Alit in Underland (short story)

Alit in Underland
Main character(s):	Missy
Featuring:	The Saxon Master, Alit
Main enemy:	Cybermen
Main setting:	Mondasian colony ship
Key crew
Writer:	Richard Dinnick
Release details
Printed in:	The Missy Chronicles
The Missy Chronicles
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Alit in Underland was the sixth and final short story published in The Missy Chronicles.

Summary

While the Doctor recovers on Floor 507 of the Mondas Colony Ship, Missy and the Master hunt for their way out - with a stowaway in tow.

Characters

• Missy
• The Saxon Master
• Alit
• Topknot
• Cyber-Leader
• Cyber-Lieutenant

References

to be added

Notes

• The story is set between the two parts of the series ten finale. It is thus the last Missy story chronologically before the episode depicting her death, forming a bookend with Dismemberment which opened this anthology as her earliest story.

Continuity

• The Master considers using his laser screwdriver on Alit. (TV: The Sound of Drums, The Doctor Falls)
• The Master tells Missy her sonic umbrella and hat are reminiscent of Mary Poppins and she tells him they've always enjoyed children's viewing. The Master then reminisces about the sun from the Teletubbies and how he thought it would look the same on the Mondas colony ship. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
  • The Master then compares Teletubbies to Clangers. (TV: The Sea Devils)
• Missy says she recently watched Frozen with the Doctor. (TV: Empress of Mars)
• Missy uses her sonic umbrella. (TV: World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls)
• Missy calls the Master out on not wanting to regenerate into a woman and the Master says women always stab people in the back. In their near future, Missy will literally stab the Master in the back and he, in turn, will literally shoot her in the back. (TV: The Doctor Falls)
• Missy recalls several women that she's used and abused throughout her lives: Galleia (TV: The Time Monster), Kassia (TV: The Keeper of Traken), Chantho (TV: Utopia), Miss Trefusis, (TV: Last of the Time Lords, The End of Time), and Lucy Saxon. (TV: The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords) The Master mocks Missy for remembering their names and Missy says she's been making herself remember names lately. (TV: The Lie of the Land)
• Missy tells Alit to "say something nice...if you like". (TV: Death in Heaven)
• Missy reminds the Master that they always "dress for the occasion". (TV: Doctor Who)
• The story ends with Missy choosing to kill her previous incarnation. (TV: The Doctor Falls)