The Master Ultimatum. Part 2.

"So what exactly is your brilliant plan to break into UNIT?" Kyré asked. "Need I remind you that these people are fortified up to the Yin Yang when it comes to security."

"No need for the reminder." Theta said, going through some cupboards and drawers around the control room. He walked back to the console with a bunch of papers in his hand. "But I think we can manage a break in." Theta placed the papers, which Kyré saw to be blueprints, on the console. "Now, they have an air duct on the roof that is in a blind spot from their security systems." Theta explained. "With the shrink ray we took from those two rogue time agents, we can get through the vents without tripping any alarms. Where is the De-Mat gun located?"

"In the Black Archive." Kyré said. "But I don't think we need to go-"

"Perfect." Theta interrupted, looking over the blueprints. "The general air duct system goes in a basic line from the roof to the garage. Now, if we can sneak into the Chief Scientific Officer's car when they're heading there, we can make our way through the checkpoints without being seen."

"It's a great plan." Kyré said, mulling it over. "Except, you're overdoing it a little."

Theta looked very confused. "How am I overdoing it?" He asked. "This is the only way that we can get in there without being seen."

"Yes, that's true." Kyré said. "But you're forgetting that I have Alpha Level clearance. I can go anywhere I want to in UNIT. And they can't stop me from doing so. Then we can use the shrink ray on you and you can just come in my pocket."

Theta looked exasperated. "And you couldn't have told me that before I came up with this totally elaborate and complicated plan?"

Kyré shot him a half smile. "Well it was just such a good plan. I didn't want to interrupt or anything. That and you were talking way too fast so that I could hardly get a word in."

Theta chuckled slightly. "I do tend to do that when I'm explaining something."

"Yes. You do. We were going to have an intervention about that before…" Kyré cleared her throat awkwardly. "Before Cleria was kidnapped."

Theta nodded. "Then I guess that you'll just have to have that intervention when we get her back."

Kyré tried to hide her shock. Just moments ago, the mere mention of Cleira had brought Theta to tears. Now, he was joking around like his old self. She'd have to bring that up with him later. "Go get the shrink ray and I'll go get my sweatshirt." Kyré said. "You'll have to hang out in my pouch for a while until we get to the archive."

Theta chuckled. "As long as you get the clean sweatshirt. I don't want to be spending who knows how long with melted chocolate surrounding me."

Kyré laughed. "I'll make sure not to get that one." She said. "But there is one problem. I don't know how to unlock the weapon's vault without setting off all the alarms."

"You could use my sonic." Theta suggested.

Kyré shrugged. "Maybe. But I can't seem to get yours to work when I'm using it."

Theta thought about it for a moment, then smiled. "Or… you could use yours."

Kyré looked confused. "Use mine? What are you talking about."

"Your sonic screwdriver." Theta said.

"But I lost it." Kyré told him. "Remember, the day I was taken, it got lost in the struggle."

"Not necessarily." Theta said. He ran over to the stairs and up to the second floor of the control room. He rummaged through a couple of drawers and looked through a cupboard until he finally came to a tiny drawer on the bookshelf. "Here it is!" He walked back down the stairs and handed Kyré a small wooden box. "Open it."

She looked at him in disbelief then gently took the lid off of the box. Inside was her old sonic screwdriver. Kyré took it out and held it gently, as if it were made of glass and could break at any second. "You… you kept it all this time?" She asked.

Theta nodded. "I kept it as a reminder to do what you would do when times got hard."

Kyré looked at him for an explanation.

"To keep on going, no matter how hard things got. To always help people who needed me. And to never, ever give up." He told her. "Every time that things got hard or I had a difficult decision to make, I would always think: What would Kyré do? And you know, just about every time things worked out."

Kyré couldn't help but smile. Then Theta went off to get the shrink ray and Kyré grabbed her sweatshirt. When Theta came back, he turned it to the correct setting and handed it to Kyré. "Now don't forget about me when I'm down in your pouch." Theta said. "I don't want you to fall down the stairs or something and accidently crush me."

"Oh come on, Theta." Kyré said. "How clumsy do you think I am?"

"Very clumsy." Theta replied. "And don't let me get stepped on."

Kyré suppressed an eye roll. "I won't." She activated the shrink ray and, after a blinding flash of light, a three-inch-tall version of Theta stood on the floor in front of her. "Well aren't you just as cute as a button." Kyré teased.

Theta rolled his eyes. "Just put me in the pouch." He said.

Kyré sat down on the floor and bent down to his level. "Say that again?" She asked. "I couldn't hear you very well."

"I said: JUST PUT ME IN THE POUCH!" Theta shouted.

"Okay." Kyré said. She put her hand on the ground and Theta climbed onto her hand. "You know, I think we may have encountered a bit of a communication issue. I can hardly hear you, even when you're shouting at the top of your lungs."

Theta chuckled to himself as he climbed into Kyré's sweatshirt pouch. "You do remember that we can talk to each other telepathically, right?"

