What If... the Doctor remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 11)

Last time, we left a gaggle of Doctors (and one reformed Master) and companions trapped in three conjoined TARDISes, a (more) sinister version of the Seventh Doctor and Missy attempting to break the safeguards put on the Key to Reality by Susan's Doctor (resembling the First Doctor of the main timeline), The Doctor from the Empire of the Wolf universe learned what had happened to the Adam Mitchell from the War Master's universe, and - to top it all off - the Black Guardian and the Chronarch went to war against each other for all the marbles.

Bad news, right? Let's continue the story!

What If... the Doctor remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 10)

Last time, the Doctors working under the White Guardian had managed to acquire the five pieces of the Key to Reality. Captain Jack Harkness from the Wolfverse has the sixth, and has teleported away to parts unknown. The Chaos Doctor and Missy were imprisoned by the Doctors and the Chronarch found himself at the mercy of the Great Intelligence. Things are spinning out, and we seem to be heading toward the final battle for the fate of reality itself!

What's gonna happen next?!

What If... the Doctor remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 9)

Happy Birthday to me!

Hey, everybody! Been a while, hasn't it? Last time... look, a bunch of things happened and it turned into a massive cluster. Honestly, if it didn't, this wouldn't be a Doctor Who story, but let me try to sum up as best I can.

What If... the Doctor remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 8)

Last time, the Chaos Doctor (resembling the Seventh) kidnapped the Guardian Doctor (resembling the Fourth Doctor) and stole from him the fourth fragment of the Key to Reality. Elsewhere Jenny, her Doctor, and Ross Jenkins were in another version of the Land of Fiction and aided another of the Doctor's multiversal counterparts in finally defeating that place and escaping its terrible trap. Likewise elsewhere, the Jack Harkness from the Wolfverse and his complimenting Doctor have their reunion at last and manage to evade the Chronarch... but for how long?

And what will become of them next? Let's take a peek!

What If. . .the Doctor remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 7)

Last time, the Doctors aplenty were splint up across the multiverse to recover the Key of Reality, a powerful artifact not unlike that of the Key to Time, though on a significantly higher scale. 

What If. . .the Doctor remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 6)

Last time, the Doctors and the Master were pulled away from a Gallifrey in distress by none other than the White Guardian, who tasked them not with seeking out the Key to Time, but instead to seek out an even more powerful artifact - the Key to Reality - to stop the Chronarch and his insane plan to consume and control all of Time itself in every universe. Will they succeed? Let's find out.

Oh, for everyone keeping score, we currently have...

• A Doctor from a timeline where he never met Rose Tyler. (Roseless Doctor - who resembles The Tenth Doctor)
• A Doctor from a universe where Jenny survived The Doctor's Daughter. (Jenny's Doctor - resembling the The Eleventh Doctor)
• A Doctor from a universe where the Empire of the Wolf caused a gigantic paradox. (Wolf Doctor - again resembling the The Tenth Doctor)
• A Master from a universe where the Master, instead of the Doctor, was the last survivor of the Time War. (resembling The War Master)
• A Doctor from an as yet unknown timeline where the Doctor is still in his fourth incarnation and is serving the White Guardian. (Guardian Doctor - resembling the Fourth Doctor)

For those not aligned with the main group, we have:

• The Chronarch, a version of the Doctor who appears to have become the Time Lord Victorious. (resembling the Tenth Doctor)
• The Chaos Doctor, a version of the Doctor from a universe where Rassilon was largely benign as we saw back in Part 4. (resembling the Seventh Doctor)

Got all that? Good.

What If. . .the Doctor remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 5)

Last time, several of the Doctors had been cornered on a Gallifrey in a universe where not only was the Doctor an evil chessmaster psychopath, not only were the Daleks facing off against a far more benevolent Rassilon, but the Chronarch had arrived to bring an end to the War once and for all. . .by destroying the Time Lords. Gallifrey was being swarmed and all was definitely not well. More to the point, there seemed to be some trouble onboard the Chronarch's ship as Jack is captured, the Wolf is killed, and Dalek Caan has ended up in the custody of the Chronarch.

Bad news bears, right? Let's see what happens next!

What If...the Doctor remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 3)

Last time, we had a bit of a cluster as a few different Doctors and even a Master teamed up against an evil that was extending its power throughout the multiverse, hunting down different incarnations of the Doctor and stealing their regenerations for himself. However, his plans were further reaching than even that, extending out into the multiverse with the intent to conquer every universe and become the King of Time itself.

Will the Chronarch succeed? Or will the Doctors (and Master) be able to save the day and all of reality itself? Let's find out!

What If...The Doctor had remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 2)

Last time, we were introduced to not one but two version of the Doctor - each one very different from one another and one of them met an unfortunate end after discovering a terrible, terrible secret. Now, the Chronarch is poised to head to another universe to, presumably, consume the Doctor of that universe as well.

Meanwhile...

What If...the Master was the Last of the Time Lords? (Part 2)

Last time, we saw the Master as the sole survivor of the Time Lord race following the destruction of that race, the Daleks, and Gallifrey. Gone, blown up, kaput with the use of the Moment.

The Time War is over, and the Master is the victor.

Without his people or his old nemesis the Doctor to stop him, the Master seemed poised to take the whole of space and time by storm and shape it to his iron will...except that he didn't. Crushed by all he had seen, all he had done, he was unable to cope. All of that struggle, all of those years of the Doctor telling him he would come to a bad end, and he finally had.

He had nothing now...with only a lone TARDIS and as long as his new regeneration cycle would hold out to wander the universe.

What If...the Master was the Last of the Time Lords? (Part 1)

Given that I've finally managed to review Utopia/The Sound of Drums/The Last of the Time Lords without snapping like a Twix Bar (somehow), I figured it was time to bust out a What If that's been knocking around in my head ever since I started this series of What Ifs...what if the Master had survived the Time War instead of the Doctor?

Now, I know that sounds a bit crazy and that we technically do have this scenario as presented in the three-parter I just managed to get through, but let's change things up a bit. I guess a better title would be "What If...the Master was the Last of the Time Lords?".

...nailed it!