CHAPTER 2

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LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR

Even as the Doctor and Rose led an army of the greatest heroes from several universes to fight against them Missy and Nightshade didn't seem to be the slightest bit worried. In fact, to Rose's complete surprise, they actually seemed to be enjoying themselves as the massive throng of people charged towards them.

"Do you want to do the honors, Nighty, or do you want my help?" Missy asked with a huge smile.

Nightshade laughed as she said, "Well, if you'd like to help you can. I think I can take them though."

"By all means, be my guest. I'll just sit this one out I think. I'll take the next round of morons," Missy said as she leaned against a wall.

"Sounds good to me," Nightshade said as she began to glow brighter and brighter now while she started to fight with the first wave of attackers even as Rose felt weaker by the moment.

Rose actually stumbled and fell while she ran towards Nightshade now which caused the Doctor to look at her with worry as he helped her up. He could tell that Nightshade's constant drain on Rose's abilities was beginning to affect her health now as well. To his concern, she was actually starting to look pale and emaciated.

"Rose, I think she's doing more than draining your powers. She's also draining your lifeforce," The Doctor said in an extremely troubled voice after he felt Rose's body shaking violently when he helped her to her feet.

"I know. She meant it when she said that she was going to take everything away from me, Doctor. She's been slowly killing me for a while now. Christina was able to block her from doing it for a little while when she first got her powers, but now even she can't help me anymore. Nightshade always seems to find a way around every roadblock that we throw in her way somehow," Rose admitted.

The Doctor looked at her with anger flashing in his eyes as he said, "Why didn't you tell me about this?"

"What good would it have done? I didn't want to worry you because there was nothing that you could do about it anyway," Rose said.

"Oh, I'll do something about it alright. I'll find some way to stop this. I'm not losing you again even if I have to give you all of my regenerations in order to fix you," The Doctor said in a determined voice.

Rose smiled at him with gratitude even as she said, "Don't count me out yet, Doctor. We'll find a way around this. We always do after all."

"No, don't do that. Don't lie, Rose. I'm the one who lies not you," The Doctor said as he took her hands and held them tightly.

The two of them then stood there sharing a quiet moment together even as a ferocious battle raged around them. For the moment, it was almost as if everything and everyone else didn't exist.

"I'm not lying. I'm just being hopeful. There's a difference," Rose finally said breaking the silence with a sad look in her eyes.

The Doctor smiled at her as he said, "You are lying though just this once in order to keep me from worrying about you during the battle. Don't do that. That's not who you are. You're scared to death because of whatever you saw in this vision of yours. I know you are. Be honest with me about that. Do you really think that you're going to die?"

Rose looked at him with eyes filled with fear and immense sadness as she reluctantly nodded.

"You won't," The Doctor said firmly.

"How do you know that? Even I don't know my own future, Doctor. I only get extremely vague visions of it from time to time," Rose said.

"I know you, Rose. You won't give up. You'll find some way to stop this and keep it from happening. I know you will and even if you don't I will. Somehow in some way we'll both beat this together. I believe in you, Rose Tyler. I always have and I always will. If you can make your way back from being trapped on Pete's World twice then you can do anything," The Doctor said in a tone filled with absolute faith in her.

Rose smiled and nodded with renewed confidence as she said, "Yeah, you're right. The universe isn't going to split us up. Not this time. I won't let it. We won't let it. Come on, Doctor. We've got a couple of billion universes to save. You know this may be a new one even for us. We're going to save the entire multiverse!"

"I know. There's no one else I'd rather do it beside either," The Doctor said with a small smile as he took Rose's hand in his.

Rose grinned now despite the weariness in her body, and the two of them started to run together once more as they faced their destiny hand in hand. If they were going to fight their last battle, then they would do it together.

"How touching!" Missy said with a disgusted look as she noticed this.

"Let them have their moment. It will be their last one after all," Nightshade promised.

"You're right. I should be generous . . . for once," Missy said with a chuckle.

