Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 3 of Looking Glass. Finally the ending of Utopia. I hope that you will enjoy the twist that I am putting at the end of this chapter. I thought that it was wise to do so. What will be happening in this chapter? I know that some of you were waiting for this. Without further ado Chapter 3 of Looking Glass. Allons-y!
Chapter 3
Say My Name
"Quite right, too. And I must say, Professor." He removed his coat and began to walk.
Jack takes it from him.
"Um, what was it?"
"Yana."
"Professor Yana. This new science is well beyond me, but all the same, a boot reversal circuit, in any time frame, must be a circuit which reverses the boost. So, I wonder, what would happen if I did this?" He picked up the circuit and used the sonic screwdriver on it before switching it on, giving them power.
Chase smiled. "Nicely done."
"Chan, it's working, tho!" Chantho said with a grin. This was something very good. Perhaps they would fly out of here after all.
"But how did you do that?" Yana asked in confusion.
"Oh, we've been chatting away. I forgot to tell you, I'm brilliant." The Doctor said with a cheeky smile.
Chase shook her head. "Don't inflate your ego more than it already is, Doctor." She crossed her arms.
The Doctor pouted. He didn't know much about Chase, but he knew that she was a witch, but who she truly was from her planet he didn't know. Not even after all of the times that he had gone there. He also really didn't know what kind of witch she was. There were quite a few different kinds out there. And he had met quite a few of them. The only type of witch he had never met was a time jumping one. Perhaps she would tell him which kind she was or she would reveal it all on her own.
Chase shook her head again and went about helping the two men with the large clear circuit board that was in the middle of the lab.
The Doctor picked up the cord that was in his hands. "Is this…"
"Yes, gluten extract. Bind the neutralino map together." Yana told the two of them.
"Absolutely perfect." Chase said, looking at the wire that was in her hand. It was brilliant.
"But that's food. You've built this system out of food and string and staples. Professor Yana, you're a genius." The Doctor said with a cheeky smile.
"Says the man who made it work."
"Oh… it's easy coming in at the end but… you're stellar. This is… this is magnificent." The Doctor said, looking at Yana. "I've spent my life going from one refugee ship to another."
"Well, even my title is an affectation. There hasn't been such a thing as a university for over a thousand years. I've spent my life going from one refugee ship to another." Yana said, shaking her head.
"If you had been born in a different time, you'd be revered."
Yana chuckled.
"He's right." Chase said with a small smile.
"Throughout the galaxies." The Doctor nodded to what Chase had said. He really did mean it.
"Oh, those damned galaxies. They had to go and collapse." Yana shook his head. "Some admiration would have been nice. Just a little. Just once."
The Doctor looked at him. "Well you've got it now. But that footprint engine thing. You can't activate it from onboard. It's gotta be from here. You're staying behind."
"With Shantho. She won't leave without me. Simply refuse."
"You would give your life so they could fly."
"Oh, I think I'm a little too old for Utopia. I had some sleep."
Chase closed her eyes. She had remained silent while the two men talked.
"Professor." Atillo said through the com. "Tell the Doctor we've found his blue box."
"Ah." The Doctor said with a smile. That was good news.
"Doctor." Jack called out to the Doctor.
The Doctor, Chase, and Yana joined Jack.
The Doctor patted Yana's shoulder. "Professor, it's a wild stab in the dark, but I may have just found you a way out." The Doctor said with a smile heading into the Tardis. He brought out a long power cord from it and into the lab. "Extra power." He inserted it into an outlet. "Little bit of a cheat, but who's counting? Jack, you're in charge of the retro-feed."
Martha and Chantho returned.
"Oh, am I glad to see that thing?" Martha said with a smile.
Chase smiled."Believe me you aren't the only one."
Chantho goes over to Yana who was sitting down. "Chan, Professor, are you alright, tho?"
"Yes, I'm fine. I'm fine." He rubbed his face. "I'm fine. Just get on with it."
"Connect those circuits into the spar, same as that last lot. But quicker." Jack told Martha.
"Yes, sir." Martha said with a smile.
"I'll help you." Chase said following Martha to help her out.
The Doctor went over to check on Yana. "You don't have to keep working. We can handle it."
"It's just a headache."
Chase stopped working when she heard a headache. And she knew that she couldn't do anything about it, not really. Not with being in her newly regenerated. She didn't want to force a new one onto herself. She just silently went back to what she was doing. But she kept her ears open listening to what was being said.
"Just… Just noise inside my head, Doctor. Constant noise inside my head."
