Chapter 10
Author's Note: 10th Chapter, yay! I have never owned Doctor Who. Merry Christmas to all, because i highly doubt i'll get another chapter up before Christmas. And thank you very much to all that reviewed, favourited, and subscribed. Warning: there is some dark stuff in this chapter, but its just about what happened in the past. I would reply to each review separately, but i don't have much to say besides, thank you, you people are what motivates me to continue writing this. Spoilers for for Last of the Time Lords and the Five Doctors.
28
As the Master woke up he could sense the Doctor next to him. They were tangled together; minds and bodies. He could hear the Doctor's heart beats beneath him. The beat of four didn't seem so horrific now. He opened his eyes slowly as he began to see everything again.
He lied there looking at the Doctor for quite sometime before his friend opened his eyes. "Hi," the Doctor said.
"Morning," the Master said again.
"Inter-dimensional non-time-ness."
"Non-time-ness isn't a word."
"Now who's stating the obvious?"
"Us."
They stayed in each other's arms for a bit longer before the Master decided that they better go back outside the TARDIS and do what ever they were doing before. Why has he forgotten? Well obviously because he just had one of the best nights of this life. He stood up and got a robe from the back of the Doctor's door and tied it around himself. "You want food?" he asked.
The Doctor yawned and rubbed his eyes. "Yes thanks."
The Master opened the door and stepped into the hallway the Doctor's room was now in. He walked to the door opposite, which was the kitchen. He was quite glad that the TARDIS and him weren't fighting anymore. He walked through the doorway and opened the fridge. The Doctor didn't have much food that's not from Earth, probably because his pets don't like anything different. He tried to search for non-Earthling food and took out some kind of purple cheese slice, some normal bread, and a Gargantosaur egg, it's amazing how those eggs don't ever go off.
He then made a two toasted cheese sandwiches with egg on top of them. He made his way back to the Doctor's room and handed him a plate.
"Hmm, that's delicious," the Doctor said with his mouth full of food.
"Yeah," the Master said absentmindedly. He was forgetting something but he didn't know what. "What am I forgetting?" he asked the Doctor.
"What are you forgetting? The question is what am I forgetting."
"I don't know…"
"Well what ever it is, we'll find out soon!" the Doctor said happily.
"That's very uncharacteristic of you." The Master put his food down on a nightstand by the bed to stare at the Doctor seriously.
"What is?"
"That you wouldn't really care. Usually once you forget something you always need to remember it. Is your head not big enough to think? Or is that you're so thick?"
The Doctor raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Have you been pulling up TARDIS records?"
"No, why would I do that?"
"I said that, not so long ago, back at the Library."
"Strange… it's probably just a coincidence."
"You think so?"
"Hmm maybe. Or it might be because I've been spending so much time inside your head lately."
"Yes that too. Besides I know you wouldn't, but even if you did look into the TARDIS records I have locks on them."
"If I was interrogating me, about talking about me saying the same sentence as you a while ago, which I think it is ridiculous by the way…"
"I'm not interrogating you! I'm merely wondering why you repeated what I said."
"If that's how you want to look at it, Doctor. Do I have your permission to finish what I was trying to earlier before you rudely interrupted?"
"That's me rude and not ginger!"
"Oh you're still going on about wanting to be ginger, even now?"
The Doctor scoffed at the Master. "I haven't always wanted to be ginger, I'm just sick of all the brown and blond hair."
"Sure."
"And yes you have my permission."
"Good. I would figure I would have been looking in the matrix if anything, since I did gain access to it years ago. Hold on, did the Matrix die with Gallifrey?"
"Yes."
"Then how does the TARDIS still have its records."
"Well I tried to download the Matrix when Gallifrey burnt. But I only had enough time to save the stuff I needed."
"Oh and you didn't both to upload anything useful, like how to reconstruct Time Lord DNA and bring back some other Time Lords," the Master asked sarcastically.
"It didn't occur to me at the time," the Doctor said sadly looking away from the Master. Oh why did he always have to do this to the Doctor? He always made jokes at inappropriate times and left the Doctor feeling guilty over killing or something of the like.
"Well we don't need those other boring pompous idiots anyway."
"You're right about that. Not to brag but we always were better than the others," the Doctor said cheering up a bit.
