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"Now, what do you think of that?" Yvonne asked the Doctor.

The Doctor didn't answer. He just kept looking at the sphere, almost in a trance. Andy was also looking at it, tilting her head in confusion.

A scientist came up to him. "You must be the Doctor. Rajesh Singh. It's an honor, sir."

"Yeah," the Doctor replied absentmindedly, still looking at the sphere.

"What is that thing?" Jackie asked Yvonne, both looking at the sphere as well.

"We've got no idea." she replied, shaking her head.

"But what's wrong with it?"

"What makes you think there's something wrong with it?" the scientist, Rajesh, asked.

"I don't know. It just feels weird."

"Well, the sphere has that effect on everyone. Makes you want to run and hide, like it's forbidden." Yvonne explained to Jackie.

The Doctor put Andy down and went to investigate the sphere, going up right under it. When Yvonne saw she went over to him, everyone else following.

The Doctor put on those 3D glasses, putting hands in his pockets while Rajesh talked about the sphere. "We tried analysing it using every device imaginable. But according to our instruments, the sphere doesn't exist. It weighs nothing, it doesn't age. No heat, no radiation, and has no atomic mass." Rajesh went back over to Jackie.

"But I can see it." she argued.

Rajesh took off his glasses. "Fascinating, isn't it? It upsets people because it gives off nothing. It is absent."

"Well, Doctor?" Yvonne called.

"This is a void ship." he replied.

"And what is that?"

"Well, it's impossible for starters." he took of the 3D glasses and put them away. "I always thought it was just a theory, but it's a vessel designed to exist outside time and space, travelling through the Void." He sat down on the ramp leading up to the sphere, by Yvonne and Rajesh. Andy came up and sat on his lap.

"And what's the Void?" Rajesh asked.

"The space between dimensions. There's all sorts of realities around us, different dimensions, billions of parallel universes all stacked up against each other. The Void is the space in between, containing absolutely nothing. Imagine that. Nothing. No light, no dark, no up, no down, no life, no time. Without end. My people called it the Void. The Eternals call it the Howling. But some people call it Hell."

Andy's eyes widened. "Why would anyone want to go there?" she asked the Doctor.

The Doctor looked down at her. "To explore? To escape? You could sit inside that thing and eternity would pass you by. The Big Bang, end of the Universe, start of the next, wouldn't even touch the sides. You'd exist outside the whole of creation."

"You see, we were right. There is something inside it." Yvonne said, proud.

"Oh, yes." the Doctor replied.

"So how do we get in there?" Rajesh asked

"We don't!" the Doctor got up, taking Andy with him holding her as he pointed to the sphere. "We send that thing back into Hell. How did it get here in the first place?"

"Well, that's how it all started. The sphere came through into this world, and the ghosts followed in its wake." Yvonne answered.

"Show me." the Doctor commanded, going out of the room and taking Andy with him, turning left.

"No, Doctor." Yvonne called out, making the Doctor go the other way, Andy laughing.

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They entered a big, white room that led to a dead end. Behind it, a glass room with many people working. Yvonne took them to the dead end. The Doctor went up and touched the wall, putting Andy down

"The sphere came through here. A hole in the world. Not active at the moment, but when we fire particle engines at that exact spot, the breech opens up. " she explained.

"How did you even find it?" the Doctor asked, taking his hand off the wall.

"We were getting warning signs for years. A radar black spot. So we built this place, Torchwood Tower. The breech was six hundred feet above sea level. It was on the only way to reach it."

The Doctor put the 3D glasses on again. "You built a skyscraper just to reach a spatial disturbance? How much money have you got?"

"Enough." she answered and walked away towards Jackie, who was in the glass room, Andy following. They saw Jackie looking out of a window.

"Hold on a minute. We're in Canary Wharf. Must be. This building, it's Canary Wharf." she said.

"Well, that is the public name for it. But to those in the know, it's Torchwood." Yvonne explained as the Doctor walked back to them, leaning against the door frame.

"So, you find the breach, probe it, the sphere comes through six hundred feet above London, bam. It leaves a hole in the fabric of reality. And that hole, you think, oh, shall we leave it alone? Shall we back off? Shall we play it safe? Nah, you think let's make it bigger!"

