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Hello again, I decided to post a number of chapters all at once and I would like everyone to remember this is not the playful Missy or any of the more eccentric funny Masters, this is the War Master. If you want to get an idea of what he is like then look at the Big Finish Audios and he delights in destroying his enemies in just about any way he can.
The Master is also unlike the Doctor not wandering, when he goes somewhere it is because there is something there he wants.
How would the Master fit in with the world of Unbreakable and Split? What would possibly interest him there?
And what will happen when he gets involved with events, how will he change them?
Warning - Mentions of Sexual Abuse and experimentation on humans. Dark Subject Matter.
The Master Chronicles 5 - Too Many Minds
Starship Harmony and Redemption, the Andromeda Galaxy…Far Future…
"What do you think of the fish my dear?" The Master said as he wiped his mouth with a napkin. The pair sat at a table surrounded by very well-dressed people. The Master had donned a rather fetching silk suit while Jaime was wearing a lovely red silk dress with her hair in an elegant chignon behind her head. Around her neck was a stunning emerald necklace and earrings to match that she had picked up on one of their trips and thankfully had picked up enough manners to eat and sit properly in this most illustrious environment.
"It is exceptional." Jaime said doing the same as him to wipe any remaining food from her mouth before she and him took a flute of champagne each and gently toasted the success of their latest venture.
They had gone to Callous and managed to trick the humans especially Cassandra King into retrieving much of the Swenyo for them, the Master had easily manipulated the locals and the Ood they had brought to mine the precious mineral and then used the Ood as a weapon to remove any chance of more Swenyo being taken from Callous when they had enough of it. Narvin on his part had come through with his end of the bargain and given the Master the Chameleon Arch which was now stored in his Tardis.
Jaime had played the part of his Personal Assistant well and handled much of the day-to-day operations of Callous while the mining was going on, not to mention helping him move all the dangerous mineral into his Tardis after it was all over. As a reward for her hard work and the fact he had gotten what he wanted the Master had treated them both to dinner on the Starship Harmony and Redemption.
"I should think so for one billion credits a ticket for the cheapest of rooms plus verifiable history of slaughtering innocent lifeforms." The Master said with a slight grin given the rather exclusive requirements of this ship. "Suites are for those that destroy planets and even the ship's staff must have provable murders to their name to even see this ship much less serve on her." The Master said thinking that a bit ridiculous but since the food and service here was so good who cares?
"This is where the vilest and disturbed yet powerful people in the galaxy come to take some time off and put their feet up." The Master said as he sipped his drink, rather nice vintage he remarked. Jaime smirked a little and asked him.
"Do you enjoy it here sir? I mean someone of your power and record most have the best set of rooms on the ship." Jaime asked, curious and the Master seemed to take it as a compliment as it put him far above the rest of the cretins on this vessel.
"When I feel in the mood my dear and yes, the Presidential suite is rather lovely. Alas it is time we were off. The meteor strike comes within the hour and it is best we aren't here when that happens." The Master admitted to her and checked his pocket watch before they got up and left their table. As they walked out of the dining hall as a taller man with grey hair and a stern face walked in with a glamorous younger woman with great hair carrying a duffel bag. Neither of the pairs seemed to notice each other and continued on their own way.
Entering the Master's Tardis which was concealed as a storage locker on the deck above, the Master set the controls wondering if he should watch the infamous crash that was about to happen but decided to not to bother as there was always another day and they had work to do.
"Right my dear Jaime it's time for our next little project." The Master said with a smile of anticipation on his face. Jaime instantly smiled too as she was looking forward to getting back to work and more to the point getting her hands dirty.
"Where too sir?" She asked eagerly with a smirk on her face that he was glad to see.
"Earth again I'm afraid even worst the 21st Century…again. But I heard of a rather strange case in Philadelphia in 2016 that intrigues me. We are going to study a rather interesting individual called Kevin Wendell Crumb. Something from him might benefit a project I am involved in." The Master said which confused Jaime as to what the Master would find interesting about this likely human man but regardless, she went to change as they headed back to Earth.
Philadelphia, United States…2016…
The cities of America were often an assault on the Master's nose and ears. He disliked most of the smells of cities on Earth in general but all the fumes from those blasted cars they insisted on driving around not to mention the noise from the pathetic airplanes and more drove him mad.
Still there was good food on this planet sometimes if you knew where to look and some nice art.
Philadelphia wasn't exactly one of those places but they had a good opera and ballet company he thought as he sat there in his suit, watching their performance, Don Giovanni. He was enjoying their music and stage performance it was surprisingly good. He had even taken a seat on the local board that controlled the company.
This was of course only a ruse to get close to his own target, the doctor in charge of 'treating' Kevin Wendell Crumb…Doctor Karen Fletcher.
Treating him, the Master thought with sick humour. That was a good one. That woman had no real idea of just what she was dealing with or the reasons behind it. Her theories weren't completely wrong but it was far too rudimentary. Still her notes on his various personalities and their differences not to mention studies into the physical differences between each personality were proving somewhat useful as she had at least considered it possible and tried to get any scientific data possible.
The Master, taking the name Doctor Damien Scott another old alias was posing as a neurological specialist with expertise in genetics too. The reason for this being it was perfect for getting Dr Fletcher to let him see her research and even get Kevin or one of his personalities to submit to some tests.
"The results on the tests that Barry let us take were most fascinating. A complete separation from him as opposed to Jade or Orwell. Apart from Jade's diabetes there is Orwell's astigmatism, none of the other personalities have any trace of these conditions. Most interesting." The Master said with a smile while talking to Dr Fletcher during the interval as it was rude to speak during in his mind. Karen, her first name seemed very enthused about that and called a waiter over for a refill of their rather nice white wine.
"Then I was lucky to run into you Damien. Most of the scientific community won't even bother testing them. Refusing it is ever possible for them to have physical differences or even accept that dissociative identity disorder exists." Karen said with frustration on her face and the Master nodded sympathetically not caring in the slightest but knowing full well how stupid many supposed 'experts' actually were.
"I quite agree Karen. You would think that most scientists are trying to prevent progress rather than push it forward." The Master said thinking that was true of many the universe over beyond a few special examples. "Still, I cannot wait to meet more of their personalities. I wonder just how broad the range of differences is and how much their personalities differ from each other."
"I am afraid only a few have agreed to meet with anyone other than myself but we are building up their trust. They will agree to meet when they are ready." Karen said and the Master pushed down his own impatience and irritation with the woman and her careful methods as they slowed down his own work.