"Exactly." The Master said, getting up off the bed and leaning over to the Doctor and kissing him before he turned around and headed to the door. "I'm going for a shower. You can just…"
"I don't need you to order me what to do, Master. You need to stop mastering over people."
"If you stop doctoring people then I'll stop mastering," the Master said playfully.
He exited the room and walked down the corridor until he got to one of the many bathrooms.
29.
"How much longer do we have to wait," wined Dalek Zeta.
"Daleks do not wine!" sounded out Dalek Two in an angry tone.
"I believe that you just did wine," Dalek Delta Fluien replied.
All of the fourteen Daleks were back outside the TARDIS after upgrading the named Daleks into Daleks of old. The ten unnamed Daleks were now being called numbers of the Numeric English Earth System.
"I do not understand why they have forgotten to come out and exterminate us!" Dalek One said.
"Activating last message from the emperor," Dalek Four said.
'Daleks,' their emperor addressed them. 'I am interfering with the Time Lords minds to make them temporarily forget that the Daleks are currently existing. It will buy me time to get to Earth. You must stay immobile outside their vehicle until I arrive.'
"Why must the emperor defeat the Doctor and the Master? Why does he deny us of the right to exterminate them?" Dalek Ten said.
"We must not question the Dalek Emperor!"
30
"Well I think maybe we can go back to the Krlisian Valacadacaska," suggested the Doctor as they walked in circles around the rotor and controls.
"I still think we must have landed somewhere," said the Master. He suddenly stopped circling. "Did you hear that?"
The Doctor raised an eyebrow. "Hear what?"
"Err, nothing. Never mind."
"No tell me. Hear what?"
"It's not important."
The Doctor searched the Master's thoughts and heard it too. "The drums?" he asked sceptically.
The Master looked very confused. "No. It's something different, like static?" His eyes widened. "It's in your head too," he said pointing at the Doctor.
"My head?" the Doctor asked while pointing at himself disbelievingly. "You're right."
"I'm always right."
"What is this noise?"
"Well its no drumbeat. But it has the same kind of hypnotic feel about it."
"Mmm, yeah."
"Well there must be a source. The TARDIS will be able to trace it." The Doctor fiddled with a few buttons and switches. "What's wrong? Why won't you find it?" he asked tapping the console.
"Try amplifying the command."
"I've done that, she still won't respond."
"Get out of the way." The Master nudged the Doctor away so he could see the controls he was fiddling with. He twisted a twisty thing and pumped the pump. "It seems like there's something outside that's blocking it."
"What? You mean outside of the TARDIS right now?"
"Yes, I believe that's what I just said."
"Well let's look, shall we?"
The Time Lords walked up to the door and opened it to fourteen Daleks.
"What?" the Doctor exclaimed.
The memories of the last day came flooding back into their minds. It was actually quite painful to have those memories recovered.
"So we've just been inside the TARDIS all that time while the Daleks were ripping the world apart out here?" the Doctor asked with a shocked look on his face.
"Oh Doctor, sometimes I swear you get thicker with age!" the Master said.
They suddenly heard a big roaring thunder in the sky and looked up to see electricity flooding between the clouds. "Oh this is bad," the Doctor said. "This is very very bad."
The clouds looked as if they were getting pushed out of the way for something to enter between them. The electricity began to strike down to the surface of the planet like lightning. The fires around the Doctor and the Master spread. A giant troll like foot landed upon the Earth through the clouds. Both Gallifreyans instantly knew what owned the foot. The Master shook his head refusing to believe it had returned. "No," he muttered. "They're dead." He turned to the Doctor. "We killed them!"
The Dalek's eyestalks looked up towards the mighty beast. "The Dalek emperor has arrived!"
The Doctor snapped out of his trance and faced the Daleks. "Dalek emperor? But that thing is not even remotely Dalek!"
"He is the lord who saved us from the great destruction of the Time War!" the Daleks said admiringly. How on Gallifrey can a Dalek admire something!
"That creature is not a lord! I thought the Dalek's don't cooperate with any other species!"
The Master stepped back in fear. "But how?" he whimpered. He turned around to try to unlock the TARDIS but it wouldn't budge.
The Doctor could tell how fearful the Master was and moved over to him to try to calm him. "It's okay. We stopped them before, so we can stop them again."
