Evil Incarnate Part 4.

"So, what are we looking for in here?" Mickey asked as he followed Rose down a corridor in the eerily deserted Battersea Power station.

"We're looking for this 'Master' bloke, and we're going to make him pay for whatever it was he did to the Doctor."

"And you know what he looks like do you? It's not like he's going to be dressed head to toe in black, and have a sinister little goatee, and be strutting around declaring 'I am the Master' at the top of his voice."

"Well, since the place looks to be deserted, and this is where the Doctor picked up the alien tech readings from, I'd say we just find the first person we can, and grab 'em. Considering the current lack of people around here, I'd say the odds would be in our favour." Rose replied over her shoulder, as she continued cautiously down the corridor.

"What about these Yeti things that the Doctor and that Brigadier were so worried about?"

"I was hoping they'd be what you grabbed those grenades for Mickey."

"Oh, yeah, I forgot." Mickey smiled sheepishly as he felt the small round explosives in the pocket of his jacket.

"So," Rose asked, "What do you think a Yeti looks like?"

"I don't know." Mickey responded, "But at a guess, I'd say they're about eight feet tall, hairy with glowing eyes."

"What makes you think that?"

"The fact that there are two of them behind us." Mickey responded. Rose spun around and went slack jawed at the sight in front of her, as two lumbering Yeti marched towards them.

"Oh, cr…"

"..Apparently when I ordered the Yetis be destroyed, someone higher up in the chain of command decided it might be a good idea to keep them around for study, they hoped to learn what made them tick, and make some of our own, for defence purposes you understand?"

"No Brigadier, I don't understand. You knew how dangerous they can be didn't you make them aware of that? The last time they went on the rampage you had to evacuate London."

"They had access to my reports and my recommendations, but I was over-ruled." The Brigadier hated riding in the Doctor's car. He was used to breaking the sound barrier in jets, but he could never get used to almost doing it so close to the ground, and in a vehicle with no seatbelts to speak of."

"Of course, I don't blame you Brigadier, but you should have known better to trust those idiots in Whitehall. Especially the one in charge right now."

"I don't know Doctor, I quite like her. I almost voted for her."

"But your inner socialist won out, eh Brigadier?" The Brigadier harrumphed and tried to steer the subject away from politics.

"So, what caused you to regenerate this time?"

"Well, you know how it is Brigadier. Rose had absorbed all of the power of the Time Space vortex and it was going to kill her, I drew it out of her, but it did too much damage to my own cells for me to repair."

"Yet she made a full recovery?"

"Yes, I did wonder about that myself, but I couldn't look into it, I had a bit of a regeneration crisis, then an invasion by the Sycorax to deal with."

"The who?" The Brigadier asked.

"Oh no you don't Brigadier; I've already told you more than I should. I'm already walking a thin line just being here, crossing my own time stream like this is breaking a major rule. Or at least it should be, but since I didn't know about these events until I arrived then it must always have been me that dealt with them, so I'm not breaking the rules, but I know that I am."

"Uhm, I'd like to say I followed all of that Doctor, but I'd be lying." The Brigadier laughed.

"Yes, I'm having a bit of trouble understanding it myself." The Doctor joined in the laughter as the towers of the power station came into view.

"Where do you think they're taking us?" Rose whispered.

"I don't know, but I don't really care, I'm just glad they didn't kill us." Mickey replied in equally hushed tones. The yeti stopped at a doorway, the door had obviously been ripped from its hinges. Rose and Mickey were ushered into the dimly lit room. One of the Yeti stayed and blocked the doorway with its body.

"Well, we seem to have arrived, somewhere." Rose said.

"Who are you?" The voice came from one of the darkened corners of the room.

"No, the question is, who're you?" Mickey asked, taking position between Rose and the voice. A figure moved from the shadows.

"My name is Professor Padrone. I'm a cyberneticist, I was working on a government research project, then, then I found myself here."

Rose looked at Mickey, "Dressed in black, suspicious goatee?"

"I'm big enough to admit when I'm wrong." Mickey replied.

"I'm Rose Tyler, this is Mickey, and I want to know what you did to the Doctor?"

"The Doctor? Doctor wh…."

To be continued.