"Of course, if we are to get to the truth of their condition then we must have their full co-operation and trust." The Master said with a smile and toasted. "To a successful collaboration and expanding the fields of science."
"Salut." Karen said as she accepted the toast and the Master just hoped that Jaime was enjoying her environment as much as he was. Probably not he thought with amusement given where he had sent her.
- x -
"There we are! Come back again soon!" Jaime said loudly and in a very happy voice with a wide smile plastered to her face which was covered in glitter and a couple of stickers on her cheeks as she and the other staff waved off another bus load of young children from one of the local schools.
Inside though, underneath the large smile Jaime was seething with rage and indignation, wishing dearly that the Master hadn't put that block in her programming so she could strangle him with her bare hands for putting her through this!
Apparently, Kevin worked in the zoo and when he was asleep his personalities did instead. They had a lair of some kind underneath it where they lived illegally that the other zoo staff weren't aware of in the service tunnels. The Master had told her to get a job here at the zoo so she could not only observe Kevin but install some cameras in his lair so they could observe him and his personalities privately. The Master had forbidden her from making any kind of contact with Kevin or killing anyone on this mission so she had to just take whatever job she could get here which was helping the young brats that came here on school or family trips. Giving tours of the animals and supervising them in the petting zoo or in the arts and crafts class they did hence the glitter and stickers! She thought with annoyance.
Listening to their screams, answering their questions, keeping them from hurting themselves and dealing with their equally annoying parents!
It was pure torture Jaime thought with the greatest anger possible, she wanted to scream out loud but had to hold it in. Instead, she made her way to the wash room to get this blasted glitter off her face! Washing hard in the bathroom she sighed as she looked into the mirror and saw herself there with the stupid Zoo staff cap with its bright colourful logo and the pale blue t-shirt and green trousers not to mention the green apron she had to wear.
She wanted so much burn this uniform and then to go into the city for some fun, oh god she did Jaime thought desperately just imagining the idea of having some drinks (even if her antrocytes and implants prevented her from actually getting drunk) and enjoying some stress relieving activities, whatever she could find.
But first she had something she needed to do much to her own annoyance.
As the zoo was closing soon Kevin or one of his personalities was now on duty helping clean the zoo up for tomorrow's visitors and so he would be above ground and out of the way.
Jaime therefore went to the underground access door where few others went and slipped inside. Bracing herself she started running down the maze of tunnels looking for Kevin's lair.
The tunnels were dark and had some very tight turns which were constantly trying to trip her up, Jaime had to focus her attention completely on making sure she didn't run into any of the walls. Moving at roughly thirty miles an hour at her top speed it would really hurt if she did so she had to go slower to maintain control however much she hated it.
The plus side of her speed though was that she soon managed to find his lair and it was dank and grimy place. She saw the personal touches that each personality had put on their 'rooms' and then the 'common room' which seemed to be a shared space although it was little more than a closet where they all hung their coats.
Jaime however noticed that the personalities seemed to be building a room that they could lock from the outside, curious she looked inside and saw it was small area with a few beds inside and a bathroom but no wardrobe or any actual place to put clothes.
Seeing no way to open the door from this side Jaime quickly realised what it was as she had seen some and been inside some before, this was a prison cell. But who for she wondered and then went about putting in the micro cameras for the Master in any place that she could so they could keep constant watch on what they were doing.
In the cell, the common room, each of the bedrooms, the kitchen and the TV room along with some of the closets they had around. Anywhere she could put one of the small cameras that were no bigger than her smallest finger nail.
Kevin would never notice them.
With that done she saw the computer which was sitting in the common area and slipped out a USB drive and inserted it into the computer, quickly copying anything on there before pulling it out and running out of there before Kevin could finish work and come down here.
- x -
That evening Jaime returned to the Tardis which had actually taken the appearance of a house in one of the trendier parts of town. The actual house and its owners were 'indisposed' at the moment Jaime thought amusement. The Master having disposed of them the moment they landed.
Entering through the main doors Jaime honestly sighed as she put the USB into the laptop computer the Master had set up to monitor the surveillance cameras. Opening the contents there was very little there but about twenty-three videos, seemingly each by another one of his personalities with the exception of Kevin himself. She read the names and was tempted to watch them but put them aside for the Master before turning on the cameras to make sure they were working.
A bank of small windows appeared, each with a different view of the lair. She watched as Kevin returned to the underground and donned a set of overalls and a pair of glasses, indicating one of the other personalities had taken charge and systematically worked to prepare the cell. Jaime watched as he worked and wondered to herself just who are you building this cage for?
- x -
Later that night as Jaime stared at the screen and while Kevin slept, she watched the videos she found on the computer and listened to each of them in turn.
Jaime was astonished to see so many minds in one body. She had virtually no understanding of psychology beyond lessons in manipulation from the Master but she hadn't realised that twenty-three minds could exist in one body let alone have actual physical differences between them but here was proof right before her eyes.
She watched fascinated as they all spoke and then she started to notice something, some of them like Orwell mentioned a collective within their own ranks known as 'The Horde'. A small group of maybe two or perhaps three that worshipped something called 'The Beast'.
This was getting interesting Jaime thought as she kept watching, eager to know just what was going on.
The Master himself eventually joined her after his night at the Opera and took over watching the videos. Watching he was almost reminded of the Eleven with his multiple personalities but it was more diverse with Kevin than the mad timelord with something of a similar issue.
He rested his chin on his hands as he watched Kevin and his various personalities although he soon realised that Kevin wasn't actually making a single appearance. Nor were most of the other personalities, he thought with interest. It seemed Dennis, the prevented cold obsessive-compulsive one was working on building the cell. Patricia, the seemingly calm if extremely disturbed intellectual was studying a number of pictures that Dennis had apparently gotten for her, pictures of young girls around the teenage years. Lastly Hedwig, a perpetual nine-year-old boy with obsessive compulsive disorders who danced in his room.
Clearly something had changed in there, the Master thought, watching carefully as what looked like some kind of abduction was going to take place. Why would they do that? The Master thought, not caring for human brats in the slightest but was genuinely interested to see just what 'The Horde' as they referred to themselves had in mind.
