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After being executed by the [[Dalek Prelature]], '''the Master''' used a [[Deathworm Morphant]] to ensure his survival by possesing the body of [[San Francisco]] ambulance driver [[Bruce Gerhardt]].

When the Master was tried and executed by the [[Dalek]]s, he made a request for the [[Seventh Doctor]] to return his remains to Gallifrey, only to use a [[Deathworm Morphant]] to take the Doctor's TARDIS to [[1999]] [[San Francisco]], where he possessed the body of ambulance driver [[Bruce Gerhardt]] after he had gone to home and bed after taking the Doctor to hospital to be healed from a gunshot wound. The next morning, the Master awoke, now inhabiting Bruce's body, but realised that the American's body had started decaying and would not last long and launched his scheme to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations, with his first act being the murder of Bruce's [[Miranda (Doctor Who)|wife]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') and then used Bruce's memories to track the Doctor to [[Walker General Hospital]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'')

Learning from Bruce's colleagues that the Doctor had died on the operating table and that his body had apparently been stolen, the Master was also informed by [[Nurse]] [[Curtis (Doctor Who)|Curtis]] that  the young gang member who had been present when the Doctor was shot, Chang Lee, had also stolen the Doctor's possessions, including the [[TARDIS key]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Heading to the TARDIS, the Master found Lee already inside, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') and regaled him with stories of the Doctor's supposed villainy, claiming that the Doctor had stolen his lives and home, and was also [[Genghis Khan]]. With Lee's help, the Master was able to open the [[Eye of Harmony]], and discovered that the Doctor had [[regenerate]]d into [[Eighth Doctor|a new body]], and that the Doctor was apparently half-[[human]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')

Stealing Bruce's [[ambulance]] by murdering his [[Joey Sneller|paramedic partner]], the Master and Lee answered [[Dr]]. [[Grace Holloway]]'s request for an ambulance to collect the Doctor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') and agreed to take them to [[Professor]] [[Wagg]]'s [[atomic clock]] at the [[Institute for Technological Advancement and Research]] and repair the timing malfunction the Master caused with the clock's [[beryllium chip]], when he was really planning to bring the Doctor back to the TARDIS. Realising the Master's true identity, the Doctor and Grace escaped, but before they could do so, the Master secretly [[Possession|possessed]] Grace's mind. When the Doctor got back to the TARDIS to fix the timing malfunction, the Master had Grace knock the Doctor out and put him in restraints.

As the Eye of Harmony tried to break him down into pure energy, the Master managed to ride the energy into a spare room, which the Doctor's TARDIS then ejected into the Time Vortex to protect the Doctor, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (audio story)|The Lifeboat and the Deathboat]]'') though the Master managed to lay a final trap for the Doctor, leaving a crystalline structure on the Eye that would give the Doctor [[amnesia]]. However, the Doctor was subconsciously guided by [[Rassilon]] to recover his memories by visiting his previous seven incarnations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') The Master, meanwhile, would remain stranded in the vortex for hundreds of years, rooting through the Doctor's possessions in search of something to help him escape. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (audio story)|The Lifeboat and the Deathboat]]'')

The Master was greeted by a {{Gomez|n=female incarnation of himself known as "Missy"}}, who had developed a plan to form a band to hypnotise viewers of ''[[The Battle of the Bands Beyond the Stars]]''. {{Pratt|n=His decaying thirteenth incarnation}}, {{Ainley|n=an incarnation possessing the body of Tremas}} and {{Simm|n=an incarnation going by the name "Saxon"}} all joined in the plan, and the team spent "decades" practising. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'') After unveiling their presence to the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen]]'') the Masters prepared for their performance. However, the "Tremas" Master began to fight with Missy over the control of [[Missy's device|her device]], believing that he alone could hold the universe in his grasp. The "Decayed" Master joined in the struggle, followed rapidly by the "Deathworm" Master, and the group soon became involved in a full on brawl. The five were quickly disqualified, seemingly destroying them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'')

The Master managed to capture a child of the [[Vormatoda]]. Inspired by a VHS he found in the TARDIS' spare room, the Master brainwashed and disguised it as his daughter “Alison". In the meantime the Vormatoda began attacking passing timeships in search of its child, leaving components which the Master could salvage. He eventually built a form of ship around the jettisonsoned TARDIS room but was still stuck in the Vortex. After her vortex manipulator stalled mid-transit, he rescued [[River Song]] via the tractor beam he’d acquired. With him posing as "Daniel", she began to help him retrieving bits of wreckage from victims of the Vormatoda, including a piece of a prison ship that had been transporting psychopath [[Kaliopi Mileska]].  During Mileska’s rampage, his true identity was revealed and River discovered the truth about Alison. She managed to break Alison’s brainwashing, allowing her to return to her natural form and reunite with her parent. With the Vormatoda now attacking his structure, the Master managed to escape the Vortex with Kaliopi in a stasis pod from the prison ship. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (audio story)|The Lifeboat and the Deathboat]]'')

The Master eventually found himself on [[Kolstan]], where he met [[Artron]], and posed as an assistant sent by the Time Lords. When the [[Eighth Doctor]] arrived in the future Master's TARDIS, the Master inflicted a fatal wound on the Doctor and used this to force Artron to operate a machine that would transfer the energy of the native Kolstani into him. However, Artron was able to adjust the machine so that he would absorb the power of the Kolstani, although this unintentionally turned them into the [[Ravenous]]. When Artron absorbed the power of the Kolstani and disappeared with the Doctor, the Master used his future TARDIS to escape to the [[The Master's way station|Time Lord station]] that all his incarnations used as a base.

Meeting with the {{Jacobi|n="War" Master}} and {{Gomez}}, the "Bruce" Master worked with them to stop the Ravenous's alliance with the Eleven, the "Bruce" Master acting as the group's negotiator due to the Ravenous' inability to eat him in his current state. After undoing the Eleven's scheme, the "Bruce" Master had his memory of the events that had occurred wiped and was thrown back into the Vortex by his future selves to preserve their timeline. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Day of the Master (audio story)|Day of the Master]]'')

Having been trapped in the Vortex for what felt like “an eternity“, the Master managed to make psychic contact with Earth on [[Halloween]]. Teasing the humans about the holiday and his wishes for freedom, he vowed to be free soon. ([[WC]]: ''[[Listen to the voice of your Master! (webcast)|Listen to the voice of your Master!]]'') He later psychically contacted Earth again near [[Christmas]], which he noted was "halfway out of the dark". He offered whoever was listening a bargain for his freedom. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Master wants to be your Santa Claus (webcast)|The Master wants to be your Santa Claus]]'')

The "Bruce" Master was generally calm and sinisterly villainous but was also capable of terrifying rage. After he took possession of [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|Bruce]]'s body, and after finding out that his new body was not stable, he became determined to steal the remaining lives of the Doctor himself. When his attempt to take the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s remaining regenerations was thwarted, the Master reverted to a more basic, brutal approach, attempting to smash the Doctor's head in with a staff positioned around the Eye, proclaiming that "life [was] wasted on the living" and rejecting the Doctor's aid when he was being pulled into the Eye.

The "Bruce" Master was very petty, snapping [[Chang Lee]]'s neck when he refused to follow an order, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') and sabotaging his "Decaying" incarnation's happiness out of spite. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'')