"What sort of noise?" The Doctor asked in confusion.
"It's the sound of drums. More and more as though it's getting closer."
"When did it start?" The Doctor asked, concerned.
"Oh, I've had it all my life. Every waking hour. Still, no rest for the wicked." Yana said standing and going back to work.
Martha, Chase, and Chantho were working on the circuits.
"How long have you been with the professor?" Martha asked Chantho.
"Chan, 17 years, tho."
"Blimey. A long time." Martha said, looking at the old man.
"Chan, I adore him, tho."
"Oh right, and he…"
"Martha." Chase said, looking over at Martha in surprise.
"Chan… I don't think he even notices, tho." Chantho said, looking down at the ground a little bit.
"Tell me about it."
"Chan, but I am happy to serve, tho."
"Do you mind if I ask? Do you have to start every sentence with chan?"
"Chan, yes, tho."
"And every sentence with…."
"Chan, tho, tho."
"What would happen if you didn't?"
"Chan, that would be rude, tho."
"What, like swearing?"
"Chan, indeed, tho."
"Go on, just once."
"Chan, I can't, tho."
"Oh, do it for me."
"No." Chantho said, shaking her head.
Chase looked at Martha. "Why don't you go and see if Yana has something for you to do."
Martha nodded her head and went to go and see if she could help Professor Yana with what he was doing.
Chase went back to what she was doing.
"Chan, you seem lost, tho." Chantho said, looking at Chase.
Chase shook her head. "It happens." She said as she fixed another cable. Granted she wasn't really the best, but this cable work seemed pretty simple to her. She moved away from Chantho. She really didn't want to talk to Chantho about anything else. Yes, she was lost, but well… it was none of her business. She walked over to Jack.
"You alright?" Jack asked, looking over at her.
"Yeah." Chase said, rubbing her arms softly.
"You don't look alright."
"I'll be fine Jack. Honest."
"Are you still there?" Atillo asked.
"Ah, present and correct. Send your man inside. We'll keep the levels down from here." Yana told the man.
"He's inside. And good luck to him." Atillo said softly.
"Captain, keep the levels below the red."
Jack nodded his head.
Chase looked over Jack's shoulder. "Well this is going to be interesting."
"Yeah you're telling me."
"Where is that room?" The Doctor asked, looking at Yana.
"It's underneath the rocket. Fix the couplings and the footprint can work. But the entire chamber is flooded with stet radiation."
"Stet? Never heard of it."
"You wouldn't want to. But it's safe enough. We can hold the radiation back from here." Yana noticed that something was wrong. "It's rising… 0.2. Keep it level."
"Yes, sir." Jack said, trying his best to keep it level.
The alarms began to go off.
"Chan, we're losing power, tho!" Chantho said in shock.
"Radiation's rising!"
"We've lost control!"
"Out of the way." Chase said, pushing Jack out of the way trying to figure out what had gone wrong.
"The chamber's going to flood." Yana said in concern.
"Jack! Override the vents!" The Doctor yelled.
"Jack's not in control of this Doctor." Chase said, looking over her shoulder at him. "I'm trying."
Jack jumped over to the cables. "We can jump start the override!" Jack said, taking the cables into his hands. He put them together.
"Don't! It's going to flare!" The Doctor shouted.
Jack screamed painfully. He fell to the floor.
"Jack! You idiot!" Chase yelled at him.
"I've got him." Martha said, rushing over to him.
"Chan, don't touch the cables, tho." Chanto said, pushing the cable aside.
The Doctor and Chase didn't move.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." Yana said sadly. He felt bad that Jack had died.
"The chamber's flooded with radiation, yes?" The Doctor questioned Yana.
Martha began to do mouth to mouth on Jack.
"Without the couplings, the engines will never start. It was all for nothing."
"Oh, I don't know." The Doctor said walking forward. "Martha, leave him." He said, pulling her lightly up onto her feet.
"You've gotta let me try."
Chase shook her head. "No Martha."
"Come on. Come on. Just listen to me. Now leave him alone. It strikes me, Professor, you've got a room that a man can't enter without dying. Is that correct?"
"Yes."
"Well…"
Jack gasped for air.
Chase moved over to him and smacked him. "Idiot."
"I've got just the man." The Doctor said looking at Jack who had just come back to life.
"Was someone kissing me?" Jack asked.
"Shut up Jack." Chase looked at the Doctor. "If you are going to do what you're thinking, Doctor. Best do that now."
The Doctor grabbed Jack's arm and they were off.