Listening to Patricia and Dennis having a rather strange conversation, rapidly switching who was in charge of the body to communicate made him realise that a new personality was apparently about to emerge. The Beast as they referred to him, making him sound almost like a god. Saying that he could crawl up walls, that he could bend steel and had skin tougher than a rhinoceros. They could he thought be exaggerating but given they had apparent differences between them physically, maybe he considered there might be something going on there.
He watched as two pictures were set aside by Patricia, she smiled as if having found her favourites of the bunch.
- x -
As the days rolled by the Master watched as the Horde prepared their little cell and trailed their prey, at the same time the Master was studying the genetic samples he had from Kevin and the other personas and managed to make a surprising discovery about Kevin and the source of his situation. He wasn't quite sure he understood it yet as it went well beyond what was normal but still…it was a twist the Master thought.
Finally, though, the day came when Dennis went out and brought back three young ladies.
The Master was confused as to why Dennis who was normally so meticulous would bring back another girl when it wasn't in the plan. He identified the three girls as students at the local school. Two of the normal boring cheerleader types who were of course popular and pretty and on the whole completely boring.
The third though, the one that Dennis had brought back as an extra…she was a little different.
She was smart, he thought. Reasoning and patient. He watched as the impulsive attempts to escape their cell got the other two separated from each other but she judged the situation carefully and observed…waiting for the best moment to make her move. She wore far more clothing than the other two which was unusual for a girl her age but that made him wonder if she had something to hide.
Casey Cooke, he thought looking at her name on the local school database.
Prone to anger management issues, shouting at teachers, getting detention a lot, running away from home several times. Highly intelligent though and had the best attendance record of any student in her year.
Seeing her behaviour and how nervous she was when Dennis came close to her, the Master could guess why.
Abuse; not just physical and mental but likely sexual too.
That filled him with a quiet rage, he had no real compassion for humans in general but this girl was being used by a perverted uncle who had taken custody of her after her father died to fulfil his own revolting desires.
He had been a father once, to a girl that reminded him in some small tiny ways of Casey Cooke or rather the way she had used to be. She had been intelligent, bright with a vibrant and energetic way about her. To see all that extinguished by a pervert like this uncle infuriated him.
Either way, his plans changed slightly.
Seeing the Beast was about to emerge the Master managed to confirm his theories and called Jaime to the console room.
"Sir?" Jaime asked him with confusion as while the antrocytes also decreased her need for sleep she had been in the middle of some fight training. She pulled on her leather jacket as he got up and went to the console. He started moving the switches as it was time to meet the Beast face to face.
"I hope you are ready my dear, its time you and I dealt with this so-called Beast." He told her as he moved the Tardis to land inside the lair. Jaime sighed in relief at never having to go back to that arts and crafts class and nearly did a little victory dance but refrained from doing so in anticipation of what was coming.
Once it materialised in the kitchen area the doors opened and the Master and Jaime stepped out in time to see the Beast killing an old woman, Dr Fletcher the Master recognised in a bear hug.
The body was definitely different they both noticed as they saw all the extra and denser muscle that seemed to have emerged with the transformation. It was much more like an animal than a man even if he stood upright.
The Beast, if shocked by their sudden and strange appearance in his home didn't say anything. Instead, it just dropped the dead woman to the floor and then it just charged straight at them. Jaime who had been desperate for a fight ever since they arrived in this miserable time frame moved to meet him in the middle. He tried to grab her but she actually managed to push him back with a well-placed kick but that didn't slow him down at all and he just got back up and came at her again although for a moment he looked shocked by her strength.
He then rammed into her and forced her against the wall, surprising both her and the Master with just how strong he was. Jaime managed to get her feet against the wall and kick against it to force him off before doing a forward roll and sweeping kick. She managed to knock him off his feet momentarily but like her he quickly leapt to his feet and tried to charge straight at her like a rhino. Jaime like a bull fighter waited till the last moment and then quickly moved to the side so the Beast instead rammed into the nearby wall.
Its endurance however was even more impressive than they had realised as both Jaime and the Master looked on in amazement while the Beast picked itself up and charged straight at Jaime again only this time not like a rhino. Meaning this time Jaime had to meet him head on and the pair began to wrestle. Jaime felt herself having to actually work to hold him and she started smirking as she held him in place.
The Beast was looking at her confused, not understanding just how she could be matching his strength even though the sweat and effort was telling on her face.
"What are you?" It growled out, more like an animal than a man. Jaime just smirked as she was now only a couple of inches from his face.
"Complicated." She told him and with a wink she used her leg to get some leverage and knock his out from underneath him and swung herself around him and then kick him in the back. She was finally getting a chance to let loose and was loving every moment of it as she and the Beast threw each other around the small space.
The Master was impressed as it seemed the tales of the Beast were true after all, he thought with surprise. If he was able to keep up with the antrocyte enhanced Jaime in terms of strength and endurance at least then he was truly exceptional.
He turned to see the girl Casey had somehow managed to free herself from the cell and he was again impressed for someone who hadn't been trained in that to manage such an escape. She ran to the doors where the other two girls were banging, knowing someone else was there and hoping for rescue.
Poor little fools, the Master thought with a smirk of cold calculation. They had no idea just what he had in mind for them.
Casey opened the makeshift cells and let Claire and then Marcia out only to find the Master standing in their path, blocking the only exit. He just smirked as they looked on in confusion as to what was going on. Turning they saw the fight going on just a short distance away from them and saw the Beast throw Jaime clean across the room before she then threw a TV at him like it weighed the same as a paper cup.
They saw the Beast now for themselves and all were open mouthed with astonishment at what they were seeing, not able to believe it was all true.
"Well." The Master told the three girls who slowly gave him back their attention. "I think we should probably put a stop to this before they bring the roof down on top of us. So young ladies if you would be so kind as to give me your attention…watch this." He told them with a kind smile which seemed to put at least two of the girls at ease while Casey watched with suspicion not trusting him given how unconcerned he was with the situation.
"Kevin Wendell Crumb!" The Master called out in a fairly loud voice. The Beast seemed to try and shrug something off as it wrestled with Jaime who sensing a weakness in the creature managed to throw him over her shoulder and onto the sofa.
"Kevin Wendell Crumb!" Jaime then said too and the Beast couldn't seem to get up and was almost juddering as he lay there on the couch. The Master and Jaime both kept saying that till his body right before their eyes changed, losing its muscularity at least a little. The girls looked on in surprise having not imagined such words could be so effective.
The three girls looked on in confusion, not sure what was going on. The Master and Jaime meanwhile just looked at him with interest as they saw for the first time the real man underneath all those minds.
