Meet Missy! (short story)

Meet Missy! was a short story published in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2016. It was written in the first person from 's perspective and saw the Master summarising their own life story.

Summary
tells her life story — from the day she first met the Doctor to her escape from the Dalek City on the reborn post-War Skaro!

Characters

 * The Master
 * The Doctor
 * Clara Oswald

Continuity

 * Missy summarises her activities in several incarnations: "the Beardy One", who had to "hang around" Earth "all the time" because the Doctor was exiled there; (TV: Terror of the Autons, etc.) "the Yucky One", who was the product of the Master attempting to regenerate one more time despite being at the end of his regeneration cycle; (TV: The Deadly Assassin, PROSE: The Doctor vs the Master) "the Sneaky One", who was fond of disguises and may or may not have once turned into a cat; (TV: Castrovalva, Survival) "the Snaky One", who escaped by turning into a snake and stealing a new body; (TV: Doctor Who) "the Nice One", a kindly human scientist who was unaware of his true nature; (TV: Utopia) "the Bonkers One" who once got himself elected Prime Minister (TV: The Sound of Drums) and later replaced every human on Earth with a version of himself; (TV: The End of Time) and finally, Missy herself, "the Best One", who describes herself as being "back in the Doctor's life" and notes that in her opinion, "he loves [her], really". (TV: Deep Breath, Death in Heaven)
 * The Master has a "vague memory" of turning into a cat once when they were "the Sneaky One". (TV: Survival)
 * Missy notes that her minions have included Autons, (TV: Terror of the Autons) Daleks, (TV: Frontier in Space, The Curse of Fatal Death) "her Cyberdears" (TV: Dark Water) and Clara Oswald. (TV: The Witch's Familiar)
 * Missy remembers staring in the Untempered Schism as "a little boy" and going "completely gaga". (TV: The Sound of Drums)
 * She insists that she is the Doctor's archenemy, not Davros. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)