Chapter 13: Final Stand

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"Doctor, three people have just come out the back of the warehouse."

"Doctor, phone, it is Jack."

Rose passed the phone to the Doctor.

"Jack?"

"Doctor, we have just come out of the warehouse."

"We saw you, are Jenny and Elle with you."

"Yes, were all fine, where are you?"

"Just over the hill to the north, I will come and get you, do you know what the Master is doing?"

"No idea."

"Oh, shame."

"Hang on I am getting a call from the hub."

"Jack?"

"Hey Tosh."

"Oh my God your alright, Jack what is on level eight?"

"Nothing as far as I know, try Ianto."

"Oh ok, we already tried Ianto he has know idea."

"Why do you want to know?"

"Program twelve."

"What!"

"We contained, we don't know who authorised it though."

"So is there something on twelve?"

"We tried but it was totally sealed."

"Oh well, when I get back we will deal with it."

"Tell the Doctor we may have a weapon."

*

"Gwen, Martha, have you got that door open yet?"

"No Tosh, got the program done yet, nearly, Allan and Luke say it will be just a few minutes, we will drive out as soon as it is done, Jack says leave it until he gets back anyway."

"He got away?"

"Yes, he say a woman from UNIT showed up and got him and Jenny out."

"Fine we will leave this door until Jack gets back, what do they want us to do?"

"Get that program done and get it out to them."

"Gwen!"

"What Luke?"

"Done it, Tosh we have got the wave length, have you got the transmitter ready."

"I was a bit busy, but we don't have anything powerful enough anyway."

"Nothing?"

"Well, there is the SUV."

"What?"

"Remember Jack had that dish put into the roof, I could just shut down all the receiving processing and use it for transmitting."

"Could work, but one of us will have to drive it out."

"I will take it."

"Martha?"

"Martha you can't go."

"Mum, I need to do this."

"I will go with you."

"Tom?"

"You can't go alone, so I am going with you."

"You can't?"

"Why?"

"It is dangerous."

"Same for you."

"Fine you can come, but stay out of danger."

"As long as you do."

"Deal."

*

"Doctor?"

"Hello, UNIT right?"

"That's right, we have a task force assembling a few miles west but they won't be ready for two hours, right now we only have a unit from the SAS 22nd."

"Captain Harkness?"

"Captain Price?"

"Wow, you haven't aged, I mean it not a day, and this has been twenty years, is that normal for you?"

"One day I will work out my age and I will tell you."

"Anyway, who's your team?"

"Sergeant MacTavish know as Soap, Corporal Gaz Smith known as Gaz, Staff Sergeant John Griggs referred to as Griggs, he was commissioned from the US Marine Corps for fours days of training before an operation, there is also Private Peter Romano know as Echo and Private First Class Brian Jones know as Shadow."

"Right, I though the SAS didn't have ranks?"

"The SAS don't use ranks."

"I don't want any killing."

"We were told you would be like that, so we brought simulation ammo, packs a punch and leaves a paint stain but would take a lot to kill."

"Sounds good."

"Anything we need to know."

"One, you need to take them down fast, they have weapons that are far in advance of yours, two, there is the possibility of a target handcuffed in the back room, there is a fire escape you can use."

"That it?"

"Oh, I am coming with you."

"Captain?"

"It is my brother in there, I am getting him out."

"Anything I can do to talk you out of it?"

"Nope."

"Fine, but when you get him you leave."

"Deal."

"Oh take Elle with you too."

"Sir?"

"She has been inside and she has had training."

"Is it an order sir?"

"Yes."

The SAS unit took up there places around the building, Echo hid in the long grass where he could cover the front entrance with the sniper rifle, Shadow was in the tree line towards the back where he could cover the fire escape and back entrance with the other sniper rifle, Soap and Jack took there place at the fire escape while Elle and Gaz prepared to go in the back door while Griggs and Price waited outside the front door with the Doctor who was to wait outside and not come in until the targets were down but he has insisted to be close because the Master was his responsibility.

"All units confirm you are in position."

The general affirmative came back across the coms.

"Command this is Echo, have shot on one target, over."

"Are you sure you could take it, one mistake and we are all dead."

"Negative, target is only half visible, over."

"Don't take the shot, all units move in on my command."

"Doctor!"

"Martha?"

"We have the wavelength, we could do anything from locate him to destroy him."

"Could you get his position and overlay it with the blueprints?"

"Already done it, Tosh did it for us, we knew that is what you would want."

"So where is he?"

"Go in the front door and turn left, up the stairs and it is the first door on your right."

"Thanks, did you get that Captain Price?"

"Confirm, waiting on your mark."

"Move."

Soap and Jack quietly through the fire door and ran down the hallway to where they left Grey, Elle and Gaz burst trough there door guns ready and ran to the back staircase to cover the Masters escape while Price and Griggs opened there door and ran up the staircase they halted outside the room they had been told there target was in before Price opened it while Griggs through a flash bang into the room, Price pulled the door too until they heard it go off and they burst in but found no sign of anyone.

"Doctor there is no sign of him in here, we found your blue box though."

"What, Martha did he move?"

"We don't have the power to keep a constant scan, though rift activity peeked about five seconds ago."

"Dam it, at least we got the TARDIS."

"Soap, Harkness did you find Grey?"

"Yes, Doctor the Master killed him."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, he made sure I knew."

"Doctor!"

"What?"

"He is heading to us."

The Doctor spun round to see the Master marching towards the group, all the others started running towards the front entrance and burst out in a big group and ran towards the Master, the Doctor quickly adjusted the screwdriver and followed and by the time they got to the Master the Doctor had caught up with them, the Master was pointing his screwdriver at Martha.

"Miss Jones I failed to kill you last time and if it is the only thing I manage to do I will be happy."

"Master don't do this, walk away, come with me."

"I didn't accept your offer of a date last time what makes you think I will say yes this time."

"Why did you kill my brother?"

"I did not."

"What!"

"He is standing behind us all right now with a gun, perception filters really are wonderful."

They turned around to see Grey standing there with a gun and a TARDIS key by his feet.

"Grey, he has lost, give yourself up."

"Jack, you left me I will make you suffer, if it is the last thing I do."

"Command this Echo, have a shot over."

"Shadow do you have a shot?"

"Confirm."

"Tell your friends to not shoot, there ammo will hurt but I could kill Miss Jones in the time it takes to stop me."

In the end they don't know why the Master fired maybe he could see no other way out but he fired at Martha, what he didn't expect was Tom to force himself in the way of the shot and took the hit for her, all those with guns opened fire at him, what they had not told the doctor was that only the first three bullets were simulation ammo, the rest of the clip was real ammo and after they switched there guns to fully automatic it didn't take long for there guns to start firing the real bullets, the Master was cut down and the only thing the Master had time to think before he was killed was about the moment towards the end of the year that never was where he had killed that guy before.

"What did you do that for, you didn't have to kill him."

"I'm sorry Doctor, but we did, he shot to kill and that simulation ammo wouldn't stop him from shooting, we could have lost at least three people before we got it off him."

"So are you going to shoot me too?"

"Not if you give up Grey."

In one moment all the possibilities passed trough Greys mind as he glanced at the group and then the gun in his hand. Captain Price saw the conclusion form in his eyes and shouted out.

"Soap get that gun off him!"

Soap leapt forward but was too late to stop him and Grey forced the gun into his chin and pulled trigger, Jack ran forward and knelt over his body but he knew he was dead, the Doctor stood over the bullet riddled form of the Master, although he didn't want to admit it he knew they were right, it had to be done. Echo and Shadow ran from there hidden places and knelt over Tom who was obviously close to death and set to work.