The Master blinked the tears out of his eyes and tried to calm down. His sadness and fear then turned into anger and dry humour. "Wow, you've gotten big since we last chatted to you," the Master told the demon.
"Spare me your nonsense chatter!" the demon roared down at them.
"It seems like we forgot about you. You were the one who got through the schism, that Jenny and Jack tried to kill, correct?"
"That is correct. You killed my family…"
"No, no, no. It's my turn to talk!"
"Stop trying to act brave, Time Lord. You are nothing but a weak primitive…"
"Says the one that wants to revert the universe back to what it was," the Doctor interrupted. "Now who's the primitive?"
Another foot fell through the sky and landed at what looked like the other side of the city. "Doctor!" the demon yelled down at them. "You know what it feels like to be alone, don't you?"
"Are you trying to make us sympathise with you?" the Master asked sarcastically.
"You must know the empty feeling that rips you apart; the darkness, the never-ending darkness!"
"I know how you feel, but destroying the Earth isn't going to help!" the Doctor yelled back to the demon.
"Oh I will do far more than destroy this rock! And you have no way of stopping me!"
"How can you stop us, when you can't even see us?" the Master asked. "You're a bit tall."
"I've been feasting, and that increases my power." The demon began to shrink down. His other leg stepped closer and he lowered down to the size of the previous demons they had confronted with. "Happy now?"
"Oh I'm happy, maybe even ecstatic!"
"Why is that?"
"Because now I'm going to kill you." The Master got his S.I.D. out of his transdimensional pocket, pointed it at the demon and fired.
"You think you can stop me by immobilising me? I am an Ancient Being! I have great power that you cannot even begin to imagine!" the demon yelled. He unfortunately did not freeze. "You Higher Beings killed the rest of my race and left me standing all alone in the darkness. Now I'm going to do it to one of you!"
The Time Lords looked at each other in fear. Neither of them wanted to ever be alone again.
Suddenly they could hear a zapping noise and then Jenny appeared. She had a vortex manipulator in her hand. She then pointed it at the demon and power came flooding out of it. The demon fell to the ground making a huge impact on the surface of the planet. "I thought you guys might need some extra help," she said happily.
The Doctor ran up to her and hugged her. "How did you know?" he asked.
"Well," she said copying the way her father likes to say it. "I ended up finding a time travelling teleport on an intergalactic market, so I travelled to the 51st century where I met this group called the Time Agency. I went undercover and pretended to be one of them, and I found out they had a devise that could detect time distortions. And it turned that an event that was effecting the whole of time and space was happening right here, so I got a vortex manipulator and here I am!" she said happily.
The Master smiled at her.
"Oh and Donna says hi."
His smile faded. "What do you mean?" he asked.
"I think it was pretty clear. Donna told me to tell you two 'hi'."
The Doctor raised an eyebrow at Jenny sceptically. "Jenny, Donna's gone."
"Not last time a checked. When I first teleported here I saw her on the other side of Rome building something."
"Our emperor is dead!" screamed Dalek Seven.
"The Daleks are leaderless!" Dalek Ukilnao screeched.
Dalek Omicron suddenly shook his dome/head-like thing. "No the emperor lives!"
Jenny, the Master and the Doctor suddenly turned around to see the demon getting off the ground. "Your inferior technology is no match for my power!" it screamed. "Now you will all die!"
There was another zapping noise and Donna appeared also with a vortex manipulator. "You didn't think you were getting rid of me that quickly, Time Boys!" Donna yelled happily.
"But," the Doctor said looked at her confused. "But… but you're dead!"
"It would have seemed like that, yeah."
"Semi-regeneration," Jenny said.
"Oh yes!"
The Master unexpectedly walked up to Donna and pulled her in for a hug. "I'm so sorry," he said as he released her.
"It's not your fault," she replied.
"How did you get a vortex manipulator?" the Doctor asked.
"I built it. You didn't erase the Doctor-Donna completely. Hah!"
"I'm so sorry. I should have trusted you, that you'd survive."
"What is with Time Lords and apologising?"
The demon leant down over them casting a huge shadow. "You must be silenced," he said. "I must kill you all now!"
"Excuse me, Mr Beastly Lord Ancient One," the Doctor said to him. "But I'm a little unsure of why you want to kill us all, why not just the Master and myself, not that I wish death upon us, I'm just curious?"
