Schofield

**Schofield** was a refugee of the Time War who later saught revenge on the Time Lords.

## Biography

Schofield was a child of the Time War, living on a planet that was caught between the crossfires of the Daleks and Time Lords long before she was born. At nine years old, the planet was subject to a Time Lord Scorched Earth policy due to suspected Dalek agents and laboratories hidden beneath the surface - but as a teenager, Schofield hacked into a desolate Battle TARDIS crashed on the moon that housed the refugee camp she lived at afterwards, desperate for answers and discovered that no Daleks had ever been present on the planet after accessing the Matrix, realising that its destruction had all been for nothing.

Schofield was one of the few survivors who managed to escape in time, alongside Durmush and Pekt, both with whom she made friends with on the ride to the refugee camp. Growing up constantly hungry, wounded and scared for their lives; the three resented Time Lords for what they had done and sworn revenge. As an adult and when the Time War was over, Schofield bought a ship and spent years searching for Gallifrey; before being told by a wastelander who hid their face in a space bar that it had long gone ever since the war ended. With this information, Schofield returned to the planet where her people had been relocated to and tried to settle down into normal life, but something was always uneasily lingering in the back of her mind. All the mean time, she kept a diary.

Eventually, she heard from another wastelander - or was it the same one? They all looked the same with their dirty faces, messy hair and greedy looks - that Gallifrey had returned at the end of the universe and they were willing to provide her the coordinates for no cost. Accepting without a thought, Schofield rounded up Durmush and Pekt, before travelling to Gallifrey's location, using technology taken from that Battle TARDIS she had gone in all those years ago. They arrived to find no Gallifrey, but reasoned that it was merely shielded and that they simply needed to break through. Sure enough, they waited until the Sixteenth Doctor's TARDIS materialised to take Iriel based off her summons home - teleporting the TARDIS in her ship just as the shielding was lifted and snuck inside.

Staying high in orbit, Schofield realised to fly straight down to Gallifrey's surface would be suicide; so she imprisoned the Doctor and Iriel before attempting to crack into the TARDIS. She had originally planned to use the Battle TARDIS, but the dematerialisation circuit had gone bust and it was inoperable. She attempted to extract the secret of how to open the TARDIS from the Doctor's mind; but the Doctor resisted her mind probe, which only made Schofield more angry. It was then the Doctor asked Schofield what she was actually going to do once on Gallifrey - to which she admitted she had no idea, just having been fuelled by trying to cause some sense of anarchy as payback, but the Doctor questioned if that really honoured the memory of those she had lost.

Meanwhile, Iriel was sneaking around and discovered Schofield's diary. She had begun reading it before Durmush found her and dragged her to Schofield to ask how to punish her. But Schofield was now self-reflecting and questioned the Doctor more - how could she move on without justice? The Doctor made no attempt to defend the Time Lords, but explained that attacking innocent people for the crimes committed by people long gone was not the route she wanted to take. It was then Schofield abandoned her efforts, something Pekt did not take lying down. He attacked Schofield, but she got the upper hand by tripping him. He ran off, but no one followed, not until the ship began to fall. Schofield realised that Pekt was attempting a last ditch attack and told the other three to escape with their lives, as she went to the control room, knocking out Pekt and attempting to pull the ship up, before finding that the engines required to do so had been cut. With nothing for it, she steered the ship to crash in the desert instead of a populated area - dying as a result.

After the Doctor and Iriel left and returned Durmush home, Iriel showed the Doctor the diary and wondered how the wastelander knew those details about Gallifrey. The Doctor frowned, before she realised what to do - going back in time in both cases to be the wastelander that spoke to young Schofield, thus sending events in motion. (TV: *A Gallifrey Made for Murder*)