Chapter 6

Since the Doctor had promised to watch Missy, Valentina had decided to visit her from time to time. She was not very amused to learn about the Doctor's plan to make her a good person, but when she met Missy, alone in the force field prison, calmly playing the piano, tears silently running down her cheek, she wondered, why not? They had chats from time to time, Missy asking Valentina to stay on Earth and at least finish her current human life time span.

In the meanwhile, Valentina was visiting other versions of herself. Activating them, chatting with them, and even agreeing with the Federation government of the 31st Earth century to become a weapon of Last Resort, to protect the Earth against the most evil dangers – which turned out to be three Dalek ship which had escaped the Time War. It had taken several of The Soldier's and The Warrior's version to stop them, but they had succeeded. Some versions, however, saw things differently. One star ship officer, a Lieutenant Commander Riddle, a The Warrior version, was once triggered by a hostile atmosphere on a planet during an away mission and ran amok 200 years later, destroying a Starfleet headquarters in London and killing many officers, cadets and civilians. As punishment, another version of herself had to unify herself with the rogue version, becoming one. It was no direct death because both versions lived on in one body, but the rogue one seemed to be rather supressed in the mixture-body.

The main-version, the Valentina that started it all on 21st century Earth, started to be the measurement for their time- and age counting. She travelled around, first with The Doctor, but when he started to watch Missy, he stopped seeing her. He never shower up nor called, and Valentina felt as if he had given up on her. He had wanted to make her a better person, too, but why stop? Why not even call her? She continued visiting her sister, but tried to avoid the Doctor.

While Valentina was sitting in her little flat in the US again, writing one of the president's/ Master's speeches, another version of herself, namely the one on the USS Voyager, was having shore leave on the inhabited planet Kirel V, a trading point for loads of species in the Delta Quadrant, as well as those which could easily travel there through a wormhole not far from the planet. Valentina was amazed by the different colours, smells and tastes that the planet's marketplace offered. It reminded her of so many planets she had visited and conquered. Although she had a feeling for right and wrong, and although she had become a different person since her activation from human state, she did not feel remorse or grief for those she had killed, for those she had made suffer. She did not even regret when she had ordered 43 children to be killed so that their blood was drained into a tub into which she and one of the early boyfriends then bathed.

Valentina was just admiring a blade smith when a woman approached her from behind. She immediately noticed and turned around. The woman was small, skinny, had red hair and was of a species that Valentina had not seen in centuries.

"I've been trying to find you for decades," she said and indicated her to walk to a less crowdy part of the market place. "My boss wants to meet you," she explained once there was no one else in earshot.

"I don't think you really believe I'll go with you… wherever. How do you know me?" Valentina asked. She had made some points since she had come back, committed a minor genocide, but she had hoped to not having stirred to many rumours.

"I was told… please come with me."

On the way, the red haired woman continued, "my boss wants to thank you… during the occupation of Tarana Prime, you saved his life."

"Can't believe I did this from time to time," Valentina muttered, but it was true. Before the war had broken her, before the pressure from the Timelords had converted her to the ruthless Warrior, she had actually wanted to help the people. In the beginning, she wanted to fight the war and kill the enemies. But then she had wondered if you could sacrifice one Timelord for the death of a hundred Daleks. And where do you draw the line? A Timelord for ten Daleks? A Timelord for a Dalek? One people for a Dalek? She remembered how she had been given the order to kill every living soul on Krypton, one of the biggest opponents of the Timelords. She would have nearly succeeded had it not been for the incompetence of her colleagues.

Valentina followed the woman into a shop of which the windows were darkened. They walked down the stairs behind some shelves and ended up into a room which seemed to be decorated like a mixture of Sontaran and Earth-Japanese architecture. Valentina spotted some cat-nurses as well as a human-dog-like-doctor, all of them standing around a bed in which an old man lay. Valentina could not identify his species as he was patched together with skin pieces of many other species. She first thought him to be Veridiian, but he had much better technology at hand.

"The Warrior," he stammered. He was weak and old of age. Valentina was sure he was going to die soon.

When she came closer, he whispered, "I know you probably can't remember me."

"I can remember everything," she stated.

"Not everything. Not yet!"

"What do you mean?"

"This botanist…"

"Keley'."

"Yes, your mother."

"She is dead."

"What happened?"