"The Ancient Legend," said Dalek Omicron.
"What legend?" the Master asked.
"Two Higher Beings and two Lower Beings will defeat the last Ancient Being."
"You stupid primitive!" the demon screamed as a bolt of power erupted from one of his hands and burnt the Dalek's shell also destroying it's interior.
"Why did you exterminate Dalek Omicron?" Dalek One asked. "He was one of Dalek kind."
"I am aware you was Dalek kind, but he deserved to die. Now you do too!"
The demon killed Dalek One too.
"Anyone else not happy?"
"Negitive. The Daleks must have self preservation," the remaining twelve Daleks said.
"But that's what one of those Slab thingies called me earlier. A lower being," Donna said. "Is Jenny the other one?"
"Affirmative!" another Dalek brave enough to speak up said. Getting their emotional inhibitors removed and stored again was probably making them mix up their commands. "Lower Beings are half Gallifreyan half Earthling. Donna and Jenny are both half Gallifreyan half Earthling."
"Oh of course!" the Doctor said realising the truth of it. "The meta-crisis didn't only effect Donna's mind, it was her biology too."
"Well obviously, she just semi-regenerated," the Master added.
"Yes, I'm just clarifying it out loud."
The Demon stared down at his Daleks scornfully. "You are my creations, you must not disobey my orders!" he yelled at them.
Isn't positive reinforcement better than punishment and scolding? Well clearly the demons aren't very motherly.
"You did not create us," the Daleks said together.
"I saved you from destruction, you owe me your lives!"
"Wait can we stop this whole big yelling thing just so I can get a word in," the Doctor said. Everyone turned to face him. "Thanks. Now I'm just wondering, how does the legend go, how do the Higher and Lower Beings stop the Ancient Being?"
"The legend says nothing of how it will happen," Dalek Six said.
"I will annihilate you all!" the demon screamed at the Daleks.
"Wow, someone needs to go to a mental hospital more than me," the Master joked.
"You never did. It's the drumming demons that needed to and this one still does," the Doctor replied.
They were a lot more relaxed now. It was mainly because the demon didn't really look like he was about to bring their inescapable death.
'It's quite fun just standing here and watching Daleks and the Demon argue, but how are we going to kill it?' the Master asked him through their minds.
'Well clearly, Donna, Jenny, you and I have to come up with a plan to stop it.' The Doctor replied.
'And what exactly are we all going to do?'
'I'm lost.'
'And now you're found, come on use that big head of yours you love to brag about!'
'If the demon is distracted long enough, we can go back inside the TARDIS and then he will realise we're gone and come chasing after us, and lure him into the vortex, and then without a time capsule he'll just float through out the vortex, then we open the void using the TARDIS and send him back into that never ending darkness of his.'
'No, don't you see that he can still taunt us from within the void. We need to kill it! Those things tortured me for my whole life! I'm not just going to let the last one wonder around in the void!'
'What about Jack? You tortured and killed him multiple times and he's starting to forgive you.'
'That's different! He hasn't lived over one-thousand years and have everything ripped away from you at the age of 300!'
'Master… I'm sorry. I know what they did, but spending eternity in darkness, is the only thing we can do to it.'
'That thing destroyed my whole fucking life! Not only did it give me the infernal racket, but also it drove me mad, made me evil, took all my friends away from me, made me kill people, made me kill my own family! I never told you, did I?'
Images of the Master's mother and father bleeding all over the floor at his old house filled their minds.
'The drums thought they would stop me from reaching my destiny, so they made me kill them. My own parents blood all over my hands!'
It was a horrible sight. The Master stood over their bodies with a grim look on his face, which then turned into a sinister smile.
'But when I dropped you back of at Gallifrey they were there, I saw them.'
'And then you left me, and that drove me even more insane. I had no one to help with the drums, no one understood! I was all alone in my own pit of darkness! My parents tried to help, everyone in Oakdown did. They didn't want to have a weak link in the chain to greatness. Of course everyone who went to academy with us knew I was mad, but if the council found out I'd be eliminated for sure. Oh and you don't even know the worst of it. Each time when we got back to the academy after summer break and I had bruises and cuts on me and I never told you how I got them…'
Of course the Doctor remembered that. He used to try to make Koschei tell him what happened, but he never did. Theta used to hold Koschei in his arms while he sat there trying to get the traumatic events of whatever happened on summer break out of his head, but he never told Theta what happened. Even when they opened up their minds to each other the events from then, and the drums, were always kept hidden deep in Koschei's mind.