He seemed sluggish and slow, like coming after a coma and looked at his hands for a moment as if trying to remember how to use them. Seeing a shroud nearby he picked it up slowly and slipped it around his shoulders. He looked around at them all and the mess, not sure where he was or what was going on. He looked around and asked them all in a slow and tired voice.
"What's going on?"
Casey, Claire and Marcia blinked in surprise, not understanding much but somehow knew this was the man that rightfully owned that body. Casey managed to say with upset in her voice as she noticed the dead body of Dr Fletcher on the floor and remembered what the 'Horde' as they were called had in mind for them.
"Something horrible." She said and Claire and Marcia both clustered together with her, they now saw the dead body too and wondered if they were better off running now.
"Did…Did I hurt you?" Kevin asked, uncertainly as if he wasn't much sure of anything right now. Then he looked down at the floor himself and saw the body lying there.
"Doctor Fletcher." He said in horror but the Master then spoke.
"Yes, unfortunately it seems that the rather more brutal personas in your mind took objection to her presence here tonight." The Master said without a care which instantly made Casey and Kevin look on him with worry as they didn't know just what they were dealing with. Casey even stood in front of the other two girls who were slower catching on but now started looking on in fear.
"The Beast as I believe they call him who was giving me the best fight I've had in a while." Jaime said rather cheerfully having gotten most of her pent-up aggression out during the fight. She actually smiled at him which made all the little humans present look at her with suspicion. "Sorry, forgive me. We should introduce ourselves. I'm Jaime and this is the Master." She said proudly.
"Indeed, you see young man and this might come as a bit of shock but you are not completely human." The Master said not bother to see their astonished reaction to his statement. "Your father was an alien from the planet Molaruss. On that planet the locals have two minds as standard and are quite productive as a species because of it. But an experiment by a rather foolish member of my own people known as the Eleven caused chaos on that world by trying to give every local about nine extra minds on top of that. It didn't end well and your father was left with some great trauma and genetic damage as a result. He eventually came to Earth where he met your mother who was not as you well discovered a particularly stable individual herself." The Master said.
"Eventually they had you and you inherited his duomind as they refer to it there but also his genetic mutations left over from the experiment. When your father died and your mother began to mistreat you those traits you inherited began to create new personalities to protect you from the abuse you were suffering through. Too many as they overwhelm you but it produced some rather fascinating mutations." The Master said with a slight glee at the opportunity. "If we could harness that ability to switch between personas at will…for one person to have as many minds within them to accomplish any task. It would be an incredible achievement."
"You're insane." Kevin said now thinking the old guy was out of his mind as did the three girls.
"No one would want this!" Casey called out, now realising they were in just as much danger now than they had been when they were in their cells. She looked around but saw no obvious weapons and the old man still blocked the only way out made worse when his woman walked over to him with a smirk on her face.
"Well, it's just as well we have three new test subjects. Hmm?" Jaime said with an eager voice and the Master was now smirking himself in a way that struck Kevin and the girls as demonic. Kevin felt his other personalities surging forward as they felt his fear in an attempt to protect him while the girls looked ready to shut themselves in the nearby closet. Kevin charged forward, actually in agreement with the other personalities in some hope of giving the girls the chance to escape.
The Master however pulled a small silver cylinder out of his pocket and held it in the air before pressing a button. The air was filled high pitch whistling; Kevin, Casey, Claire and Marcia all held their ears as it was overwhelming, making them feel painfully heavy. Jaime and the Master just stood there watching as all four keeled over and eventually fell unconscious.
"Now that's settled. If you would be so kind my dear." The Master said putting the device back in his pocket. "Take them into the Tardis and place them in the laboratory, there is much work to be done."
"Yes sir." Jaime said, easily picking up the other two girls and carrying one in each arm into the Tardis while the Master himself took a good long look at Kevin and Casey. He was curious at what potential might be here and how it would benefit his plans.
The Master's Tardis, Time Vortex…No Time…
The girls and Kevin when they came to found themselves in some kind of gothic laboratory after who knows how long. They regained their full senses as their heads throbbed with pain from whatever the Master had used on them.
They then tried to move only to find themselves completely held immobile by a frame they were suspended in, they struggled but could find no leverage to try and force it open.
Kevin, his own fear extremely high by all this allowed his other personalities to take over. They screamed and shouted and even the Beast came out, it growled as it struggled against the metal that held it while the girls nearby looked terrified at both being trapped and the chance that he might escape but even he with all his strength he just couldn't get free.
"Those restraints were designed to hold an Ogron on steroids, even Jaime at her full strength couldn't break them. As strong as you are even you cannot escape that, not a hope in fact." The Master said with a mocking smirk, appearing from the side. "You know studying you has been most fascinating and I have learned a great deal. I think the potential of your particular skill with all these personalities is truly remarkable and if it were not for the chaos of your various personalities fighting for control you would be far above the regular apes that rule this planet." The Master said with a smirk.
The Beast was snarling at him in anger but the Master walked over to the still struggling girls and smiled at them in a cold and clinical way.
"What do you want?!" Claire asked him desperately wondering just what god they must have pissed off to end up in this situation after nearly being eaten alive by the lunatic over there.
"Yeah! We've haven't done anything!" Marcia said just as frightened as her best friend.
"It's not anything we've done." Casey said, frightened like them but was managing it far better, enough for her to reason things out. The two other girls looked at her with horrified realisation as they understood finally what she was saying. "We're just convenient. In the wrong place and the wrong time for us at least and now he uses us because it was easier than finding other people."
The Master blinked in surprise as he considered her words and smiled at her before chuckling a little.
"You are much sharper than the other two my dear but I knew that from the surveillance that I have kept on you all from the beginning." The Master said, the Beast throwing himself against the restraints again in a futile attempt to get at him. The Horde even the other personalities working together for possibly the first time in their whole existence to find some way to escape but sadly none of them were skilled in escapology.
"And much stronger." The Master said in a quieter more serious voice as he ripped away the sweater Casey had been wearing.
Casey gasped as tears rolled down her cheeks as the truth of what had been going on was revealed, Claire and Marcia both looked on in horrified shock while the Beast looked on in curiosity and then he started to smile.
"Your uncle has been abusing you from even before your father died and despite you trying to tell your father and other people, they didn't believe you." The Master told Casey who was left standing up in her restraints with her scars on her shoulders and belly showing for everyone to see. "Physically…Mentally…Sexually." He added with a seriousness that was much graver than normal and the other two girls present gasped as they learned what Casey had been forced to live through.
