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

Worldbuilding

 * refers to Clara Oswald as her latest minion, whom she describes as "scarier" than past allies of hers, including the Nestenes, the Daleks and her "Cyberdears".
 * According to Missy, she and the Doctor stared into the Untempered Schism together as "little boys"; he was fine while the Master-to-be "went completely gaga", albeit finding the experience pleasurable.
 * Missy notes that she has spent "the last few thousand years" trying to "obliterate" the Doctor.

Continuity

 * Missy summarises her activities in several incarnations;
 * "", who had to "hang around" Earth "all the time" because the Doctor was exiled there. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
 * "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)
 * "", who was fond of disguises and may or may not have once "turned into a cat"; (TV: Castrovalva, Survival)
 * "", who escaped his execution on Skaro 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)
 * "" 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)
 * "The Best One", herself, 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)
 * 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, and that Davros is not. She had also expressed this sentiment when the Twelfth Doctor indeed regarded Davros as his "archenemy". (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)