A Different Set of Drums (The Master, Doctor Who)

Chapter Twenty-Six

You Lost

Kayla's POV

"Faith and hope?" The Master scoffed as the clock on the wall turned to 45 seconds. "No. 'Cause I gave them an instruction." Martha now with gained confidence, stood up. "Just as The Doctor said. Use the countdown. I told them that if everyone thinks one word at one specific time-"

The clock stroked 30, making me break slightly into a cold sweat. "Nothing will happen!" The Master shouted, interrupting Martha. "Is that your weapon?" He spat. "Prayer?" An accent seeped into his words, the timer now at 20 seconds.

"Right across the world one word, one thought at one moment. But with fifteen satellites?" She stressed out the last word, and a look of horror appeared on The Master's face. "What?" He muttered, unbelieving.

"The Arch Angel Network." I quietly commented, though The Master heard and snapped his head to me. A look appeared on his face. A look very uncommon to me. It was a look of realisation.

He's not going to be The Master of earth much longer.

"The telepathic field! Binding the whole human race together, every single person in the earth thinking the same thing at the same time and that word..." Martha had been talking at a fast pace, the countdown turning to 5.

"Is Doctor." She finishes, as the countdown turns to 0. I look to The Doctor, who was beginning to change and sparkle. I gasped at the sight. It was like a blue cloud surrounded him, making him grow and grow. "Stop it." The Master frowned.

"No, no, no, no!" He exclaimed as everyone began to close their eyes. "Doctor." I heard Jack whisper, along with Martha's family and everyone else. My eyes unconsciously flicker closed, my hands tightly clasped each other. "Doctor." I quietly murmur.

"Stop this right now!" The Master cried out, making me open my eyes and catch sight of The Doctor before his 900 year-old-self. "I've had a whole year to tune myself into the physic network and integrate with it's matrices." He said. "I order you to stop!" The Master yelled as the sound of people from all over the word chorused in one. "Doctor!"

"One thing you can't do..." The Doctor says as he turns back to his normal self. "Is stop them thinking." He spat, the same blue cloud surrounding him and lifting him to the air. What is he doing?

I felt the two guards let go of my arm and flee the room like sissies. I would of laughed if I hadn't been in the position I am in. "Tell me the human race is the generate now!" The Doctor taunted, starring at The Master. "When they can do this."

Out of the corner of my eye, I seen Martha with the biggest smile on her face, running to her family and embracing them happily. "No!" The Master shouted, trying to shoot lasers at The Doctor's shield.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." The Doctor says as my stomach churns. I walk forward a bit, wondering what he's doing. "Then I'll kill them!" The Master, without knowing, pointed straight at me.

He paused, our eyes connecting. Mine watered, from fear and confusion. His was panicked. He would kill me? "Would you?" I whimpered, his face softening. Before he could do anything, however, The Doctor rose his hand and blasted a powerful force, knocking the laser out of The Master's hand.

"You can't do this. You can't! It's not fair!" The Master screeched, making me tremble slightly. I felt arms wrap around my waist and I turned to see Jack. I leaned into him. "And you know what happens now." The Doctor says.

The Master, who seemed scared out of his mind, kept walking backwards until he hit a wall. Falling to the ground, he scratched at the wall frantically to find a way out. "You wouldn't listen." The Doctor frowns as The Master kept repeating the word 'no'. I try blocking out his cries, but it's no use. The a Doctor descended before his feet tapped against the floor.