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The Doctor snapped out of it faster than Jaime and ran over to the three, Jack and Martha tried to keep the Futurekind at bay while the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver on Jack's vortex manipulator, "Hold still! Don't move! Hold still!" Jack's was confused,
"I'm telling you! It's broken, it hasn't worked for years!" The Doctor grabbed Jaime and placed her hand on it,
"That's because you didn't have me. Martha, grab hold!" Jack took hold of Martha's hand placed it on top of the Doctor's and Jaime's, "NOW!" They disappeared in a flash of light, and landed in a quiet alleyway, groaning and rubbing their necks. Jaime rubbed her head,
"Ouch! Time travel without a capsule, that's a killer." Jack cracked his neck before the four of them left the alley, taking in the surroundings,
"Still, at least we made it. Earth, 21st century by the looks of it. Ha, ha, talk about lucky." The Doctor shook his head,
"That wasn't luck that was me." They sat down in an area in the middle of a pedestrian-only road,
"The moral is, if you're gonna get stuck at the end of the universe, get stuck with an ex-Time Agent and his vortex manipulator." Jaime shook her head, smiling slightly. Martha frowned,
"But this Master bloke, he's got the TARDIS. He could be anywhere in time and space." Jaime looked around at all the 'Vote Saxon' posters plastered everywhere,
"No, he's here; trust me."
"Who is he, anyway? And that voice at the end, that wasn't the professor."
"If the Master's a Time Lord, he must have regenerated." Jack pointed out, Martha still looked confused,
"What does that mean?"
"Means he's changed his face, voice, body, everything. New man." Jaime noticed the Doctor looking at an old man tapping on an enamel mug, Martha turned to Jaime,
"Then how are we gonna find him." Jaime blinked and turned her head away,
"I'll know him the moment I see him." Martha noticed the posters as well,
"But hold on. If he could be anyone…We missed the election. But it can't be…" The Doctor and Jaime stood slowly, as did Jack. They walked toward a giant screen, showing the news, and Martha followed, the Newscaster appeared on the screen,
"Mr Saxon has returned from the Palace and is greeting the crowd inside Saxon Headquarters." The screen showed 'Saxon' walking down the stairs with a woman at his side; Martha shook her head in disbelief,
"I said I knew that voice. When he spoke inside the TARDIS. I've heard that voice hundreds of times. I've seen him. We all have. That was the voice of Harold Saxon." The Doctor looked shocked,
"That's him, he's the Prime Minister! The Master is Prime Minister of Great Britain." Saxon kissed the woman at his side, "The Master and his wife." Saxon stepped forward to speak to the press,
"This country has been sick. This country needs healing. This country needs medicine. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that, what this country really needs, right now…is a doctor." He smiled into the camera.
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Martha led the Doctor, Jaime and Jack into her flat, "Home." The Doctor immediately began to work,
"What have you got? Computer, laptop, anything?" Jack tried to make a call on his mobile, "Jack, who are you phoning? You can't tell anyone we're here!" Jack shrugged and put the phone away,
"Just some friends of mine, but there's no reply…" Martha handed her laptop to the Doctor, but Jack took it from him,
"I can show you the Saxon websites. He's been around for ages." He sat at the desk and turned it on, Martha looked thoughtful,
"That's so weird though. It's the day after the election. That's only four days after we met you." Jaime gazed across the room sadly,
"We went flying all around the universe while he was here the whole time." Martha looked between the Doctor and Jaime,
"You two gonna tell us who he is?"
The Doctor sniffed, "He's a Time Lord." Martha looked at him pointedly,
"What about the rest of it? I mean, who'd call himself the Master?"
Jaime stood up, "That's all you need to know." She went and stood behind Jack, along with the Doctor, "Come on then, show me Harold Saxon." Jack switched on a campaign advert for Saxon with noteworthy supporters,
There was Sharon Osbourne, "I'm voting Saxon. He can tick my box any day."
McFly, "Vote Saxon! Go Harry!"
Even Anne Widdecombe, "I think Mr Saxon is exactly what this country needs. He's a very fine man. And he's handsome too." Jack shut off the advert and began to fill them in,
"Former Minister of Defence. First came to prominence when he shot down the Racnoss on Christmas Eve." He turned to the Doctor who was sitting on the arm of the couch, "Nice work, by the way."