As Nightshade continued to hold back the enormous group of enemies in front of her with seemingly little effort, she started to yawn and said, "This is getting boring. I think it's finally time to end it now."

"That's up to you, dear. I would have already killed them all by now myself though to be honest. I just have no patience these days," Missy said with an evil grin.

"First, I think I'll push them all back. They're invading my personal space," Nightshade said as she immediately sent everyone in front of her flying halfway across the room with a massive telekinetic shove.

There was one person who had been biding her time and waiting for the right moment to strike however instead of just rushing at the two of them. Now she was finally taking her shot as she suddenly appeared out of nowhere completely surprising Nightshade who actually jumped back for a moment but otherwise still showed no concern.

"Neither of you are killing anyone. You're going to be the ones dying especially you, Nightshade. You see I remember how you killed my daughter.* You didn't think anyone did after you erased that timeline, did you? I'm the head of the Angels in my world though so I know everything even the things that have been erased from history. Don't think for a minute that there was any way that I was ever going to let you get away with it either," Jo Winchester said as she suddenly stood in front of them with her hands glowing with Holy White Light and her wings briefly showing amid flashes of lightning.

"Ooh, I like that. Maybe I'll start doing something like that to scare the little people whenever I deign to walk among them," Missy said in a jealous tone.

"I'd think that you would have a pitchfork and horns instead," Nightshade commented.

"No, this is much flashier," Missy said with a chuckle.

"Do you think that this is a joke?" Jo asked in anger.

"They think everything is a joke, Jo. Trust me. I know. I used to be just like them once," Nimeuh, who was one of the incredibly powerful Ladies of the Lake on her world, said as she joined Jo now with her own hands glowing.

"They're all ganging up on us at last, Nighty. Are you scared yet?" Missy quipped.

"Hardly," Nightshade said with a face wide grin.

"How about now?" Clara Idris, the version of Clara who was the TARDIS in human form, said as she materialized next to the other two women with her eyes glowing with energy.

"Nope. Should you really be using up your energy reserves like that, TARDIS Girl? You've been cut off from the Vortex as long as you're in this universe too you know? Once it's gone it's not coming back. I can promise you that," Nightshade said in a cold and uncaring tone.

"We'll just see about that because you honestly don't seem all that tough to me. I haven't seen either of you do anything yet but throw some people around a lot. I can do far more than that I promise," Clara Idris said in a threatening tone.

"Oh, I know you can. I know that all three of you are major powerhouses in your own worlds, and everyone quakes in terror whenever you so much as blink at them. The problem is that you're not in your world anymore, ladies. You're in mine now and in my world I am supreme!" Nightshade said.

Then she smiled with malicious glee at Jo and said, "I just figured out how to undo an Angel now. It's quite simple really. Here. Let me show you."

Before Nightshade could do anything against her though, Jo placed her hand on her head and immediately set her on fire with it even as Nimueh bombarded her with mystic blasts from her hands and Clara Idris unleashed a powerful blast of Vortex energy against her. Rose now took this opportunity to join in with her own energy blasts as well as she finally arrived to stand alongside them.

"That looks like fun. Let me try," Christina said as she started to bombard Nightshade with silver energy from her hands.

"Don't leave me out. I owe her and her boss a lot for what they've both put me through recently,' Jenny said as she hit Nightshade with emerald green energy blasts from her hands which she combined with her own rapidly fading Vortex blasts.

"Still don't need my help, dear?" Missy said with a giggle as Nightshade was simultaneously bombarded from every direction with enough power to destroy entire worlds.

Her laughter suddenly died in her throat however as the Matriach, a future Clara's dark side given form, appeared out of thin air and violently grabbed her by the throat.

"Shut up! I'm so sick of your stupid laughter!" The Matriarch screamed with her eyes filled with pure anger.

"Oh, my stars! I never ever thought that I'd be glad to see you," Clara said with a small smile.

