The Master has never met Ryder before but he's a bit too crazy to have an introduction so yeah...she's just a new companion as far as he's concerned. In answer to the other question: no*cough* no. How does that make sense? Groped? Never mind.
I feel like I'm starting to lose steam or this story. Am I evil? Yeah...You know what? Don't answer that. Have a good weekend!
It's not easy, but I manage to get the Doctor back to the TARDIS. She helps me find a way to revive him. When he wakes up, we head to the Noble's house. Wilf comes out to us shortly after.
"I lost him. I was unconscious. Jane couldn't follow. He's still on Earth, I can smell him, but he's too far away."
"Listen, you can't park there. If Donna sees she'll never let you out of her sight."
"You're the only one, Wilf. The only connection I can think of. You're involved, if I could work out how. Tell me, have you seen anything? I don't know. Anything strange, anything odd?"
"Well, there was a..." I eye Wilf carefully.
"What? What is it? Tell me."
I give Wilf a look. He can't say anything. I won't know how to do this if he says something. "Well, it was. No, it's nothing."
"Think-a think-a think. Maybe something out of the blue. Something connected to your life. Something."
"Well, Donna was a bit strange. She randomly got me that book out of no where. No reason just got it."
"What book?"
He shows it to us. "His name's Joshua Naismith."
I look at it and then at the Doctor. "That's the man the Ood showed us."
"The what?"
I shake him off. "Never mind. Why would Sonna get the book?"
"Part of the convergence. Maybe? It may be touching Donna's subconscious. Oh, she's brilliant. The Doctor Donna."
"Dad, what are you up to? You. Finally came for a visit did you?"
"Merry Christmas." We give Sylvia a greeting.
"Merry Christmas. You staying for dinner then? Donna will be glad. She keeps complaining that you aren't returning her calls."
The Doctor shakes his head. "No. We have to go."
"Yeah, me too." Wilf moves to follow us.
"Oh no, you don't." He ignores her. "Dad, I'm warning you."
"Bye, see you later."
"You can't come with us." The Doctor tries to push him out.
"He has to Doctor." He studies me for a moment but then relents. We head into the TARDIS, and leave despite Sylvia's protests.
"Naismith. If I can track him down..."
Wilf cuts him off with a thought. "Listen, Doctor, if this is a time machine, that man you're chasing, why can't you just pop back to yesterday and catch him?"
"I can't go back inside my own timeline. I have to stay relative to the Master within the causal nexus. Understand?"
"Not a word."
I smile at Wilf. "Welcome aboard."
He smiles back. "Thank you."
When we land, Wilf is astonished. He's been in the TARDIS before but we've never taken me anywhere. "We've moved. We've really moved!"
"You should stay here," the Doctor insists.
"Not bloody likely."
"Don't swear," I admonish him.
The Doctor points the key at the Tardis, and it disappears. "Just a second out of sync. Don't want the Master finding the Tardis. That's the last thing we need." He doesn't need to say that it's Rose he's worried about. We already know that.
We head to the mansion and hide from the patrolman on the grounds. "That book said he's a billionaire. He's got his own private army," Wilf comments.
"Down here." The Doctor opens a small door in an archway, and leads us in. As we follow him, in distinct voices travel toward us. We move until they become clear and we enter the basement.
"And the multiple overshots have triplicated." The woman doesn't notice us until I clear my throat.
She turns and the Doctor makes a comment. "Nice Gate."
"Hello. Sorry." I roll my eyes as Wilf apologizes.
"Don't try calling security, or I'll tell them you're wearing a Shimmer. Because I reckon anyone wearing a Shimmer doesn't want the Shimmer to be noticed, or they wouldn't need a Shimmer in the first place." I resist the urge to facepalm. Seriously, does he have to sound like an idiot while outsmarting people?
"I'm sorry? What's a Shimmer?" The woman tries to look innocent. The Doctor points his sonic screwdriver at her and her disguise falls away.
"Shimmer." The Doctor looks completely calm as her true green form shows.
"Oh, my Lord. She's a cactus."
I look at Wilf incredulously. "Don't be racist."
The Doctor examines the archway. "He's got it working, but what is it? What's working?"
"What are you doing here?" A man enters the room. Without turning around, the Doctor points the screwdriver at him.
"Shimmer!" The man turns green. "Now, tell me quickly, what's going on? The Master, Harold Saxon, Skeletor, whatever you're calling him, what's he doing up there? Because Jane won't tell me anything."
With that comment I decide to check out of the conversation. They explain who they are. They call themselves Miss Addams and Mr. Rossiter. They are Vinvocci as is the arch. A salvage team. And then they say that the machine does something with transmitting medical blueprint yada yada. All I know is the Doctor runs out and down a corridor. So I follow him and Wilf follows.
We rush into the gate room as the Doctor shouts. "Turn the Gate off right now!"
"At arms!"
"No! Whatever you do, just don't let him near that thing." But of course no one listens to me.
"Oh, like that was ever going to happen." The Master throws off the strait jacket and jumps into the gate. "Homeless, was I? Destitute and dying? Well, look at me now."
"Deactivate it. All of you, turn the whole thing off!" The Doctor orders. The Master laughs.
"He's inside my head." The Naismith man groans.
"Get out of there!" A blast of energy from the Master knocks the Doctor down.
"Doctor! Doctor, there's, there's this face."Wilf panics slightly. And so do I.
"Doctor I can see it too!" The drums try to force their way into my head.
"What is it? What can you see?"
"Him! Who do you think?" Forgive me for the sarcasm. But the drums are giving me a headache.
The Doctor goes to the computer and tries to shut down the Gate. "I can't turn it off."
"That's because I locked it, idiot." It's the Master. Of course he locked it.
"Wilfred! Jane! Get inside. Get him out." I follow the Doctor into one of the glass boxes while Wilf let's a young man out to use the other one. "Just need to filter the levels."
"Oh, I can see again! He's gone." Wilf is good and so am I. With the headache gone I begin to think more clearly about where I am.
"Radiation shielding. Now press the button. Let me out."
"You what?" Wilf is confused by what the Doctor wants.
"I can't get out until you press the button. That button there."
"Whoever invented this was an idiot." I can't help but say it. Because whoever that idiot is, they've killed me. I am going to for in this class cubical. Wilf presses the button and the Doctor and I are able to get out while Wilf is stuck.
"Fifty seconds and counting." The Master interrupts my thoughts.
"To what?"
"Oh, you're going to love this." I look toward Wilf as the Master brags and see him opening his phone.
"What is it, hypnotism? Mind control. You're grafting your thoughts inside them, is that it?" The Doctor ventures a guess.
"Oh, that's way too easy. No, no, no. They're not going to think like me, they're going to become me. And, zero!" A blast of energy goes out everyone starts to change. I feel a pressure in my head but I ignore it. Peoples faces begin to change.
"You can't have." The Doctor is shocked. He turns to me and checks my eyes. "Why aren't you...?"
"Doctor? Donna's got a headache. I think she just passed out!" Everyone's face changes and Wilf looks around in shock. "What is it? What have you done, you monster?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, are you talking to me? Or to me? Or to me? Or to me? Or to us?"
On the TV, another him speaks. "Breaking news. I'm everyone. And everyone in the world is me!"
But I'm not. Which means I will bare witness. Gallifrey is returning.