"It's a massive source of energy. If we can harness that power, we need never depend on the Middle East again. Britain will become truly independent." Yvonne defended. " Look, you can see for yourself. Next Ghost Shift's in two minutes." she walked out if the room, everyone trailing behind.

"Cancel it." the Doctor demanded.

"I don't think so."

"I'm warning you, cancel it."

"Oh, exactly as the legends would have it. The Doctor, lording it over us. Assuming alien authority over the Rights of Man."

The Doctor pointed at her. "Let me show you." he ran back to the glass room. "Sphere come through," he pointed the sonic screwdriver at the glass, making it crack. "But when it made the hole, it cracked the world around it. The entire surface of this dimension splintered. And that's how the ghosts get through. That's how they get everywhere. They're bleeding through the fault lines. Walking from their world, across the Void, and into yours, with the human race hoping and wishing and helping them along. But too many ghosts, and-" he tapped the glass, making it shatter.

"Well, in that case we'll have to be more careful." Yvonne turned around. "Positions! Ghost Shift in one minute."

The Doctor walked up to her. "Miss Hartman, I am asking you, please don't do it."

She faced him. "We have done this a thousand times."

"Then stop at a thousand!" Andy had never seen him so angry.

"We're in control of the ghosts. The levers can open the breach, but equally they can close it."

"Okay," the Doctor replied that time, surprising Andy.

Yvonne was surprised as well. "Sorry?"

The Doctor went to get a chair. "Never mind. As you were."

"Is that it?" Yvonne questioned.

The Doctor brought the chair back and sat in it. "No, fair enough. Said my bit. Don't mind me. Any chance of a cup of tea?" he asked a worker.

"Ghost Shift in twenty seconds." one of the workers informed Yvonne.

"Mmm, can't wait to see it!" the Doctor exclaimed.

"You can't stop us, Doctor." Yvonne told him.

"No, absolutely not. Come here, Andy. Pull up a chair, Rose. Come and watch the fireworks."

Andy did as she was told and climbed into his lap again. Jackie put her hand on the chair, leaning against it. Yvonne just kept looking at the Doctor

The worker started to count down. "Ghost Shift in ten seconds. Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two-"

"Stop the shift." Yvonne ordered abruptly. "I said stop."

"Thank you." the Doctor said gratefully.

"I suppose it makes sense to get as much intelligence as possible. But the programme will recommence, as soon as you've explained everything."

"I'm glad to be of help."

"And someone clear up this glass. They did warn me, Doctor. They said you like to make a mess."

Andy, Jackie, and the Doctor all looked at each other. The Doctor got up, still carrying Andy, and headed to where Yvonne was going, Jackie trailing behind.

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They ended up in Yvonne's office. Yvonne was sitting at her desk, while the Doctor was sitting adjacent to it, his feet up on the desk. Jackie and Andy standing to the right of him.

"So these ghosts, whatever they are, did they build the sphere?" Yvonne asked.

"Must have. Aimed it at this dimension like a cannon ball." the Doctor replied.

"Yvonne?" Rajesh voice came from her computer. "I think you should see this. We've got a visitor. We don't know who she is, but funnily enough, she arrived at the same time as the Doctor."

Yvonne turned her computer so the Doctor could see the screen. "She one of yours?"

Andy was surprised to see Rose on the screen.

"Never seen her before in my life." the Doctor replied, confusing Andy.

"Good. Then we can have her shot." Yvonne replied.

"Oh, all right then. It was worth a try." the Doctor replied, taking his feet off the desk and sitting up. "That's, that's Rose Tyler."

"Sorry. Hello." Rose waved at us. The Doctor and Andy waved back.

"Well, if that's Rose Tyler, who's she?" Yvonne asked, gesturing to Jackie.

"I'm her mother." Jackie replied.

"Oh, so you travel with her mother?" Yvonne asked the Doctor, but Jackie responded, "He kidnapped me."

"Please, when Torchwood comes to write my complete history, don't tell people I traveled through time and space with her mother."

A soft clunk was heard, only by Yvonne, as the Doctor, Andy, and Jackie kept talking.

"Charming." Jackie said.

"I've got a reputation to uphold." the Doctor defended.

"What reputation?" Andy asked, grinning.

"Oi," the Doctor replied. "Someone's getting sassy."