"I wouldn't be if I was you. I might hate Missy with a passion, but I hate the Doctor even more. He'll get his turn after I'm done with her I promise. For right now though, you just stand there thinking up new soufflé recipes while I do all the real work. There's a good girl," The Matriarch said with a condescending smirk.

"If you dare to try to come after the Doctor, you'll be the one who winds up regretting it," Clara threatened as her eyes filled with pure hatred even as they were lit with inner power.

"Yes, I'm really scared of the woman whose powers are fading more and more by the moment. I however have found an alternative power source. Would you care to guess what that is, Missy? Well, what's the matter? You're usually so talkative. Cat got your tongue?" The Matriarch said with a smug smile as she continued to keep Missy from speaking with her hands wrapped so tightly around her throat.

Suddenly Nightshade exploded outwards with energy in all directions sending everyone around her flying throughout the ship and knocking most of them out cold in a single instant. The Matriarch could tell that she was very, very angry now from the cold look promising violent death that was now in her eyes.

She could also tell something else. They had hurt her. They had actually managed to hurt her. So Miss High and Mighty wasn't so invincible after all. That was good to know The Matriarch thought to herself with glee.

"Let me venture a guess, Clara. You have the combined powers of Fenric, Hecuba, the Celestial Toymaker, and the Great Intelligence now, don't you? I can sense the smell of the Great Old Ones on you from here. How did you ever talk them into agreeing to that one I wonder?" Nightshade said with a knowing look in her eyes.

"Who says I asked them?" The Matriarch replied with a mischievous grin.

"You know if she wasn't completely evil and didn't want to kill me I'd be very proud of myself right now," Clara said with a small smile of satisfaction.

"It is pretty cool isn't it?" The Matriarch agreed with a warm smile.

"Why don't you just marry her and get it over with, Clara?" Christina said as she slowly got up off the floor with a groan.

"She'd probably be the only person good enough for her if they didn't wind up killing each other first. She's always been in love with herself after all," Jenny joked as she rubbed her head with a wince where she had hit it on a wall when she had been thrown back by Nightshade.

"Stop talking, you miserable wastes of space!" Nightshade shouted as she began to unleash a torrent of punishing energy against both Guardians.

"You know, Jen, I might be wrong but I'm beginning to think that she doesn't like us," Christina said as she deflected the energy with a single outstretched hand.

"Really? What makes you say that, Chrissy?" Jenny said as she started to attack Nightshade with a punishing attack of her own that actually made her cry out in pain.

"Why can't I take away your powers? I did it to the other Guardians," Nightshade protested as she finally managed to block Jenny's attack with a hastily erected force field.

"They're something new. That's why. All of us have had to remake ourselves these days it seems in order to keep up with you two. You're still having trouble taking away the powers of someone who gets their power from two different sources at once so I gave myself a whole new power set in order to block you. Maybe these two have the same deal going for all you know," The Matriarch said.

Missy then struggled to say something even as the Matriarch tightened her grip around her throat and said with undisguised joy in her voice, "What was that? Sorry, I don't speak loon. I'm sure that whatever it was wasn't pleasant though. You know, Missy, you really should say something nice."

"Oh, that was good!" Clara cheered.

"Oi! Whose side are you on?" Rose said as she finally managed to get off the floor with what strength that she had left to her.

"I – I wasn't cheering her on. I was just . . . Well, it's just so nice to see me, even Evil Me, giving that little witch what for. It's long past time that somebody did," Clara said.

To Clara's immense surprise, Nightshade laughed at that as she said, "Oh, I wholeheartedly agree. If I hadn't needed the distraction that she provided for Rose, I would have already killed her a long time ago."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Rose asked curiously.

"She's been slowly learning how to use your powers even as she's been draining them, Rose. She needed time in order to do that. That time was so graciously provided for her by Missy with her whole plan to take on the entire multiverse with undead androids. She's been manipulating Missy just as she has the rest of us, Rose, and it's paid off quite well it seems. I can already tell that she's almost as good as you are at using your abilities now. She's a quick study . . . whoever she really is," The Doctor said with a knowing look.

