Previously:
"Please let me in!" she shrieked "the TARDIS is all we have, please!"
"Sorry Miss Tyler but this is the Doctor's TARDIS and it's a sweet revenge to go off with it" there was a pause "oh, oh new voice! How fantastic is that? Hello, hello, hellooooooooo! Well then Miss Tyler, Captain and Dr Jones. End of the universe, this is the Master saying bye, bye!"
Rose pulled out her sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the TARDIS quickly before it dematerialized. She stood back with tears on her face as she lost her home. Jack and Martha were holding the door shut as the future kind attempted to get in.
"Rose we need your help!" Martha shouted.
But what could Rose do? There was nothing she can do, not after losing her home…
There was a blinding flash of light before three people appeared gasping and leaning on one another. Jack moaned quietly to himself, Rose held onto her sides while Martha looked like she was going to be sick any moment.
"That was horrible" Martha managed to get out.
"Non capsule travel in the vortex, it's a nightmare on the body" Jack said "I puked the first time I did it, you two managed well though"
"This is why the TARDIS is so much better than that bloody wristwatch" Rose said "speaking of which we need to find her"
"How do you know that the TARDIS and that Master bloke are here?" Jack asked.
"I locked the co-ordinates on the TARDIS so she would only go between where we were to the last place we've been"
"Which was naturally 2007" Martha muttered.
"He can be anywhere" Rose said "so be on your guard, who knows who he might be"
The three of them walked down the street side by side, Rose couldn't help but notice that everyone was subconsciously taping out a beat.
"Great we missed the election" Martha said sarcastically, checking the date on a nearby newspaper.
"Damn I wanted to vote for Saxon" Jack cried out.
"Who's Saxon?" Rose asked.
"Not sure really, he's a great man, wonderful. Going to change Britain for the better" Jack said.
They stopped before a large flat screen in the middle of the town and watched everyone applauded as a brown haired man and a blonde woman walked down the steps.
"WHOO!" Jack shouted "Saxon did win; I was going to vote for him"
"Me too" Martha said grinning.
Saxon stopped before the cameramen and beamed "thank you, thank you"
Martha paled "that voice…I recognise it"
"Bloody hell the Master bloke is our Prime Minster" Jack blurted out.
They watched the Master bend down and kiss the blonde "and apparently he got married" Rose said in amusement.
"This country is dying" the Master said "we had a bad few years, what this country needs is fertiliser, water, sunlight before we can bloom back to a true English Rose"
"What?" Jack said raising an eyebrow.
"I think that was a message to me" Rose said quietly "though I haven't got a clue with what he wants"
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Martha breathed in slowly and exhaled just as slowly, smiling serenely. She was back in her flat and she couldn't help but be content to be home again. Jack was helping himself to the tea and coffee in her kitchen while Rose was burrowing her laptop to research 'Harold Saxon', she stood there silently watching the two chat.
"I think I'll have a shower and change my clothes" Martha said suddenly "it feels like I have worn these forever" she waved at the black jeans and long jacket that she had put on minutes before she went to Cardiff.
"Could I use the shower after you?" Rose asked absently "and maybe burrow some clothes?"
"Sure I'll leave some on the bed for you" Martha said
"Here's an idea" Jack said "let's all share a shower to save the hot water"
"Stop it" Rose and Martha said in unison.
"Oh come on, what has a guy got to do to have some fun?" Jack asked the ceiling.
"Buy a magazine" Rose suggested.
"Oh please like I would stoop so low" Jack snorted.
"Really then why did I find so many copies under your mattress?" Rose asked raising an eyebrow.
"What were you doing looking under my mattress?" Jack shot back.
"Enough with the bleeding domestics!" Martha snapped from her bedroom "honestly if I wanted to listen to arguing I would have stayed home with Tish and Leo, Mum and Dad"
Jack and Rose both bit into their fists to muffle their laughter.
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"I'm voting for Saxon" Sharon Osborne said before the video ended.
"Well you have to hand it to him" Rose said "he works fast and he does rather well. Makes up a whole identity, gets married, takes over the government and has the whole world in love with him. But how did he manage it?"
"No idea…all I know is that he created the Archangel Network" Martha said zipping up her red leather jacket up, Rose couldn't believe that Martha had two of them but then again the amount of brown pinstriped suits the Doctor had…
"Archangel Network?"
