This next chapter bounces around a lot, sorry. And I apologise for it being a bit later than usual. I saw "The Avengers" today, that's why this is so late.

Anyway, enjoy!

Flash-forward about a year in my life, and I'm chained to a chair. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Master thought it'd be funny to dress me as a clown. Complete with make-up.

He ran to me, a malevolent grin on his face. "So, jester… Any amusing jibes to add to this?"

I stared balefully into his eyes. "'Fraid not, mate."

This just made him laugh. "For some reason, that's even funnier than if you did tell a joke!" He clapped his hands in mocking applause as he walked away.

"Laugh while you can, Koschei!" I shouted after him.

He stopped mid-step, and stared malevolently at me. "What?"

"I said, 'Laugh while you can, Koschei!'. Are you hard-of-hearing or something?"

He walked back to me and glared at me. "How do you know that name?"

I smiled at him. "Like I'm gonna tell you."

He punched me across the face, sending my head flying to the right. "Tell me!" the Master shouted insanely.

I moved my head back to him, aware of the blood trickling from the corner of my mouth. I felt like the Joker as I grinned. "Piss off."

He pulled out his laser screwdriver and pointed it at me. "Tell me, or I'll kill you."

"No you won't," I said, still grinning, the blood covering my teeth. "Because if you kill me, you'll never know how I know your name. Koschei."

He glared at me before putting his laser screwdriver away. He suddenly punched me in the nose, breaking it. My head lolled backwards with the impact. I suppressed the urge to scream in pain.

Instead I laughed. My head moved back to look at my tormentor, my smashed nose bleeding profusely. "You really don't get it, do you?" I asked him, still laughing. "No matter what you do to me, you will be stopped. I know it for a fact. Martha Jones will stop you. And I'll be right behind her when she does."

The Master said nothing. He just walked away from me, an angry look on his face.

I laughed again. "How does it feel, Koschei? How does it feel to be outwitted by a clown?" I turned my laugh into an insane giggle to sell it to him.

"A gun?" Martha asked incredulously. "A gun in four parts?"

"Yes, and I destroyed it," the Master growled.

"Did you really believe that?"

"As if I would ask her to kill," the shrivelled Doctor said in his cage.

"All I did was go around telling people about the Doctor. And that if they all think about one thing at exactly the same time…."

"Nothing will happen! Is that your weapon? Prayer?"

"Right across the world, one word, one moment, but with fifteen satellites!"

The Master stared at her disbelievingly. "What?"

"The Archangel Network," Jack said.

"Everyone thinking the same thing at the same time," Martha continued to the now less-confident Master. "One word. And that word is 'Doctor'."

The Doctor began to glow with a blue light as he grew inside his cage, which burst open. "I've used this whole year to tune myself in with the psychic network and its matrices. The one thing you can't do…is stop them thinking."

He rose into the air, still glowing blue. "Tell me the human race is degenerate now, when they can do this."

We were back in Cardiff, the year that never was still replaying through our minds.

"Well, I'd better go," Jack said, leaping over the rail.

"Me too," I added, going in-between the metal poles.

"I really don't mind, though," the Doctor interrupted us. "Come with me, both of you."

Jack and I looked at each other. "As much as we'd love to do that…" I started.

"…I've got my team…" Jack continued.

"…and future-you is waiting for me. I think."

I glanced at the Vortex Manipulator on my wrist. "Only one way to find out, though." I pressed a few buttons on the touch-screen and vanished. I reappeared in the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS, in what seemed to be Amy and Rory's bedroom. Well, it had bunk beds, for one thing.

For the other, I'd just interrupted Amy and Rory in a passionate moment.

"Whoa!" I shouted, my hands out in front of me. "Sorry, sorry. I'll just be going now, eh?" I bolted for the door and headed straight for the control room.

Heh heh heh… I just wanted to make a quick chapter, and this is it.

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