Nightshade smiled as she said, "Figured it out already, Old Man, or just guessing?"

"Figured what out? What do you mean, Doctor? Do you know what's wrong with Bella? Were we right about the thing that had possessed her before being behind all of this?" Rose asked.

"Yes, Rose. The thing that took your cousin over so long ago is still in there even now. I'm sure that the real Bella, if she even still exists, is just as much a victim here as everyone else that Nightshade comes into contact with is. Missy resurrected the real being pulling the strings here along with Bella without even realizing it. You really should be more grateful to her, Nightshade. She saved you from oblivion," The Doctor said.

"Does one express gratitude to an ant before they crush it underneath their feet, Doctor?" Nightshade said with a cold smile.

"Who is she?" Rose asked the Doctor.

Suddenly Nightshade gestured at the Doctor and sent him to his knees in agony as she said, "Oh, no. Don't go spoiling things so early, Doctor."

Then it was Nightshade's turn to scream as she was hit by a powerful blast that actually sent her to her knees as River Song said, "I tell him that all the time. Does he ever listen though? Of course not."

"How?" Nightshade said in disbelief as she could feel pain ripping through her entire body.

"Uh uh! Didn't you just say not to go around spoiling things?" River said as she continued to fire her devastating beam at Nightshade.

"What in the world have you got in there? Everyone else around here is being thrown around like rag dolls, and you've practically got her on her knees from the second that you show up," Rose said in disbelief.

"I know. I'm just that good," River said with a smug smile as she continued to let Nightshade have it with her gun.

The gun contained Treswines Radiation to which Rose was deathly allergic. River had found out that it would work on Nightshade by studying her blood and finding out that the body Missy had given her was partially based on Rose's.

"Melody's found out one of Nightshade's weaknesses by studying her blood. No wonder I could never beat her. She's just completely brilliant," Cassiopeia said as she joined Rose with a proud smile on her face.

"Yay," Rose said in an unenthusiastic voice.

"She's still not as amazing as you are though, Mum," Cassiopeia said quickly.

Rose smiled from ear to ear as she said, "Nice save, Cass. Here. Help me get your father up. He was just about to tell me something very important when he was so rudely interrupted."

Despite the pain that was now engulfing her entire body, Nightshade's ears immediately perked up at the name Cass. Or rather Bella's had.

Bella would have laughed if she could have as she realized that Cassiopeia was Rose's daughter. She had remembered her even when she didn't know who she herself really was. Even then part of her had still remembered her daughter. It touched Bella and gave her renewed hope. If Rose's spirit was that indomitable, then maybe just maybe she could still free her.

Maybe she could still free them all.

"No! I won't have it! Not now when I'm so close to final victory!" Nightshade screamed as she felt Bella beginning to fight back with renewed strength for the first time in a very long time.

Suddenly the entire TARDIS began to shake violently as Nightshade used her power to shake it as hard as she could from top to bottom. Even River was knocked off of her feet by the massive shockwave that was created as a result. This of course meant that River dropped her gun just as Nightshade had wanted.

Nightshade smiled in triumph as she instantly incinerated River's gun before it could be recovered.

"You won't get a second chance at that again I'm afraid. In fact, you won't get a second chance at anything anymore period," Nightshade said as she began attacking River with a blast of energy that sent her flying so hard into the nearest wall that she was knocked completely senseless.

Before she could attack her any further though, Nightshade was suddenly slammed to the deck by a furious Amy Pond who attacked her from behind with a massive barrage of lightning fast punches that didn't even leave Nightshade time to think much less react to them. The Doctor laughed as he watched Amy in action.

"She just made the biggest mistake of her very long existence by attacking Amy Pond's daughter," The Doctor said proudly as he watched his old friend beat Nightshade senseless.

"Need any help, Red?" Donna Noble said as she and her team, the Bad Wolves, arrived to join in the fight.

