CHAPTER 30

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Lucien "Lucky" Lucardo was the undisputed mob boss of his particular little Chicago neighborhood. He answered only to Al Capone and sometimes not even to him. He was something of a rogue agent in the area. Since Capone was being investigated at the moment by Eliot Ness, he really didn't pay too much attention to what Lucardo was doing at the moment

Lucardo knew that Capone was probably going to fall sooner or later, and he was already setting himself up to take over as top boss when he did. One way he had of doing that was to acquire various expensive objects that no one else could get and sell them for a lot of money to various unscrupulous dealers and collectors.

One of those objects was in his hands right now. It was an old statue of a wolf called The Daciana. He had a top notch buyer waiting for this one. He was a real mystery man that had given him an obviously fake name, Magnus Kriegslieter. He didn't really care about the man's name though as long as his money was real.

Lucardo laughed as he thought about the trick that he had pulled on that blonde and her gumshoe partner. He had realized that they were trying to steal the statue when they had entered his office posing as cleaning people. They didn't know that he personally knew all of his cleaning people and would know that they didn't belong there. He hired everyone that entered his home personally and did a check on them before deciding to trust them around his valuable objects.

He had then decided to switch the real statue with a fake one that he had had created in case someone ever tried to steal it. He had been told by his mysterious buyer that someone might come to take the statue from him one day. It was child's play to simply walk away and let them steal the fake, and then send his goons after them to insure that they believed that it was the real one. He hoped that this would throw them off of the trail long enough for him to complete the upcoming transaction for it. His knew that his buyer would be here soon.

If they realized their mistake and tried to return, he would simply have them killed. He wouldn't put up with someone trying to steal from him twice. He had been merciful once because he had a personal rule against killing unnecessarily because it was bad for business, but he was no pushover.

Romana and Frobisher realized that they couldn't go back in there, or they would be recognized. Well, Romana would be anyway. Frobisher could change his looks. He needed someone to go with him though. Ivy volunteered for the job. She could use her perception filter to change her appearance temporarily so that even the gangsters who saw her before wouldn't know her.

Two new faces all in one day. Ivy thought to herself with a grin.

This time she made herself a blonde with brown eyes and a Cockney accent. She joined Frobisher who had changed himself into a tall man with a shaved head and a Northern accent. The two of them then infiltrated the house as two members of the cleaning crew that they had knocked out and replaced. Frobisher had learned from his previous mistake when Lucardo had mentioned knowing all of his staff as he had sent his goons after him.

The two of them made it inside and started cleaning the room where the statue had been before. Frobisher almost dropped character as he saw Lucardo enter the room holding the real statue in his hand. He gave a brief look to Ivy and then back to the statue to tell her that that was what they were looking for.

Ivy then decided to play out her part in the plan that they had concocted beforehand. She went to the window that looked out on the street and pretended that she was cleaning it. She gave a prearranged signal to Lily who was watching from down below. This told her that they had found the statue.

Robin and Ron were now about to enter the place dressed in fancy suits at any minute per their plan. They were going to pretend to be interested in buying the statue. They would offer Lucardo forged money that Lily had managed to have her TARDIS create in an attempt to fool him into giving them the statue of his own free will.

That plan was destined not to be enacted though as the mysterious buyer of the statue suddenly appeared out of nowhere inside of the office. A TARDIS materialized in the form of a bookcase in the middle of Lucardo's office totally shocking Ivy and Frobisher.

Out of the TARDIS stepped a man that neither of the two of them recognized. He had a long dark mustache that went all the way down the sides of his face on both sides and ended at his jawline. The look in his eyes was the look of pure greed and power lust as he looked at the statue in Lucardo's hands.

"I have the agreed upon sum here for the statue. Enough money to make you the richest man in Chicago if not the entire country," the man said as he handed Lucardo a suitcase full of money.

Lucardo quickly inspected the money as he made sure that it was real. It passed inspection, and he gave the statue to this mysterious new arrival. The man had told him that he was from the future and had come back in time to find a lost statue that his research had last tracked to this time and place so that he could add it to his art collection. He had hired Lucardo to find it for him and had offered him a fortune for it. The man laughed as he held the statue in his hands. He looked it over with a look of unbridled glee passing through his eyes.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Lucardo! You don't know how much you've just helped me with my . . . collection," the man said with a smile.

He then took the statue with him into his TARDIS, and he left the building as quickly as he had come. He laughed again as he looked it over in the privacy of his ship.

The man couldn't help but laugh at that fool Lucardo. He didn't even know what he had just handed over to him. He had just given him the means to ultimate power! If Lucardo had used it, he could have easily achieved his goal of becoming the head crime lord of Chicago. He could have become the ruler of the Earth if he had wanted.

The renegade Time Lord who now held the Daciana was going to use it for much more than the conquest of a little backwater world like the Earth though. He was going to use the Avatar to take over first Gallifrey and then time itself. He would no longer be just The War Chief as he had called himself so long ago. He would soon become the supreme ruler of time and space itself!

Next: Lily must tangle with an old foe of the Doctor's as The War Chief attempts to free the Avatar from its prison. Will he find that he's bitten off more than he can chew?