Soundalike
Daibhid Ceanaideach
The Doctor grimaced. This was ridiculous! He'd been lucky to get a second
series of incarnations after Gallifrey was restored, and after using up
the first eight of those he'd decided to settle down with Emma. Now, not
only had he lost *another* life, but he'd been pulled out of time, and
found himself facing a future incarnation of the Master, apparently even
more insane than the one he'd left. Kept going on about getting dumped at
the altar, or something. No plan to rule the world, no complex double-
crossing aliances with alien invaders, just a bizarre plan to download
the Doctor's mental engrams into his TARDIS computers so he could never
leave.
And it had backfired. Which left the Doctor with a dilema. Flushing the
Master's engrams from the TARDIS systems would kill him. Leaving him
trapped there would drive him more insane, until the sheer power of his
madness threatened the ship itself. So the Doctor had to devise a way to
release him... or at least *partly* release him. After all, they'd been
friends once. Twice, even.
* * * *
"What have you done?" the Master demanded.
"Saved your life. Again," the Doctor replied, "I couldn't remove you from
the TARDIS, but I managed to connect you to the old Office Assistant
module, so at least you have a humanoid body and you can see, walk
around, stuff like that. There's a few failsafes to stop you attacking
me, obviously."
"Interesting," the Master said, looking at his robotic form in a mirror,
"You've given me the appearance of my favourite incarnation. But not the
voice?" He spent a moment trying to place the voice, before it came to
him.
"Professor Yana, Doctor? How sentimental."
(Set, of course, during COFD and before Scream of the Shalka)
--
Dave
"There is no Neils the Bouncing Cat! He's gone!
Now there is only... P-Cat, the Penitent Puss!"
Daibhid Ceanaideach
> Soundalike
I always think titles are my weak point. It's just occured to me a much
better one for this would have been "Not Alone".
vj
seems fine to me), it made me smile, although I'm still trying to
disentangle all the Masters & Doctors in my head. :-)
Vicky
Daibhid Ceanaideach
Glad you liked it.