The Doctor nodded, "Oh, thanks." Martha nodded,
"He goes back years. He's famous. Everyone knows his story. Look. Cambridge University, Rugby blue, won this Athletics thing, wrote a novel, went into business, marriage, everything. He's got a whole life." Jack got up and began to make tea in the kitchen,
"But he's got a TARDIS. Maybe the Master went back in time and has been living here for decades…" The Doctor shook his head,
"No." Jack frowned,
"Why not? It worked for me."
"When he was stealing the TARDIS, the only thing I could do was fuse the coordinates. I locked them permanently. He can only travel between the year 100 trillion and the last place the TARDIS landed. Which is right here, right now." Jaime looked at him,
"Yeah, but a little leeway?" He pulled a face,
"Well…18 months, tops. The most he could have been here is 18 months. So how has he managed all this? The Master was always sort of…hypnotic but this is on a massive scale."
"I was gonna vote for him, before I even met you. I liked him." Martha piped up, Jack nodded,
"Me too." They turned and looked at Jaime, who shook her head,
"Never really bothered with politics, there was something off about him though…" The Doctor turned to Jack and Martha,
"Why do you say that? What was his policy? What did he stand for?" Martha gazed off dreamily,
"I dunno. He always sounded…good." Her fingers started tapping in rhythm, "Like you could trust him. Just nice. He spoke about…I can't really remember, but it was good. Just the sound of his voice." Jaime pointed at her hands,
"What's that? That tapping, that rhythm! What are you doing?" Martha looked startled,
"I dunno. It's nothing, its j- I dunno!" A tune playing from the laptop interrupted them, with words flashing on the screen, 'SAXON BROADCAST ALL CHANNELS'. The Doctor turned on the TV,
"Our lord and master is speaking to his kingdom…" Onscreen, Saxon was sitting in front of a fireplace in the cabinet room,
"Britain, Britain, Britain. What extraordinary times we've had. Just a few years ago, this world was so small. And then they came, out of the unknown, falling from the skies." Clips appeared of previous alien encounters, "You've seen it happen – Big Ben destroyed, a spaceship over London, all those ghosts and metal men. The Christmas star that came to kill. Time and time again the government told you nothing. Well not me. Not Harold Saxon. Because my purpose here today is to tell you this—citizens of Great Britain…I have been contacted. A message, for humanity, from beyond the stars." He nodded to something off camera and a video of a silver sphere delivered a message,
"People of the Earth, we come in peace. We bring great gifts. We bring technology and wisdom and protection. And all we ask in return is your friendship." Saxon smiled sweetly at the camera,
"Ooh, sweet. And this species has identified itself. They're called the Toclafane." Jaime snorted,
"What?"
Saxon continued, "And tomorrow morning they will appear. Not in secret, but to all of you. Diplomatic relations with a new species will begin. Tomorrow, we take our place in the universe. Every man, woman and child. Every teacher and chemist and lorry driver and farmer. And every…oh, I don't know…medical student?" The Doctor whipped around to look at Martha before turning the TV around to find a bomb ready to go off. The Doctor grabbed the laptop as they rushed out into the street just as the front window of the flat explodes. The Doctor looked at his three companions,
"Alright?" He helped Jaime up,
"Fine, yeah. M'fine. Martha?" She turned to see Martha using her mobile, "What are you doing?" Martha looked at her frantically,
"He knows about me. What about my family?" The Doctor warned her,
"Don't tell them anything…" She turned on him angrily,
"I'll do what I like!" She paused, "Mum? Oh my God. You're there… I'm fine. I'm fine. Mum, has there been anyone asking about me?" She waited for the answer, "I can't! Not now…Don't be daft! Since when?" She paused, shock evident on her face, "Dad? What are you doing there?" Jaime knew something was wrong and steadily made her way closer to Martha, "Dad? Just say yes or no…is someone else there?" There was a long pause, "DAD! What's going on? Dad?" She put down the phone and turned to the others, "I've got to go help them." She ran to her car, the Doctor running after her,
"That's exactly what they want! It's a trap!" She got into the driver's seat,
