Chapter 7
In the Naismith mansion, they were all quite as they were trying to listen
"Donna?" What was that Donna?" Wilf asked down the phone hoping Donna would answer but he and The Master looked over at The Doctor The Master walked over to him and removed the gag from his mouth.
"That's better hello but really did you think I'd leave my best friend without a defence mechanism?"
"Doctor, what happened?" Wilf asked
"She's all right she's fine I promise she'll just sleep"
"Tell me where's your TARDIS?" The Master asked The Doctor
"You could be so wonderful..."
"Where is it?"
"You're a genius you're stone cold brilliant you are I swear you really are but you could be so much more you could with a mind like that we could travel the stars it would be my honour because you don't need to own the universe just see it, to have the privilege of seeing the whole of time and space that's ownership enough"
"Would it stop then? The noise in my head?" The Master asked
"I can help"
"I don't know what I'd be without that noise"
"I wonder what I'd be without you?"
"Yeah"
"What does he mean? What noise?" Wilf asked and Wilf looked at him
"It began on Gallifrey as children... not that you'd call it childhood more a life of duty eight years old I was taken for initiation to stare into the Untempered Schism"
"What does that mean?"
"It's a gap in the fabric of reality you can see into the Time Vortex itself and it hurts" The Doctor replied
"They took me there in the dark I looked into time old man and I heard it calling to me... drums... the never ending drums," The Master said and looked at The Doctor "Listen to it listen"
"Then let's find it you and me?"
The Master started to realize something
"Except... oh... wait a minute... oh yes oh that's good"
"What? What?"
"The noise exists within my head and now within six billion head everyone on Earth can hear it imagine..." The Master paused thinking "Oh yes..." but he then shakes his head as his skeleton form is shown he bends down on the ground holding his head
"The Gate wasn't enough you're still dying"
"This body was born out of death all it can do is die..." The Master said and looked at The Doctor "But what did you say to me back in the wasteland you said the end of time!"
"I said something is returning I was shown a prophecy that's why I need your help"
"What if I'm part of it? Don't you see? The drumbeat is calling from so far away! From the end of time itself and now it's been amplified six billion times Triangulate all those signals and I could find it's source!" The Master said gleefully "Oh Doctor That's what your prophecy was...Me!" The Master said and looked from Wilf to The Doctor "Where's The TARDIS!" He asked
"No... just stop just think!"
But The Master wasn't listening and turned to the guard
"Kill him," The Master said indicating to Wilf and the guard walked over to Wilf "I need that technology Doctor tell me where it is or the old man is dead"
"Don't tell him" Wilf shouted thinking of Katie
"I'll kill him right now!" The Master shouted
"Actually the most impressive thing about you is that after all this time you're still bone dead stupid"
"Take aim!"
"You've got six billion pairs of eyes... but you still can't see the obvious can you?"
"Like what?" The Master shouted
"That guard is one inch too tall," The Doctor said and The Master turned around to the guard but was knocked out by the guard's rifle the guard then removes his helmet to reveal Rossiter
"Oh my god I hit him I've never hit anyone in my life," Rossiter said as the door to the room opened and Addams walked in
"Well come on we need to get out of here fast," She said and untied Wilf as Rossiter tried to free The Doctor
"God bless the cactuses," Wilf said as he looked at The Doctor
"That's cacti" The Doctor replied
"That's racist!" Rossiter replied angrily
"This prophecy of yours Doctor where did it come from?" Another Master in another room asked through the communication but no one answered "Doctor?"
Once Wilf was freed Addams looked over at Rossiter and The Doctor
"Well come on we've got to get out!"
"There's too many buckles and straps" Rossiter replied
"Just wheel him," Addams said
"No... no...no... get me out..." They start to wheel him "No... no... no Don!..." The Doctor replied shouting at them but Rossiter wheeled him out of the room this was seen by the other Master is another room
"What's going on? Doctor!"
End Of Chapter 7