Located on the small planet of Larninx Six was a structure that defied most laws of physics, or at least seemed to. The Erebus Fortuna night club was like a giant hourglass suspended in the perpetual night sky but instead of both sides being the same height and width the top part was about half the size of the bottom part.

The top section was for VIPs: presidents, corporate bigwigs and occasionally the odd dirty time agent. The bottom was for the rest of the universe. The rest of the universe with 700 credits in their pocket at least and that's only admission, drinks were double, sometimes triple the price they were at regular bars on neighbouring worlds. Nothing about Erebus Fortuna could be described as "regular" though as the blonde haired woman downing her fifteenth hyper martini knew. She had spent the best part of five years working behind the bar, waiting for this night, waiting her night.

"No freebies Bianca!" A colleague snapped at her from across the bar

"Tell Jim the Fish to take it out of my last pay check" Bianca retorted

Bianca; even though that wasn't really her name had spent thirteen lifetimes travelling the Multiverse. Three of which she had spent saving this universe (almost) sober with just a little tipple after the day was saved. Six she spent surfing the cosmic highway that was love, looking for the right man and always failing. At one point in her life she was a singer that could rival Shirley Bassey and another she was an alcoholic mad woman who wanted nothing more than to get off her head and show the whole Multiverse what she had. One of her "Regenerations" went wrong however and she had regressed into a baby, the very memory of the experience made Bianca shudder.

Every one of her incarnations had such wonderful lives no matter how "dodgy" they started out. They had such brilliant, shining companions. They traversed the entire Multiverse righting wrongs in their beautiful big red bus bound for Putney Common. Then she came along. Bianca couldn't remember the exact details of her last death, it might have had something to do with saving a human version of Panda after he had trapped himself in a radiation jar or that might just be the fifteen hyper martinis talking.

When Bianca was "born" she was born into the name that all of her predecessors had taken "Iris Wildthyme" and the "Mantle" of the Transtemporal Adventuress was bequeathed to her. She travelled for years seeing the wonders of the Multiverse, tasting fine wines and meeting "him" she knew that she was on her final life. Her species could defy death 12 times, 13 incarnations of Iris Wildthyme could be running around fighting foes, winning hearts and having fun and she would be the last. Bianca accepted that this was the natural order of things, she didn't want to end up clutching to life, augmenting her body to change one last time and squandering the precious life that she had left. This however all came to an end on the planet Tersurus where "Iris 13" was tricked and almost killed by an alternate evil version of herself who had contracted a virus known as Dogma and was trying to swap bodies with "Iris 13" The good Iris eventually triumphed over her evil doppelganger but her perception had changed, the lines between good and evil blurred instantly for "Iris 13" as she took her revenge on her alternate.

Deciding that the natural order of things was for the "Lesser Citizens of Creation" Iris gave up her name becoming instead Bianca Zenobia and stripped herself of the moniker of "Transtemporal Adventuress" Crossing her own time line, Bianca set up a plot to trap Iris Wildthyme's Sixth Incarnation (the drunk) and steal her remaining regenerations. It was a unique, inventive solution to Bianca's problem however with the help of "Him" "Iris 6" foiled Bianca's plans and helped save this universe from a threat Bianca had inadvertently unleashed.

Since that day Bianca had met three other Irises, who she tried to steal regenerations from, an incarnation of The Master who she thought was trying to hit on her but was really trying to steal her hand bag and helped a Sontaran Battle Fleet collapse a solar system. With time though even her life of villainy and survival was threatened.

About eleven years ago Bianca felt it for the first time. She was travelling through the vortex in her trusty (albeit stolen) Time Ship, The Valkyrie when the ship started shaking uncontrollably, the readings from the radiation instruments were off the charts. Taking a look outside from the blast windows, Bianca saw something that made her sick to her stomach. Countless abominations were bleeding into the vortex, feasting on raw time energy, the vortex was ripping apart like a tissue. Every cell in Bianca's body was screaming, her people had a close relationship to time and it seemed as though time was dying and it was going to take her with it.

Then Bianca blinked and it was gone, no abominations, no raw time energy, no pain searing through her body. She sat in the cockpit of The Valkyrie for hours wondering what she had just seen. Reliving the brief glimpse of this massive event in her mind over and over again until she made her decision. Whatever she saw was a future event rippling backward through time, it was the end of this universe and it was coming quite soon. The entire experience scared Bianca to the point that she set coordinates for Minyos II in the 51st Century and traded her ship to a black market scientist as payment for a specific piece of technology he was starting to develop. She asked him to contact her once it was completed and she would give him her current location so she could have the tech and he could have the operating codes for The Valkyrie.

The message came about three days ago. "Project: Homecoming complete. Where are you?" Bianca couldn't believe it, she had almost given up hope that she would get her hands on it. She sent the scientist the coordinates and told him to meet her in the Erebus Fortuna night club, he told her that he would reach her in three days and around 1 AM. Bianca checked her watch. 1.52AM, she sighed.

"Oh come on, cheer up!" exclaimed a voice from Bianca's past

The owner of the voice, a middle aged unkempt looking man in a blue jacket and jeans sat down next to Bianca. The last time she saw him in this particular incarnation was centuries ago but back then he was young and dashing, now he looked like a shadow of his former self.