"Just don't get him killed!" She shouted after them. She shook her head and rubbed her face. Jack and the Doctor were going to be the death of her. She moved over to the monitor to watch Jack.
The picture disappeared.
"We lost the picture when that thing flared up. Doctor, are you there?" Martha asked.
"Receiving yeah. He's inside."
"And still alive?"
"Oh, yes."
"But he should evaporate. What sort of man is he?" Yana asked in confusion.
"I've only just met him. The Doctor sort of travels through time and space and picks people up. God, I make us sound like stray dogs. Maybe we are."
"He travels in time?" Yana asked.
"Don't ask me to explain it. That's a Tardis. The sports car of time travel, he says." Martha explained to the man the best that she could.
"When did you first realize?" The Doctor questioned Jack.
"Earth 1892. Got in a fight in Ellis Island. A man shot me through the heart. Then I woke up. Thought it was kinda strange. But then it never stopped. Fell off a cliff, trampled by horses, World War I, World War II, poison, strangulation, a stray javelin. In the end, I got the message, I'm the man who can never die. And all that time you knew."
"That's why I left you behind. It's not easy even just… just looking at you Jack, 'cause you're wrong."
"Thanks."
"You are, I can't help it. I'm a Time Lord. It's instinct. It's in my guts. You're a fixed point in time and space. You're a fact. That's never meant to happen. Even the Tardis reacted against you, tried to shake you off. Flew all the way to the end of the universe just to get rid of you."
"And your Tardis killed Chase. She is nothing like me. So you're saying that you're, uh, prejudiced?"
"I never thought of it like that."
"Yeah. Last thing I remember back when I was mortal… I was facing three Daleks. Death by extermination. And then I came back to life. What happened?"
"Rose."
"I thought you sent her back home."
"She came back. Opened the heart of the Tardis and absorbed the time vortex."
"What does that mean, exactly?"
"No one's ever meant to have that power. If a Time Lord did that, he'd become a god, a vengeful god. But she was human. Everything she did was so human. She brought you back to life but she couldn't control it. She brought you back forever. That's something. I suppose. The final act of the Time War was life."
"Do you think she could change me back?"
"I took the power out of her. She's gone, Jack. She's not just living on a parallel world, she's trapped there. The walls have closed."
"I'm sorry."
"Yep."
"I went back to her estate, in the 90's, just once or twice. Watched her growing up. Never said hello, timelines and all that."
"Do you wanna die?"
"Oh, this one's a little stuck."
"Jack?"
"I thought I did. I dunno. But this lot, you see them out here surviving and that's fantastic."
"You may be out there somewhere."
"I could go meet myself."
"Well, the only man you're ever gonna be happy with."
"This new regeneration, it's kinda cheeky."
"Hm…"
"I never understand half the things he says." Martha looked at Yana. "What's wrong?"
"Chan, Professor, what is it, tho?"
"Time travel. They say there was time travel back in the old days. I never believed. But what would I know? I'm just a stupid old man. Never could keep time. Always late, always lost. Even this thing never worked. Time and time and time again. Always running out on me." Yana said, pulling out his fob watch that he had on him.
"Can I have a look at that?" Martha asked softly, seeing the fob watch.
"Oh, it's only an old relic." Yana chuckled. "Like me."
"Where did you get it?" Martha asked softly.
"Hm?" He looked at her. "I was found with it."
"What do you mean?"
"An orphan in the storm. I was a naked child found on the coast of the Silver Devastation. Abandoned with only this."
"Have you opened it?"
"Why would I? It's broken."
"What are you getting to Martha?" Chase asked in confusion. What was the young woman going on about now? It confused her deeply. What was this all about?
"How do you know it's broken if you never opened it?"
"It's stuck. It's old. It's not meant to be. I don't know."
Martha took the watch and turned it over in her hands. She saw the engravings. She stepped back.
"Does it matter?"
"No. It's… nothing. It's… Listen, everything's fine up here. I'm gonna see if the Doctor needs me."
"Martha, where are you going?" Chase asked in confusion.
"To check on the Doctor and Jack." She said leaving.
Chase blinked in confusion. That girl was very odd. She looked at the screen. Now that was a good thing.
Chantho noticed that something was wrong. "Chan, Yana, won't you please take some rest, tho?"
Yana opened the watch.
"Chan, Professor Yana, tho."
Yana pulled a lever that closed and locked the main door.
"What the hell. Yana what are you doing?" Chase asked, rushing to the door.
"Chan, but you've locked them in, tho."
Yana grabbed onto Chase before she could try and open the door back up.
"Let me go."