"No one wanted to know, but you survived." The Master said with a slight respect for her. "You endured it and rather than take the easy way out you try to find a way to escape or a way to fight back. You are intelligent, dedicated, reasoning, calm in a crisis. A true survivor and I respect that." The Master told her in a rare showing of kindness.
"Her heart is pure! The broken are the more evolved! Her suffering has made her pure! Rejoice!" The Beast shouted with joy at the sight of the scars as it meant they had found one made stronger by pain. Another like them!
"Oh my god Casey!" Claire said with sympathy as she realised how much she had misjudged her, Marcia too looked full of regret but neither could do or say anything more as the Master pulled out a button and pressed in, shocking the Beast, Claire and Marcia who screamed as they were zapped by electricity at a fairly high voltage for a moment before the Master released the button.
"Do be quiet!" He snapped at the three who wisely did so as they recovered. He then told Casey just what he intended to do to her.
"Now what I intend is not to make you like him." The Master said gesturing vaguely with his hand in the direction of the Beast who was still looking at Casey with joy. "No, the chaos of that would make anyone unusable but after studying Kevin and his various identities I can give you the ability to effectively swap out character traits like loadouts in a weapon system. One loadout would be a scientist or another a soldier for example. Takes up far less space in your head than a whole extra personality or more. Some DNA therapy and I can make you able to hold it all in your brain."
Casey listened and managed to understand just what he wanted to do to her and she looked him straight in the eye, unflinching and told him without fear as she took on board what he had said.
"I won't cower from you, I won't break!" She told him through gritted teeth and the Master just looked at her for a moment before telling her.
"My dear Casey." The Master said actually using her name as a sign of respect. "I have no intention of breaking you. What I learn from doing this to you will be exceptionally useful in a war that I am fighting…one that your little species has no idea is even being fought. In time itself, so the stakes are all reality." The Master told her, not that she would ever really understand the Time War. "You will emerge from this with all the skills and abilities you need to make yourself a predator in this world of sheep. To not only take your revenge but take what you want when you want it." He told her with some degree of honest before taking a crown like head piece which was connected by many wires to various devices around and placed it on her head. Casey struggled to get it off but he fixed it too her head securely and then put a pair of IVs in each arm.
The other girls pleaded with him to stop but Casey didn't as if readying herself for this, the Master completed his preparations and told her.
"Now my dear, just try to relax. The pain will only be…well it will be agonising and constant." The Master said with a smirk as he flipped the switch. Several lights in the crown around Casey's head lit up and the IVs began pumping chemicals into her system.
Casey had only a second before it all hit her, then all she could do was scream!
Total agony the Master thought as he considered just what the drugs and treatments were doing to the young woman before him as she cried out in pain. Her DNA was being ever so slightly altered and her mind was being restructured to serve as the template for his war seeds.
Seeds that would turn entire populations into armies for the Timelords in the War, the devices were ready but now he was making a very new upgrade. Now those altered or born from these seeds would inherit the ability to switch between skill sets depending on what suited the situation without their persona changing although some small behavioural changes might occur.
One moment you're an elite soldier, then a minute later you're a highly skilled scientist and another after that the best pilot around.
The Master was glad to have heard of Mr Crumb as he had provided what might be the biggest advantage the war seeds could have brought to the war. And while he did feel…somewhat regretful for using Miss Cooke he wasn't lying when he said he would give her the skills and opportunity to take her revenge and create a new life for herself.
He turned his attention to the other two girls on the wall and saw their pathetic little faces looking on in horror and he scoffed at them. They didn't deserve this gift he thought with disgust…they hadn't earnt it but the experiments he was going to run on them would ensure that his army or armies as the case would be, turned out to be the best in the galaxy.
- x -
Some Time Later…
"Now, checkmate in two moves." Casey said as she faced the Master with a chess board in front of them. Moving her bishop into position so she was ready to make the final move. The Master was pleasantly surprised, of course he had not brought his true best game but Casey had proven to be quite the strategist, better than most of Earth's grand masters.
"Very good my dear." The Master with a small smile as he saw the incredible improvement of her intellect. "Now I believe it is time to demonstrate your combat skills with Jaime."
"Yes sir." Casey said politely and her eyes momentarily changed colour, turning a luminous green for a moment as she changed to her soldier skill set. That was an interesting side effect the Master thought as he looked at the young woman. She stood up and walked over to where Jaime was waiting with a cocky smile before adopting a human martial art stance, Krav Maga he believed from the programs he had subjected her too.
As Jaime sparred with the girl the Master was quite proud of his achievement. Casey was turning out even better than he had hoped, each skill set was exceptional in its capability and she could develop new ones with intense self-study. So far, she had the strategic genius, the tough and powerful soldier, the scientist with an elegant eye and style, a calm and focused medical nurse, a rugged hunter/tracker and the exceptionally quick pilot with very fast reflexes. And that was just what they had tested so far.
He could only imagine what she would be capable of when all her skill sets emerged.
Looking over at the wall he saw the other two girls, now with similar crowns and IVs attached to them, they had pleaded and begged him for mercy and then screamed as he started the process with them. They hadn't even had remotely the dignity of Casey Cooke but he was hoping for similar results although he doubted it.
"She is glorious!" The Beast said with awe on his face as he studied the young woman who was now fighting hand to hand with Jaime before progressing to target practice with different weapons. The Master was half tempted to take her with him to see if she might be as useful to him as Jaime had been but then he thought, no better to let her see just what she can achieve on her own.
"Casey." The Master said with a nasty smirk on his face, the young woman stopped shooting with the pistol and turned to face him as Jaime watched with a smirk of her own having anticipated what was coming next. The girl looked at him expectantly, a little loyalty to him that he encouraged by the treatments.
"Now my dear, I have a treat for you and a test at the same time." The Master said eager to see just how much he could push her. "You now have the skills to dispose of your vile uncle, I am merely offering you the chance to free yourself of him. One round trip in this time machine to deal with him although I do have to say you cannot go further back than a few days for fear of causing a paradox. Are you willing to do this?" The Master asked her.
Casey seemed stunned by the offer, not sure if she should trust it or not but the opportunity to deal with him and not get caught was a very alluring one. She pondered it for only a moment though and asked him.
"Can I have an hour to plan and borrow some things?" She asked him carefully and the Master was intrigued before telling her.
