#like does he just go knock on the tardis door like doctooooorrrrr

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what if, when after the master is like "leave now or die" in potd to the doctor, the doctor had just done that. what would the master have done

okay okay i know like carnage or whatever but lets say they did some planning first, on the way over, time machine and all that. the doctor, in an uncharacteristic bit of having learnt from past mistakes, being like "okay yaz listen heres how this usually goes. he probably has earth hostage in some way, or else just a mid-sized crowd. this scheme works with one hostage honestly but hes an exhibitionist. hes extremely predictable and we all know what he wants, which is me, so heres what we're gonna do"

figure out who/what/where the hostages are, how theyre being threatened, call in help from all the friends currently at their disposal to make sure those are freed or removed or whatever hes using to threaten them is made unusable, either cut the wires of the big red button, or interfere with his radio so he cant say Go, whatever they can figure out first, then they go to naples, do the same scene, and when the master is like "leave or die" the doctors like "okay! come on yaz"

and the master runs after them like "nononono heyheyheyhey you cant do that?? i will kill a guy!" and the doctors like "yep i heard you, but being erased from existence isnt really the day i was planning on having so, rip. i dont know your guy"

and then they go sit in the tardis with popcorn like 12 at the start of world enough and time with kate on the line for back up and watch him lose his mind