The Enemy Without

This story begins immediately after the 1996 TV Movie "Doctor Who". (Also known as "The Enemy Within".)

Having left San Francisco in 1999, The Doctor sits down with his book and cup of tea, only to have his record stick on the word "Time" again...

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Episode One

by Harry Hayfield

The Doctor looked long and hard at the console and confirmed what it said on the monitor.

"Gallifrey, Rassillion Era, 5725.2? That's the place I was meant to go to before my little diversion" It then dawned on the Doctor, the Time Lords had obivously wondered what was keeping the Doctor so long and had forcibly taken the TARDIS back to Gallifrey. The Doctor was worried. How would the Time Lords react to the Master now located in the Eye of Harmony.

The TARDIS rotor stopped turning and the doors swung open. There before the Doctor stood the President of the Council of Time Lords.

"Hello, Doctor, been busy?"

The Doctor recognised that voice and his suspicions were confirmed when the President was revealed "Romana" he asked in suprise "How in the name of Omega did you get to be President?"

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Episode Two

by Trivial Keithy

"It was simple Doctor, I adopted a few human electoral tricks. I stood on a platform of New Prydonian, New High council." Romana smiled and showed the Doctor to her new office. It was tastefully decorated in 1970's chintz.

"My word you have been busy." The Doctor sat down on a see through plastic chair. "This is new."

"Yes I picked that up in 1998. I know it doesn't quite go but it fits into the pseudo-Nestene feel of the whole 70's vibe." Romana poured two cups of tea, one for each of them.

"Anyway down to business, I'm afraid I lost the Master's remains. He managed to wrangle his way out of extermination and took over the body of a human. We had a bit of a fight, one of those depressing showdown affairs and he got sucked into the Eye of Harmony portal in my TARDIS." The Doctor took a drink of tea.

"Oh well not to worry, He's gone and that's the end of all that business. You wouldn't believe all the secret projects my predessesor was up to. I'm only beginning to find out. The Celestial Intervention Agency's a bit worried but I can handle their petty activities. They may have funded all my opponants election campaigns but I'm sure they'll play ball with me, especially now that it's on the official chancellory list of approved activities." She smiled again.

The Doctor frowned, there was something not quite right here at all. Suddenly he saw a small piece of loose skin an the edge of Romana's ear. He leaned forward quickly and pulled on it. He was shocked when her whole face came away to reveal an Auton. The Doctor tried to get up but he was sinking into the plastic chair...

"The Nestene have claimed this world Time Lord and it will be ours." The Auton replication of Romana stood up and revealed her hidden wrist mounted gun. She aimed it at the Doctor...

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Episode Three

by The Magistrate 1999

The Doctor reeled in shock as Romana stood before him, face whirring grotesquely. He thought quickly, but this time there was no theatrical pause from the villain. The Romana auton fired its deadly weapon, the Doctor tensed, there was a pop and then he found himself unscrewing his eyes. He looked at the Auton quizzically as from its hand opened a small flag. Bang! it said.

The Doctor laughed. Romana! You had me worried! And heres me only just regenerated.

You misunderstand Doctor. intoned the Auton soullessly. The Doctor frowned and then jumped in surprise as the door to the office opened.

Tea, cakes? came a voice followed by a Cyberman wearing what could only be described as a maids uniform. Oh Doctor, did I frighten you? Have a cup of tea to calm your nerves. the cybermaid soothed in a Yorkshire accent.

What on earth is going on?! the Doctor cried as he felt the first pangs of fear in the pit of his stomach.

The Auton regarded him coolly and answered him, in the voice of Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart But Doctor, this isnt earth. Chap with curly hair, five rounds rapid! he added helpfully.

Yes sir! cried a familiar voice, and the Master bustled into the room wearing a home guard uniform and brandishing a broom ended with a chocolate biscuit. Biscuit with your tea Doctor? sneered the Master.

Ooh yes! Do have a biscuit! cooed the cybermaid.

The Doctor screamed and found himself sitting bolt upright in his chair, in the console room, his book lying on the floor at his feet, a cold cup of tea at his side. He was sweating and his hearts raced thunderously. Oh my he managed to gasp. Romana and then the room span around him as he fell to the floor.

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Episode Four

by Trivial Keithy

The Doctor let out a small groan as his hit the floor. He tried to fight the inky darkness of unconciousness but it was too much.