"I don't care!" The Doctor sighed and got into the passenger's seat, while Jaime and Jack took the back. Martha started the car and sped off, speeding recklessly down through the roads, Jaime pointed,
"Corner!" Martha took the corner tightly, throwing Jaime into Jack's lap. She grinned, "Hello." She returned to her original seat as Martha tried her phone,
"C'mon Tish. Pick up!" She handed it to the Doctor who put it on speaker,
"Martha, I can't talk right now. We just made first contact. Did you see – What are you doing? Get off! Linda, tell them!" Martha panicked,
"What's happening? Tish!" She turned angrily to the Doctor, "It's all your fault! It's all your fault!" She turned the corner just in time to see her mum getting hauled into a police van. Francine was shouting something at her and the police took their positions, Jaime shook Martha's shoulder,
"Martha, reverse." She took no notice and the police aimed their weapons at the car, "Get out! NOW!" She snapped out of it and reversed into a 3-Point turn, just as the police began to fire, "Move it!" As they took off down the road, bullets shattered the rear window, Jack pulling Jaime into ducking position next to him. Martha sped down the roads, upset and sarcastic,
"The only place we can go…planet Earth. Great." Jack leant forward, seriously,
"Martha, listen to me. Do as I say, we gotta ditch this car. Pull over! Right now!" She did as he said and they headed away from it on foot, she took out her mobile,
"Leo! Oh, thank God! Leo, you gotta listen to me. Where are you?" She waited for the answer, "Leo, just listen to me. Don't go home, I'm telling you. Don't phone Mum or Dad or Tish. You've gotta hide… On my life. You've gotta trust me. Go to Boxer's. Stay with him. Don't tell anyone! Just hide!" Martha obviously heard something bad, as her face dropped, "Let them go, Saxon. Do you hear me? Let them go!" The Doctor grabbed the phone from her,
"I'm here…Master." He raised an eyebrow, "You chose it. Psychiatrist's field day." He smiled at something Saxon said, "So…Prime Minister…Who are those creatures? 'Cause there's no such thing as the Toclafane. It's just a made-up name like the Bogeyman." His face turned stony, "Gone…it burnt." He took a deep breath, Jaime sidled up to him as he continued, "Dead. And the Daleks… more or less. What happened to you?" He nodded, "I know." Jaime grabbed his arm and shared the phone, trying to her Saxon's reply,
"All of them? But now you, which must mean…" The Doctor breathed in deeply,
"I was the only one who could end it. And I tried. I did. I tried everything." Jaime could hear the smirk in Saxon's voice,
"What did it feel like, though? Two almighty civilizations burning. Oh, tell me, how did it feel?" The Doctor frowned,
"Stop it!"
"You must have been like God."
"I've been alone ever since. But not anymore. Don't you see, all we've got is each other." Jaime heard Saxon laugh,
"Are you asking me out on a date?" The Doctor seemed desperate,
"You could stop this right now. We could leave this planet. We could fight across the constellations if that's what you want. But not on Earth."
"Too late."
"Why do you say that?"
"The drumming. I thought it would stop but it never does. Never ever stops. Inside my head, the drumming, Doctor. The constant drumming. It's everywhere. Listen, listen, listen. Here come the drums. Here come the drums." A man leaning on a building by the two Gallifreyans began to tap his hands against his legs. The Doctor spun around, effectively cutting Jaime out of the conversation,
"What have you done? Tell me how you've done this. What are those creatures? Tell me!" He paused, "Stop it! Answer me!" Jaime noticed a TV in a shop window, the newscaster saying seriously into the camera,
"…They are known to be armed and extremely dangerous." Four pictures of the travellers popped up on the screen, causing Jack and Martha to hurry over to Jaime as she muttered,
"Public enemies one, two, three and four…" The Doctor turned to the right and saw a CCTV camera,
"He can see us!" He pulled out his sonic screwdriver, making the camera fizzle and break, "He's got control over everything." Martha frowned,
"What do we do, Doctor? We've got nowhere to go?" He didn't answer her, "Doctor! What do we do?" He faced them,
"We run." He took off sprinting through a shopping arcade, Jaime, Jack and Martha following closely behind.
