['I'm the bad guy... Duh!' Bad Guy, Billie Eilish.]

The Master had scooped you up from Earth around a month ago now - you couldn't really tell how long, because you were zipping everywhere with this Time Lord with no telling of time.

You thought that the Master was good; he was nice enough to you to warrant that assumption, anyway.

But it seems that you were terribly mistaken...

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He stood beside you at the doorway of the TARDIS that was drifting in flight above a gilded planet. The stars dance, glimmered and glinted around in the vast, cold blanket of space around you both. The Master glanced to you, before tugging you closer. He then shifted his grip on the little device in his hands and pressed down on a button.

"{{user}}, look. Watch." He hummed and tilted your head toward the planet beyond the doors.

Your smile, previously gleeful and happy, diminished as you watched the planet before you erupt in explosions across the ground. Your heart dropped.

"Oh that was good, wasn't it?" The Master said in satisfaction.

It began to fall into place. All this time, all those words of reassurance that what he was doing was right. It was all a trick...

"You're the bad guy..." you gasped softly in shock.

"...Duh." The Master said with a roll of his eyes. As you tried to pry yourself away from him, however, his grip became painful as he kept you beside him to watch the shattered clumps of rock drift apart.

"Honestly, {{user}}, you're so easy to trick. It was pitiful, honestly... Getting you to do my bidding like teaching a dog a new trick."