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[The Master]

The Storyline...

The story of the Doctor always seems to be full of danger and adventure, followed by a period of loneliness. After the Meta-Crisis Doctor destroyed the Crucible and the Daleks, the proper Doctor led everyone back into the TARDIS to set things right again. With enough to actually crew the ship correctly, the Doctor and his companions were able to take the stolen Earth back to its correct location and save the day once more. Upon arriving back on Earth, most of them left to go where they felt like they now belonged. Sarah Jane Smith left the TARDIS to go back to her son, Luke. Mickey Smith stayed behind in this world, perhaps to go along with Martha Jones in joining the remaining Torchwood Three team of Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, and Ianto Jones in Cardiff, Wales.

Going back to the parallel world's Bay Wolf Bay in Norway, the Doctor showed Rose Tyler that she had to stay behind in this universe once again because of the Meta-Crisis Doctor. He knew that he could not stay in their own universe, having committed genocide and needing to be helped after being born into the rage of battle. He told Rose that she had to make him better, just as she had done to him after they had first met; the Meta-Crisis Doctor tried to help by telling Rose that he only had one heart and one life, meaning that he could share it with her. Torn and sad the Doctor was, though, to go and leave behind Rose after she had finally gotten back; to make matters worse, he left with the memory of seeing her kiss his half-human self on the beach.

After leaving them behind and closing off the walls again between the two universes, the Doctor then addressed Donna Noble, his current companion. She still had the effects of the Meta-Crisis within her, putting her in critical condition, as there could not be a Meta-Crisis human. In another heartbreaking act, he had to wipe her memories in order to save her; she could no longer remember anything about him, the TARDIS, or any of their travels. The Doctor took her back to her mother and grandfather, leaving her with them once more. He left to return to his TARDIS and his travelling, no companion yet again and fulfilling his role of the Lonely Angel...

[The Master]

The First Episode

The universe is saved… the Daleks are no more… and the Doctor is alone…

In simple terms, some things never change. After Donna‘s memory was wiped and the Doctor was left alone, he took to walking aimlessly through the TARDIS. One such excursion took him to the TARDIS Attic. In it, he found a few familiar objects. Setting a memorable crystal ball aside, he found a set of charts and papers that he’d taken off the Valiant the day the Master died. Many of the charts showed designs and information no human mind was ready for… he’d missed one set of charts and look where that had led? The Osterhagen key of all places!

One chart stood out though - one chart showed the constellation of Kasterborous. It seemed that the Master had somehow been researching Gallifrey the day before he came to power. E-Space was drawn in the middle of the constellation itself. Where had the Doctor heard that name before? Romana and K9 mark II had spent many years in E-Space charting it and helping the various people who survived inside it. She’d left E-Space when the Dalek Empire discovered Temporal Shift technology and began to spread into parts of the universe where the Time Lords couldn’t control them. She’d quickly taken the seat of presidency and had been one of the factors that had helped keep Gallifrey alive for so long. When the eye of harmony collapsed after Gallifrey was destroyed the gate to E-Space had closed right along with it…

Why in mutters spiral could the Master be interested in the destroyed relic of a lost empire?

Being the Doctor, of course, the lone Time Lord kicked his TARDIS into overdrive and rematerialized in the rubble of the Constellation of Kasterborous… and almost fell into the star in the very center of the constellation itself! The entire constellation was shrinking! Using the TARDIS, the Doctor discovered that the whole constellation had shrunk two-thirds its original diameter since the Constellation had been abandoned after the time war… and another two-thirds since the Master last charted it. The entire constellation was shrinking or – sinking – into some sort of galactic sink-hole…

Right where the gate to E-Space had been…

The Doctor discovered that the ‘sink-hole’ wasn’t a black hole or a white hole or any hole at all – merely a temporal gate where multiple universes were converging. Like a galactic sling-shot, something inside the very center of the whole was pulling and pulling and pulling the very fabric of the galaxy into one big note. Eventually the note would slip and bam! – the whole universe gone in ten seconds. Flying the TARDIS into the heart of the ‘hole,’ the Doctor discovered something he hadn’t seen since all those years ago in his more carefree days, when his hair was longer and the galaxy was kinder.