'Well that was the head of Oakdown's fault.' The Master continued thinking. 'He never liked me when I was first loomed, but then after all of the stunts we pulled at school he got even madder and started to mind torture me every time I went home. It got even worse after that. He found the drums in my head and tried to rid me of them, but every time he tried they got worse, and then physical torture was introduced, that's how I got the cuts. When you left me on Gallifrey, he found me, and tortured me for hours. Other races always thought of us Time Lords as a peaceful race. Remember at the Death Zone, when Borusa betrayed the Time Lords and tried to gain immortality? Well he wasn't the only home-staying renegade. Lord Chief Oakdown tortured me for a while and then forced regeneration. You never did ask about how I regenerated the next time we met. That whole experience was the drums fault again. You know how some Time Lords have more advanced senses than others? Like how I was good at hypnotics, he was good at sensing the sanity levels of creatures. If the drums never infected me, then that would never have happened. And also then I never would have killed thousands of races for our little game through out the galaxies, and most importantly, I never would have lost you.'
The Doctor looked at the Master with tears in his eyes. He felt guilty because he never realised how much pain the Master had suffered.
'Don't blame yourself. I blame that bloody demon. Do you understand now, that I don't want to let that thing live on, it's just going to keep ripping us apart!' the Master psychically yelled.
Throughout the 500 years that they were together for (300 in school, 150 living on Gallifrey, 50 travelling together), the Doctor had never ever actually heard the Master beg for something so emotionally before. He knew he had to eliminate that demon, or the Master will continue living with all this hate and sorrow, it has to die.
'You're right. Always right. Why didn't you ever tell me what happened when you got back to Gallifrey until now?' The Doctor asked.
'You ran away from me and started travelling with humans, and when you finally came back to Gallifrey to pick up your little friend Susan, I couldn't even bare to think about you without crumbling apart, let alone talk to you about leaving me.'
'My poor Koschei, we'll kill it, and I'll never let it hurt you again!'
'All right! Lets kill this bastard!'
"You two defeated the demons last time just with your minds, can't you do that again?" Donna said interrupting their psychic conversation and startling them both.
"H-how did you know what we were discussing?" the Doctor asked.
"Well your sending pretty loud psychic projections that any slightly psychic being could pick up a few words."
"We were in the void last time, and that place is a lot less physical than this world," the Master told her. "So it can't work."
"Well we got two and two halves of psychic minds here so why can't we do that again?" Jenny asked.
"Because it's still not enough," the Doctor said. "And this demon has grown too physically strong to be defeated by psychic energy."
"So we are lost?" Jenny asked.
"Not completely," the Master said. "We have the TARDIS, the most powerful ship in all of the universe."
"And finally you admit she's better than a calculator!" the Doctor interrupted happily.
The Master rolled his eyes. "When Rassilon, Omega and the Other started building time ships they put an energy in them called Untempered Power which like Artron Energy enables a TARDIS to connect to the vortex. It's basically what the Untempered Schism is made of. After the TARDIS type 50 they started using more Arton Energy and completely stopped using Untempered Energy, but it just so happens that we have a type 40 with us!"
"Oh yes! We could let the Untempered Energy devour the demon!"
"But how do you know that the energy will be enough?" Jenny asked.
"Because the schism had that energy to reach into the void and free the demons, so why can't it kill a demon? Perfect plan!" the Master said joyfully.
The Doctor unlocked the TARDIS and all four of them ran inside. The Demon was still arguing with the Daleks outside the TARDIS so he didn't even see them leave. The Doctor and the Master began pressing buttons to make the TARDIS attack the Demon with Untempered Energy but just the two of them wasn't enough.
"Jenny can you press that button there for ten seconds and then the switch there, and Donna can you pump that thing there and flick the yellow switch?" he asked his friends.
They did as they were told and the rotor began to move. They all ran back outside to see the lamp on top of the TARDIS start to glow and then a beam came out of it and hit the Demon. He began to fall to the ground knees first and then the rest of his body. "No!" he cried as all the life faded from his eyes.
