Evil Incarnate Part 3.

The doors of the Doctor's lab flew open as two men ran in and straight towards the prone figure of the Doctor. "It's alright Miss, you can let him go now, we have him." One of the figures said to Rose, she wasn't listening. "Trust me, I know what I'm doing, I've dealt with this particular patient before. He didn't change again did he?" Harry Sullivan asked of the Brigadier as he used his stethoscope to check for the Doctor's heartsbeats. "That can't be good." Harry muttered to himself. "What happened?"

"He was just explaining that he had found where the Master had based himself, and is probably hiding the Yetis, then he hit the floor like a brick, I swear Sullivan, it was an attack."

"I suppose its possible Brigadier; we do know that this Master bloke has some psychic ability, perhaps a mental attack. The Doctor told me once that his psyche and physiology were intrinsically connected, even more than for us humans." Harry turned from the Brigadier, looking once more at Rose, "Miss, we have to get him to the infirmary, we'll do all we can for him, but you need to let him go."

Rose looked up into the earnest physicians eyes. "Help him." She whispered, as her arms slipped from around the doctor, and lowered his head to the ground. The other medic who had come in with Harry, unrolled a field stretcher, a simple piece of fabric with two carry poles running along the length of it, and began helping Harry to move the Doctor onto it. The two men then bodily lifted the stretcher from the floor and made for the door at a fast trot. Lethbridge Stewart did all he could in the situation, and held the doors open for the men, aiding their egress.

Rose and Mickey found themselves alone in the lab. Mickey crossed to her and held her tight in his arms. "He'll be fine. You know that don't you?"

"He was going cold Mickey. He was dead, in my arms, dead! He should have regenerated again but he didn't. Why didn't he? He can't leave me." Rose gripped Mickey fiercely sobbing into his shoulder. Then something changed. Her sobs stopped and she pulled herself free from Mickey, a look of fierce determination had appeared on her face. "That Brigadier bloke was right." Rose turned on her heels and headed for the door.

"Right about what Rose?"

"It was an attack. Someone hurt the Doctor, maybe killed him, right in front of me." The ferocity of Rose's words startled Mickey. "Not on my watch Mickey." She had reached the doors now, and turned back, "You coming?"

"Where exactly are we going?"

"I was thinking of a little trip to Battersea, followed by a swift kick to this Master guy's psychic powers." A smile filled with grim determination briefly crossed Rose's lips.

"You know that's insane don't you?" Mickey said as he followed her.

"Yep, but you're still following me."

"To the ends of the Universe and back again babes." Mickey whispered to himself as he followed Rose from the lab.

The UNIT infirmary was bustling; the Brigadier reckoned that every medic available was in there, all of them wanting to help the Doctor. Understandable, he thought to himself, the Doctor had saved each and every one of them at some point during his time with them. At the eye of the medically themed storm stood Harry Sullivan, seemingly giving different orders to everyone at once. The Brigadier knew that he would do the same for any man brought to his infirmary, but, this was a special case. Machine after machine was wheeled into the room and attached to various parts of the Doctor's body. Drugs had been administered, the brigadier had shrugged off several requisition requests for experimental drugs to be used, and he gave Sullivan carte blanche to use whatever means he felt were required. To hell with forms, he thought, the paperwork can wait.

"Did you see that old jalopy in the garage? That was antique, even by Seventies standards." Mickey laughed as he sat behind the wheel of a 'borrowed' unit jeep. "What I want to know is, how did we get away with this jeep?"

Rose held up the psychic paper, "It showed them a signed order from that Brigadier, telling them to give us a vehicle." Her voice was distant, almost as distant as her eyes.

"Do military vehicles get away with going through red lights?" Mickey asked.

"This one will. Cos God help any traffic cop that tries to stop us."

With that vindication, Mickey accelerated as he approached a junction.

"Well Brigadier, his hearts are both beating again, but slower than what he told me was standard." Harry looked exhausted. "He was gone for over half an hour though, I don't know if there will be any brain damage or not. But we should be prepared for the worst, if he wakes up at all that is."

"Good work Sullivan." Lethbridge Stewart smiled at his CMO.

"I'm afraid I can't take any of the credit, they started up on their own. It was the damndest thing, but I suppose, where he's concerned nothing should surprise me now."

"Do you have any way of knowing when he'll wake up?"

"As I said Brigadier, right now, I can't even be sure he will wake up, or what condition he'll be in if he does."

A murmur from the bed drew both of the men's attention, in the time it took the Brigadier to blink Harry was back at his patient's bedside. "Doctor? Can you hear me?"

"Of course I can hear you Harry, there's no need to shout."

Harry almost laughed, "I didn't shout."

"You didn't? Oh dear, my auditory canals must have a hyper sensitivity at the moment." The Doctor sat bolt upright in the bed, "give me a minute." The Doctor shook his head from side to side. "There, that's better. Now, where am I? More importantly, where's Rose?"

As the UNIT jeep pulled up outside Battersea power station Mickey turned to Rose. "You sure you want to go in there?"

"Nobody hurts my Doctor" Was the only reply he got from her as she opened the door of the vehicle.

"We should maybe have a look in the back of this thing, might be something useful." Mickey shouted, it seemed like a good idea to him, but more importantly, it stopped Rose from heading into the huge building without him. Rose came to the back of the jeep and found Mickey opening and rifling through boxes. "Pistol?" He asked, Rose rolled her eyes. "Yeah, you're probably right. Now these could be useful." Mickey pocketed a couple of the hand grenades. "I mean, a pistol against a Yeti just sounds stupid." The pair moved off from the jeep and made towards the main doors facing the car park. "Any idea where we should start?" Rose's silence was the only answer he got. "Thought as much."

"What do you mean 'they're gone'? Where would two teenagers get signed authorisation from me to requisition a vehicle?" Again the Brigadier was yelling into a phone.

"It's alright Brigadier, I know where they've gone." The Doctor said, now fully dressed and looking as though nothing had happened.

"Where have they gone Doctor?"

"Where do they always go? Straight into trouble." The Doctor shouted over his shoulder as he left the infirmary and turned to his left.

"Other way to the garages Doctor." The Brigadier shouted after him.

"I knew that," the Doctor shouted back as he passed the double doors again heading to the right. "I was just checking that you remembered."

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