Author's Note: Took me long enough. I had to rewrite as it was too dark to submit the first time round. This is the ... neutered.... version. Enjoy. Please Read and Review! PS-I don't own anyone or anything except my own person.

Chapter 2: Yellow Brick Wall

oO Sticks and stones may break my bones but. Oo *CRUNCH* as the arm twisted at an unnatural angle.

"Now, where might the girl be?"

Nothing answered, the man but whimpers, glancing round the bare room for any sign of help. Clenching the man's face in his gloved hand, he leaned in closer, locking eyes with the simpering human. "You... will... obey... me! I am the Master!"

It struck him, all of a sudden, the hilarity of the moment. This man was stronger, faster, than anyone he had ever met. Fierce and hard, but the man. this Master, was wearing the softest velvet he had seen a suit made of. Such contrast... *CRUNCH* and a howl; he had lost the use of another limb.

"The..... girl..... she's, she's gone, long since. Left with her friend days hence."

Those eyes. Closing in on his mind. Darkness encroached all around him and the pain went away momentarily as that black silken voice echoed through his skull. "What friend, and where did they go?"

He smiled vacantly. "The Doctor.... Left with the Doctor..... and they went someplace to relax. The... Eye of Orion he said."

oO I'll get her. I will find her and take her from him and show her what true pain is. I will bask in her misery and anguish and the Doctor himself will fall to his knees and bow his head in shame. Oo

The Master found himself basking in that remarkably sensual feeling of total evil that washed over him. It was an odd power, evil. The more one acknowledged it, the more one needed it, until..... The Master was born.

"You have done well my slave. Now you will get your reward."

The man below him, with two broken limbs dangling precariously, grinned stupidly. "Reward, Master?"

"Yesssssssss, you get a reward." Grasping the man's face in his hands, he jerked his skull roughly and the man immediately dropped, dead, the light in his eyes put out.

He stood up and wiped his gloves on his coat tails. oO Fool. Now to business.. Oo

The man's body was quickly disposed of, and the coordinates set for the Eye of Orion. As the Master rounded his console making final check of the course, he could not wipe the disturbing smile from his face.

oO All this time I've waited. All this time I've wasted. It's all because of him. Taking over the universe was never easy due to his intervention but now I've found I'm going about it all wrong. Oo The Master cackled, cracking his knuckles in expectation. oO Yes, instead of trying to go around the Doctor, I shall defeat him in the worst possible way, then move on to conquest. Oo

From a concealed pocket, he produced a small photograph, one that should have fit into a wallet, but instead was worn and torn from overuse. oO The Time Lord himself is beyond my reach, but she.. she is his weakness. The Doctor has one major weakness. That is, he travels with a companion. Oo

The picture of Peri Brown was safely tucked back into his coat pocket.

oO Yes, she is his weakness. Oo

He laughed once more, checking the ETA of his TARDIS to the Eye of Orion. The screen read 14 standard minutes. He checked the shackles on the walls, fingering their chains lovingly, imagining the earth-shaking screams he would produce with them in such a short time.

oO She is his weakness and I myself and coming for her. Oo

Author's Note: Well, now to neuter chapter 3! o_O Again, please R&R!