The doctor wandered the Tardis aimlessly pressing buttons and flipping switches. He was traveling alone again, and couldn't make up his mind as ot what he wanted to do. Usually he had a companion to help him decide, but when he was alone with all of time and space before him, he was very indecisive. Just as he was about to flip the final switch that would send him to the intergalactic trade center on Pluto, he noticed big bold, red words flashing on the screen on the console. "Incoming distress signal" it read.

"Well this is new." The doctor commented to himself. "Usually it's a small red light. This must mean that it's someone I know."

He pulled out a keyboard and started typing rapidly; a map showed up on the screen. "Oh…it's coming from canary Wharf." he started punching random letters. "Torchwood? What could possibly be going wrong with Torchwood?"

He took off sprinting around flipping new switches and pressing new buttons. Sparks started to fly and the TARDIS started tumbling through the time vortex.

Meanwhile at the torchwood institute, sirens were blaring, red lights were flashing and computers were sparking.

"Jack! I thought I told you to send out a distress signal!" Gwen shouts from across the room.

"I did!" A man who resembles the English actor John Barrowman shouts back.

"Well….where did you send it to?"

"I sent it out to the doctor! If anyone can help us in this situation, it's him." A small fire started in the corner of the room. "Gwen, where's the fire extinguisher?"

Gwen tossed a small red canister to Jack. " Jack, he could be anywhere in space and time how do you know he can make it? How do you know we aren't going it on our own?"

Jack sprayed white foam at the now foot high flames. "I trust him Gwen. He'll be here."Just then the sound of the TARDIS filled the room. "I told you so."

More little fires started to pop up and the room filled with smoke. The TARDIS continued to materialize around Jack and Gwen as they coughed, and gasped for air. The fires were huge now, and the smoke was thick and black. Everything in the Torchwood lab was on fire; years of research and an entire archive of alien technology, all at the mercy of the gargantuan orange flames. The TARDIS completed its materialization with Jack and Gwen safe inside.

"captain jack Harkness, long time no see." The doctor grinned across the room. Jack, who had been bunched over coughing looked up to greet his old friend. "I see you still have the pinstripe suit and converse. " Jack smiled. "How's it been?"

"Eh, well could be better. Been a bit lonely 'round here." The doctor's eyes became serious. "Is she alright?"

Gwen had fallen to the floor still coughing. Jack's face paled. "Her asthma!" He shouted in terror. "The smoke must have severely triggered it! Damn! And her inhaler was lost in the flames!"

Gwen's eyelids began to flutter as she continued to cough and gasp for air. The doctor rushed over and crouched by her side as she passed out.

"Doctor is there anything we can do?"

The doctor scooped Gwen up in his arms and sprinted towards the opposite side of the TARDIS. "Well, I can take her to the hospital Deck of the TARDIS and program it to take care of her until we can get her to a proper hospital." He was sprinting down a long corridor now, with Jack at his heels.

"There's a Hospital deck on this thing?"

"Jack, we Timelords may be able to regenerate but it takes a certain amount of illness or injury to trigger that."

"But if you don't trigger the regeneration doesn't that mean that you don't need medical attention?"

"Jack if I have a giant bullet wound it may not trigger the regeneration but that doesn't mean that I can brush it off now can I?" The Doctor pushed open a huge oak door with his shoulder.

"You have a point."

"Yes, I do. Besides, my ship has a pool, a library and several kitchens, why wouldn't it have a hospital?" He laid Gwen down on a hospital bed and sprinted over to a closet across the room, where he pulled out a huge panel of buttons. "Jack, help me plug these into the bed."Jack rushed over and started matching plugs with holes. When the panel was all hooked up, the doctor started punching what seemed to be random buttons. Jack looked over at Gwen and noticed that she was no longer breathing.

"Doctor! She's not breathing!"

"I Know, I'm well aware of that! I'm working as fast as I can."

"Is she going to be alright?"

The Doctor looked up from the buttons, with his fingers still working quickly, and met Jack's eyes. "Trust me, I'm the Doctor." Just then, Gwen gasped and her breathing returned to normal. The doctor put the panel off buttons on the night table next to Gwen's bed and headed back toward the main part of the ship.

"So is she ok? Is it going to heal her?"

"No, it won't heal her, after all the hospital deck was made for Timelords not Humans; but yes, she will be fine for now. It will keep her alive until we can get to a proper human hospital. Even if something goes wrong that causes the TARDIS looses power, that support system will keep her stable. Now, what caused that fire?"

"It was the rift. It reopened itself and started causing power outages all over the country. We tried to shut it down but our systems failed and we lost power. When we tried to activate the backup generators and reboot our systems a fire sparked."

"So the rift is open. Lovely!"

"I hope that was sarcasm."

Just as the doctor was about head out for a hospital, the power went out. The TARDIS shook like it was trapped in a violent earthquake. The shaking seemed to last forever before finally there was a loud thud and everyone was free to walk about the ship without falling over. When serenity was restored, The doctor sprinted out the front door with Jack at his side. They were on a beach. A beautiful tropical beach, with a town not too far off in the distance.

"Where are we?" Jack whispered

"Hold on…" The doctor licked his pointer finger and stuck it in the air and his face turned pale. "Jack we have a problem…a big, big problem."

"What's wrong…"

"Well…" The Doc. Ran his fingers through his perfect hair "for starters we aren't in the same universe, and secondly….we're on Tortuga!"