Applejack made a break for the door.
"AJ!" the Doctor held her back.
"Let me go...," Applejack said through gritted teeth. "LET ME GO!!!"
"I understand!" the Doctor said desperately. "I know you're angry! But think! He has the entire planet under his control, we can't just rush out there. We need a plan."
"We took too long to plan!" Applejack screamed. "I was with you for too long! I was away from home! I could have... I could have...." Applejack melted into silent tears.
"i coulda stopped this."
The Doctor put a hoof on her shoulder. "i promise you," he said angrily. "I'm going to stop this. We're going to stop this. The Master has crossed a line he's never crossed before, he is now not only ready, but able to make a planet burn. I am not going to let him do that and I'm going to need your help. The first thing I'm going to need you to do is keep calm. Can you do that for me?"
Applejack looked straight into the Doctor's soul, and then wiped her eyes. "You better be tellin' me the truth, Doctor," she managed a soft laugh. "Nopony holds me back from nothin'"
The Doctor smiled. "Good!" he said brightly rushing back to the console. "Now that we are all a bit calm, we can remember that no matter what the situation is, no matter how dark, we can make it funny! Avanti!"
The Master was met by the Doctor as he stepped out of the TARDIS.
"Doctor!" the Master smiled as he stood in front of the blazing orchard. "It's good to see you again! I want to tell you a story. A story about, appropriately enough, friendship." The Master used his magic to levitate the twitching form of a small twitching purple dragon and lay it at his hooves. "This," the Master started. "This is Spike. Spike is a friend of a friend of yours. Applejack, if I've got the name right. What I've learned from being here is that the concept of 'Friendship' is very important to these creatures. They've built a civilization around it. They risk their lives for it. Take Spike here. Spike is such a good friend he wouldn't tell me where his little Resistance was hiding. Where those who would stand against me were burying themselves like the cowardly rats they were. And I put him through hell. I put him through pain that not many beings can experience without dying or losing their minds. But his will to protect his friends remained unbroken."
The Master kicked Spike, who groaned in pain.
"Look at all the good it did him," the Master smiled.
The Doctor watched all of this with a quiet rage, but he did his best to hide it. "How did you get here?" the Doctor smiled. "The Black Guardian porting you about time and space is dangerous, Master. You know that."
"The Black Guardian gave me my freedom," the Master smiled. "A way out of the rut I was in. Free reign across the timestream. Something you have Doctor. Why do you deserve it and I don't."
"Well," the Doctor shrugged. "I would say because I don't abuse it, but I suppose we're both guilty of that. So that's all that's in it for you? A bit of travel? I mean I can understand the impulse but it doesn't seem like enough. All that power the Black Guardian is asking you to obtain for him and you want all you want to do is muck about time and space like I do? That's out of character for you, isn't it? I mean with the Key to Time..."
As the Doctor came to a realization, the Master burst out in a grin.
"Oh, I see," the Doctor smiled. "That's your angle, eh? You realize he can probably see this coming, right? You may be a tosser, but he is the ALPHA tosser. The king of the tossers. The undisputed, omnipotent, God of all Tossers. He knows another tosser when he sees one, he probably has a back up plan for you."
"Honestly, Doctor," the Master smiled innocently. "I don't know what you're talking about!"
The Doctor couldn't help but laugh at that.
"There was another caveat to the deal," said the Master. "You."
"Yes, me," the Doctor smiled. "That's another good point. Why am I here? I mean I can sort of get wanting me to see the destruction of everything I hold dear, but you could have simply used the Key to Time to rip me out from my travel, away from my TARDIS, and make me watch. But you didn't. The Black Guardian came as close as he ever will to asking politely. Why? Why any of this? Why the careful chess game when you've brought a machine gun to the table? Unless... Unless the Machine gun isn't loaded."
The Master gritted his teeth.
"And here was me thinking it was hopeless!" the Doctor smiled. "You don't have all the pieces, do you? The only reason you brought me here is because..." The Doctor broke out into a huge grin. "Oh brilliant! One out of six is infinitely better then how I thought I was doing! Ha ha! Who would have thought, I have the last piece of the Key to Time!"
"Not. Quite. Doctor," the Master growled. "I'm afraid it ends here. You are going to let me into your TARDIS and I am going to collect the last segment. Otherwise I am going to take my time with this... child." He spat at Spike. "And I am going to make you watch as I do so! Your TARDIS is locked, Doctor! You have nowhere to run!"
"Actually," the Doctor smiled. "Now I do."
"What?" asked the Master.
"You've been talking to a hologram this whole time," the Doctor smiled. "I've been inside working around what you did to my TARDIS. It took me a while. Luckily it isn't hard to keep you talking. And thank you for bringing spike here! You see, you talked about some form of resistance being made against you, and he know how to find them and what their planning. Also, he's been tortured by you, so he probably knows where you're keeping Applejack's friends!"
The Master's jaw dropped.
"Oh, that face...," the Holo-Doctor smiled. "And AJ said I couldn't make this funny."
The Hologram disappeared as the real Doctor poked his head out the door. "Spike? Not sure how long he's going to stay flabbergasted, so I'd hurry!"
Spike sprung to his feet and ran inside the TARDIS.
"KILL THEM!" the Master shouted.
Several Daleks came out of the burning orchard and fired in vain at the dematerializing TARDIS.
The Master took a moment to seethe before his face split in a mad grin. "All right, Doctor," he hissed. "If this is how you want to play it....
"Let the games begin."