The Master Plan

[Susan Foreman]

"Sort of?" Susan asked. Of course, she knew all about regeneration, but... this whole merging of all of one's incarnations into one - that was new.

"So... You - all of you - will sacrifice your potential futures, to become just one man? A new man... a man that's you, and yet... not you?" she further asked, seeking clarification. Susan wanted to be sure she understood completely.

If she understood correctly, that would mean that this one, mere man would be like a god, and Susan could understand how tempting that could be to a man like the Master. And yet, perhaps Susan could somehow make it sound undesirable. Maybe. It would be a long shot, but if she could somehow solve this problem by just talking... Well, it was worth a try.

However, there was no telling with the Master. Never was. He seemed to be Chaos, personified.

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"Ummm...yeah. That's pretty much the gist of it," he replied to her. "All for a nice bit of immortality and becoming all powerful. Arguably as powerful as an eternal."

He turned to face her again, his arms crossed over his chest as he began debating what to do about her. So many possible choices.

"It would arguably be just like another regeneration for all of us. In theory. Truth is I have no clue how painful this process would be," he replied. "I just know only what he showed me."

[Susan Foreman]

"It would arguably be just like another regeneration for all of us. In theory. Truth is I have no clue how painful this process would be," he replied.

Susan shot the Master a grimace and sarcastically replied, "Oh, that sounds lovely..." She couldn't believe he didn't have more information on what he was about to attempt, and all for Power - Power that wasn't even guaranteed, but just theorized about.

"I just know only what he showed me."

"He?" Susan repeated, unclear who the Master was referring to, though she did suspect he meant another one of himselves.

Susan folded her arms over her midsection and smugly said, "Oh, wait. Lemme guess... That would be another one of you, right?" She was assuming, but... after everything he'd told her, it seemed to be a most plausible hypothesis.

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"Oh yes," the Master explained. "Well. Kinda. It's...Well, you just saw him."

He pointed towards the metallic sphere he had handed Susan earlier. "What you just saw. What I'm attempting is the same thing. Done all by that other self. A self that roughly exists in an alternate universe."

He pointed to the Machine behind him. "This not only allows this major time paradox of my own time line to exist, but it will bring him here as well. It will allow all of us to become him. And stronger. To become a GOD among the universe!"

He clapped his hands together. "Oh this is going to be so much FUN!~ I can hardly wait to see what my other selves are doing to cause such pain and destruction!~"

Just as he finished saying that, another pair of TARDISes began to materialize near the others. The Master beamed with excitement. "OH LOOK! I'M HERE!~" he shouted while waving to them.

The two beings that walked out of the TARDISes were a bit different. One had long black hair combed back, a thinly trimmed mustache and beard, and a large forehead. He wore a black set of Gallifreyan robes. The other was bald and had thinly trimmed hair, almost like he either buzzed or shaved off what hair was left on the sides of his head. He wore a suit.

[Susan Foreman]

"Oh this is going to be so much FUN!~ I can hardly wait to see what my other selves are doing to cause such pain and destruction!~"

"You'll have to excuse me for not applauding..." Susan said dryly.

"OH LOOK! I'M HERE!~" he shouted while waving to them.

Susan's sass waned quickly when she saw the other Masters beginning to arrive. She gulped and wished she could somehow disappear... This was escalating from bad to worse at an alarming rate.

Maybe, though... Just maybe, she might be able to slip away while the Master was distracted with himselves... She stole a glance at the stairs from whence they'd come and wondered if she might be able to make it back to her TARDIS without getting caught.

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OoC: The Master suggested some places to get involved, this is one of them. This is going to be extremely amusing...

Ic: Zeta Minor, the one place where antimatter could coexist with the real world, and the one place where Omega could easily jump back and forth between the dimensions and safely balance his body between the harsh antimatter dimension and the normal world. Either way, he has to spend time between both worlds to make sure the fifth Doctor clone body would survive. The normal universe to recover from the dissolving from the other universe, but not too long or he'll turn green. Quite literally.

Explanation aside, Omega had about seven hours to kill in the normal universe, so he grabbed the items that he swiped from various places in the universe, as well as old Time Lord technology. Using his ingenious mind, he managed to start working on an old fashioned, but still effective kind of 'TARDIS machine.'

"Is this Me-damned thing working?" He hit the blocky console before it sputtered and chugged. Wiping his hands on his black outfit and seemingly unused to having a body, he would start connecting some wires together under the console piece, and then...

Vwor-CLANG, Vwor-CLANG, Vwor-CLANG.

Susan and those Masters would suddenly spot a weird blocky console shaped device just materialize out of nowhere, and there were a pair of legs poking out underneath it. After a long pause, Omega pulled himself out from under, stared at the lot of them, and then spoke up in a voice clearly unlike The Fifth Doctors, far more commanding and authentic.