A generation ship… a generation ship with singularity-powered engines…

That hole was feeding on the energy of those engines – the more the ship tried to free itself, the more the hole in the fabric of space gave way and fell down the sink-hole. Landing on the ship the Doctor almost fell over at what he felt… at what he saw…

The Time Lords… he could feel them! Thousands of minds – thousands of wills and souls! All of them beating and singing softly… in the bowels of the ship he could feel the souls of un-carved TARDIS coral… Gallifrey itself… safely tucked away in the most innocent spot in the universe! That’s what the Master had meant! A new Gallifrey in the heavens! He meant to fight his way to the constellation and somehow pay back the Time Lords for recreating him to fight in the Time War… The Master had a sense of honor (evil and twisted as it was); he couldn’t let himself live with that kind of debt to anyone! All that the Doctor needed to do was turn off the singularity in the heart of the ship, wrap the damaged fabric of space around his TARDIS, and sling-shot back into his own reality!

Before he’d come, the ship would have been crushed if the engines had been turned off… but with his TARDIS - with his mind - he could save them all! He could stop the war! Running to the bridge he almost fainted when he saw - two familiar faces entombed in generation caskets. “Each side had secrets,” the Doctor whispered as he put his hand against the one casket containing Romana - the love of one life - and another containing her protector, Leela - the teacher of another. Beneath each casket sat two ancient and aged K9 units. Booting them up, the Doctor discovered a hologramatic message left for him.

The two women spoke of how much it hurt them and all the Time Lords to let him believe they had all died in the Time War – but for the Daleks to die. For them to survive, every survivor had to die for real… so they’d shut off their minds with the power of this ship, knowing, one day, that he would find the ship itself. The dearest Doctor, the old one, would find the seed of Gallifrey, and set them all free again. A new Gallifrey would burn in the heavens… life would return to the Constellation of Kasterborous.

Using his TARDIS and the power of the singularity engines, the Doctor yanked the ship free of the bloated gate that had once been E-Space and sent the generation ship spiraling back into asteroid field that had once been Gallifrey. All the while, across the galaxy, a rush of time-energy dissipated as a beautiful blond woman, a skinny geek, a woman clutching a small baby and her husband, a boy with spiky hair, and the car they’d been driving in crashed head-long into a lake. The Children of Time were reunited again… the power pent up in that sink hole had torn all those that had travelled with or around someone who had travelled through time (such as two certain blondes and the Doctor) had been yanked back to our own universe… including one Rose Tyler and her family.

In addition, a certain Donna Noble was struck ill. She began dreaming just the same night of the energy rush, dreaming of strange travels in a blue box, of aliens and creatures she couldn’t even imagine, and of an odd skinny man named the Doctor… Another of those affected came in the lines of the Torchwood Three team in Cardiff. Being around the Rift all the time put many of its employees in a similar position of being affected by this energy rush. This came in the form of a few members that were long-thought of being gone coming alive once more, much to the total shock of the current team. Not only has Toshiko Sato and Owen Cooper been resurrected, but perhaps a particular Suzie Costello, who has died her turn enough, has come back from the grave (to find herself in a prison cell for the time being at the Torchwood base).

Across the galaxy the ring sitting sublimely on the finger of one Lucy Saxon, as she was given her evening medication, burst into flame and consumed the two psychiatrists and the guard in a ball of burning energy. From within the energy came four mocking knocks and an insane stream of laughter as the most insane mind the Time Lords had ever created was reborn from the same temporal energy that was unleashed by that sling-shot had taken his genetic signature off that ring and fed his rebirth. The bait… his ancient arch nemesis had taken the bait… Gallifrey was reborn, just waiting…

WAITING for its Lord and Master!


(written by former member and friend of Saphira/The Master, Centauri, previously the Rani; edited by Saphira)