Doctor Who: The Wounded Earth - The History of the Doctor

Chris McKeon
DOCTOR WHO: THE WOUNDED EARTH
‘He’s not dead. He can’t have died.’
‘Oh, I assure he can, Miss Smith, and he has. But if you and your friends can’t bear the thought of
life without the Doctor, then who am I to deny you joining him in death’
The Master inhaled sharply. Then upon the screen his eyes glowed with light once more. Immediately
the seeker’s trembled; its instruments caught fire and burst open, spilling conductive fluids and cabling across
the command deck. The Master cackled with demonic glee, before the glow of his eyes darkened and the Time
Lord began hacking a phlegmatic cough strong enough to make him wheeze and tense for breath. Yet even in
his extreme distress, the Master still managed a final, bitter parting.
‘Farewell, my favourite primitives.’
And then the seeker shook with apocalyptic throwing all within to the ground amongst soot, ash,
and debris as the inner hull buckled and burst open and the unnaturally boiling waters of the Antarctic
poured into the breach. Sarah Jane ran against the onslaught; she slipped on the slick stone floor and crashed
upon the ground. She chocked on the rising water; she had no breath…
In years to come, there were few things Sarah Jane Smith would remember of the frantic moments which
followed the Master’s attack and her submersion in the flood. She would not remember the Brigadier’s strong
hands lifting her from the ground, nor his impassioned calls to any who could hear to follow him to safety. She
found she could not recall being carried down corridors of twisted metal and sparking flames, nor being
bundled into an escape craft by Benton and Yates mere moments before the seeker’s engines imploded to force
a massive detonation. And she would recollect nothing of the pod’s desperate flight across endless depths of
water seething with green poison beneath a land chocked with fire, smoke, and rivers of blood. For years to
come, the only things Sarah Jane Smith would remember of her darkest day were the merciless sensations of
numbing loneliness and crushing fear…
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