Kyré laughed. "I totally forgot about that for a second. Plus, I would look completely bonkers talking to myself."

Theta started bouncing around uncontrollably when Kyré laughed. He grabbed the sides of the pocket and held onto the cloth for dear life. "Do me a favor." Theta said once Kyré had stopped laughing. "Remind me to never say anything funny when I'm down here in your pocket. It just felt like a 8.0 earthquake."

Kyré started laughing again but quickly stopped herself. "I'll do my best." She said, walking over to the console.

"The coordinates have been pre-programed. Just put the TARDIS on autopilot and we should be there in seconds."

"But why can't I fly it?" Kyré asked. "I'm perfectly capable of flying the TARDIS by myself without you to help me."

Theta sighed. "Kyré, the last time you flew my TARDIS by yourself, you crashed it and broke the Chameleon Circuit."

"Hey I said I was sorry and I offered to fix it. But you were the one who was insistent on it staying like a Police Box."

Theta smiled to himself. "Just use the auto pilot. It's faster, and need I remind you that we're on a time crunch."

"Don't worry, I'm on it." Kyré pushed a few buttons on the control console and within seconds, the TARDIS had landed a few blocks away from UNIT headquarters. She grabbed her backpack and UNIT identification card then walked out.

"Are you sure they won't suspect anything?" Theta asked.

"Yes, I'm sure." Kyré told him. "There are only a few other people in the universe with Alpha Level clearance, they won't suspect anything. But I am going to lose my job for this, if they catch me."

"Well then we'll just have to make sure that they don't." Theta said.

Kyré agreed and walked in silence until they got to the main gate. "Hi Charlie." She said to the man at the gate.

He looked up in surprise. "Oh hello, Kyré." He said. "It's been awhile since we've seen you around."

"I've been busy." Kyré said, handing him her ID card.

"Running around with the Doctor, have we?" Charlie said with a teasing smile.

Kyré chuckled. "Something like that. But I figured I'd come back for a while."

"Oh, told me to tell you that she needs to talk to you as soon as you come back." Charlie said, scanning the card.

"The BIG boss or Kate?"

"Kate." Charlie told her. "If it was the big boss then I couldn't imagine what kind of trouble you would be in."

"Let's hope that day never comes." Kyré said as Charlie handed her back her ID card. "I'll see you later, Charlie."

"Who's the BIG boss?" Theta asked once they were inside the building.

"The big boss is our nickname for the Prime Minister." Kyré explained. "If you ever get told that he wants to talk to you, one of two things is going to happen. Either you're going to get a promotion, or you're getting fired and sent to prison for ten years."

"Has that happened before?"

"Yeah, it happened once that I know of. It was after I left you and Cleria and shortly after I started working here. I think his name was Mason Cole."

"What did he do?"

Kyré chuckled and shook her head. "The same thing we're doing. He broke into the Black Archive and tried to steal some equipment. But security caught him before he got too far."

"And now he's in jail."

"Well… no. Not really no. There was a gunfight that broke out and he got away. But they saved the equipment and research that he stole."

"That's good."

"Yeah but on the down side, we now have a thief running arou-" Kyré was cut off by someone rushing around the corner and slamming straight into her.

"Oh, I am so sorry about that." The other person said, dropping to the ground to pick up the papers that had flown out of their hands.

"It was my fault," Kyré said, bending down to help pick up the papers. "I wasn't watching where I was going." Then she realized who had rammed into her. "Oh, hi Osgood." Kyré said with a smile.

"Wait, that's Osgood?" Theta asked, excitedly. "Hi Osgood!"

"Kyré!" Osgood exclaimed with a huge smile. "How are you? I haven't seen you in ages."

"I'm doing well. And yourself?"

"Just brilliant. Have you seen the Doctor recently?"

Kyré smiled and nodded. "And he told me to tell you that he says hello."

Osgood got really excited and took a breath out of her inhaler. "So what have you two been up to?"

"Just traveling." Kyré said casually. "What about you?"

"Working." Osgood said. "We can't all be time travelers"

Kyré chuckled. "Well, I've got a meeting with Kate. I'll see you later."

"Okay."

"Hey, cool bowtie by the way."

"Bowties are very cool." Osgood said with a smile.

Kyré continued her walk to the basement without any more sudden interruptions.

"So what's our plan to get in there?" Theta asked.

"Simple cover story." Kyré said, pulling out a clipboard from her backpack. "I'm checking the inventory. We'll go in, I'll shrink down the De-mat gun, put it in my backpack and then we're out of here."

"And if they catch you on the way out?"

"Then you hang on tight and I run as fast as I possibly can. But we're getting out of here with that gun no matter what."

Kyré walked into the tunnel leading to the Archive and showed the guard her ID along with her key. "Inventory check." She told him. He took the key and unlocked the door, then Kyré and Theta headed inside.

"I don't suppose that I could come out of your pouch." Theta asked.

"I think you should stay inside." Kyré told him as she walked through the shelves of gadgets and miscellaneous equipment.