"Why do you even need to ask, Donna? I still owe her for what she did to my daughters. I definitely want in on this," Calliope, the Doctor's mother, said as she and the rest of the Wolves joined Amy in the attack on Nightshade.

"My sentiments exactly," Jo said as she rejoined the fight now that she was fully recovered.

"Let me help. This seemed to affect her before," Yvonne Hartman, the former director of Torchwood who had now joined the crew of the Doctor of another reality, said as she fired a gun with the same energy that she had once used to widen a crack between worlds at Nightshade.

Nightshade began to scream in agony once more even as the others backed a safe distance away from Yvonne's beam. Adding this damage on top of the beating that she just received from Amy, the Treswines Radiation, and the earlier attack by Jo, Nimueh, and Clara Idris seemed to finally be taking its toll on Nightshade at long last. She was swaying left and right barely able to stand up as Yvonne's gun continued to hit her with its punishing beams.

Rose smiled as hope filled her heart. Nightshade was on the ropes and Missy was being kept under complete control by the Matriarch who seemed to be enjoying herself immensely. It seemed as if maybe this fight really was about to go their way after all despite her visions.

That was when everything started to go so very wrong.

The voice of Missy's TARDIS computer said, "Android bodies complete. Your new army is now being released to join your other forces."

The other androids who had mostly been decimated by this point by the android Claras and the Daleks and Thals that Oswin had brought with her now received valuable new reinforcements. An all new set of powerful androids who were being controlled by the brainwashed minds of every dead Time Lord that Missy had gathered from every Matrix on every Gallifrey in the Multiverse were now finally ready for battle at last!

"This is bad isn't it?" Baroness Clara, an echo of another universe's Clara who lived in 18th century France, asked.

"Of course it's bad. In what universe is this not bad, Shorty?" The Amy of that universe who had wound up trapped in Baroness Clara's time after the Weeping Angels' attack on her in Manhattan, said in an irritated voice.

"Don't worry, Clara. We can still win this. We have the superior firepower on our side if not the superior numbers now," Baroness Clara's version of Reinette Poisson said.

"Unfortunately you may be wrong on both counts I'm afraid. Maybe I can help with that however," A very familiar voice said from behind Reinette.

She whirled around in surprise to see . . . herself standing there.

The other Reinette belonged to this universe and had survived her death thanks to Rose's help. She had also been sharing in Rose's White Guardian powers and role in recent months so that Rose could spend more time with her growing family.

That seemed to be a very good decision now in hindsight as Reinette still had a great deal of the power of the White Guardian at her command and Nightshade couldn't access it.

"You are quite different from me in this reality it seems," The other Reinette said in amazement as she noticed that her counterpart was glowing with that very same power.

"Yes, I definitely have had a much more colorful existence in this reality than you have it seems. So far anyway," Reinette said with an enigmatic smile causing her counterpart to look at her questioningly.

"Jeanne, the other you has super powers. Now I wish I were her partner," Baroness Clara said with a chuckle.

The Baroness' Clara glared at her as she quickly added with a grin, "Just kidding."

Rose smiled at her Reinette as she said, "I'm so glad that you could make it, Reinette. Now I'm about to give you what's called a battlefield promotion."

Luckily she had managed to get away from the Doctor and Clara, who she knew wouldn't approve of what she was about to do, in the confusion caused by the attack of the android Time Lords. Now that she had she was finally ready to put one of her contingency plans in action.

"What?" Reinette asked in confusion.

"There's no time to explain right now. I've got to do this before I lose too much power," Rose said as she quickly grabbed Reinette's hands.

Suddenly Reinette gasped in surprise as she could feel a massive amount of power being poured into her body even as Rose altered her very genetic structure. Reinette looked at her in disbelief as soon as the process was completed because she knew immediately what Rose had just done.

"You've made me into the new White Guardian in addition to giving me access to the power of the Vortex. Or rather I would have it if it wasn't being blocked. Why, Rose? I can feel that you're already extremely weak. Why would you give away what little power you have left like that?" Reinette asked her as she noted with concern that Rose looked extremely sick now.

