Doctor Who: Veiled Memories - The History of the Doctor

Chris McKeon
DOCTOR WHO: VEILED MEMORIES
‘I faced death and won, Doctor, all to see you die before me. Just to see that happen
today will be success enough.’
The Master lifted the TCE, chuckled with delight, and then growled in rage as Liz
flung the Doctor’s cloak over his head and pushed him away. The Master stumbled
backwards and fell against the broken console, which exploded upon impact in a thrust of
blue-white light. The Master screamed in tortured agony as the light covered his body and
caught it aflame, lighting his skeleton from beneath his clothes and the Doctor’s cloak. The
Doctor rushed over to Liz, who watched in horror, and shielded her face as he looked on for
her. The Master’s body was being flooded with chronic radiation directly from the
SIDRAT’s time core. There was no way to survive such an injury. He was doomed, and so
were they if they lingered any longer in the dying ship.
The Doctor turned and led Liz out through the exit door, leaving the Master to his
fate. For a moment, however, just as the Doctor turned away, it almost looked as if beneath
the cloak there were two skeletons, separate yet fusing together…
‘Doctor! Miss Shaw!’
It was the Brigadier. He and Benton stood outside the SIDRAT, weapons at the
ready. Several other UNIT soldiers were stationed at various points around the laboratory,
rifles drawn and pointed at the green box’s entrance. Yates guarded the exit. As the Brigadier
waved away the smoke billowing from the box’s open entrance, Benton led first Liz, then
the Doctor, to nearby stools, where waiting medical officers wrapped them both in blankets
and administered oxygen masks.
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