"It's the latest phone network, the whole world is connected to it" Jack supplied "well everyone but you Rosie, you were always behind the times"
"Oh shut up Jack, Martha can I have your mobile for a moment?" Rose asked. Martha silently past her phone to Rose who promptly held her sonic screwdriver to it and then held the phone to her ear "ah…it's all in the beats, trust in me, believe in me, vote for Saxon. Good hypnotist this guy"
"Hold on he has a speech coming up in a minute" Jack said tuning Martha's TV on "we should watch it and see if he drops anymore hints"
"Britain, Britain, Britain" the Master said holding his hands together before him. "What extraordinary times we had. Just a few years ago this world was so small and then they came, out of the unknown, falling from the skies"
A clip of a spaceship crashing into Big Ben appeared.
"Oh I remember that!" Rose cried out "Slitheen, ended up blowing up Downing Street"
"Why am I not surprised that was you?" Martha muttered under her breath as Jack gave Rose a high five.
A clip of the ghost and the metal men came on. Rose shivered and clung on to Jack's hand.
"That was when I lost everything" she whispered "the Doctor, Mum, Mickey…"
"Still got us" Jack whispered back comfortingly "stuck with me forever"
The clip of the Racnoss ship appeared.
"I don't remember that" Rose said "then again I was under the Thames with a bossy redheaded bride"
"Oh sounds like fun, can I have her number?"
"I think Donna would eat you for breakfast Jack" Rose said grinning.
"– time and time again and the Government told you nothing. But not me, Harold Saxon because today my purpose is to tell you citizens of Great Britain…I have been contacted"
Rose, Jack and Martha leaned forwards in interest.
"A message to humanity from beyond the stars" the Master said, Rose raised an eyebrow, she had to hand it to the Master, he sure knew how to be dramatic. A clip of a metal sphere appeared.
"People of the Earth" it said in a childlike voice "we come in peace, we bring great gifts, we bring technology, wisdom and protection and all we ask in return is your friendship"
The Master pouted "aw sweet" he said in what Rose found a patronising tone. "and this species have identified themselves, they call themselves the Tocalfane"
"What!" Rose exclaimed
"And tomorrow they're going to appear not in secret but to all of you, diplomatic relations with a new species will begin. Tomorrow we take how place in the universe. Every man, woman and child. Every teacher and chemist and lorry driver and farmer and I don't know…every medical student?"
Rose looked up at Martha in panic, before lunging to the TV and turning it round to reveal a bomb wired to the TV.
"OUT!" she screamed. The three of them scrambled to their feet, Rose snatched up the laptop as Jack herded Martha out of the door. They had only just made it out on the street when a loud exploding sound could be heard and the window smashed, fire could be seen.
"Everyone all right?" Rose asked.
"I'm fine" Jack said.
Martha pulled out her phone not answering Rose.
"Martha what are you doing?" Rose demanded.
"He knows about me, what about my family?" Martha said putting the phone up to her ear.
"Don't tell them anything!" Rose hissed.
"I do what I like!" Martha growled.
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Martha sat there frozen in the car as she watched them shut the doors on her screaming mother and panicked father. Tish as it turned out was working for the Master so she would have also been captured.
"Martha" Rose whispered beside her "I know what it is like to have your family taken away from you but we will get them back, I promise you. This isn't like my family, we have many chances but we did to move now before they shoot"
Martha would love to argue with Rose, to say that she had no idea what it feels like but the thing is Rose did. She can never see them again, they're trapped on a parallel world while Martha's were only somewhere in the country, she stamped hard on the reverse, barely avoiding the bullets as she drove furiously away from the street.
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"Leo just go! Go anywhere, Brighton to see Dan. But you have to go before he gets you as well" Martha shouted into the phone.
"Martha I don't understand, why would Saxon want us?"
"I can't tell you, just please just hide!"
"A nice game of hide and seek" the Master cut in "well I'll find you Martha Jones, been a long time since we seen each other…what a hundred trillion years?"
"Leo hang up now!" Martha shrieked. Leo must have done what she asked because he didn't speak at all. "what do you want?" Martha asked the Master.
"Just want to speak to Miss Tyler, could you pass me along?"
Martha thrusted the phone into Rose's hand, furious that this was happening, that her family was captured and her brother on the run. "hello?"
"Well, well, well, finally I get to speak to the famous Rose Tyler"
"Look, I mean no harm to you. I just want my TARDIS back" Rose said quietly into the phone.
