Chapter 8: Reborn
I do not own any of the material used in this story other than the storyline and my own character.
Ianto woke up first to find Jack standing over the bed.
"Jack what the hell?"
"Woke up and with the possibility of the Master being around came to find you, this was the first place I looked."
"Oh."
"Ianto, I am sorry about what I said yesterday, I was out of line and I am the last person who can lecture somebody about monogamy."
"I should have told you though, I feel like such a player."
"Don't worry about it, I love you and that is all that matters."
"I love you to, Jack for the rest of my life."
Ianto got up and moved over to kiss Jack, they stood there kissing for a while as Jacks hand slid down Ianto's back, Ianto quickly stepped back.
"Jack, I don't think Rose would like to wake up to us shagging on her bedroom floor."
"To be honest I would quite like it."
"Rose!"
"Ianto you softy, you forgave him after less than a day."
"I suppose, but considering what I get out of it, it is worth it."
"Anyway Jack, is that Doctor up yet?"
"I don't know."
Suddenly they heard a loud bang coming from somewhere else in the TARDIS, Rose leapt out of bed.
"Rose, it that Ianto's shirt?"
"Yes, it is, why?"
"You look good in it, bet you look good out of it to."
"Captain Jack Harkness sometimes there is to much."
"Is there?"
"What about the loud noise we heard?"
"Good point Ianto."
The three of them charged out of the room in the direction of the noise, they burst into a room just off the main corridor to find the Doctor sounded by bits of wiring and circuit boards with a scanner that Tosh was fussing around adding bits until it looked impressive, Owen was at a table with a vile of blood labelled Doctor and was taking another sample from Jenny, right now the Doctor was poking at a small radar dish with the sonic screwdriver which they could all tell had fallen from the table and had cause the loud bang.
"What the hell is going on in hear?"
"Well Tosh is making a scanner that can find a match to any data it is given to one hundred miles, I am finding the genetic code of a Time Lord the Doctor was working on that radar dish until he dropped it."
"And this is going to locate the Master?"
"Yes, we could be setting it up in about thirty minutes if that idiot hadn't doped the dish."
"Whatever, just patch my vortex manipulator into the scanner, range will be even further."
About half an hour later they were stood outside the TARDIS with there machine, despite all the panic that was happening around them the Doctor was making a point of ignoring Rose. Luke and Donna who had both been woken by the commotion had climbed out of there tents to find out what was going on.
"It isn't going to work."
"What is that Luke."
"It isn't going to work."
"And why would that be."
"That thing basically sends out a pulse, if it detects what it is looking for it comes back in the right shape, unless there is a clear path between this thing and the Master, it will not work."
"Oh, I didn't think of that."
"But some of the circuitry you used are from mobile phones, if you patch that thing into the network it will send the pulse from every phone, much higher chance of detecting him."
"That is brilliant, how did you think of that?"
"I went to see the Batman film."
"Oh."
"Anyway let me at it for a second."
Luke started messing with the inside of the machine, he grabbed the sonic screwdriver and poked it around the machine with it for a few minutes.
"Where did you learn to do that?"
"The same place I learnt to shoot."
"So how long does it take to power up."
"About a minute."
"Right Doctor, turn it on."
The Doctor turned on the machine and rushed over to screen.
"Right so we have to local sources, that is Jenny and me, nothing for a mile, spreading out, I think we have fix, yes confirmed, two and a half miles west, edge of Cardiff city."
"So what do we do, go and tackle it, or stay here where we have the home advantage."
"I will go, I will take the TARDIS and sort this."
"Doctor, I am coming with you."
"No, like I told you last time, he is a Time Lord, that means he is my responsibility."
"Then I am coming with you."
"Jenny."
"No arguments, he is part of your history, and I am part of you."
"Fine, Jenny can come, the rest of you stay here, Jack your in charge, if anything goes wrong, just get out, go to the Torchwood hub, second safest place after the TARDIS and call UNIT, the Master is in there files."
"Doctor."
"No Donna, your staying here to."
"Doctor!"
"What?"
"The signal, it has moved."
"What?"
"It just jumped, it is now three hundred meters south of us and moving at two meters a second."
"He is coming."
"We have two and a half minutes, get everyone up."
"And then what, into the TARDIS?"
"Yes."
There was a huge scramble a lot of shouting and in the end they got everyone into the TARDIS just as Jack was about to enter a beam of light raced across the campsite and struck Jack in the chest.
"A whole year and that is still fun."
"Get him inside."
Ianto and Rose grabbed Jack under the arms and pulled him into the TARDIS, the Doctor pulled the door shut after they disappeared inside.
"Master."
"Doctor."
"I thought you died."
"The body did."
"How did you survive?"
"I spent a lifetime with that watch in my pocket, picked up and imprint of my mind inside of it, then you burnt me on top of a time space rift, so that left an imprint of my body in the rift, just took somebody to bring the watch to the rift and they combined themselves into me."
"And who would that be."
"Remember my wife?"
"She shot you."
"Nobody is perfect."
"She still shot you."
"Well I did tell her to."
"What?"
"I knew about the watch, and the ring also had DNA on it, the rift just powered it up."
"So, what do you want now."