"What in my own name is this?!"

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The Three Masters were conversing among themselves with a few brief banters about their being here, what this place was, and before they could get on to the discussion of the plan that the Saxon incarnation needed them for, the blocky Tardis looking console had appeared before them.

The three Masters blinked in unison when they saw the appearance of the Doctor's 5th incarnation currently standing before them. But in a different attire. It was ancient, even by Gallifreyan standards. But familiar. It was the voice that confirmed their suspicions and fears.

"Y-You!" The thin trimmed facial haired one stammered.

"Ooooooh-" the bald one muttered an old high Gallifreyan word that...could correspond to an English Earth curse word that related to digestive waste. "We are certainly in trouble now."

The Saxon Master placed his hands on his hips as he slowly took a step forward out of instinct, rather confused and shocked and angry the most out of all of them that Omega of all people got here. This wasn't the first time this incarnation of the Master had met Omega...Nor was it the first time he had met Omega in his previous lives, if his other two incarnations' reactions were any indication. Even then, this was something he had never expected to have occurred this soon. "How in the bloody Hell did you get here?! Almost no one should've been able to have gotten my signal, and even more, almost NO ONE should've been able to even find this place without that signal! HOW DID YOU GET HERE!?"

No no no no no this was too soon in the plan to have had someone as dangerous or powerful as him interfere. He wasn't ready. They needed to figure out a way to get him out of here and fast before he potentially ruined everything.

[Susan Foreman]

This was it - her cue to run! While the various Masters seemed distracted (and even a bit upset), Susan started to slowly and quietly stalk towards the stairs, intent on getting back to her TARDIS and out of there. Then, she could find and warn her grandfather about the Masters' dastardly plan.

Susan hadn't a clue who had just arrived, but she could tell by all of the Masters' reactions that the new arrival might wind up being big trouble.

She tried to be as quiet and unnoticeable as possible, much like a tiny field mouse trying to slip past a hungry cat, while she worked on sneaking out of there without arousing anyone's interests...

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Omega was in a bit of a pickle, especially since he heard his TARDIS machine pop and crackled, signaling him he was completely stuck. He uttered out loud an ancient Gallifreyan swear word before he whipped around, his crazed hair whipping as he turned to the three Masters. It didn't take a stupid Time Lord to sense they were all one and the same.

"All the same time lord in one. What, you want to take me on again?!" he growled. Of course, his ruby eyes caught sight of a young woman, a very familiar young woman trying to leave the area. No he would follow her. She's a Time Lady and probably has a TARDIS he could sneak in and demand she take him back to Zeta Minor. That also depends on if those puny Masters would notice her. He would have to wing it...

"How in the bloody Hell did you get here?! Almost no one should've been able to have gotten my signal, and even more, almost NO ONE should've been able to even find this place without that signal! HOW DID YOU GET HERE!?"

That enraged Omega. His expression darkened and his eyes went wild. He would storm up to the lot of them, only slightly towering over them as he balled up his fist and then bellowed out in a very un regal-like fashion.

"How DARE you demand anything from me! WHo do you think you are, huh? No, I demand from you to know what in my name is going on, or I will strike you down!"

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"L-Lord Omega please please! Do keep calm, there is no need for there to be such violent tensions!" the bald Master said nervously as he rushed between the two of them. "I-I think what my...future self was trying to say was that...while we are honored by your pressance, he was hoping this would be a private gathering and...your arrival here has somewhat stressed him in terms of his plans."

The post-Tremas Master...the one with the most hair on his head and face compared to the other two, had looked over and noticed Susan's attempt to escape. A silent psychic command was directed towards one being in particular. He was surprised, however, to find his call not answered by one, but THREE cat-like figures.

A black hairy house cat looking creature with bright yellow eyes, a fluffy white persian cat with blue eyes, and what humans would mistake as a black panther with glowing yellow eyes had all Teleported in front of Susan's Path.

"Shadow?" the thinly trimmed and large foreheaded Master asked himself. He saw the Kitling he brought with him, but unless his psychic senses were wrong, the persian and the panther were also Shadow. How could this be, he wondered. Did Shadow at some point gain regenerations?

"Look I don't have time for any of this I have work to do," the Saxon Master said as he pulled out his Laser Screwdriver and started twisting the bottom nob. "Remind me. That body that lets you stay in our native Universe. It's copied off the Doctor's own biological code, yes?"

[Susan Foreman]

Susan had only just reached the stairs when she was suddenly cornered - one of the Masters must have seen her.

