(Epilog)
"Ever resourceful, Doctor."
The man sat calmly in a comfortable chair as he watched the view screen. As the TARDIS began to fade from view, the camera began to pan and follow the girl and the cat as they left the area. Every so often a new view would appear as he followed her progress. The experiment had gone quite well, he concluded. He felt no sympathy for the Cybermen sacrificed in the process. They were ends to a means, nothing more. The emergency system they had activated has simply sent a signal to the man which told him they had failed. A flip of a switch sent their engines into overload and their failure was rewarded while he downloaded all the information they had acquired in this little adventure.
"As if the Cybermen could have ever gotten time technology from the Daleks," he chuckled softly. It was child's play to secure just enough to lull the cyborgs into thinking they had something of value. He had broken down the devices, studied them and had developed proper counter measures to them before arranging to have them fall into Cyberman hands. Once they had installed them, the sub programs he had set into place took root and gave him external command of their ship.
No, everything had gone to plan quite nicely. Even if the Cybermen had managed to 'upgrade' the Doctor, their victory would have been short lived. He could not allow such competition to begin to thrive in such a rich, unspoiled environment such as this parallel universe. So close to his own point of origin yet free of so many issues and problems that had plagued his efforts in the past and one new mystery to appearance of the girl was a stroke of luck. Being able to observe what she was capable of was a bonus indeed.
Amazing creatures they were he thought as he continued to watch the girl with the cat. He had been observing the vampires for awhile now. The elaborate camera system hidden within the town was constantly bringing him hints of these creatures in action. It would take time, of course to learn all their secrets, but what was time, actually. Perhaps the Rani could be of assistance in this. The man scoffed at the idea of the supernatural. Whatever these people were had to have a basis in science and he would discover it in due time. Find a way to extract the positives and discard the minuses and use it for himself. These 'vampires' had the potentials of immortality and if he could find that secret it could be refined. There were certainly enough of them to experiment on. They would have to pick and choose their test subjects carefully to avoid raising suspicion, but again, there was nothing but time to work with. With the Rani's help he suspected they could be manufacturing immortality by the gallon once all was done.
True immortality.
He supposed he would have to share the results with her he thought as he sipped fine wine from a glass. A necessary evil he supposed but as long as it got him what he wanted, so be it.
The time lord known to The Doctor as The Master sat back and relaxed in the confines of his own TARDIS. Unlike the Doctor's, his TARDIS' chameleon circuit was fully operational so the machine hid in plain sight among the people of this town. He watched as the camera views changed as they followed the girl. He would have to keep a close eye on that one. She, basically, knew about time travel and time lords and had hands on experience. Was she of any help to the Doctor? Sadly his spying was limited in the Doctor's TARDIS but what he had managed to download from the Cybership and men suggested she had been and had demonstrated her powers quite nicely. A group of these 'vampires' united could cause a serious problem if he did not use stealth and care. Perhaps in a night or two he should seek out her shop. Make her acquaintance. Become her friend. Perhaps even let her in on the secret. He was a friend of the Doctor who came to make sure no threat remained to her world. Or perhaps not. Perhaps the girl should have an accident in a place where she could not return from. She struck him as a do-gooder type at heart despite what she had become and he had had his fill of such beings. Others of her kind might be quite receptive to his offers if it brought them even more power. So predictable.
Either way, he was in no hurry to decide which. The Master relaxed as he continued observing the vampires in motion.
FIN?