The Daleks span around in circles with their ray guns and plumber tools twitching. They didn't know how to help their emperor so they resulted to spinning around.
"You will burn for as long as you live in loneliness!" the demon screamed in his weakening voice. "One of you will die and there is no way to stop it! I have seen all that is fixed in time, and one of your deaths is!"
The energy started to absorb the Demon until it was just a few atoms floating in the air that then broke down into nothingness.
"We did it!" cried Donna with delight. "We killed it!"
"We sure did!" the Doctor said grabbing onto the Master and kissing the life out of him.
"Go team TARDIS!" Jenny said.
The TARDIS groaned a happy groan.
"We have no purpose," Dalek Four said.
"What will we do now?" Dalek Five said.
"Daleks must exterminate other inferior life forms," Dalek Nine stated.
"But we are not true Daleks," said Dalek Delta Fluien.
"Affirmative!" they all yelled. "Initiate Self destruction process!"
The twelve Daleks burst into flames, frying the creature inside the shell also.
"Why'd they do that?" Jenny asked a little confused.
"No Dalek wants to live as an Untrue Dalek," the Doctor said as he walked in a little circle getting a view of what the great city of Rome had become.
"How are we going to get the city back to normal?" Jenny said also looking at the crumbling buildings and ashes.
"Well," the Doctor said. "I suppose we could just tell the people every thing's alright now, so they can come out of hiding and rebuild this brilliant city!" the Doctor said with a smile.
A woman ran out onto the street with a happy look on her face despite being covered in dirt. "Everything's alright?" she asked. "Everything is alright!" she then cheered.
"Yes, spread the word around!" the Doctor exclaimed throwing his arms up in the air and spinning. "Everything is perfect!"
"Well fighting Demons and Daleks has been fun, but I better be going back now," Jenny said.
"Are you sure you have to go?" the Doctor asked.
"There's always room for more," the Master said.
The Doctor looked at him as he was thinking about inviting all six and one half billion humans aboard the TARDIS.
"I mean there's always room for you," the Master corrected still looking at Jenny.
"Thanks, but no. I much rather see the universe, than have to fight for it," Jenny said with a sad smile.
"That vortex manipulator still work, or do you need a lift?" the Doctor asked.
"Yep, working fine," said Jenny.
"Well we better get going."
Donna was still standing by Jenny's side.
"You coming, Donna?" he asked.
Donna looked at the Doctor also sadly. "I know how much I went through to get back to you guys, but I wanted to see the universe too, I love you two like space brothers, but I died, and it wasn't fun."
The Master looked away guiltily.
"Please don't blame yourself, Master. It's no one but these giant pepper pots' fault," Donna continued. "Can I come with you, Jenny?"
A great big smile spread across Jenny's face. "Oh of course, I'd love to have you around!"
"Oh great!" Donna said also smiling. She and Jenny hugged and then turned back to the Time Lords. "Well I guess this is goodbye," she said.
"It's never goodbye!" the Doctor said as he hugged them both. "We got this whole big universe, we're bound to bang into each other another day down the track!"
"Oh come here you sulky Martian," Donna said as she and Jenny pulled the Master in for a hug.
He hugged them back still trying to get used to the whole hugging concept and then said. "Like the Doctor said, hope to see you lot later."
"Yes, see you later," the Doctor said smiling at his friends.
Donna and Jenny put there hands on the vortex manipulator and vanished into a blue flash.
"So I guess it's just you and me now," the Doctor said to the Master.
"And the TARDIS," the Master added.
"And that brilliant TARDIS of ours," the Doctor repeated. "So what about the frozen Daleks? What will happen to them?"
"Well them being suspended for so long will kill them, there whole atom structure will rip apart and they'll be dead already, no use for a reality bomb now."
"Great," the Doctor said smiling what the Master called his big stupid grin.
"Are you finally starting to get over your not killing problems?" the Master asked cheekily.
"No, I will always value life, and I will make you value it too."
"And how do plan on doing that?"
"By showing you that life is definitely worth living!" the Doctor said as he pulled the Master into the TARDIS.
"I'll be looking forward to it."
They both ran down the hallway happily knowing that they still had long happy lives together and they were inseparable… or are they?