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Jack was working on his vortex manipulator and the Doctor and Jaime were sitting at the laptop when Martha arrived back with the food, Jaime looked up when she heard her footsteps, "How was it?" She shrugged, setting down the fish and chips as they all sat round a crate,
"I don't think anyone saw me. Anything new?" Jaime pointed to Jack,
"He got that tuned into the government wavelength so we can follow what Saxon's doing…I helped." Jack shot her a look of mock-annoyance. Martha sighed,
"Yeah, meant about my family." The Doctor shrugged,
"It still says the Jones family taken in for questioning. Tell you what, though, no mention of Leo." Martha smiled,
"He's not as daft as he looks…" She paused, "I'm talking about my brother on the run. How did this happen?" Jaime nicked one of Jack's chips,
"Nice chips." Jack looked at her,
"Yeah, I thought so too." The Doctor popped one in his mouth,
"Actually, they're not bad." Martha exchanged a look with Jack that Jaime noticed and nodded her head in the Doctor's direction. Jack took a deep breath,
"So, Doctor, Jaime, who is he? How come the ancient society of Time Lords created a psychopath?" Jaime stayed silent as the Doctor answered,
"He was a friend at first…" Martha laughed,
"I thought you were gonna say he was your secret brother or something." Jack stared at her, eyebrow raised as Jaime glanced guiltily at the Doctor before opening her mouth,
"No…he's mine." Martha's mouth hung open,
"What?" Jaime nodded, finding it hard to breathe,
"Yeah, the Master's my big brother." She glanced at Martha, "He wasn't always crazy." Martha smiled at her, Jack turned to the Doctor,
"But all the legends of Gallifrey made it sound so prefect." Jaime smiled and answered,
"Well, perfect to look at, maybe. And it was, it was beautiful. They used to call it the Shining World of the Seven Systems, and on the Continent of Wild Endeavour, in the Mountains of Solace and Solitude, there stood the Citadel of the Time Lords…The oldest and most mighty race in the universe…looking down on the galaxies below…sworn never to interfere…only to watch…" The Doctor leant forwards,
"Children of Gallifrey, taken from their families at the age of eight to enter the Academy. And some say that's when it all began. When he was a child… that's when the Master saw eternity. As a novice, he was taken for initiation, it's a gap in the fabric of reality through which could be seen the whole of the vortex. You stand there, eight years old…staring at the raw power of time and space, just a child. Some would be inspired…some would run away…and some would go mad." Martha looked between Jaime and the Doctor,
"What about you too?" Jaime took another chip,
"The ones who ran away…"
"I never stopped!" The Doctor finished, mouth full of chips. Jack's manipulator beeped,
"Encrypted channel with files attached. Don't recognize it."
Jaime nodded to the laptop, "Patch it through." Jack shifted uncomfortably as they sat round the laptop,
"Um, since we're telling stories, um, there's something I haven't told you." The Torchwood logo appeared on screen,
"You work for Torchwood." The Doctor spat, Jack raised his hands,
"I swear to you, it's different. It's changed. There's only half a dozen of us now." The Doctor looked angrily at him,
"Everything Torchwood did and you're part of it?" Jack answered him calmly,
"The old regime was destroyed at Canary Wharf. I rebuilt it, I changed it. And when I did that, I did it for you, in your honour." The Doctor didn't answer, only glared at him before opening the file. A video of a woman came on,
"If I haven't returned to my desk by 2200 hours, this file will be emailed to Torchwood. Which means, if you're watching this, then I'm…Anyway, the Saxon files are attached. But take a look at the Archangel document. That's when it all started. When Harry Saxon became Minister in charge of launching the Archangel Network." The screen changed to show a graphic of a spinning Earth with satellites. The Doctor put on his glasses,
"What's the Archangel Network?"
