The Doctor, Rose, and Martha walked along a paved road amidst a futuristic looking city. The multitudes of people walking around them wore a huge assortment of colors with a hint of a a very reflective silver on collar and sleeves. All around them were tall buildings with the tops of many of them hidden by some low level clouds. There were no streets or highways, but instead a sea of flying vehicles filled the skies. To all three of them it was almost a work of art as they gazed in wonder.
The Doctor broke the silence. "Most wonderful I've ever seen London to be!"
Rose pointed up in the sky. "Hold on, we're actually up there on Satellite Five right now."
Martha became intrigued hoping for a story while the Doctor grinned before shaking his head. "We would be, in about, oh, 188.000 years more. This is the 2nd Roman Empire. Wait… 3rd. I Always forget about that Holy Roman Empire rubbish. But I will tell you that we're on Sirius right now. All the way on the other side of the galaxy."
"Right now, right now?"
"Well, theoretically speaking. I'm taking in consideration the speed of light, and…"
Martha cut him off. "Trust me, we don't want to know."
The Doctor was shocked for a moment, but then recovered. "Quite right too."
Martha grinned. "Still, very nice engagement present indeed."
Rose asked, "That's the TARDIS for ya. Still... You work out what brought us here, Doctor?"
The Doctor pulled out his psychic paper. "This building right here, actually. The message is coming from the 63rd floor."
Rose looked up into the sky again. "Blimey."
The Doctor laughed and led them inside the revolving doors. They were quickly met by an enthusiastic man that reverently exclaimed, "Doctor!" before reaching to shake the alien's hand.
The Doctor's face was open in shock as the man pulled away. "And by the looks of it your number ten, which should make you Rose, and you Martha Jones." As he pointed out the women he again shook their hands like some type of crazed fan.
Martha asked, "Do we know you?"
The man laughed. "Manners. My apologies. I'm Eric Benz, Associate Liaison Protocol Security Officer for Torchwood Yelta 63."
The Doctor grumpily added. "You brought us here, didn't you?" His history with Torchwood had not exactly been a pretty one and the Doctor's tone made it pretty clear. Still, no one was arresting him this time like on Canary Wharf or at least that's how it seemed.
"We sent a tractor beam into the vortex and programmed it to your TARDIS. We could have gotten any Doctor, but I like Ten. Your one of the better ones, Doctor."
The Doctor smiled at the compliment, but Rose was skeptical. "How is it that you know all this?"
Eric looked at Rose like she would know, but after not getting the response he expected he explained, "We've been following the Doctor. Quite inspired we are by this man and all that he's done. Especially the most recent Torchwood charter. The efforts of a Jack Harkness during the 21st century is one of the major reasons we are who we are today."
The Doctor added, "Jack, yeah, he's good people. But the question is why did you bring us here?"
"Right and to the point. I like that." Eric clapped his hands in finality. "Follow me into the lift and I'll show you!"
The Doctor, Rose, and Martha followed the enthusiastic Eric Benz into the lift where he called out, "63," as the doors shut and with a sudden strut of motion the doors again opened just as quickly to a lab room.
The three of the time travelers were welcomed with an almost chorus of voices, "Welcome back, Doctor!"
The Doctor blindly waved at all the Torchwood employees who wore large grins looking at him. "So you've heard of me I take it?"
Eric pointed to one of the female workers. "Alice, can you show our guests the video?"
Alice walked over to a wall and pressed a button which made a small screen light up on the wall as it began playing soundless.
A dark hidden figure seemed to be shaking someone's hand. "That's Agent 'T.I.N'. Notice there's no period after the N. He's been in the books for Torchwood for over 200 years. The man signed on at Torchwood in 11.800, but his name has since gone missing." The figure wore a hood walking down a street. "We don't know his name, where he came from, or really anything other than he's a man. We are mostly sure of that, but he's building something." An explosion is shown in a building. "Random power outages, explosions, and everytime we try to intercept him there's trouble."
Rose asked, "What kind of trouble?"
"Trouble as in our agents don't return. We've lost seventy four agents and have never found their bodies. Whatever he's doing, he's assembling an army of former Torchwood staff." The screen showed several dark figures marching. "For what I haven't the faintest, but we fear someone's trying to overthrow something more than the Roman Empire." Another explosion was shown with people running and one of them being shot with a ray gun before falling to the ground dead. "And we need your help!"
As the Doctor put his hand up to his chin Martha asked, "Agent T.I.N? That some type of acronym? A name perhaps?"
The Doctor shook his head. "Too obvious. He's been thwarting Torchwood for 200 years. No, it has some higher meaning."
Rose asked, "Any clues at all where we could even remotely find him?"
Eric grinned briefly. "Thankfully, we do." The picture on the wall showed a power grid of a building. "Three blocks to the South in the historic Yonkers 5C Building we've detected a large power surge a few hours ago on floor one hundred eighty. It's a message. A trap even."
The Doctor studied Eric. "So, you lot tracked my ship and transported me here to be your lab rat."
Eric looked very apologetic, but quickly regained his composure. "But, who is the best man of them all? The Doctor, that's who!"
Rose shook her head. "Blimey, you lot have changed." The hero worship was starting to get annoying.
As many of the Torchwood employees looked on hopefully Eric Benz asked, "So, will you help us, Doctor?"
"Oh yes! I'll help you! But I want a replacement Tridemoreactor for the TARDIS that you lot broke with your teleportation nonsense." Eric nodded and the Doctor concluded, "Brilliant!"
