Missy - TARDIS clashes with Gryphon war ship in Time Vortex

That hadn’t been the intention. Her fiendishly clever plan to elude the Daleks had incorporated a teleport, a flight of stairs, three bald lies, and a classical ballet routine. The subsequent leap into the Time Vortex should have been simply dazzling, but her grand jeté had ended up as more of a pas de chat.

How was she to know the Gryphon timeship was going to be there? Honestly, it had come out of nowhere. She hadn’t seen a thing.

The TARDIS and the Gryphon ship shimmered and shuddered together in a ghastly temporal embrace. Well, that’s what you’d expect if you tried to occupy the same physical space simultaneously at every point throughout eternity.

An incoming transmission sparkled into life as a holographic Gryphon made the introductions. They weren’t polite. The creature had the body of a lioness, but with the wings of an eagle neatly folded across her back.

‘Release this Gryphon vessel at once!’

It amused Missy to adjust the hologram so that it moved under her control across the TARDIS. She manipulated the image until the creature had a vase balanced on her head. It was the ugly green urn that Missy hated but still displayed, because she’d stolen it on the day that Versailles opened, after Louis XIV had offended her with some now-forgotten slight.

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The Missy Chronicles: The Liar, the Glitch and the War Zone