"It's the mobile phone network. 'Cause, look, it's gone worldwide. They've got 15 satellites in orbit. Even the other networks, they're all carried by Archangel." Jack replied, the Doctor took Martha's phone and used his sonic screwdriver on it,
"It's in the phones! Oh, I said he was a hypnotist! Wait, wait, wait. Hold on." Tapped phone against the table and it began to beep in the same rhythm, "There it is. That rhythm, it's everywhere. Ticking away in the subconscious. Subtler than mind control. Any stronger and people would question it. But contained in that rhythm, in layers of code…Vote Saxon. Believe in me. Whispering to the world. Oh, yes! That's how he hid himself from me. 'Cause I should have sensed there was another Time Lord on Earth. I should have known way back. The signal cancelled him out." Jack looked at him,
"But can you stop it?" The Doctor shook his head,
"Not from down here. But now we know how he's doing it." Jaime smiled,
"And we can fight back!" The Doctor grinned,
"Oh yes!" The Doctor took apart the mobile and the laptop. He then took Martha, Jaime and Jack's TARDIS keys. He used the sonic screwdriver to weld circuitry to the keys. He then tied them to string so they could be worn around the neck, "Three TARDIS keys, three pieces of the TARDIS with low-level perception properties because the TARDIS is designed to blend in. Well, sort of, but…Now! The Archangel Network's got a second low-level signal. Weld the key to the network and…Martha," He stepped back, "Look at me. You can see me, yes?" Martha nodded, "What about now?" He slipped the key over his neck, Martha looked hazy and Jaime and Jack laughed, "No, I'm here. Look at me." Martha shook her head,
"It's like…I know you're there but I don't want to know."
"And back again." He took off the key, "See? It just shifts your perception a tiny little bit. Doesn't make us invisible, just unnoticed. Oh, I know what it's like. It's like—it's like when you fancy someone and they don't even know you exist. That's what it's like. Come on!" Jaime reached and took a necklace from him and took his hand, smiling up at him, waiting for the other two to join him before they walked out onto the streets. "Don't run. Don't shout. Just keep your voice down. Draw attention to yourself and the spell is broken. Just keep to the shadows." Jaime nodded,
"Like ghosts, that's what we are. Ghosts." They walked to the designated meeting area of the Master and President Winters, they stood far enough away to be able to see, but not to be noticed by the Master, before long he and his wife arrived with an escort to greet the president on the tarmac, he saluted,
"Mr President, sir!" Winters nodded curtly,
"Mr Saxon. The British Army will stand down. From now on, UNIT has control of this operation."
"You make it sound like an invasion." Winters frowned,
"First contact policy was decided by the Security Council in 1968. And you've just gone and ignored it."
"Well, you know what it's like. New job, all that paperwork. I think it's down the back of the settee. I did have a quick look. I found a pen, a sweet, a bus ticket and uh…have you met the wife?" Winters didn't stand down,
"Mr Saxon, I'm not sure what your game is but there are provisions at the United Nations to have you removed from office unless you are very, very careful. Is that understood? Are you taking this seriously?" The Master nodded, "To business. We've accessed your files on these…Toclafane. First contact cannot take place on any sovereign soil. For that purpose, the aircraft carrier Valiant is en route. The rendezvous will take place there at 8:00 am." The Master did something, "You're trying my patience, sir." He nodded,
"So America is completely in charge?" Winters nodded curtly again,
"Since Britain elected an ass, yes. I'll see you on-board the Valiant." He turned to leave,
"I t still will be televised, though, won't it? Because I promised, and the whole world is watching."