A black hairy house cat looking creature with bright yellow eyes, a fluffy white Persian cat with blue eyes, and what humans would mistake as a black panther with glowing yellow eyes had all teleported in front of Susan's path.

She glared in the Masters' general direction, gave a sigh of frustration, and then she sat down on the edge of the stairs and crossed her arms over her chest.

It seemed she was no longer at the top of the Masters' list of priorities, but he had ensured that Susan wasn't going to be going anywhere for the time being, by cornering her with his felines, who, like their master, all seemed to be the same creature, despite their differing appearances.

Smiling a little nervously at the three felines, Susan softly uttered, "Good kitties..."

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Omega had to play it safe. He wasn't sure what the Master was capable of, but it couldn't be anything major since The Doctor always beat him. Either way, he would adjust his collar as the Masters seemed to focus on him. Whatever Susan was doing was not on his interest, so he just decided to play a few games. First of all, The Master seemed to have started to stutter, or at least one of them. It didn't hit him that they were all the same.

"Plans? What plans?" His lips thinned into a psychotic grin. "... Oh I sense it now. You pull the same dirty tricks as The Doctor. One and the same..."

His grin faded when the Blond Master spoke up. He raised his brow when he fitted his laser screwdriver. His eyebrows jumped a bit when he asked if his DNA biodata was based off of the Doctor's. "Careful now, I wouldn't use a little item you use on your rival on me..." His voice deepened into a more threatening tone as his eyes flickered dangerously over to the other.

This is a god The Master was messing with.

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The Master bearing the face of Harold Saxon smirked at Omega's threat. He tapped his laser screwdriver against the top of his shoulder.

"Alright. I was going to share this with my other selves, and she knows everything, so why not one more. Where to begin. Oh yes. Direct your attention to the giant glowing orb at the top of the stairs!" His open palm pointed straight towards that device. "The Eye of Time! Whose origins I need not explain to you, as it's older than even the civilization you helped to spawn. Me and my other incarnations and copies all about time, will be finishing this latest paradox machine." He looked up at it. "Though incomplete, it's still rather powerful enough on its own. What it's used for. . . Nah. On second thought I'm not going to tell you. Susan I plan on keeping for a hostage. My other selves will learn soon enough our plans."

The atmosphere of this..."realm", if it can be called that, felt far different than their native universe...or even the universe of anti-matter. Perverse even.

One of the smaller two Shadow's swiped at Susan at that comment. They began to close in on her.

"Harold Saxon" turned back to Omega. "As for myself and the Doctor-" he caught himself and tapped his lip with his finger. "No. I don't think you need to know that. Just know my abilities...what I do, what I go through, what I sacrifice, is far beyond ANYTHING that miserable, failing, clumsy, pathetic excuse for a Time Lord had ever done! HE is the reason my life turned into Hell!"

As he spoke those words, they were filled with a hatred and spiteful tone of voice that even surprised his past incarnations. Energy crackled from the machine. Dark black clouds...what could've been mistaken for volcanic ash began to fill the sky. In this realm, only one person's will mattered to its creator. The Master's.

"Rassilon deserved every so much the same blame the Doctor does, for every black hearted deed I've ever performed!" His face flashed a bright blue light, changing from what could count as a humanoid face, to what could've been a highly detailed 3D holographic model of every layer of his body, as his face and hair and every other layer became semi-transparent, exposing as well his full eye balls, muscles, tendons, bones, veins, arteries, capillaries, sinuses, nerves, brain, fluids, eardrums, cells, anything that was physically in his head was exposed in that second, for all to see and behold before him. "For every sin I've committed, against Time and the whole of this damnable Creation itself!" again, the contents were exposed. "What I wouldn't have given to have had your power!" the spectral face appeared again. "The numerous times I have escaped the dark hell known as death!" the skull. "You think it's FUNNY don't you!?" his face disappeared again. "That I struggled to change creation as I saw fit!" the face again. "ALL JUST TO END THE DRUMMING, THE CONSTANT DRUMMING! GO ON! LAUGH IF YOU DARE!" He glared to Susan, his face changing to that frightful inhuman image again. "GO ON LAUGH!" Back to Omega, his arms spread out. "The drumming is gone, but the damage is done! Rassilon is dead! ALL HAIL THE NEW MASTER OF ALL TIME LORDS! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" And again his face changed to that ghastly appearance. Once he ceased his laugh, his insanely stretched face seemed to calm down. He looked again at Omega. . . not out of fear. . . but he displayed a face of contempt and boredom. When he spoke again, it was in a calmer voice. "But you see. . . I've gained a new power, and a new ally. One who has made all this possible for me. One who surpasses your own power beyond your imagination. Who has given me all this...who will give me more...and who has given me back-" he held his hands up. "My children."