When he Doctor finally regained conciousness he leapt into action, he felt stronger and fitter than before, bursting with energy and enthusiasm. His hands worked over the TARDIS controls and he set a course for Gallifrey. This recent batch of dreams was too forboding. The last time it happened, he had forseen the assassination of the President.

The TARDIS landed and the Doctor emereged. Instead of the Panopticon he found he was inside his old study rooms in the Prydonian Academy. Rallon and Drax burst into the room in the middle of a heated debate. They both gasped when they had saw how much their old colleague had changed. "You've regenerated!" Was all they could utter.

To the Doctor this was old history, and yet a totally new experience as far as he was concerned. "Erm yes and no. I've dipped back in my time line it would seem. I'd better go before they find me out." He tried to get back in the TARDIS but it would not open. "That's strange. Come on old girl."

"The Celestial Intervention Agency must have put an auto lock on it already." Rallon guessed.

"If I had my gear I could block their signal easily." Drax commented.

The Doctor's head swam and became fuzzy before it passed. When he looked at his two old friends again their whole aspects had changed. Instead of their normal selves he saw two aspects of The Master. Drax now looked like the version he had so recently defeated, a human called Bruce. Rallon was the exact duplicate of The Master after he had possesed Tremas' body. Was this a madness, trauma at the loss of a former friend or something else?

He looked at his own reflection in a mirror and recoiled in shock. Instead of the hansome young face he had, was now the visage of the first incarnation of the Master, receading hairline and greying beard...

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Episode Five

by Harry Hayfield

The Doctor looked long and hard at the image in the mirror. Was he the Master? No, he was, has, is and will be the Doctor. Concentrating hard on the image, it slowly blurred back into the face he had first seen in a hospital locker back on Earth in 1999. His friends too began to look as they had done.

Rallon was the first to break the silence "By Gallifrey, what was that?" Drax, now looking as he should nodded in argeement.

The Doctor tried to figure it out. Why had he, and his friends turned into various incarations of the Master. Was the Master really in the Eye of Harmony?

"That's it" cried the Doctor scaring Rallon and Drax out of their skins. "The Master was sucked into the Eye of Harmony, a black hole"

"So" asked Drax

"A black hole can also be a wormhole, as the Earthlings call it, and we all know that wormholes can be used to travel through space and time" Rallon nodded "The Master has obivoulsy rewritten my personal timeline which means that I am now stuck in my Academy days"

As if in reponse to the Doctor's guess, two things happened. First the TARDIS disappeared without anyone inside and secondly, the Master appeared at the front door.

"My dear Doctor, I'm so glad you figured it out, so quickly"

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Episode Six

by Trivial Keithy

"I thought you might, after all you can't really say anything else. Can you?" The Doctors voice echoed around the small room.

"My dear Doctor, I don't know what you mean." The Master laughed.

"Don't you?"

"I think you need to lie down my dear chap."

"With you inside my TARDIS you have access to all sorts of equipment, sensors, decectors and the symbiotic link with me. You couldn't take my body one way and I knew you would have a back up plan. I just didn't think it would be this."

The Master yelled. "Your body will be mine, your remaining lives will belong to me. Enough of these games Doctor, surrender to my will."

"You can't just walk into my mind and expect me to be packed and ready to move out on your say so. In the Matrix you might have stood a chance but I've had a millennium of living and thinking to develop my mental abilities. I've only lost this sort of battle once and that was against Omega himself. Morbius couldn't do it and I've beaten you twice."

"Third time lucky I think Doctor." He crooned. "You don't have the ability do you to fight me on my own level. You haven't seen what I have seen. I shall snuff out your mind like I would a candle."

"I warned you, I'm sorry." The Doctor unleashed memories of all the evil the Master had committed. Images of all the people the Master had killed, maimed and crippled. Thoughts of hate and disgust and sorrow of all the Master's deeds. The Master buckled under the onslaught and was forced out of the Doctor's mind, back into the TARDIS.

"No more Master, I cannot allow you to cause harm to anyone again. Farewell my old friend."

The Doctor confined the Master's essence into a prison made of mental energies inside an unused room within the TARDIS. Later on he would seal the room up forever, but for now he allowed himself to wake up and make a fresh cup of tea. Later on he might visit the cloister room, he always thought better there for some strange reason.

The End.