"That's very obvious, Marquise. She wanted to pass what little power she had left to you in order to keep it from me, and she gave you what little access to the Vortex that she could in order to stop me from taking it from you too since I currently have problems affecting people with twin energy sources. Very clever, Rose. Too bad it's still not going to be enough though," Nightshade said as she suddenly appeared behind Reinette and delivered an energy blast to her back that temporarily rendered her completely senseless.

As Reinette hit the ground face first, Nightshade slowly closed in on Rose with a murderous look on her face as she said, "You're becoming more and more powerless by the moment aren't you, my old friend? You just gave your last real bit of power to her and your Vortex powers are steadily weakening. Very soon you won't have enough energy left to light a candle much less defend yourself. It's over. Finally it's over with at long last. Finally I win. I win!"

"Who are you? You're not Bella. I know that now," Rose asked as she struggled to stand.

"You mean that you still haven't guessed yet? Oh, I was so hoping that I could see the look on your face when you finally did. Very well. I'll let you in on it then. I'm . . ." Nightshade started to say.

"Who cares? In a minute you're going to be nothing more than a memory anyway," Amelia Song, the daughter of River Song and the Doctor in another reality, said as she attacked Nightshade from behind with a devastating judo chop to the back of the neck.

As Nightshade hit the ground, Amelia said, "I owe you that for putting that nasty burn on my neck. Now you can know how it feels to have massive pain in your neck this time."

"That won't stop her. You've got to hit her with something a whole lot stronger than that," Astra Tyler-Smith, the genius daughter of the Rose and Doctor of another reality, said as she came up behind her.

"What do you know about it, kid? What are you like five?" Amelia asked in disdain.

"I'd listen to her if I were you. She's extremely brilliant from what I can see of her timeline. Mind you I can't really help you any with it. Do you think that you could do a little something about that, Marion?" Clara/Kore, a Time Lady version of Clara who was the Doctor's first wife in her reality, said as she was joined by Marion, the Moment of another universe who was far more Rose than super weapon.

"I could certainly try while she's still stunned," Marion said as she began to attack Nightshade with a massive energy blast.

"Let me help. I'm still new to these powers but I can at least do that now," Shehzadi said as she joined in on the assault.

"Ollie Ollie Okenfree! I'm joining in on this particular dog pile. I owe her one for killing me!" Mary Winchester shouted as she began to attack Nightshade with Holy White Light.

"You owe her one? She killed me too. Make her stay knocked out just long enough for us to win without a doubt," Paige Matthews said as she cast a spell on Nightshade that she hoped would keep her senseless longer.

"I've been dead before. It's not as big a deal as it seems. At least your deaths were reversed so that they never happened. We never would have even known if your mom hadn't told us, Mary," Buffy said as she began to hit Nightshade hard at all of her body's pressure points in the hopes that she could help knock Nightshade out completely.

The Matriarch watched Nightshade being buried under a sea of bodies with absolute relish as she said to a still struggling Missy while she continued to keep her in a stranglehold, "Well, that should definitely be the end of Pretty Poison over there I think. She's taken such a huge beating today that it's a wonder that she's stayed on her feet this long. Now all I have to do is finish you and your nice shiny new army will be all mine to do whatever I please with. Say good bye, Missy. I guarantee you that no one's going to miss you."

Suddenly the Matriarch screamed in pain as she was shot by several of Missy's new android troops in the back. The Matriarch immediately let go of Missy as she writhed in pain thanks to the multiple blasts being directed against her.

Missy watched her enemy suffer with a large smile of pure joy on her face as she said, "They were never going to be your army I'm afraid. They were always mine. They will only respond to my brainwave patterns after all. Oh, and did I mention that I can control them telepathically? I didn't? Oh, silly me! It must have slipped my mind."

Missy now turned to the rest of her army and shouted amid the din of her TARDIS, "I want them all dead! Wipe everyone in this TARDIS who isn't one of me out!"

