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In one potential future for '''[[the Master]]''', at some point after {{Roberts|n=his taking over Bruce Gerhardt's body}}, he forged an alliance of sorts with the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|"pale aristocrat" Ninth Doctor]], who gave him a new lease of life in the body of an [[android]] bound to [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]].   

The Eighth Doctor glimpsed an [[The Doctor's reality (The Curse of Fatal Death)|alternative future]] in which he became the [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|"listless looking" Ninth Doctor]] whom a [[The Master (The Curse of Fatal Death)|bearded incarnation of the Master]] attempted to exact what he called the "[[deadly vengeance of deadly revenge]]" upon, only to find himself attracted to the newly regenerated [[Thirteenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'')

According to some accounts, the Master escaped the Doctor's TARDIS with an established corporeal form some time later. Eventually, the Master and the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|Ninth Doctor]] crossed paths in the flesh. The Master aided the Doctor in repelling the alien foe responsible for invading [[Gallifrey]] and the death of the Doctor's previous companion. It was during this encounter that the Master was left damaged and without a suitable body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor (short story)|Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor]]'') However, according to [[Boy (Heaven Sent)|one Time Lord historian]], some had at least speculated that the Doctor had simply built the android body for the Master as a result of his death falling through the Eye of Harmony. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')

At any rate, in return for his aid, the Doctor offered to transfer the Master's mental resources into an [[android]] body, the appearance of which the Master could personally select. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (novelisation)|Scream of the Shalka]]'') The Master accepted, though he would later remark this was a foolish choice. ([[WC]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'') While this body granted him corporeal form, he was limited to the confines of the Doctor's TARDIS as his android body was purposely designed to never be able to leave the ship. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Feast of the Stone (short story)|The Feast of the Stone]]'') In his new home, the Master served as the TARDIS Defence System. ([[WC]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'') Now bound to travel with the Doctor, the pair was sent to work for the Doctor's unseen superiors to solve the dangerous problems that plagued the universe. ([[INFO]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'')

When the TARDIS arrived in a dank cavern, the Master broke the Doctor free of a psionic force that caused him and Alison to experience a bombardment of traumatic and emotional memories. It was eventually discovered that the Master's memories were being fed into Alison's mind so the [[psychic]] [[vampire]] could feast off her emotions. While his body was shut off in an attempt to save Alison, the Master was eventually connected to the TARDIS' telepathic circuits by the Doctor in order to destroy the psychic vampire; the Master's pure evil memories and personality being too much for the creature. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Feast of the Stone (short story)|The Feast of the Stone]]'')

According to one account, the Master's mind was eventually ripped out of the TARDIS by the [[Time Lord]]s so that they could {{Jacobi|n=resurrect him}}, a process which left the TARDIS console damaged. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]'') He went on to fight in the [[Last Great Time War]], witnessing the [[Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War|Dalek Emperor]]'s takeover of the [[Cruciform]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') in a body somewhat similar to the android's appearance, albeit with fairer hair and a different cut of beard. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Only the Good (audio anthology)|Only the Good]]'')

However, according to other accounts, the version of the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s future where he became the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|pale-faced gentleman]] was a different future from the one that ultimately led to the [[Ninth Doctor|Northern chap with big ears]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'') even if these two [[The Doctor's ninth incarnation|Ninth Doctors]] and [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|a third one]] were equally real. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') Accounts dealing with the [[Last Great Time War]] further depicted the Master's resurrection by the Time Lords in starkly different circumstances, with the fair-haired "War" Master resembling the android not even being the body he was first resurrected in. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Day of the Master (audio story)|Day of the Master]]'') There existed some degree of uncertainty among post-War Time Lord historians as to precisely when in his timeline the Time Lords had resurrected the Master, with some going as far as to suggest that they had simply plucked him from the moment he had fallen into the Eye of Harmony, skipping over any later developments altogether. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')

* With the ''[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' being an ongoing series at the time of ''Scream of the Shalka''{{'}}s release, range editor [[Justin Richards]] connected the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s continuity to that of the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|"Shalka" Doctor]]'s via the Master. As Richards confirmed in [[DWM 338]], the novel ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'' tied in to ''Scream of the Shalka'' with a scene in "the room in the TARDIS where the Doctor never goes," wherein the Eighth Doctor encounters the Master's essence trapped in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] since [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''. The link between the 'ghost and the machine' and the 'Android Master' was later clarified by [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'', which stated that "some rumours" said that after the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' "[the Master] remained trapped in the Doctor's TARDIS, his mental resources transferred into an android, acting as the Doctor's companion or pet."

* According to the production information text on the ''Scream of the Shalka'' DVD, in original drafts of the script, instead of an android of the Master being the TARDIS Defence System, it was going to be a hologram of the [[Fifth Doctor]]. This was later changed so that it would be the Master instead.

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