"Since it's too late to pull out, the world will be watching. Me." He walked to the awaiting car and the Master turned to his wife,
"The last President of America. We have a private plane ready and waiting. We should reach the Valiant within the hour." He motioned his wife first, "My darling." The Master turned to watch Winters drive away. Turning back he looks at the area with the Doctor, Martha, Jaime and Jack were standing. Jaime heard a siren and a police van pulled up. The Jones family were taken out. The Master ran over like greeting old friends, "Hi, guys! All will be revealed!" Jaime heard Martha mutter next to her,
"Oh my God." She placed a hand consolingly on her friend's arm,
"Don't move." The Jones' were transferred to a Land Rover,
"I'm gonna kill him." Jack glared angrily at the Master,
"Say I use this perception filter to walk up behind him and break his neck?" The Doctor turned to him,
"Now that sounds like Torchwood." Jaime slapped his arm, Jack huffed,
"Still a good plan." Jaime face him angrily,
"No it is not, Harkness. He's my brother, which makes him my responsibility. I don't ever want to kill him. I just want to save him." Jack gulped, uncomfortably and played with his manipulator,
"Aircraft carrier Valiant. It's a UNIT ship at 28.2N and 10.02E." The Doctor turned to Jack,
"Does that thing work as a teleport?" Jack nodded,
"Since you revamped it, yeah. Co-ordinates set." The Doctor made sure they were all touching the manipulator before activating it. They arrived in one of the Valiant's engine rooms. Martha and Jack groan,
"Oh that thing is rough!" Jack smiled, cracking his neck,
"I've has worse nights. Welcome to the Valiant." Martha frowned,
"It's dawn." She looked out the porthole, "Hold on…I thought this was a ship. Where's the sea?" Jaime smiled, looking out the porthole too, at the massive aircraft carrier in the sky,
"A ship for the 21st century. Protecting the skies of planet Earth." They were running through the maintenance corridors when Jaime and the Doctor stopped, Jack turned to them,
"We've no time for sightseeing!" Jaime could her humming,
"No, no. Wait. Shh, shh, shh. Can't you hear it?" Jack sighed,
"Hear what?" Martha looked annoyed,
"Doctor, Jaime, my family's on board." The Doctor stood stock still before grinning,
"Brilliant! This way!" They changed direction and ran through more corridors. The Doctor opened a set of doors to reveal the TARDIS, "Oh at last!" Jaime stood still, something was wrong,
"Theta…" She ran passed him into the TARDIS to find a very different interior bathed in red light, "What the hell's he done to her?" She walked forward,
"Don't touch it!" The Doctor warned, she scoffed,
"As if I would." Martha frowned,
"What's he done though? Sounds like it's… sick." The console had been stripped of certain parts and caged off. The Doctor sounded devastated,
"It can't be. No, no, no, no, no, no, it can't be." Martha turned to him,
"Doctor, what is it?" Jaime's shoulders slumped,
"He's cannibalised the TARDIS." Jack's eyebrows shot up,
"Is that what I think it is?" The Doctor nodded,
"It's a paradox machine. As soon as this hits red, it activates. At this speed, it'll trigger at…" He looked at Jack's watch, "two minutes past 8:00." Jaime nodded,
"First contact is at 8:00 and then two minutes later…Theta, can you stop it?" He shook his head sadly,
"Not until I know what it's doing. Touch the wrong bit and blow up the solar system." Martha pointed to the doors,
"Then we've got to get to the Master. How do we stop him?" The Doctor grinned,
"Oh, I've got a way. Sorry, didn't I tell you?" They ran through the corridors and entered the room after a soldier, where Winters was giving his speech,
"- For as long as man has looked to the stars, he has wondered what mysteries they hold. Now we know we are not alone…" Jack leant toward the Doctor,
"This plan, you gonna tell us?" The Doctor held up his key,
"If I can get this around the Master's neck…cancel out his perception, they'll see him for real. It's just hard to go unnoticed with everyone on red alert. If they stop me…you've got a key." Jack nodded,
"Yes sir." They turned back to Winters' speech,
"And I ask you now, I ask of the human race, to join with me in welcoming our friends. I give you the Toclafane." The Toclafane appeared around him, "My name is Arthur Coleman Winters, President-Elect of the United States of America and designated representative of the United Nations. I welcome you to the planet Earth and its associated moon."
The Toclafane spoke with a male voice, "You're not the Master, we like Mr Master. We don't like you." Another Toclafane spoke with a female voice,
"Where's my Master, pretty please?" Winters stood,
"I…can be Master, if you so wish. I will accept mastery over you if that is God's will."