As he said his last phrase, small metallic spheres of unknown origin began to materialize around the eldest Master. Four in total. They hovered about the leading Master, making small beeping noises as they hovered around him. The other two Masters backed away from the elder, slightly out of fright, and slightly out of awe, unsure what to think of their older version at this point.

"Oh how we've missed our Master!" "It has been far too long!" "To finally be free again of the never ending darkness!" "We shall fly and blaze and slice once again!"

"Can't you hear it Omega?" he asked as he stared in Omega's direction, but stared as if Omega was not there. . . or as if he was looking at something else than Omega entirely.

"The Drums are coming closer. . . and closer. . ."

A new TARDIS began to materialize at the bottom of the stairs, not too far from Omega's own incomplete TARDIS. It took on the shape of a large black and aged grandfather clock. Its door opened. No one stepped out. An orange coated Tiger however seemed to appear behind the three Shadow's and bat all three away with one sweep of its paw. "Hurry Susan! Run!" came a voice from the new TARDIS.

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OMega could easily feel the oppression from this universe. Whatever it was, he didn't like it and he wanted to get out of here. He knew he had to get Susan out of there as well, but right now he had better things to do, especially since The Master has gone on a tangent. Ohh what would tThe Doctor do? Oh wait... he practically copied that guy's memories, so he could easily sift through some and see anything he could find on how to deal with this mess.

"Alright. I was going to share this with my other selves, and she knows everything, so why not one more. Where to begin. Oh yes. Direct your attention to the giant glowing orb at the top of the stairs! The Eye of Time! Whose origins I need not explain to you, as it's older than even the civilization you helped to spawn. Me and my other incarnations and copies all about time, will be finishing this latest paradox machine. Though incomplete, it's still rather powerful enough on its own. What it's used for. . . Nah. On second thought I'm not going to tell you. Susan I plan on keeping for a hostage. My other selves will learn soon enough our plans."

Omega just stared boredly at The Master as he started rambling, knowing what the Eye of Time was, though he had no idea why The Master even had this thing. he would start slowly walking around in a circle around the machine, though he paced in a way to get much closer to Susan. They had to get out of there, and quickly.

"You seem to not trust even yourself." He commented bluntly. "If you not tell your own self your plans."

"Rassilon deserved every so much the same blame the Doctor does, for every black hearted deed I've ever performed! For every sin I've committed, against Time and the whole of this damnable Creation itself! What I wouldn't have given to have had your power! The numerous times I have escaped the dark hell known as death! You think it's FUNNY don't you!? That I struggled to change creation as I saw fit! ALL JUST TO END THE DRUMMING, THE CONSTANT DRUMMING! GO ON! LAUGH IF YOU DARE! The drumming is gone, but the damage is done! Rassilon is dead! ALL HAIL THE NEW MASTER OF ALL TIME LORDS! But you see. . . I've gained a new power, and a new ally. One who has made all this possible for me. One who surpasses your own power beyond your imagination. Who has given me all this...who will give me more...and who has given me back- My children."

The face was quite unnerving to him. But his face remained stoic and still as he listened in. Now there was one thing that interested him, and that was Rassilon. His best friend somehow screwed this man's life up. Honestly, he wasn't surprised at that, considering Razz was a politician and might have been behind Omega's own demise. Though he had to admit that this guy certainly knew how to give a hammy speech, but those drums? He had no idea what they meant.

"I'd rather feel sorry for you. Especially consider how The Doctor feels about you." He paused, and then added. "But I don't care." With that he would glance behind him to see that some Tiger had swiped away Shadow and he would turn on his heels. Whomever this man was, he would have to thank him later.

"I'd rather get out of here before the place collapses from his insanity alone." Omega muttered, mostly to himself.

[Susan Foreman]

A new TARDIS began to materialize at the bottom of the stairs, not too far from Omega's own incomplete TARDIS. It took on the shape of a large black and aged grandfather clock. Its door opened. No one stepped out. An orange coated Tiger, however, seemed to appear behind the three Shadows and bat all three away with one sweep of its paw.

Susan was surprised to see a tiger - a great, big orange tiger - appear out of nowhere. It was far scarier than the three kitlings that had surrounded her. Bigger, too. And, it shooed them away with a swipe of its paw, like they were just minor annoyances.

"Hurry Susan! Run!" came a voice from the new TARDIS.

Suddenly, Susan had a path to what appeared to be an escape: a grandfather clock, which could only be a TARDIS (as it hadn't been there a moment ago, and a voice was calling to her from inside).

"... Grandfather...?" she asked, nearly whispering, while she narrowed her eyes at the open door. "Is that you?"

Slowly, Susan started to walk toward the newly arrived TARDIS - and away from the tiger.