"Long story, I killed her." She would have given away Valentina's identity – one of her versions – so she had had no choice.

"She separated from your father when you were a child… she did not like the methods. She never wanted you to be created, a genetically enhanced Timelord. With all this technology of the Timelords, with their TARDIS's, you could have been made… better."

Valentina waited. What did he want from her?

"She stole some information, she recoded part of your genetics. The real codes she hid. In more artefacts within the universe."

Valentina chuckled.

"Where do you think the Doctor got the idea? Hide it throughout the universe. Impossible to find. Nearly impossible." He took a deep breath.

Please don't die before you're finished telling your story, Valentina thought.

"I know you have gotten your omniscient-vision. You could – if you wanted to – make a screenshot of the universe. See everything at a specific point in time. See all the possible futures. Travel into parallel universes. Create and destroy parallel universes. You are afraid of your powers, so you don't use them. But what if you aren't afraid? What if you control everything?"

"What should I do with infinite power?"

"You have never been the person who wanted to rule. That's your brother's goal. What would you do with infinite powers? Nothing!"

Valentina thought about it. He was probably right. If you could do anything, anytime, you would probably not do anything at all. Where to start? Where to stop?

"Tell me," she asked.

"After your mother had left your father, she hid three rings throughout the universe. Before she did, she took note of all this. She gave it to me… I was supposed to hide it. But once you had taken over my realm… I saw that sooner or later you would need to control your powers like you were promised."

"You're Asgardian?!"

"Just a little shop owner I was. I admired you, from the distance. Unfortunately, shortly after the Timelords retreated, Gallifrey fell and you were sent to eternal punishment."

"On Earth."

"Earth? Really? They couldn't have chosen a worse planet. I was lucky to find you here. You look exactly like you did when you took over Asgard… before you were killed there, of course."

"Of course."

He pointed to a table behind him. Valentina saw a piece of paper lying on it. When she took it, golden symbols appeared in the air above it.

"Coordinates," the man said and closed his eyes forever.

When Valentina left the hospital room, she made sure nothing was left to be identified.

It was a rainy afternoon when the 21st century Valentina arrived in the UK. She avoided greeting the Doctor and went straight for Missy's vault. She did not care for the door to open but teleported right into it. She had the energy of a TARDIS, she de- and rematerialize wherever and whenever she wanted. And since she had found the last three rings and perfected her genetic heritage – except for the Frost Giant DNA, but that was just a bonus – she felt that there was nothing that could stop her. She could transform energy into matter and the other way round. She might be still a person, but she did not have to be flesh, she could exist in a higher state… but why should she? There were… other pleasure that came with a physical form of being.

However, now she was so angry she had to restrain herself and be careful not to burst into energetic flames. Missy was sitting in one of the armchairs, reading a book. The Doctor must have left her outside the force fields. Maybe because he trusted her already. Valentina had trusted her as well. All this perfect time together.

"Hi there, how do you do?" Missy asked and closed her book. Valentina did not answer but went straight to sit down on her lap – well, there was nothing straight about them though.

"I am going to mind meld with you again," Valentina explained, "and if you have some certain piece of information, I am going to be very angry with you. I am already angry with SHIELD and humans because of the treaty they won't let me out of, and I am angry with the Doctor because he is the Doctor but I trusted you, Missy. And if I am angry with you, hell knows what is going to happen."

Missy wanted to answer but Valentina already pressed her fingertips on her cheek. She usurped all the memory she could get. She only looked at some of it, but it was enough.

"You knew," she said calmly. "You knew about the rings and you never told me." Her anger was starting to show.

"It was for your own protection," Missy said, a tear running from her cheek. "We only wanted to protect you."

"Loki said the same thing. Who else knew? Did father know?"

Missy shook her head. "Only Keley''s interest on Asgard, Loki, The Doctor and I knew."

Valentina nodded. She turned back to the vault door.

"I'm sorry, I really am!" Missy shouted. "What are you going to do? Listen, please!"

But The Warrior had dematerialised already.

She landed on the coldest planet she knew. She did not transform into her Frost Giant form. She wanted to feel the cold. The pain. She sacked to her knees and scream and let all her emotions free. The snow whirled and condensed and froze and the whole planet trembled. She stayed there for eight years.