"The TARDIS."
"Well that isn't happening, what about your voice appearing in the minds of people around rifts?"
"Well when the mind and body were recombined my surface memories were spread through the rift, the captain, the Jones family and you."
"So, you want the TARDIS, it is locked and you have no key."
"Who needs a key, when I have you."
"Jack knows the damage you can, will, do if you get inside there, he wouldn't let you in."
"But would Rose Tyler?"
"Would you really kill me, could you face being the last of the Time Lords?"
"Oh I wouldn't be the last, I believe you have a daughter now."
"You stay away from her!"
"Oh touched a nerve there."
"So many people you care about in there, so many people who care about you now tell them to open the door or I will kill you."
"No, go on then shoot me."
"Unwise, I wanted you alive but plan B is to shoot you and take the key out of you pocket."
The Master levelled the screwdriver the Doctor and fired, the beam travelled across the gap between them before dissolving in the air just in front of the Doctor, at that moment Jack burst out of the TARDIS gun pointed at the Master, the Doctor sprang forward to grab the screwdriver from the Master's hand, the Master fired again striking Jack in the chest, the Doctor grabbed the Masters wrist and started fighting to get it out of his hand.
"Get off him."
"Lucy Saxon?"
"Get off or I shoot."
"I think Torchwood might have something to say about that."
Lucy and the Master looked over to the TARDIS where Owen, Gwen, Tosh and Ianto were pointing guns at them, Rhys was helping up Jack who got up and rushed over to take the gun of Lucy.
"Jack stay where you are, or I shoot the Doctor."
"Oh this is to perfect, Owen Harper, I remember killing you, and Martha Jones and her family, happy to see me again."
Jack and the Doctor looked over to see Martha and her family standing outside the TARDIS.
"Now Jack tell your team to lower the guns or I kill the Jones, by the way who is that man next to Martha, a boyfriend perhaps?"
"Fiancé actually."
"Doctor you really are getting domestic."
"You have a wife, your hardly one to talk."
"Oh and look at this, Donna Noble?"
"How do you know my name?"
"You got your family with you Donna."
"Mother and Granddad, and if you go near them I will rip your hearts out."
"Well lets meet the Nobles then."
Silvia and Wilf stepped out of the TARDIS and Donna looked surprised to find her granddad aiming a rifle at the Master.
"Oh I like this one, maybe I will kill him first, but we are neglecting Rose Tyler, lets meet her and her family."
Rose, Pete, Mickey and Jackie holding Tony in her arms all stepped out of the TARDIS, Rose walked over to stand next to the Doctor while Mickey and Pete moved in front of Jackie to protect her and the baby.
"Mum, Dad and baby brother, that is to domestic, and who is he?"
"That is Mickey, he is my ex, sort of."
"Right now I am just confused, but anyway we have Torchwood, the Doctor's companions plus family, speaking of family where is your daughter?"
Jenny walked out of the TARDIS as if the outside was the safest place in the universe and marched right up to the Master.
"Your the Master?"
"Yes."
"I saw you in my dreams, what you did."
Jenny stood there looking calmly at him and then suddenly punched him in the face, the Master was forced back but managed to stay on his feet, Jack had sprang forwards to try and get the gun of Lucy who had shot Jack instantly and the Master pointed his screwdriver at Jenny's face.
"Oh Doctor I like this one, yes, positively has to be your daughter, so is there any one else in there?"
Sarah Jane, Maria, Clyde, Allan and Chrissie filed out of the TARDIS and nobody noticed Luke slip round the side and get round behind the Master and Lucy. He was hidden behind one of the tents less than a meter away when John struck, he appeared out of thin air to the side of the Master and grabbed his wrists as Lucy brought her gun round on him Luke jumped out and pointed the sonic screwdriver at the gun and created a localised cordilleran signal causing the gun not to fire when she pulled the trigger at this moment Jack took the gun off her and John wrestled the screwdriver out of the Master's grip. Jack and John grabbed hold of the pair while the Doctor found something to tie there hands with, they then dragged them to an empty room in the TARDIS and locked them in there.
After the ordeal was over the group minus the Doctor and Jack sat down round the fire where Ianto served them all coffee. Jack and the Doctor were stood outside the room where they had locked the Master and Lucy.
"You know Doctor that was to easy, they wanted to be caught."
"I know, we need to find a safe place to put him, away from civilisation and especially away from the TARDIS."
"And what about Lucy?"
"I can take away all her memories of Harry Saxon being the Master, she will live out a human life as a widow."
"Cruel but the best thing for her right now."
"Right lets go do this now, then we can decide what to do about the Master."
The Doctor and Jack went into the room in which they were keeping the Master and Lucy asleep, Jack lifted her out of the room and put her on a bed, the Doctor placed his fingers on her temples and whipped her memories of anything to do with the Master, they then flew the TARDIS to a hospital near where she lived and Jack used his Torchwood codes to stop any awkward questions being asked
"Right we will go back to camp and tomorrow we will deal with him."
They flew the TARDIS back to the camp site and eat tea in silence with the others, everyone was tired so they went to bed early, Rose who was still not speaking to the Doctor shared Jack and Ianto's tent.