"We obey," The android Time Lords said in unison sounding eerily like Daleks as they started to redouble their efforts to wipe out everyone in the TARDIS.

"No, it can't be happening for real. It can't. I won't let it," Rose said as she struggled to stay upright while she slowly made her towards Missy during the tumult of battle.

Before she could even get close to Missy however, she saw her running away. Where was she going? What in the world was she up to now?

Missy smiled as she took her TARDIS out of the Vortex while her enemies were all distracted. As they all fought to the hopefully bitter end, Missy was about to carry out the next step in her plan as she quickly exited.

She now found herself on the Gallifrey of this universe where every single living Time Lord there were now as much her mindless puppets as the dead ones had been. She smiled as she entered the meeting chamber of the High Council and prepared to address the rest of her army.

"Hello, my name's Missy. Some of you might recognize me as Koschei, but that doesn't matter right now. What does is that you will obey me without question. You will carry out all of my instructions to the letter and without hesitation. Any questions? No? Good. I didn't think there would be but it's always helpful to make sure that there isn't anyone with any semblance of free will left out there. That can be very annoying when you're trying to create a super army. Now then here are your orders. They're pretty simple actually. I want you to go out and conquer! Conquer every world, every speck of dust, in every reality in my name. Don't stop until everyone everywhere bows down to the Master! Now go. Go!" Missy said as she started to laugh as the Time Lords all dashed off to prepare for battle.

This was only the latest Gallifrey that she had given these orders to of course. Every other Gallifrey was also doing the exact same thing in their own universes, and it was all being done in her name.

Soon now, very soon, every world in every reality would belong to her. No one could stop her now! No one.

"It ends here, Koschei. I won't let you bring this nightmare to our universe too," The voice of Missy's Doctor said from behind her.

She turned around to see him standing there along with his version of Clara Oswald.

Missy smiled happily as she said, "You made it at last! What kept you so long anyway? You've had my old TARDIS for quite a while now. You should have figured out what I was up to a long time ago. That's why I let the Rani of this world have it so easily. I wanted her to send you here and yet you still kept me waiting. You must be slipping in your old age, Doctor. I remember the days when the Doctor that I used to know would have been here in a heartsbeat ready and willing to give me pretty speeches about how I wasn't going to win this time around. You don't happen to have one of those speeches ready now do you? I'm feeling kind of nostalgic."

"Let me just end her this time, Doctor. She's even worse than she was before. She's gone completely off the deep end this time," The Clara of Missy's reality said in a cold voice.

"Oh, I'd really like to see you try, Clara dear. I'm not quite the same woman that you knew before after all. If you try to face me this time, you might get a very unpleasant surprise. Well, it'll be unpleasant for you anyway," Missy said with mocking laughter.

Then she was hit by twin attacks from both her left and right at once that left her screeching in pain. She turned her head to see to her complete surprise that the Doctor and Clara of this reality were now attacking her. She saw the Doctor using a powerful object that she recognized as the Dodecahedron while Clara was using Rassilon's Gauntlet. Then she saw to her horror that both of them had plenty of other cosmic doodads to use against her if those didn't do the job including what she quickly realized with a sickening feeling in her hearts were the segments of the Key to Time.

She wasn't sure that even she could hold out against all of those weapons even with her new power. She could only hope that she would last long enough for some of her forces to find her and help her out.

"That's what kept me, Missy. I was looking for some back-up of my own," Missy's Doctor said.

"Yes, and luckily future me actually did something right for once in letting us have these," The Doctor from this universe said as he continued to attack Missy relentlessly.

"You should let him know that, Old Man, especially since you weren't exactly thankful to him for it before," The Clara of this universe teased him.

The Doctor snorted at that idea as Clara smiled. She knew that he would do that.

"Yours is just like mine it seems," The Clara of Missy's world said with a grin.

"Yes, well-trained," The other Clara replied with a chuckle making both Doctors glare at her.