"Within reason." The Master said curious about what she had in mind. Casey was not revealing it though, her eyes glowing briefly as she switched over to the scientist who while putting her hair in an elegant twist behind her head asked for what she needed.
The Master was surprised at how easy it had been to convince Casey to do this, clearly the abuse had been worse than he initially thought for her to be considering murder so easily but at the same time he was glad to see her embrace her darker side and deal with the monster that had been ruining her life for so long. He watched her go with pride in his newest creation and wondered if he should preserve her in some way before turning back to monitoring the two other girls to see how close they were to achieving the purpose of this experiment.
- x -
Home of John Cooke, Day of Casey Cooke's Abduction…
John Cooke was sitting in front of the TV watching the game with a pile of glass beer bottles around him, he was grinning as he saw his team winning and would clean up at the bookies later. Already he was planning to enjoy himself when his niece came home…she had only gotten more beautiful as the years passed and he was going to enjoy her tonight however much the little bitch cried he thought with a lick of his lips.
He had already drunk several beers and during the interval he went to get some more from the fridge. He saw the fresh pack he had bought yesterday and picked the whole case out so he didn't have to get up again.
Carrying them back over to his chair he sat back down and settled down to watch the other half of the game, using a nearby table to remove the cap and took a quick swig of the beer. He was so caught up in watching the TV that he didn't even notice his fingers slackening, the bottle slipping from his hand and his body growing heavier and heavier until he couldn't move at all. His airways remained open so he could breathe and his eyes were still moving but otherwise he was completely paralyzed.
He was scared but couldn't move to show it, he heard a strange grating noise upstairs and wondered if he was hearing things although he was more worried about not being able to move or speak. As hard as he tried, he just couldn't move and the sound of steps on the stairs made him breathe faster in fear as an intruder entered the house while he was unable to move or defend himself.
He tried to turn his head to see just who it was but couldn't move a muscle. Eventually he breathed a sigh of relief as Casey appeared right before him. He started groaning to try and let her know his situation but instead she just looked at him with disgust.
"Problem Uncle?" She said with a revolted voice that annoyed him that she would dare talk to him like that and would have put her in her place with his fists and words before making sure it sunk in by forcing her into his bed again but instead of responding to his growls, she just took a syringe out of a pouch and held it in her gloves hands before taking hold of his hand and carefully stabbing it in under fingernail. John felt the pain but wasn't able to do more than scream with his mouth closed but the sound of the TV drowned them out and then he managed to catch her eyes which were looking at him with a sick kind of glee, something that terrified him and held him there.
She pushed the end and injected whatever was inside the syringe in before then carefully pulling it out and wiping the area with a cloth. She smirked at him and just winked, not wanting to waste any words on him but taking the rest of the beers that she had tainted with a paralytic beforehand and the bottle he had just drunk from so the police when they found out would have no idea it was murder or justice as Casey liked to think of it. She watched as John stared making rasping noises, his heart juddering for a moment before he seized up and felt still. Casey stood there for a moment, not able to feel anything but a deep sense of relief that at last…she was free.
That was easily the best thing that had happened to her since her father died, she thought with a sense of elation running through her.
Giving him one last look to confirm he was actually dead, she walked back upstairs and left her uncle's dead body to be found while she was 'abducted', the door of the Master's Tardis opened and she stepped inside before it took off. Casey put down the beers and the gloves she had been wearing along with the now empty syringe.
"You did well my dear." The Master said with a smile of accomplishment. "I have arranged for you to be found in a month's time. Thank you for your co-operation my dear, it has been most helpful." He told her and Casey nodded in gratitude.
"And thank you, for setting me free." She told him honestly, saving her from not only the Horde but her own Uncle at the same time. And he had given her this new power, all this confidence she didn't have before and to be honest she had no doubts in herself anymore.
The Master nodded, smiling in an almost paternal way over the young woman. She reminded him a lot of his own daughter even more now as he remembered that she had needed a push to take charge of her own life too and she really had the Master thought with pride. She had become a true power behind the scenes on Gallifrey, unseen but always felt.
He wondered what Casey would do now he had given her free reign on Earth with all this ability? Whatever it was, it would be interesting to check in on her in a few years to see what she became he thought with a smirk.
- x -
Philadelphia Zoo…
"So, you are just letting us go?" Patricia said uncertainly as she took over Kevin's body, walking out of his wonderous machine and seeing the familiar sights of the zoo. "That is rather…ambiguous of you." She said carefully, looking at him with suspicion.
"Call it curiosity on my part." The Master told her from the door way of his Tardis. It was early morning so there was no-one around. "Although I feel this revolution you are hoping for is unlikely, I am interested in your perspective on the broken being the more evolved. I and Jaime too have experienced the most awful pain and come through it stronger." He told her.
Patricia saw Jaime who was standing by the console in the middle of the control room behind the Master give her a small wave.
"The Beast does have rather exceptional requirements but a higher content of protein is needed and humans might not be the best source of it." The Master said drawing her attention back to him. "I suggest a more dedicated diet is created for him but perhaps you might find a new mission in helping those who are impure…evolve?" The Master suggested before closing the Tardis door and a great wheezing sound echoed around as it vanished into thin air leaving Patricia staring in awe at the sheer power of the Master.
Patricia smiled and she took them back down to their home underground, the Horde had been amazed at his power and intelligence. He was as smart as the Beast was strong maybe more so although she felt that was sacrilege to say. The Beast she could feel was himself in awe of the Master and she had to admit he had given her and others much food for thought.
Perhaps the Master was right and their original plan was flawed, the Beast was not a sideshow attraction to be gawked at. Oh no she thought with a smile, no he was meant to help purify those that were impure. If they were able to survive their methods, they would emerge stronger Patricia thought as she considered just what means they could deploy to get the impure to see the glory of their way? She pondered this as she returned to their home and let Dennis assume control so he could repair the damage to their home and tidy up. She felt some of the others were agreeing more with their philosophy now they knew that the Beast in fact real and a smug smile would have appeared on her face if she had been in the light.
Others disagreed but that hardly mattered she thought dismissively, in time more would come over to their side and silence those who did not believe. In the meantime, she had to devise a new diet for the Beast so the great one could keep up his strength and not to mention create tests that would purify those that hadn't suffered.
Oh, this was going to be so much fun! She thought with sickening glee.