Chapter xyz

She was angry with humans, The Doctor and Missy. What better way to get revenge on all three of them by killing some humans, involving The Doctor and making The Master responsible for all this?

As Valentina still had a treaty with Coulson, she could not do it herself. So she decided to travel by vortex manipulator and pay the planet of Mondas a visit. However, when she landed there, the technology was far behind and there were no Cyberman every created. She needed the Cybermen! How else was she going to avenge herself – well, there were plenty of ways, but she wanted Cybermen.

Being as intelligent as she had always been, Valentina decided to design them herself. She knew them, she had opposed them, they knew how the Doctor had won every victory about them. So she started to created the Cybermen on Mondas, she built in every flaw that would later allow the Doctor to outplay them. Then she proposed the plan for a colony ship, as well as another league of Cybermen. She drew the plans and proposed them to her Master/ president on Earth.

"You wanted something evil to do," she said. "And since Torchwood and UNIT forbid you to create another mind controlling device, this is a little toy you might like to play with."

The Master flipped through the instruction manual. "It seems fool proof."

"See it as a birthday present."

He looked up.

"You forgot, didn't you?" She chuckled. She handed him a key. "My TARDIS is parked just outside the White House. You can be back here before anyone notices. You only need to land on this colony ship and create an army of Cybermen."

"Since when do you want to take over a world? You were always much better at destroying them."

"It's not about the people of Mondas. It's about killing… some people. And, oh, what I haven't told you yet… I'm cross with you… your future you. Twice. And one of the reasons even you will understand."

"Why should I be cross with my future version?"

"She is going to turn good."

"She what?" he gasped.

She put the key into his hands. "I'm going to visit you from time to time. Good luck."

Valentina was busy the next few days travelling to Earth and other planets, giving some Timelords the idea of playing battlefield on Earth, or tampering with the construction some sort of rack, or dealing with the Valeyard, or leading some mobsters in Chinatown to the right alley, building a satellite, and some other minor interventions in the Doctor's life. She visited her brother from time to time first during the building process of the colony ship, then while being down there, whenever Bill had cleaning duty.

The Master's laughing was wearing off the closer he came to the ground floor. "You stupid idiot," Valentina shouted. She had appeared out of nowhere. "It was the perfect plan. PERFECT!" she screamed and hit him. He stopped laughing, but she did not hitting his round face. "I give you instructions – and you still build in flaws into the Cybermen. I warn you of yourself and you still trust her. I tell you to kill The Doctor – and he is still able to regenerate!" Valentina helped The Master stand up only to push him against the lift door. "You stupid idiot," she said and gave him a long, passionate kiss. Without another word, she helped him out of the lift and carried him all the way to his TARDIS.

"I love you," he said and Valentina had to leave him stand on his own so that he could regenerate.

"I love you, too. I will miss this regeneration of yours," she said and tears ran down her cheek. The Master burst into flames and Valentina disappeared before she regained consciousness. Valentina re-appeared directly over Missy's body. She was still breathing and smiling. The smile wore off when she saw her sister.

"Do you really think I am going to let you die here?" Valentina asked and bent down.

"You did this to me, didn't you?" Missy asked. "You played the Master off against myself."

Valentina gave her enough energy to heal herself, but not to change her form.

"I wanted to teach you a lesson… that you cannot count on anyone these days. Not even yourself," Valentina whispered into her ear and left her on the forest floor on the colony ship. Despite all Valentina had done, Missy would need to find her way back on her own.

Valentina was working as a consultant to SHIELD and aboard the Helicarrier above London, when Director Lethbridge-Stewart called her in. Two hours later, she walked with Lethbridge-Stewart and Osgood down the stone building of the tower towards the interrogation room.

"We tried to inform the Doctor, but we cannot reach him," Lethbridge-Stewart explained.

"He's busy regenerating," Valentina mentioned.

"What happened?"

"Missy. Master. Warrior. Cybermen. Doctor's death."

"When was the last time you met him?" Osgood asked.

"When he resisted his urge to regenerate."

They entered the interrogation room. Valentina was surprised to see Missy handcuffed to her chair.

"You are a cruel bitch, you know that," Missy greeted her younger sister.

"How long?"

"One week," Missy said, her face made of stone. Her jacket was missing and her white blouse was covered in red blood stains – probably not her own. Her cheeks showed purple marks and also red blood stains – definitely her own.

"I'm impressed."

