

"Don't you dare, Doctor, we'll get out of here I promise you." she vowed then added confidently. "No need to act the hero space-boy"

"Shut it ginger" the Master sneered."I don't know how you and the Doctor managed to switch back into your bodies but I'll-""

"How did you even survive?" Jack interrupted , staring at the man in front of him with undisguised hatred. Donna wondered what had happened to make the Doctor and Jack hate the lunatic so much although going off his current behaviour, she could see why they probably hated him in the first place.

"Lucy shot me and I died but my essence was stored inside my ring. A friend of mine, took the ring and restored my body. Now I'm whole again and without even having to regenerate. Aren't I clever?" he grinned.

"No just off your rocker" Donna commented and it resulted in her getting whipped across the face.

"Oi, don't touch her" Jack yelled and quickly scooped Donna into his arms from where she'd fallen on the floor.

"Stop this right now" the Doctor snapped."I'll take Rose's place, just don' hurt anybody else"

"Finally you've done the right thing for once" the Master hissed.

"Wait a minute- taking the Doctor prisoner isn't going to work" Jack noted."It didn't work for you last time did it?" the Masters ears turned red as Jack smirked at him.

"Oh shut up, don't even talk to me immortal" he ordered before a crack filled the room and the Master suddenly found himself on the floor, wincing in pain and covering up his...manly area. Donna looked down at him satisfied.

"That is for using your bloody whip on me and this is for hurting my friend so badly you could hardly recognise her" Donnas proceeded to kick him even harder than before in the exact place he had placed his hands. The Doctor and Jack both looked at her terrified for their own future safety. "Now isn't the time to act like a bunch of pansy's, Doctor grab Rose and let's get out of here right now before the loon can do anymore damage"

"Yeah" the Doctor agreed feebly. It seemed spending a few days in his body had sort of made Donna into a leader. As the two men followed Donna out of the room, (the Doctor dragging behind a bit since he was carrying Rose), the Master began screaming for his comrades to come to his aid. An alarm set off as soon as the three (plus Rose of course) raced outside, the Master's henchmen hot on their heels.