- x -
The Master's Tardis, the Time Vortex…
"I never imagined you would find someone like Crumb on Earth Master." Jaime said as she stood at the controls with the Master on the other side as he steered their course.
"Just goes to show you my dear that there is always something going on even if you don't see it." The Master told her sagely before telling her. "Just two things left to do. When I was researching Mr Crumb, I discovered two other interesting cases that might worth investigating. Two other extraordinary individuals, one might be useful for the War Seeds while the other is more a personal interest. So, my dear I need you to find and get a DNA sample of one David Dunn. They call him the Overseer, a notorious do-gooder." The Master said with derision seeing that as a pointless waste of time given how rotten people really were. "His skin though is supposed to be unbreakable and his strength equal to that of the Beast or greater. I leave it to you to figure out how to get the DNA sample but I would advise against fighting him. You getting damaged would be an annoyance." The Master said sternly and Jaime nodded, understanding her mission and what not to do.
She was puzzled at how she was supposed to get a DNA sample from a man that was supposedly unbreakable? Pondering that she then asked him while considering her problem.
"Where will you be sir?"
"At dinner of course." The Master said with a smirk. "Mr Dunn it seems has something of an arch rival, someone who is very much opposite but as smart as he is strong. It would be nice to enjoy some conversation over dinner." He added wondering if he might finally meet someone capable of keeping up with him although he thought with a sinister smile that would be impossible.
He was the Master, the Master of all and no one not even the Doctor was his equal.
- x -
Dunn Home Security, Philadelphia…2016…
"They want an upgrade to their camera and alarm system dad." Joseph Dunn said to his dad from the front desk of their private security business. The twenty-nine-year-old was smiling as his father and role model David appeared from the back.
"Yeah, should be able to do that by Thursday. Now where is dinner? I am starved." David asked his son with a smile. The father and son were happy with their lives as is despite the loss of David's wife and Joseph's mother Audrey Dunn. Leukaemia had stolen her away from them five years prior but together they had worked through it. They still missed her but at least they had each other.
"Delivery for Joseph and David Dunn." A voice cheerfully said from the door, the pair looked over to see a woman in a delivery uniform for a local Chinese takeout place nearby that they usually ordered from. She was good looking with a very dark brown hair, a fit body and a warm smile. David immediately waved her in and handed her the money for the order and a good tip which she gratefully accepted before handing them a large bag and a tray of cups with fresh coffee.
She smiled and left the store, Joseph watched as the girl turned to leave. David smirked as he saw his son's interest in the delivery girl and told him.
"You should ask her out." David said, keen to see his son find someone in his life but Joseph seemed suddenly embarrassed as his dad called him out on his obvious interest in the woman that had just left and tried to stop the discussion which only made his father smirk all the more.
They had no idea that one of the coffee cups, David's had a secret little device hidden in the specially designed lid. One with a sponge that collected his saliva as he drank from it and preserve it. It had seemed to her the simplest way to get his DNA without having to try and use alien technology to try and injure him.
This way she reasoned was much easier and less dangerous. She waited and watched for him to finish and then dumped the empty cup in the small paper bin in the office. This made it easier for her later to break in to the building and retrieve the cup. She smirked as she extracted the DNA and stored it carefully, maybe not as elegant or as intelligent as her Master would have achieved it but it got the job done. This ability could be integrated into the War Seeds and make warriors that shared the 'Overseer' as he was known invulnerable.
Raven Hill Memorial Psychiatry Hospital, Philadelphia…2016…
The cell containing Elijah Price was one of the most secure in the entire state, every security device known to man was watching the supposed supervillain and genius that called himself 'Mr Glass'. He was heavily sedated too to prevent any chance that he might prove dangerous to the staff or possibly escape despite now needing a wheelchair to move around.
Daryl, one of the orderlies was feeding Elijah and walked out of the room the moment he was done. Elijah didn't move a muscle, seemingly catatonic but he blinked a moment later as he felt a wind whipping up around him and wheezing sound begin to fill the room. The hospital room cell that had been his home for so many years seemed to dissolve around him as a strange room with black marble and a star map on the ceiling appeared in its place.
Elijah blinked and looked around, not sure what was going on but saw a figure standing at a sort of column/console in the centre of the room on a raised plinth. Elijah looked towards the man with careful guarded eyes, not sure exactly what was going on but a running of his hand over the handrail in front of him showed the room was very real and he could only assume someone had managed to materialise a craft around him while absorbing him inside. The figure, an older man with white hair and a short-groomed beard worked the many buttons and switches before turning to face him with a smile that made even Elijah wary, seeing a great and cruel intelligence behind those eyes and his smile reminded Elijah of a shark, a predator that only smiled when it was about to bite you.
"Mr Price, welcome aboard my Tardis. I imagine you have a lot of questions." The Man said with a smirk, Elijah still not sure what this man wanted knew to be on his guard and so analysed everything around him very quickly.
"Tardis? Not an actual word so clearly an abbreviation. Not for a word but a phrase." Elijah judged carefully. "Given the way you appeared in my room, it can't fly like a regular ship so it disappears and reappears in relative space. Relative Dimensions in Space? That sounds right but doesn't explain the T and the A. So, what words fit those parameters? Time. And. Relative. Dimensions. In. Space. Tardis." Elijah summed up. The white-haired old man seemed to study him for a moment before smiling again and telling him, sounding genuinely impressed.
"Well done Mr Price. Very few can work out what the name stands for. I see I was right about your intelligence. Allow me to introduce myself…I am the Master. A Timelord from the planet Gallifrey. And I would like to invite you to a long breakfast in Paris so we might have a chat." The Master said.
Elijah was even more puzzled by the man who called himself the Master, seeing the technology around him he could well believe that the man wasn't human and if time travel was involved who knew where or when he might come from. Either way he was out of his cell though and the idea of actually having some proper food was sounding very attractive right now.
"I would be delighted." Elijah said in response but knew to be on his guard around this man.
- x -
Parisian Bistro, Paris…1927…
The fact that the Master hadn't just taken him to Paris but to Paris in the 1920s should have shocked Elijah more but he honestly wasn't surprised at all. He got the idea that the Master liked showing off and compliments were key to dealing with him.
And he had to admit Elijah thought as he sipped some true Paris coffee in his own purple suit after enjoying a long and interesting breakfast of some of the best food he had ever imagined, he was impressed. The sights of Paris in the early morning light not to mention in the 1920s was a incredible thing to witness and unlike any he had ever dreamed of.
He was impressed and more so by the company.
