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Just a Bit Unlikely Ch. 10: Not All's Well that Ends Well
The Master's eyes widened. "What do you mean 'I've already lost'?"
The Doctor smirked and didn't reply. He finally had the advantage. Marvin looked up at him, still as baffled as the Master on how they possibly had already won, but the Doctor just gave him a reassuring glance and then they both watched as the Master approached threateningly. "Tell me. What did I miss? What is it?!"
The Doctor began pacing around the Control Room until he arrived next to the forgotten-about Dalek. "You see this guy?" The Doctor began his explanation, infuriating the Master with his obvious conclusion, "He's not firing at me right now."
"That's because I ordered all of them to leave you to me."
The Doctor pointed a finger in the air, "Good point, but I don't think you told them to leave Marvin here alone, did you?"
The Master looked back, horrified, to notice Marvin standing there totally unharmed. "What's...what's wrong with the Dalek?"
The Doctor knocked on the Dalek's metal shell. "There isn't even a Dalek creature inside. These are just shells with robots controlling them so they'll drive the ship. The only thing they can do is drive and fire from the ship."
"But...I told them to send an army."
"And they did...a robot army, at least."
The Master replied smugly, "But the war is still going on. They can still fire from the ships. So you're idea isn't even putting a dent in my plan. "
The Doctor smirked coolly. "Oh, but that's where you're wrong. You see, robots are brilliant...for a time. But you see, robots run on batteries. If those batteries are removed..."
The Doctor removed a grey box from the side of the Dalekanium and the ship shifted to the side. He returned it quickly and the ship steadied in a matter of seconds.
The Master watched in horror as the Doctor whipped out his Sonic. "Wha-what are you doing?"
He knew the answer. So did Marvin. "If I set this correctly, all of the robots except this one will shut off. If I did the math correctly, the ships will all fly into a small moon of Venus and nobody will be hurt."
The Master tried to find a loophole. "The Cybermen are out there still. They won't just go home."
"I've stopped Cybermen before."
The Master found his chance to weaken his old friend and he took it. "Not without any casualties. What'd you say her name was? Rose! That's it! The little blonde English girl you whined to me about."
The Doctor's smirk had faded into a slight frown. His eyes seemed to glisten, or maybe it was just the light reflecting. "There won't be any casualties today."
He looked over at Marvin. His face read differently than his words. He looked both scared and worried. Marvin didn't seem very encouraged, but he gave the Doctor a quick smile anyway. He knew the Doctor would try his best to keep him safe.
The Ship suddenly lurched and all three lost their balance and nearly fell. The Doctor called out, "We just lost our Dalek!"
In the panic of the moment, the Master grabbed Marvin and held him tightly in his arms. "Doctor!", Marvin called out.
The Doctor looked back at the Master's furious face. "You may have stopped the war, but there will be casualties today!"
The Doctor began running towards them, but the Master was too quick. He grabbed a pair of handcuffs from the security table and put on on Marvin's wrist and one on a pipe standing next to the wall. "We'll meet again, Doctor."
The Master ran off down the hall to some emergency exit and was gone. Marvin struggled with the handcuffs. The Doctor Sonic-ed them, but it was no use. "It's dead locked. I can't..."
The reality of his situation hit him. "I can't get you out of here."
Marvin looked over at the Dalek. "What if you bring him back to life?"
The Doctor went to the Dalek shell. He glanced over the coordinates, praying for a miracle. As he read over the statistics, he put his face in his hands and returned to Marvin. "If I..." He struggled speaking the words. "If I save you...if I turn on the robot...he'll try to steady us. As of right now...we're on course to just miss Earth atmosphere. He would try to steady us diet, which would take a minute or two...we'd crash into Earth's surface. We're going so fast...we'd...it'd kill everyone, or at least most and...I'm so sorry."
Marvin slowly explained, in simple terms, "If you save me, everyone on Earth is killed."
The Doctor nodded glumly. His face changed from sadness to anger in a millisecond. He slammed his hand on the table and turned away from Marvin. "Why does this always happen? I can never save everybody. No, once I did. Once. Can't it happen one more time? Everyone around me dies and it's always my fault! You're just a kid...a smart, young kid...I'm so sorry. You never should've met me. I'm a danger to everybody."
Marvin decided this was his last chance to help the Doctor, and he didn't care that he'd never get paid in return. "Doctor, I left my English class to be with you. If it weren't for you, I'd probably be dead right now. The Cyber would've killed us if you hadn't stopped it. So many people owe you their lives, Doctor. None of this is your fault. None of it."
The Doctor paced over and wrapped his arms around Marvin. "Thank you."
They hugged for a full twenty seconds before Marvin, half smiling, whispered, "Don't you have Cybermen to stop?"
The Doctor faked a smile. How could he leave this boy? How would he ever forgive himself? He wouldn't. He never did forgive himself.
The Doctor couldn't bring himself to say goodbye knowing it would be Marvin's last. His hearts shattering, he walked out of the room, forcing himself not to look in the boy's eyes. He always remembered the eyes of the people he'd involuntarily killed. Those eyes tormented him at night. He didn't want another in the collection. He got into the hallway and ran to the room where the TARDIS was parked. The guards would be killed too. This thought arrived to him as he opened the TARDIS doors, but he was already numb from guilt.
As he stepped into the TARDIS, it reminded him of all the times he had come I here lately after a rough day. After Rose had been sent into the parallel universe; after Martha had gone home; after Pompeii, but at least he had Donna then; after saying goodbye to his friends again; after he had wiped Donna's memories. All came flooding back to him as he closed the doors with their usual squeaky slam. He slowly walked to the Console and began punching in coordinates for London, Great Britain, Earth, Milky Way, October 24, 2013.
The rest of the day was a haze. He went to Torchwood Tower at one point and heard them order some missile fire. Soon, all of the Cybermen were gone and the Earth was saved. The Doctor was gone before the first newscaster could put him on the Telly.
His feet were dangling out of the TARDIS as he stared down at the blue orb, peacefully floating in the middle of the Milky Way. How silent it was up there. He wished he could live there forever. It would be a simple life, sitting there watching the planet spin all day, but it was one he'd never allow himself to have. He had a duty. He had to tell Marvin's mother what happened.