Yvonne left the office. "Excuse me? Everyone? I thought I said stop the ghost shift. Who started the programme? But I ordered you to stop! Who's doing that?" Andy looked out to see the levers moving as Yvonne continued to question the workers. "Right, step away from the monitors, everyone. Gareth, Addy, stop what you're doing, right now. Matt, step away from your desk. That's an order! Stop the levers! Andrew!"

Scientist try to hold back both of the levers as the Doctor noticed something, " What's she doing?" He headed to the same worker that was counting down earlier, everyone else following.

"Addy, step away from the desk. Listen to me. Step away from the desk!" Yvonne ordered the worker.

The Doctor snapped his finger in front of her face to receive no reaction of any kind. "She can't hear you. They're overriding the system. We're going into Ghost Shift." He looked at the dead end wall. "It's the earpiece. It's controlling them. I've seen this before. Sorry. I'm so sorry."

The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and zapped the earpiece with it. The worker they were at and everyone else with the earpiece screamed, and then they collapsed.

"What happened? What did you just do?" Yvonne questioned the Doctor.

"They're dead." he replied, surprising Jackie, Yvonne and Andy.

"You killed them." Jackie accused.

"Oh, someone else did that long before I got here." the Doctor defended, working at the computer.

"But you killed them!" Jackie exclaimed.

"Jackie, I haven't got time for this!" the Doctor told her.

"What were those earpieces?" Andy asked, investigating them.

"Andy, don't." the Doctor told her, heading to another worker's computer.

Andy backed off, but Yvonne still had questions. "But they're standard comm. devices. How does it control them?"

"Trust me, leave them alone." the Doctor ordered.

Yvonne ignored him. "But what are they?" She pulled the device out of the worker's ear, revealing a gray string that made Andy queasy.

Yvonne quickly let go. "Urgh! Oh, God! It goes inside their brain!"

"What about the next ghost shift?" the Doctor questioned from where he was.

"Ninety percent there and still running. Can't you stop it?" she replied, heading over to the Doctor, Jackie and Andy staying where they were.

"They're still controlling it. They've hijacked the system."

"Who's they?"

"It might be a remote transmitter but it's got to be close by. I can trace it." he got out his sonic. "Jackie, stay here and watch Andy!" he ran out of the room. Yvonne following.

Andy and Jackie did as they were told. Andy looked at the wall where the sphere came though and saw it glowing. Suddenly, the Doctor and Yvonne came back with their arms behind their heads, but metal men were following them as well.

"Get away from the machines. Do what they say. Don't fight them!" the Doctor yelled.

The metal men activate some kind of gun and kill the men holding down the levers. Jackie and Andy quickly went by the Doctor as they put their arms down.

"What are they?" Jackie questioned the Doctor.

One of the metal men responded to her question. "We are the Cybermen. The Ghost Shift will be increased to one hundred percent."

The levers started to move up and the light grew brighter. Andy held on to the Doctor's leg and she could feel his hand on her head.

"Here come the ghosts." he said.

More figures appeared from the light. Andy now understood what the ghost were.

"But these Cybermen, what've they got to do with the ghosts?" Jackie questioned.

"Do you never listen? A footprint doesn't look like a boot." the Doctor replied.

"Achieving full transfer." the lead of the Cyberman said.

"Jackie," Andy said, gaining her attention, as well as the Doctor's. "These Cybermen are the ghost."

The Doctor nodded. "They're Cybermen. All of the ghosts are Cybermen. Millions of them, right across the world."

"They're invading the whole planet." Yvonne said.

"It's not an invasion. It's too late for that. It's a victory." the Doctor informed her.

"Sphere activated. Sphere activated. Sphere activated. Sphere activated." the computer repeated over and over again, gaining everyone's attention.

"But I don't understand. The Cybermen don't have the technology to build a Void Ship. That's way beyond you. How did you create that sphere?" the Doctor questioned the leader.

"The sphere is not ours." the leader replied, confusing the Doctor.

"What?"

"The sphere broke down the barriers between worlds. We only followed. Its origin is unknown."

"Then what's inside it?"

"Rose is down there!" Jackie exclaimed.

Andy was confused. If the sphere didn't belong to the Cybermen, where did it come from. What was it's purpose. She looked up at the Doctor. She knew that he had encountered the Cybermen before by the way he acted. Judging by the way he kept her behind him, he knew what they were capable of. Andy wish she knew, but for now she was content with hiding behind the Doctor until she found out.