"Man is stupid! Master is our friend…" The Master stood up,
"Oh, all right then…It's me! Ta-da!" He laughed, "Sorry, so sorry. I have this effect. People just get obsessed. Is it the smile? Is it the aftershave? Is it the capacity to laugh at myself? I don't know. It's crazy!" Winters turned to the Master angrily,
"Saxon, what are you talkin' about?" The Master turned to him seriously,
"I'm taking control, Uncle Sam. Starting with you." He turned to the Toclafane, "Kill him." One of the Toclafane shoots Winters with a laser and he disintegrated, "Guards!" Chaos erupted as everyone tried to leave the room. The Master's people pulled out their weapons,
"Nobody move! Nobody move!" The Master turned to the camera,
"Now then, peoples of the Earth, please attend carefully." The Doctor rushed forward, drawing the attention of one of the guards,
"Stop him!" Two guards grabbed him and forced him to his knees on the floor, the Master looked down at him,
"We meet at last, Doctor. Oh! I love saying that!" The Doctor looked pleadingly up at the Master,
"Stop this! Stop it now!" The Master scoffed,
"A s if a perception filter's gonna work on me. Oh, and look, it's the girlies and the freak. Although, I'm not sure which one's which." Jack rushed to him and the Master fired a laser and Jack fell to the floor. "Laser screwdriver, who'd have sonic? And the good thing is, he's not dead for long. I get to kill him again! Although, you don't normally have two companions, old friend." Jaime stepped forward,
"Don't you recognise me, Koschei. Oh," She held up her unnaturally brown hair with green tips, "Is it the green, I honestly haven't changed that much, Brother." The Master looked at her,
"Iota?" She nodded, glaring at him, he shook his head and turned to the camera, "Oh, do excuse me, little bit of personal business. Back in a minute." He turned to the guards, "Let him go." The guards pushed him to the floor. The Doctor looked up at him,
"It's that sound, the sound in your head. What if I could help?" The Master yawned,
"Oh, how to shut him up? I know. Memory Lane!" He sat on the steps, facing the Doctor, "Professor Lazarus. Remember him? And his genetic manipulation device? Did you think that little Tish got that job merely by coincidence? I've been laying traps for you all this time. And if I can concentrate all that Lazarus technology into one little screwdriver…But, ooh, if I only had the Doctor's biological code. Oh, wait a minute, I do!" He ran to a silver case and opened it, "I've got his hand! And if Lazarus made himself younger, what if I reverse it? Another hundred years?" The Master aimed the screwdriver at the Doctor who screamed as he goes into convulsions as his genetic makeup was altered. Jaime ran over to Jack as he revived. He shoved his manipulator into Martha's hands,
"Teleport." She shook her head,
"I can't" She attempted to give it back, but Jaime held her hands and pushed it towards her,
"We can't stop him. Get out of here. Get out, he'd kill you! Jack would survive and no matter how much he hates me or the Doctor right now, he won't kill us." The Master stopped and the Doctor now had the body of a very old man, Martha crawled to his side and Jaime turned to Jack,
"We'll be okay." He nodded and Jaime watched as the door slid open to reveal Francine, Clive and Tish escorted by two guards. Francine was crying,
"I'm sorry." The Doctor was breathing heavily,
"The Toclafane, who are they?" The Master raised his eyebrows,
"Doctor, if I told you the truth, your hearts would break." The Toclafane circled the Master,
"Is it time? Is it ready? Is the machine singing?" The Master checked his watch,
"Two minutes past." He climbed the steps and stood by his wife, "So! Earthlings. Basically, um, end of the world." He held up his laser screwdriver, "Here…come…the drums!" The song 'Voodoo Child' began and the Master looked out the window before turning to the Toclafane, "Remove one-tenth of the population!" Jaime stood,
"Koschei! No! Don't do this!" Her brother turned to her,
"Be quiet!" Jaime and Martha could only sit and listen to the messages from down on Earth,
"Valiant, this is Geneva! We're getting slaughtered down here!"
"Help us, for God's sake! Help us! They're everywhere!"
"This is London, Valiant! This is London calling! What do we do?"
"They're killing us! The Toclafane are killing us!" With one last look at her friends, Jaime saw Martha activate the teleporter. The three remaining time travellers shared a look and the Doctor turned to hear the Master's words as he force the Oncoming Storm to look at the destruction of Earth from a window,
"And so it came to pass…that the human race fell and the Earth was no more. And I looked down upon my new dominion as master of all and I thought it…good." Jaime sat next to Jack, who put a comforting arm around her, helplessness evident on both their faces.