"Why?" Theta asked. "Does UNIT have something that they don't want me to know that they have?"

"That's why this place was built." Kyré said, making her way towards the very back of the Archive. "All of the stuff in here is stuff that you wouldn't want UNIT, or anyone else for that matter, to have."

Theta grumbled under his breath but stayed inside the pouch. "You could have at least given me something to eat."

"Seriously, Theta?" Kyré asked as she turned a corner. "We're breaking into one of the most secure places in the universe and you're worried about your stomach? Need I remind you that Cleria's life is at stake if we don't pull this off?"

For a moment, Theta didn't say anything. Then he spoke up. "I'm well aware of what is at stake here, Kyré. I haven't been able to get that out of my mind for the entire time that we have been working on this. I am terrified at the mere consideration of what will happen to Cleria if we don't bring the Master that De-mat gun. I'm joking around with you because if I don't make myself laugh, I'll become depressed. And then I won't be able to focus."

Kyré was taken aback for a moment. "I'm sorry, Theta. I didn't mean to be insensitive."

"It's alright. I know you didn't mean it."

When she finally located the De-Mat gun in the very back of the Black Archive, Kyré took the shrink ray out from her backpack and changed the settings so it would change the gun from the size of a rocket launcher to the size of your standard pistol. "I still can't believe we're doing this." Kyré said as she took the gun from it's shelf and placed it in her backpack, being especially careful that she didn't set it off.

"I can't believe we're doing this either." Theta said as Kyré made her way out of the Archive. "But we're doing it for the right reason."

"What's going to happen once we give him the gun?" Kyré asked. "We can't just let him keep it. And UNIT will be out looking for us once they realize that it's missing."

"I guess we'll just have to put it back where we found it."

"And then pray that they don't figure out it was me that took it."

Kyré continued to walk down the halls and was almost to the door when alarms began to sound. "ATTENTION! ATTENTION! THE BLACK ARCHIVE HAS BEEN BREACHED. ALL PERSONAL REPORT TO LOCK DOWN STATIONS. REPEAT: ALL PERSONAL TO LOCK DOWN STATIONS." Kyré took off running down the hall towards the door. She raced up a flight of stairs and slammed straight into Kate Lethbridge Stewart.

"Kyré, what are you doing?" Kate asked in a rushed tone. "Didn't you hear the alarms?"

"Yes, I did." Kyré replied.

"Then where are you going?" Kate asked. "You need to be heading back down to the archive with me."

"I know-"

Kate could immediately tell that Kyré was hiding something. "Kyré, what's going on?"

Kyré took a deep breath. "Kate, if you have ever trusted me, or even if you haven't. I need you to trust me now."

"Kyré… what are you doing…?"

"I was just down in the Archive. I know what was taken." Kyré said.

"What?" Kate asked.

"Kyré we can't tell her. She'll keep us from taking it." Theta said.

"Would you just shut up and let me handle this?" Kyré said, harsher than she had probably intended. "It's the De-Mat gun. It's missing."

"And how do you know this?" Kate asked.

Kyré quickly explained everything to Kate. "I promise, I will bring it back. But you need to know that I am not going to just leave it with that madman. I wouldn't dream of it. And when I get back, you can blame this all on me. But I have a job to do and a promise to keep. Please Kate, I'm begging you. Don't tell anyone until I've left."

Kate thought about it. "And you're doing this to save the Doctor's wife, a Time Lord, from another Time Lord who is probably going to use it to destroy everything?"

Kyré nodded. "But I won't let him use it against anyone. I just need the gun long enough for him to realize that it's the real thing. Then I'll steal it back and bring it back here. I promise."

Kate sighed. "Alright. I won't tell anyone until you've gotten away. But on one condition."

"Anything." Kyré said in relief.

Kate smiled. "Osgood gets to take a ride with you and the Doctor when you come back. And not just a ride around the block, she gets to see alien planets."

"Deal." Kyré said. "And Kate, you're a lifesaver."

"Go!" Kate said. "Hurry."

Kyré turned tail and raced out of the building, dodging other UNIT officers and employees. "You still in my pouch?" Kyré asked Theta.

"Yes. Just hurry."

Kyré ran past Charlie in the gate. He yelled something at her, but she didn't hear it. After sprinting for a few more blocks, Kyré made it to the TARDIS and ran straight in the doors. Once inside, she took Theta out of her pocket and placed him on the console. "Ready to be big again?" She asked. Theta nodded and Kyré took out the shrink ray then changed him back to his normal size.

"I am never riding in your pouch ever again." Theta said, looking slightly green in the face. "It was like the worst roller coaster in the universe."

"But on the upside, we got the gun." Kyré said. "Now all we have to do is wait for our next set of instructions." Only moments later, a set of numbers appeared on the psychic paper. Space-Time coordinates. Theta quickly began dancing around the control console, with Kyré following close behind. "Don't worry, Cleria." Theta said softly. "We're coming for you."

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