"No, you're not."

"Care to tell us what this is all about?" Lethbridge-Stewart asked.

Valentina had a closer look at Missy and suddenly her eyes widened in realisation. "I think you should let her go," she proposed.

"Let her go? No way!" Osgood said. She still did not forgive Missy to kill her Zygon twin.

The next moment, Osgood found herself lying on the floor. "You alright?" Valentina asked. She was bending over the hurt human.

"Yes, what happened?"

"Missy escaped. She must have used some sort of memory wipe," Valentina said, not mentioning that she had done this to help her sister escape.

Xi was lying on the sofa and studying Arabic. There was not much for her to do to keep a low profile and she hardly exchanged a word with Valentina who was busy working for the government. Since the US president had suddenly disappeared, hell had been lose and SHIELD was trying to cover everything up – and Coulson, knowing half the truth, becoming angry with Valentina every two minutes. Xi was already used to a lot of 'weird' stuff going on, so she handled it quite well when a TARDIS in disguise of a cupboard landed in the middle of the room.

Valentina, however, was surprised when she saw that Missy stepped out. They had not spoken since Valentina had dropped her off at their sister's Torchwood facility.

"Which month?" Valentina asked and pointed at Missy's belly.

"Fourth… only ten more to go," she answered. After an awkward moment of silence, she started, "Listen, I –"

"No, wait. I planned the whole thing and I had no idea you would stab yourself and shoot yourself subsequently," Valentina began.

Xi now did look up in surprise.

"I'd say I'm sorry but you know I'm not," Valentina continued.

"The Doctor… died, didn't he?"

Valentina nodded.

"Can you help me find him? I know about your… 'God-mode'," Missy asked.

Valentina nodded again and followed her into the TARDIS. "By the way," she wondered aloud once she had closed the door behind her, "who is the father… the Doctor or your previous incarnation?"

Missy only gave her the glance-of-death and did not answer.

Valentina's 3000th birthday was coming up but she could not really feel like she was looking forward to it. Laufey's health was deteriorating and she was really worried about her boyfriend's father. They had become really close and Valentina felt guilty for not trying to save his life which she was pretty much able to. So she decided to celebrate her birthday in Jodunheim. It was a rather quiet celebration and she had made Missy and The Master promise to not kill each other again. Missy's pregnancy was not recognisable yet and they kept it quiet. In addition to a soul stone necklace – a stone which turns into the colour of your soul as soon as you touch it – Loki gave Valentina a birthday present she had never expected – he proposed.

The wedding took place only two weeks later, again with Missy and The Master, as well as Theresa and her girlfriend Katie and The Creator attending. It was a mixture between Gallifreyan and Frost Giant traditions and Valentina kept her pink-skin (which was rather a pale white in her case) during the ceremony. She had also opted for a Gallifreyan dress in sparkling gold and red colours with glitter and stars moving around just millimetres above the tissue.

One week after, Laufey died, and Loki became king of Jodunheim – and Valentina queen. After fifty years, she finally decided to move into Jodunheim and give Loki enough regeneration energy to spend eternity with him…

…and I need to end this in German because it makes more sense: Und da sie nicht sterben konnten, leben sie noch heute. ("And because they could not die, they still live today." I changed it from the original ending of German stories "Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute: And if they didn't die, they are still living.")


Oh well... there is also this part where the Valentina-version on the Enterprise D went rogue and destroyed half a city in the 26th century and was then united as punishment with a 31st century Valentina. The 31st century Valentina then served on the D where she found out how she accidentally helped in the creation of the Borg. Or when an 19th century Valentina, then called Emma, became a refugee place for Loki and they lived just under the nose of Madam Vastra and Jenny - until the God of War found her. Or when Theresa asked Valentina for help when HYDRA launched the Helicarriers. There are so many side-stories to this one which I could not put into writing. Also, there are parallel worlds. One where Valentina had left Earth, one where she subdued Earth and Flash from Earth 1 accidentally ended up there. Or Earth 35 with Supergirl (?) where Semeya was never court martialled but fled and Gallifrey was under four year occupation by the Dalek...

As you see, I have a vivid imagination and the fact that you are here on fanfiction. net tells me that you have one to. Thank you for reading, I hope I have given you some hints for stories and play room and I hope you will check out some of my other stories where I managed to explain the whole story on paper.