Missy started to laugh then completely unnerving both Claras and making them suddenly go silent as she said, "Oh, you're already dispensing the witty banter, are you? You're so sure that you've won aren't you? It's too late now though. You can't stop it. Even if you do beat me, my armies will still conquer every world in every reality. They will make sure that I win no matter what and there's nothing that you can do about it."

The two Doctors both exchanged what even to their respective Claras was an unreadable look as each Impossible Girl silently wondered with a growing sense of dread if the mad Time Lady was about to be proven right.

Meanwhile back in Missy's TARDIS, Nightshade screamed in anger and immediately knocked all of her enemies in the immediate area out cold on the spot. She had been deliberately letting them hit her relentlessly without fighting back while she surrounded herself with a force field so that she could slowly regain her strength. Now she had finally gotten her second wind and was more than ready to finish off Rose Tyler once and for all.

She smiled as she saw that those members of Rose's group that she hadn't already defeated were too busy fighting Missy's army to even notice her. Then her smile widened as she saw The Matriarch on her knees and almost ready to pass out beneath the punishing attacks of yet another group of Missy's androids.

Now there was no one left to stop her. All she had to do was find Rose Tyler and all of this would finally come to an end at last.

That was when she spotted Rose lying against a wall barely able to stand as she panted for breathe. She was completely at her mercy now. Either she would die or she would be forced to use her true power, the untapped level of power that she had never shown to anyone before but that Nightshade knew existed, in order to protect herself.

It didn't matter to her which that she chose to do because no matter what happened she would still win.

"Leave her alone. If you want to fight someone, fight me," The voice of the woman that Nightshade now knew as Cassiopeia said.

"Cass . . . don't!" Rose said in a weak voice.

"Oh, please do, Cassiopeia. Yes, I know who you are now. I've been piecing Bella Tyler's memories together with my own knowledge of this timeline, and I've finally figured it all out at last. You're the daughter from before she became Rose Tyler that she thought was dead aren't you? The one who she thought she lost to Chen-7 until she found out that you had actually survived that disease and had been kidnapped by Madame Kovarian instead. Kovarian made you into a cheap River Song knockoff called the Thorn and then Mummy found you again and rescued you, didn't she? You're pathetic. You couldn't even defeat River Song much less your own parents. So what makes you think that you can take me now? You're useless. That's what you are. Completely and utterly useless!" Nightshade said with a smirk.

"Shut up! Just shut up!" Cassiopeia screamed as she began to glow with what little power that she had left as she prepared to attack Nightshade at any moment now.

"Cass, don't listen to her. She's trying to make you fight so she can kill you. Run. Get help," Rose said in an ever weakening voice.

"No, I'm tired of her and her put downs! I'm going to save you, Mum, and I'm going to wipe the floor with her while I do it," Cassiopeia said with a huge smile.

Nightshade was smiling as well as she prepared for her attack. Once she killed this girl who obviously meant a great deal to Rose, she knew that Rose would unleash her true power then in order to avenge her. That was what Clara Idris had done when her daughter had been killed by Sutekh after all.

Once Rose did the same thing that Clara Idris had done, then she would finally have her at last.

She would have access to the ultimate power of the Bad Wolf which was so far being denied to her as Rose was even denying it to herself. Once she had that then she would have absolute control of this entire reality at last.

Then she would roll back time and undo every last change that Rose had ever made. She would completely sweep away this entire world of hers in a single moment.

That was when she would stand back and watch as Rose's heart broke apart.

See Time and Space Chapter 44.

Next: Next time the battle takes place on three fronts as The Doctor and Rose's forces fight Missy's deadly androids, The Doctor and Clara help their counterparts from the other universe fight Missy, and Cassiopeia stands alone against Nightshade for the life of her mother. Does Cass even have a chance of survival? What will happen to all of the worlds that Missy's forces are attacking? Is there any hope for them? Is this really the end for the Matriarch? I really doubt that one somehow. And the most important question of all, who is the entity calling itself Nightshade and why does it hate Rose so much?