"Oh Miss Tyler straight to the point! No fun in that!"
"The Tocalfane" Rose said changing her direction "they're not real, they're the Galifreyan version of the bogeyman"
"All those fairytales of the Tocalfane when I was a child" the Master said sadly "you know your Doctor used to be terrified of them when we were children. Where is Galifrey Miss Tyler? Where is the Doctor?"
"Gone"
"How can Galifrey be gone? How can the Doctor be gone?"
"War"
"The Time Lords? The daleks?"
"Gone…what happened to you? How did you survive?"
"Time Lords only resurrected me because they knew I was the perfect warrior for the Time War. I was there when the dalek emperor took over the Crucible, I saw it…and I ran. I ran so far, made myself human so they would never find me…I was…so scared"
"I know" Rose said comfortingly "but they're gone now, I got rid of them"
"I know! I heard about your little chat with the heart of the TARDIS" the Master said cheerfully "I saw it in the memory banks and I must say Rose Tyler for such a young child at the time you were…seductive. I was getting a hard on just looking at the memory"
"Ew, that I did not need to know" Rose said scrunching her face up.
"Tell me, how did it feel? To have time and space burning in your veins, to see everything, to know everything, to be everything. You were a goddess once Rose Tyler, how did it feel?"
"Stop it! Stop it!" Rose snapped "I lost my first Doctor because of it, I sentenced Jack to a eternity of watching those he loves die and god knows what else happened because of it"
"We're the last you know" the Master said "you and me…we could play Adam and Eve"
"Are you trying to ask me on a date?" Rose asked "because you're crap at asking"
"Can't you hear it? The drumming, you've looked into power like I had as a child…WHY CAN'T YOU HEAR THE DRUMS?"
Rose could hear him beating out a tune on a table or something and she closed her eyes and sighed. She pitied this man, he woke up to find his home planet gone and he's a nutter.
"I can help you" she said "let me help you"
"It's everywhere" the Master hissed "listen, listen…here comes the drums, here comes the drums"
Rose looked up to see a man leaning on the wall patting out the same beat onto his legs. "What have you done?" she asked "what have you done? Tell me" what are those creatures?"
"Oh look you're on TV" the Master cried out in mock shock.
"Stop it and just tell me" Rose snarled.
"No really you're on telly, you and your little gang. Which is shown on every democratic box so congratulations"
Rose peered through a window where there was a TV, the photos of her, Jack and Martha where on the screen with a sign claming them to be terrorists.
"You're public enemies one, two and three. Oh and you can tell handsome Jack that I have sent his little gang on a wild goose chase to the Himalayas. So you won't be getting any help from them. Now go on off you go, why don't you start by turning to the right?"
Rose turned to look up and saw the CCTV camera "he can see us!" she yanked out the sonic screwdriver and used it to make the camera explode.
"Oh you public menace, better start running, go on run!"
"He's got control of their minds" Rose whispered.
"What do we do?" Martha asked.
"We got no where to go" Jack said.
"Rose, what do we do?"
"RUN!" the Master shouted through the phone "Rose Tyler run for your life"
"We run" Rose said turning round and starting to jog, the others followed her. They picked up speed once they got round the corner and began to run as fast as they could.
"I SAID RUN!"
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They were lounging in an abandoned warehouse eating chips when Jack's vortex manipulator started beeping; Jack pressed in a few codes and read it out "an video email with a few files attached from someone unknown"
"Oh let's see!" Rose said sitting up and wrapping the last of her chips up.
"Rose…there's something I haven't told you" Jack said carefully. Using his vortex manipulator he got a screen up on the laptop…with the Torchwood logo.
"You work for Torchwood" Rose said in a deadly quiet voice.
"I swear to you its different, it's changed there's only half a dozen of us"
"After what Torchwood did" Rose hissed "you're part of it!"
"The old regime was destroyed in Canary Wharf. I rebuilt it, I changed it, there's only half a dozen of us and when I did that I did it in yours and the Doctor's honour! Please Rose you're practically my little sister, you have to believe me"
Rose stared at Jack who looked up at her pleadingly with his blue eyes. She couldn't be angry, Jack would have never allowed Canary Wharf happen if he was in charge, if there was only half a dozen of them and they're loyal to Jack then they're not going to do anything stupid are they?
