CHAPTER 31
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The War Chief materialized his TARDIS on the outskirts of the Capitol on Gallifrey and looked at the great city for a moment with power lust in his eyes as he thought of how it would soon be his. All he had to do was to break open the statue that he held in his hands, and ultimate power would be his. The Avatar would give him the ability to control the universe.
Suddenly, his attention was diverted from his dreams of future glory as Lily landed her TARDIS a few feet away from him. She had chased him all the way from Chicago in 1930 as soon as Frobisher and Ivy had told her about him having taken the statue away with him. She had recognized him at once from their description of his mustache. Only Rose's old classmate, Magnus or as he called himself now the War Chief, had a mustache like that.
Lily had met the War Chief a few times back when Rose had gone to the Time Lord Academy. She had never liked him. She had an even lower opinion of him than she did of Koschei. At least Koschei had always treated Rose at least with respect. Magnus had never treated anyone with even a basic level of dignity. He was just rotten through and through. All that he cared about was himself and what he could gain from any given situation.
The last that Lily had heard of the War Chief he had allied himself with the War Lord, someone who had kidnapped humans from different wars throughout history and set them against each other in his own sick little war games. He wanted to create a perfect little army from the survivors of these wars and use it to take over the universe. The War Chief had even given them their own versions of the TARDIS called SIDRATs to aid them in their goals.
The Doctor found out about it and intervened though. He called the Time Lords to come and put a stop to their crimes. The War Chief was shot by the War Lord, who thought that he had worked with the Doctor to betray him, just before the Time Lords had come and had been presumed to be dead. The War Chief, like all cockroaches, had survived of course; and he had lived to plague the universe another day.
"Hello, Magnus," Lily said as the War Chief recognized her and scowled angrily at her.
"Persephone. It's been a long time since I last saw you. You've come too late. I have the Avatar in my hands. All I have to do is to blast this statue open with the modified sonic blaster that I brought with me which will remove a chunk of the dwarf star alloy and allow the creature inside of it to be freed. Then I will use it to take over Gallifrey and the entire universe," the War Chief said with a huge smile.
"Do you really think that you'll be able to control it? Even Rassilon couldn't control it! It turned on him, and it will turn on you," Lily said.
"No, it won't. For you see, I have a way of controlling the Avatar," the War Chief said.
"There is no way of controlling the Avatar," Lily said firmly.
The War Chief smiled but said nothing. This unnerved Lily because she wondered just what he knew that she didn't. Lily decided that she didn't want to find out. If there was even a chance that the War Chief knew what he was talking about, she had to stop him right now.
She powered up her regenerative energy and used it to blast the statue out of the War Chief's hand. It went flying several feet away, and Allison grabbed it. Allison proceeded to run with the statue back into Lily's TARDIS.
"Give me that statue, or I'll rip you apart!" the War Chief yelled at her as he chased her into Lily's TARDIS.
As soon as the War Chief got inside the TARDIS, he was met by Robin's fist. Robin punched him in the face, and he landed flat on his back in a daze.
"That's for threatening a lady!" Robin said with an angry scowl on his face.
The War Chief quickly recovered and pulled out a staser from inside of his coat. He pointed it at Lily and said, "Give me the statue, or she dies. This gun can even kill a Time Lord. It's designed to kill in such a way that it prevents regeneration. Even Persephone won't survive a shot from it."
Robin's eyes went cold and he said, "If you harm her in any way, that will be the last thing that you ever do."
The War Chief smiled as he knew that he had won. This man loved Persephone. It was written all over his face.
"That doesn't need to happen. Just give me the statue, and she'll live. For now at least," the War Chief promised.
Allison handed Robin the statue, and he gave it to the War Chief with a look of pure hate in his eyes. If looks could kill, then his would have turned the renegade Time Lord into dust instantly!
The War Chief took the statue with a smirk on his face, but then the smirk quickly turned to a scowl.
"What is this? This isn't the statue! It's a fake. The real statue is very heavy because its outer shell is composed of dwarf star alloy. Give me the real one now, or she dies!" He shouted in fury.
Allison looked at Robin and shrugged. It had been worth a try. She had thought that maybe she could fool him with the fake statue that the mob boss had tricked Romana into stealing.
"No! Don't give it to him. The Avatar must never be freed again," Romana pleaded.
"Give it to me, or she dies!" the War Chief shouted again.
"I'll die anyway. The Avatar will put me number one on its hit list," Lily said.
"You'll beat it. I know you will," Robin said as he handed the statue to the War Chief.
"You don't understand. You don't know what I'll have to do in order to win," Lily said with a haunted expression on her face.
Robin looked at her with sadness. He wasn't sure what Lily meant, but he had his suspicions. He just hoped that what he suspected was wrong. He really, really hoped that he was wrong!
The War Chief took the statue and ran into his TARDIS. He quickly dematerialized before anyone had a chance to stop him.
He then picked up his sonic blaster and prepared to cut off a part of the outer layer of the statue with it. This was it. He was finally going to have ultimate power in his hands now.
Back on Gallifrey, Lily and Robin were startled to hear Allison laughing.
"What do you find so funny, Ally? We just handed a vicious psychopath a creature of unimaginable power," Lily said confused.
"No, we didn't. The statue's right here," Allison said as she handed it over to Lily with a huge grin plastered all over her face.
Now, Lily was really confused.
"What did we just give the War Chief then?" Lily said.
"Not what but rather who," Allison said with a toothy grin.
Back on the War Chief's TARDIS, he was just about to find out the answer to that question. Just as he was about to pull the trigger on his sonic blaster, the statue suddenly changed into Frobisher!
Frobisher took advantage of the moment of surprise that his appearance had created by flooring the War Chief with a good old fashioned right cross to the jaw. The War Chief instantly fell to the ground knocked out cold.
"I'm glad that this is finally over. I've never had this much trouble on a case in my whole life. I thought that it would be easy. It'll just be finding a statue she said. Hah! It's just like I said before. Nothing's ever easy with Time Lords. The next time a Time Lord asks me to do something, I'm going to politely tell them "No!" I'm sick of being the Time Lords' whipping boy," Frobisher complained to himself.
He piloted the War Chief's TARDIS back next to Lily's. He had learned how to fly a TARDIS a long time ago while traveling with the Doctor.
He popped out of the TARDIS with a big smile on his face as he said, "Anyone here order one major creep to go?"
Lily breathed a sigh of relief as she said, "Thank you, Frobisher. That was a stroke of genius. If you and Allison hadn't come up with that idea of your posing as the statue at the last minute, we'd all be in deep trouble right now. You have no idea what you've just averted."
"I'm sure it's something that would be world ending. It always is with Time Lords," Frobisher said with a frown.
"More like the end of the universe. Anyway you'll never have to find out now. Be thankful of that," Lily said.
Just as she said that though, Lily saw the real statue start to glow from its resting place inside of her TARDIS. She turned in horror to see that its metal covering was melting away.
"Oh, come on! That's just not fair. It was over. This is a new low even by Time Lord standards," Frobisher bitterly complained.
The Avatar emerged from inside of what was left of the wolf statue and looked straight at Lily.
It smiled an evil grin at her as it said, "Hello, Mother."
Next: The origin of the Avatar revealed as Lily has to fight it for the sake of the universe. In order to do so though, she'll have to break a promise that she swore that she never would.