"Not to worry, my dear. As one door closes, another must open." He said dragging Chase with him. He flicked another switch.
"Chan, you must stop, tho!"
He ignored her throwing switches and hitting various controls around the lab.
"Chan, but you've lowered the defences! The future kind will get in, tho!"
"I think that's his point." Chase said, struggling against him.
"Chan, Professor, I'm sorry, but I must stop you. You're destroying all our work, tho."
Yana turned with Chase in his arms. He saw Chantho holding a gun. "Oh… now I can say I was provoked." He grabbed one of the live cables and held it out.
"No stop!" Chase said, trying to pull away from him.
Yana's hand went to her hair tightening against the light brown short locks. "Did you never think, in all those years standing beside me, to ask about that watch? Never? Did you never think, not ever, that you could set me free?"
"Chan, I'm sorry, tho. Chan, I'm so sorry."
"And you with your chan and your tho driving me insane."
"Chan, Professor, please…."
"That is not my name!" He yelled, tightening his grip on Chase's hair causing a whimper to come from Chase. "The Professor…. was an invention. So perfect a disguise that I forgot who I am."
"Chan, who are you, tho?"
"I am the Master." He said slowly. He thrusted the cable forward electrocuting Chantho. He kneeled down and took the canister containing the Doctor's hand.
"Professor!" A pounding was heard; it was the Doctor. "Professor, let me in! Let me in! Jack, get the door open!"
The Master walked over to the computer displaying the navigational chart for Utopia.
"Professor! Professor, where are you?! Professor! Professor, are you there? Please, I need to explain! Whatever you do, don't open that watch!"
He removed the circuit board. "Utopia."
"They're coming!" Martha screamed.
"Professor!"
He pulled the cables from the Tardis.
"Open the door, please! I'm begging you, Professor! Please! Listen to me!"
Chantho reached for her gun.
"Open the door, please!"
The Master turned and Chantho fired, not missing her intended target. The Master groaned, staggering back.
Chase shrieked.
"Chase!" Jack yelled. "Chase!"
The door opened suddenly.
The Doctor rushed in and faced the Master.
The Master backed into the Tardis dragging Chase with him. He locked the Tardis. He flicked a switch and dragged Chase up to the console with him. He pressed a button on the console. "Deadlocked."
"Let me in! Let me in!" The Doctor said, pounding on the door of his Tardis.
"She's dead." Martha said.
"I've broken the lock! Give me a hand! Doctor, where's Chase!?" Jack yelled, concerned about his little sister. Or at least the woman he saw as his little sister.
"I'm begging you! Everything's changed! It's only the two of us! We're the only ones left! Let Chase go. She has nothing to do with this. Just let me in!"
"Killed by an insect! A girl! How inappropriate. Still, if the Doctor can be young and strong, then so can I. The Master… reborn." He shoved Chase out of the way knowing that she couldn't do anything. Bright golden light surrounded him and he changed. "Ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha!" He ran around the console. "Ha, ha, ha." He turned the speaker on before grabbing onto Chase pulling her close to him. "Doctor… oh, new voice. Hello," He said in a low voice. "Hello." He tried high. "Hello." He said normally.
"Let me go you sonofabitch." Chase said, trying to pull away from him.
"I don't think so sweetheart. Anyway, why don't we stop and have a nice little chat while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me? I don't think so!"
"Hold on! I know that voice." Martha said in realization.
"I'm asking you really properly! Just stop! Just think!" The Doctor pleaded with him.
"Use my name."
"Master. I'm sorry."
"Tough!" He started the Tardis up.
"No!"
"Chase!" Jack yelled for her.
The console sparked.
"Oh, no you don't!" He said getting control of the column and getting it moving again. "End of the universe. Have fun. Bye bye!"
They were gone.
Chase slumped against the Master.
"Oh there." The Master said, patting her on the arm lovingly. "They will want to get you back."
Chase pulled away from him. "Leave me alone you bastard."
"Oh sweetheart. There's nothing that you can do." He said with a smirk. "You are going to be part of my plan."
She pulled her arm away from him. "No you won't."
"I know what you are."
She gasped. "How…"
"Oh it's easy to tell. You witch." He said with a smile moving towards her. "You will be part of my plan no matter what. And there is nothing you can do about it sweetheart."
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This is the end of Chapter 3. Let me know what you think. I would love to know what you guys think of Chase. What do you think the Master might have her do? Also what do you guys think of Chase being kidnapped by the Master? Let me know and I hope to have another update soon. I hope to have the first part of The Sound of Drums. Until next time.