"Ok" she whispered "I believe you"
They watched the video of a reporter telling them everything she knew about the Master and the Archangel Network. They began to discuss plans when Martha mentioned the TARDIS and the keys causing Rose to snatch them all up and muck about with the sonic screwdriver.
"What are you doing?" Martha asked.
"I am making a perception filter for us, we're going to that broadcasting and we're going to stop the Master" Rose said grinning.
For the first time since her family got captured Martha smiled back.
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They stood there silently as they watched men drag Tish, Francine and Clive across the air field. Francine and Clive were fighting every step.
"My god I'm going to kill him" Martha whispered.
Rose reached out and took her hand "we'll get them back, I promise"
"I say we used the perception filter to sneak up on him and break his neck" Jack growled.
Rose slapped his arm "that's Torchwood talk. We don't kill him unless it's last resort"
"Still a good plan" Jack muttered.
"He's a Time Lord, that makes him my responsibility…the Doctor wouldn't want me to kill him."
"The Valiant is a UNIT aircraft" Jack said taping something his vortex manipulator "to 58 point north to east"
"How do we get on board?" Martha asked Rose.
"Does that thing work as a teleport?" Rose asked Jack.
"Since you revamped it…yeah. The co-ordinates are set"
The three of them placed a hand onto Jack's vortex manipulator and disappeared in a blue white flash.
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They appeared in the ship groaning. Martha and Rose were on the floor clutching their side while Jack jumped up and down.
"God that thing is rough" Martha burst out.
"Reminds me of last night!" Jack said causing Martha to giggle and Rose to roll her eyes. "Welcome to the Valiant"
Rose slowly stood up and stared out of the window to see the skies, it was rather beautiful if it wasn't the fact she was here to stop a psychotic Time Lord.
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They found the TARDIS, it took awhile for Rose to unlock it as her hand was shaking and the Master might have changed the locks, in sheer frustration she banged her fists on the door before using the sonic screwdriver. They ran in to the find the TARDIS light in angry red and her console being mutilated.
"What happened to her?" Jack breathed.
"Don't touch anything" Rose whispered.
"I wasn't going to" Jack defended himself.
"What has he done?" Martha asked "it sounds like its sick"
Rose ran round the console "it can't be" she whispered "no, no, no, no, no, no, no it can't be"
"Rose what is it?" Martha asked.
"He's cannibalised the TARDIS" Rose growled.
"Is this what I think it is?" Jack asked with a disgusted look on his face.
"It's a paradox machine" Rose said confirming Jack's suspicions.
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Rose had edged closer to the Master as the President of the United States was trying to communicate with the Tocalfane, who were claiming to like the Master better. Suddenly they killed the President and the Master jumped up away from Rose.
"HA! I admit it, it was me, guards grab them" he ran up the stairs and leaned over the railings as the guards' grabbed hold of Rose and pulled her before him "tut, tut Rosie. As if a perception filter would work on me, must still think like a filthy human from time to time"
"Please" Rose pleaded "end this madness"
"Oh look it's the girly and the freak" the Master said nodding to Martha and Jack "though which is which" the Master reached into his trousers pocket as Jack charged to him, the Master then pressed a button on something and shot Jack who fell to the floor dead. Everyone gasped. "Laser screwdriver, who would have sonic? And the good thing is he's not dead for long I GET TO KILL HIM AGAIN!"
"Leave him alone" Rose snarled.
"Oh Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose" the Master said "I got so many plans for you, the emperor of the world needs a mistress as well as a queen"
"Screw you" Rose spat.
"That my dear is exactly the point" the Master waved the guards to let Rose go, who immediately went to Jack's side, Martha ran beside them and held onto Rose's arm. "now I bet you've been wondering…why I need a paradox machine, what will the Tocalfane do, well Rosie Pose I'll show you"
To everyone's horror the sky split open and billions of Tocalfane spilled out.
"Tocalfane…kill one tenth of the Earth's population" the Master said grinning not noticing Rose whispering quickly into Martha's ear, not noticing Martha take something from Jack. He glanced at the threesome just as Martha looked at her family before disappearing in a flash and he let out a little roar of fury before calming himself down "doesn't matter, I'll get the brat soon enough. Now I shall enjoy my reign as the Master of Earth"
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Down on Earth, Martha walked up a hill watching in horror as the red angry sky let more and more Tocalfane out. She cringed as she heard the screams of people from the city before she set off to do her duty…she was going to walk round Earth for a whole year, she only hoped that Rose's plan was going to work.