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Chapter Two
The TARDIS stopped as suddenly as it had begun.
"Where are we then?" Martha asked.
The Doctor looked at his console but all he saw was darkness. "I guess we'll have to go out and investigate."
Jack opened the TARDIS door and got out first. The TARDIS had landed in an alley, so they walked until they came to a shopping area.
"Well we're in London," Jack said, "twenty first century." People were talking on phones, listening to music on iPods, children were running and playing. Everything seemed normal.
"What's the date?"Tish asked.
They walked over to a newspaper vendor.
It was two days to the elections.
"In this breaking news story Mrs. Francine Jones and her estranged husband Clive have been arrested for assisting a known criminal." The newscaster was saying. Tish and Martha ran to the front of a nearby electronics shop. "Francine and Clive Jones met this man Dr. Smith as he calls himself," a picture of the Doctor was shown on the telly, "when he befriended their daughter Martha Jones a medical student. Dr. Smith and Miss Jones then proceeded to kidnap and kill twelve school children on whom they were trying to run mind altering experiments. The whereabouts of Dr. Smith and Miss Jones are unknown, however if you see them don't try to apprehend them, they are considered armed with a dangerous blue box. In other news, Prime Minister hopeful Harold Saxon is ahead in the polls..."
"What are we going to do?" Martha asked Tish.
"First call Leo." They called Leo and found that he was fine hiding out.
"This is more serious than I thought," Jack said, "We have to separate."
"No," Martha and Tish said at once.
"Look Martha, you and the Doctor are wanted criminals. Hide out in the TARDIS while Tish and I go and find out what this Saxon wants."
Tish turned to Martha, "he's right, I have a job with the Saxon campaign they'll let me in and everything."
"No," Martha said, "I am not hiding out."
"But your parents have been arrested, and your sister is wanted for murder. How will they let you in, they'll probably arrest you as soon as you get there."
The Doctor had been silent thinking about how they would be able to get about undetected.
"Perception filters," he said, "let's go back to the TARDIS. I'll get each of us a filter so we'll be virtually unnoticed."
In the TARDIS he gave each of them a key to wear around their necks.
"I thought you were like immortal," Martha told the Doctor, "you being a Time Lord and all."
"Yes, well not really, we are immortal. I mean we regenerate and get new bodies. Essentially we carry the memories but the body is killed."
"Enough about me, how will you get us in Tish?"
"I have some papers to the effect that I work there," Tish said, "but like you said I might be arrested on sight."
"Luckily for us," Jack said, "they didn't put Martha's picture on the telly so only the Doctor may be recognised."
"We'll dress like all those professionals around town and go by the Saxon offices; of course we'll be wearing the perception filters so they won't notice us." They dressed in suits complete with handbags and briefcases. Both Jack and the Doctor complained about the briefcases. Tish told them, "in case we are noticed we want to look ordinary."
They were able to get into the Saxon offices with relative ease; it seemed there was no security there.
In the offices they split up; Tish and Jack went on one side while Martha and the Doctor went on another agreeing to meet in thirty minutes.
Tish looked through the files while Jack hacked into the computer; they found nothing about Saxon that wasn't already on the website.
Meanwhile Martha and the Doctor had found what looked like a boardroom, with a table and four chairs. Otherwise it appeared to be empty. "Martha," the Doctor said, "we need to leave. We need to leave this room right now." They made for the door and found it was locked – "but how?" Martha asked.
They heard a laugh and turned.
Somehow the room had become bigger than it had been before and a man – an old white man – stood there.
"No, it's not possible," the Doctor began
"But it is possible," the man said, he put a finger to his lips, "no need to ask, to wonder to – I will explain, sit." He pointed to the chairs. Martha looked at the Doctor who nodded and they sat.
"Yes, I am the Master; they brought me back."
"Master," the Doctor said in wonderment.
The man smiled, "I like it when you call me by my name."
"Who is this?" Martha asked the Doctor, " and how did he see us, we're wearing the filters."
The man laughed, "I am the Master, a Time Lord like the Doctor."
"But I thought you were the only one," Martha said.
"Oh yes, he has delusions of grandeur. The Doctor – to save humanity from their ills, to care for them, make them better – what a load of crap."
"Anyway he is not the only one, I, too, am a Time Lord – the Master of all – to be served by all humanity."
"Okay but what about Harold Saxon?" Martha asked him.
"I made him up, I had to draw the Doctor out, make him stop ignoring me. So I terrorised your family Martha Jones; and it worked, better than I expected. The Doctor is in." He laughed.
"Where are my parents?" Martha asked him.
"They are fine, as fine as one can be in prison I suppose, don't worry; you'll be joining them soon."
"As for you, Doctor, I need the TARDIS. I need to make myself presentable."
"What does he mean presentable?" Martha asked
"Well the image he sent out of Harold Saxon, he needs to become that otherwise how will they vote for him?"
"Oh I'm not worried about the votes," Saxon told them. "I am going to win the elections; it's just that I don't want to be the old ugly British Prime Minister. I want to look young like you Doctor, to look like Harold Saxon," he pulled out a picture of Harold Saxon and put it next to his face – "this Harold Saxon."
But how could I have missed it, the Doctor wondered, the Master was always hypnotic but this is too much. I have been distracted, maybe I am tired, and maybe I am too old. I need to get back into the game, become me again.
The door opened and an armed man brought in Tish and Jack. "I saw your friends wondering around," Saxon told them, "and thought you might be missing them."
He walked out of the room. Jack immediately ran to the door, "it's no use," the Doctor told him.
"Who's that guy anyway?" Tish asked, "I saw him at the interview."
"Harold Saxon," the Doctor answered.
"No," Tish and Jack said together.
"It's him. He's going to somehow become the other Saxon," Martha explained.
"So Doctor, you know the Master, what does he want, why does he want to become Prime Minister?" Martha asked him.
"You heard him," the Doctor replied, "He wants power and slaves."
The door opened and Harold Saxon entered, "Doctor I need the TARDIS, where is it?" The Doctor didn't answer. The door was pushed open wider and Francine and Clive were brought in handcuffed, gagged and blindfolded with guns pointed at them.
"Where is the TARDIS?"
The Doctor looked at Harold Saxon and then at Tish and Martha who were crying silently.
"Okay I will take you where it is, just let them go."
Saxon smiled, Francine and Clive were taken away. Martha, Tish, Jack and the Doctor were put into a van.
In the alley, the Doctor opened the TARDIS and Saxon stepped. "Yes," they heard him say. "At last I will look like myself."
He came out with the Doctor's severed hand in its container and then he told his men, "destroy this box and then arrest these criminals.
He walked away.
They stood and watched Harold Saxon walk away with the Doctor's hand.
He stopped, turned, laughed and said, "got you," in a singsong voice and the TARDIS disappeared into thin air.
They watched it go.
I'm stuck on the earth, the Doctor thought.
We're doomed, the others thought.
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