He and the Master had been chatting gently throughout their long breakfast, debating a few points and opinions, sharing some experiences and their plans for the future.
It had been the best morning of his life so far with the exception of days spent with his mother in his youth. He wouldn't trade those for anything although this morning had been most…enlightening and enjoyable.
"Well, that was lovely. I make time to eat here whenever I can. You can never find a breakfast anywhere better than this I have found." The Master said with a smile as he cleaned his mouth with a napkin, Elijah did the same and regretfully they returned to his Tardis.
"Indeed, and I thank you for the experience. It was easily the most fun I have had in years." Elijah said politely and the Master as he closed the doors and went to the centre console of his marvellous time machine spoke back.
"I can well believe it. Not to mention it was truly nice to indulge in some pleasant conversation with not only a considerable intellect but one devoid of pesky morals that cloud their judgement." The Master said with a smirk before starting his machine in motion. "They do inhibit one, don't they?" He asked.
"Indeed." Elijah said with a nod in agreement. "Now, I suppose you intend to return me to my cell?" He asked, hoping for that not to be the case or at least trying to discern his intentions. The Master scoffed before telling him.
"On the contrary Mr Price, after such a pleasant meal and conversation which I am hopeful we might do so again in the future but more to the point I am eager to see just what you might become and achieve if you aren't confined." The Master said with a sinister smirk. "So, I am not only releasing you from that dreary hospital but setting you up in New York city with the means to cause some true chaos." The Master said with a smirk as he stopped his ship and reopened the doors.
Elijah looked out to see a rather nice and helpfully adapted Brownstone style living room, he carefully wheeled himself out of the Tardis and saw it had been fitted with not only all his belonging that had been held at the hospital and adapted with a lift for his use but a huge computer sat nearby which was covered with a variety of information.
He blinked in surprise and turned around to see the Master had also exited his ship which now to his amusement resembled a wardrobe. The Master asked him.
"I give this to you on the understanding that you will cause not only some trouble but use it to the full." The Master said and Elijah nodded with a sinister smile of his own.
"Oh, you can count on that. In particular those that have been suppressing the truly extraordinary for far too long." Elijah said referring to the doctor who had been doing her best to convince him that he wasn't special and real-life superheroes didn't exist…Doctor Ellie Staple and the organisation she represented. Oh, she would pay for all she had done he thought with a smirk and with time he would purge those like her from the face of the Earth, while causing some good chaos to draw out heroes in this world.
The Master seemed pleased by that and they both turned to see a young woman with dark hair and black leather clothing enter. She smiled at the Master and handed him a vial containing some kind of liquid. He gratefully took it before introducing her.
"Mr Price, allow me to introduce my companion and assistant…Miss Jaime Sommers." The Master said with a certain fondness in his eyes. Jaime smiled and extended a hand to Elijah and shook it although it was almost enough to break his hand.
"A pleasure to meet you Mr Price." Jaime said politely with a small glint of challenge in her eyes. The Master smirked before Elijah smirked too.
"Thank you, and for the record…its Mr Glass." He said with a glint in his own eye now. The Master however childish he found it was glad to see the rise of a new villain in this world. One that would be a force to be reckoned with.
"I shall try to make a lunch date soon. Till next time." The Master said before he and Jaime entered the Tardis and with the closing of the door the great wheezing and wind started up again, the wardrobe disappearing from view before Elijah's eyes.
He blinked for a moment and smirked, wondering what other wonders might be out there before turning to his huge bank of computers and decided to get started right away. After all, there was no rest for the wicked he thought as he started moving his fingers over the keyboard.
- x -
The Master's Tardis, the Time Vortex…
The Master sat in his library drinking a soothing cup of tea as he read the results of his tampering with a sense of satisfaction.
Around five years later Mr Glass had indeed ruined the organisation that had been hiding real life superhumans and their kind was beginning to get noticed as more emerged due to Elijah's actions. He had become a great threat to the world's need to be calm and normal.
The Master smirked and decided to take him to lunch in Rome next time, maybe in the later twentieth century this time. They'd had some fun dinner meetings since they first met and he was intending to arrange another as soon as possible.
However, when he turned his attention to his other little experiment, he found himself somewhat disappointed, while the two irritating little girls Marcia and Claire hadn't really amounted to much, becoming a very successful fashion designer/architect and a doctor/racing driver respectively…Casey had proven herself to be far greater than he had ever dreamed.
Unknown to the world at large she had begun to create a vast network of criminals and legitimate business ventures, becoming an underworld kingpin, the sort of which that was hard to believe really existed and even more so that she had done it without being detected. She was in public a highly respected painter, engineer, chemist, chess grand master, sportswoman, physicist and even tried her hand at acting and modelling, crafting a public persona that fooled everyone and not ruining her potential by blending in and hiding it any more.
He felt a deep sense of satisfaction at that, glad to see the girl emerge from her cocoon as the great figure she was meant to be.
Speaking of potential though he saw 'The Horde' was still very much active. They instead of feeding people to the Beast now kidnapped people and tormented/tortured them till they either broke into nothing or rose above it. The Beast and Dennis taking people from all over and either they turned up dead or were released as the true survivors they were.
He smirked in satisfaction before putting his papers down and went to the swimming pool where Jaime was doing some exercise to keep herself in shape.
He looked at her with amusement as she did some fairly intensive exercise and was so wrapped up in it that she didn't even notice he was there at first but the moment she did, Jaime stopped and wiped the water off of her body with a towel before asking him.
"Was there something you wanted sir?" She knew she needed a bath but if the Master had a scheme, then it would have to be a quick one. He nodded slowly before telling her.
"Quite so my dear. Although we will have to make a brief diversion to deal with some unfinished business first, I have learned about a piece of technology that might prove exceptionally useful to me in future conquests. Now you have been to the future and to distant worlds, how about a trip back in time next? Have you ever fancied being a pirate?" He asked her teasingly.
Jaime blinked in surprise for a moment before smirking broadly and telling him.
"Weigh anchor and set the sails sir!" Jaime answered and he began to chuckle as they set their sights on the Golden Age of Piracy and specifically, the West Indies.
There we are, hope you all enjoyed it. Please review and let me know what you thought.
The Master is on the way to the Golden Age of Piracy and becomes involved in the conflict between the Assassins and Templars.
Next Chapter - Jaime and the Master go back to the days of Piracy in search of a special temple and get involved in the struggle between Assassins and Templars.
