The tardis hurled through the fabric of space and time. The control room rocked violently.
"Doctor, what's going on?" Helen shouted.
"Getting closer to the anomaly, "The doctor struggled to pull down a lever, "Seems to be severly affecting the Tardis. That hole is spewing out massive amounts of timey-wimey stuff and the Tardis does NOT like any of it."
Helen approached the controls and began working with the doctor to make sense out of the chaos. Desmond couldn't help but feel useless.
"Anything I can do to help?" he piped up.
"Yes!" The doctor confirmed, "Look impressed!" The doctor managed to pull down the lever, the tardis let out a howl of various mechanical sounds and three vuvzuelas. He quickly manipulated several knobs, toggles, and switches. Helen could not keep up with the doctor's movements. The Tardis began to slowly cease in its fit.
The doctor let out a sigh of relief. "I'm really glad that worked, anyway… here we are!"
The monitors displayed the impossible, a hole in space.
"There it is you two, a hole drilled through the dimensional barrier."
Desmond and Helen had seen many things in their travels with the doctor, but this took the cake.
"Right, while you two stand there being mesmerized, I'm going to extend the airsheild" The doctor flipped a switch on the dash. "And take a look."
The doctor dotted off, both his hands filled with equipment. After some difficulty he managed to open the door revealing the vast emptiness within the vast emptiness.
The doctor floated in the zero gravity conditions, under the air shield, in front of a hole in space.
He fiddled with all sorts of probes and sensors. Desmond and Helen watched on as the doctor's expression became increasingly filled with horror and intrigue.
The Doctor finished with his operations. He waded his way back into the tardis and dumped the instruments on the floor, not uttering a single word.
He began messing with the tardis controls. Helen knew enough about the tardis to know he wasn't planning on traveling through time.
"What are you doing? If you keep that up we'll only move through space, like a normal ship."
The doctor responded barely aware of her presence and emotionless in tone, "The rift is projecting a chronic displacement field, most likely attributed by those who made it. Any use of Artron energy is incredibly dangerous; we have to move by space."
"Move? Where?" Desmond asked.
"Finding out now desmond." A bit of the doctors enthusiasm flickered through his words. "According to these faint temporal imprints, a ship emerged from the rift and headed towards- " The doctor fell silent, he clasped his head between his hands.
After a few moments of silence Desmond saw fit to ask the matter, "Doctor? Headed where?"
The doctor raised his head and for with an expression of pure panic he muttered: "Gallifrey"
The doctor immediately switched to unrelenting resolve and slammed a nearby lever. The entire Tardis heaved and began to race through the stars.
Even in the safety of the interior the passengers could feel the G-forces acting on them. The tardis console was now a spectacle of dazzling sparks. The doctor struggled with all his might to manage all of the dozens of controls. Neither Helen nor desmond could reach the console as they were too busy hanging onto the railing for dear life.
And suddenly, just as soon as it started it ended. The tardis had stopped. Parked in the orbit of a massive Luminescent Orange planet. The doctor wasted no time and immediately began checking monitors.
"No." That was the only word spoken.
Outside of the tardis, the great void instantly became filled with thousands of ships of various size, shape, and color. They were joined by thousands more saucer shaped ships. All of them surrounded the tardis.
The monitor in front of the doctor began beeping and flashing. The doctor took ages to reach out and flip the switch next to it. The monitor displayed two things; an older man in a cloak with two rather unnecessary collar pieces surrounding his neck. The other: a burning bright bulb attached to a long stalk that connected to a metallic cone.
The Timelords and the Daleks both in one place one time.
The Timelord spoke in a mocking tone, "Hello doctor, it's been such a long time. I do hope you haven't forgotten about how you sentenced us to an eternity of seclusion. That would be unfortunate as then the punishment we are about to bring upon you would be pointless."
The Dalek followed up with a simple word: "EXTERMINATE."