What seemed like days were merely hours since the others were taken. Rose paced back and forth trying to figure out how she could find here friends and save them. Suddenly, like a bolt of lightening, she remembered - she had the TARDIS. She had forgotten and now rushed as fast as she could back to it. She made her way back to where the TARDIS was located, but when she got to the door, it was locked. She banged on the door furiously and then stood back, looking at the TARDIS. Then again, she remembered.

She reached into her shirt and pulled out a necklace which hung a key. Removing it from her neck, she took the key, inserted it into the lock and turned it. She heard a click and then pushed on the door, opening it. She rushed inside and went to the console. She was here, but was suddenly struck with confusion.

'How could she find the Doctor and the others?' she figured, 'Would she find them all in the same place or would they be scattered all around time and space like dust on the wind?'

Standing at the console, she began to think. She looked around and then she saw it, the one thing that many times had come in handy so to speak - it was the Doctor's severed hand, bubbling in its container. Reaching down, she picked it up and moved it closer to the console on the side where what appeared to be a round outlet. Dropping to the floor, Rose found a junction box with a plug connecting a cord with the two parts. She jumped to her feet and back to the console. She knew now what she could do.

Using a DNA Locating Program, she could lock onto the Doctor's DNA signature and use the TARDIS to find him. The program was something that Mickey and others had come up with to locate aliens living or hiding on Earth. It was for Torchwood she was working with. Within a few minutes, the program was inputted and ready to go. All she had to do was hit a button.

At this moment, another flashback occurred, this time, it was at the Presidential Palace on Gallifrey. Inside the central meeting chamber, the 8th Doctor stood in front of a wall of huge glass windows, looking out over the Citadel and beyond it at the Mountains of Solace and Solitude and the two suns, which sat at the horizon. Another day of war had ended. A pair of double doors opened behind the Doctor. Standing in the doorway was Madame President Romana, smiling.

"You have some visitors…"

Romana nodded to someone in the hallway beyond the double doors and the figure of a woman with long black hair wearing a chain of beads and a woven hair braid in her hair appeared. She wore a long, flowing white gown; very similar to the one Romana wore when she first met the Doctor so long ago. The 8th Doctor knew at an instant who it was.

The Doctor let out a cry of joy, "Susan! My dear granddaughter…"

Susan smiled, "Grandfather, it's you. You've changed…"

The Doctor smiled, 'So have you. Regenerated did you?"

"Yes, this makes my 4th time," Susan walked up to the Doctor's side, "And which one is this? You're 6th?"

The Doctor looked at her and chuckled, "No, I left my 6th long ago. This is my 7th…"

"Good heavens, there are 8 of you now. I'm only on my 4th. I'm beginning to think that I'm the lucky one…"

The Doctor and Susan grinned at each other and laughed. Susan turned her head and looked down behind the Doctor, then looked back at her grandfather, smiling and giving him a look which told him to look behind him. Suddenly, the Doctor felt a thug from two little hands on the back of his coat. He turned around and discovered a pair of little male children, probably no older then 5 or 6 years old. Not only were these children a pair, but they were identical twins.

The Doctor kneeled down and smirked, "Hello, who are you then?"

Saying nothing, the children smiled and suddenly grabbed onto the Doctor's neck and embraced him. The Doctor looked on, confused. Susan looked down and smiled, kneeling down next to the Doctor.

The children let go of the Doctor and move over to Susan, putting their arms around her. The Doctor looked at Susan, wondering what had happened. Susan smiled, "You've been gone to long grandfather. It was a shame you were not here to see them be born. It is a custom you know…"

The Doctor suddenly realized who the children were and went wide eyed with shock, then shook his head and began to grin, "Oh no, not you. You are kidding me…"

Susan nodded, then grinned and laughed. The Doctor placed a hand on the shoulder of both children and gentle smiled at them, "Hello..."

The children looked at him and smiled. The Doctor looked up at Susan, "Oh sorry, I'm so sorry. I should have been here to witness their birth…"

Susan gave a melancholic smile, "It is a custom of many a Gallifreyan family, grandfather. To have the grandfather witness the birth of a grandchild's children. It is a tradition going back millions of generations…"

The 8th Doctor closed his eyes and looked away, "Indeed, now I feel awful. I have great-grandchildren – and I wasn't here to see them be born…"

With Susan and the Doctor looking on, the children began to laugh and run off back into the hallway beyond the double doors. Romana watched the children run passed her and the guards and giggled. The Doctor stood up straight again and turned back to the windows. Susan looked up at him and then followed him.

Susan walked up behind her grandfather and wrapped her arms around him, laying her head on his right shoulder, "Please, don't feel bad. It is just a silly little custom. It's alright grandfather. Everything is alright…" Susan says. The Doctor looked at Susan with a tear running down his face and smiled. Romana walked up next to the Doctor and together, they looked out the windows at the Gallifreyan sunset.

Suddenly, it is back in the present. Reaching over, Rose hit the button. The TARDIS sprang to life. The console moved up and down and the lights flashed. So far, the ride was moving more smoothly than many of the others she had before.
Within minutes, the console slowed down and began its descent. Soon, it had stopped.

"Well now," Rose says, "Let's just see where we are then…"

Turning on the screen, she saw that the room she had landed in was round in shape, but that was all that she could see, so it was time to get a first hand look. Reaching down on the couch nearby, she picked up a gun that was rather large and then proceeded out, peering around the corner of the door outside. She inspected for any Daleks in the area but it seemed to be all clear. She began to look around at her surroundings. It was not to well lit. Some areas are dark, but she could make out some of it, seeing that it could be a cargo area of sorts. Proceeding on, she came to the exit doors but just as she came in front of them, they opened.

She ducked behind a nearby crate but there was no one there. They must have sensed her and opened for her so that she could exit. Walking out the doors with caution, she went down the long hallway beyond them. Looking around her, she continued turning corners and walking down hallways for what seemed like forever. It all looked like where she and the others had been ambushed by the Daleks before on Earth. A ship she had thought to be different, looked exactly the same as the one she was in earlier with the others. She began to think that it was a building on another planet, but this seemed to be a ship instead.

Going onward, she kept walking until finally, she came upon other doors. Giving it a try, she tried to open the first door she came to. It opened and inside, she found more crates and such. She continued to the next door she came to. She opened the door and inside, she found it to be a massive hangar, where many smaller Dalek ships could be seen. Not looking where she was going, she suddenly ran into a type of robot. Its body was hugging the floor, but its head was at eye level, struck atop a really long, tubular neck. Its long, metal arms seemed to stretch out 7 feet, with its hands adorned with 3 long, skinny metal digits. Rose froze as the robot gazed at her with its glowing red, camera shutter-like eye. Unaware of what to make of her, the robot winked its eye and then moved on, going back to working on the Dalek ship in front of it.

Realizing what the robot was, Rose began to talk to it, "So, you're a maintenance robot then?"

The robot reacted by twisting its neck back and winking its eye at her before twisting it back around again.

"Could you tell me where I am?" Rose asked. The robot slowly pointed at metal digit at a sign above an entrance. Rose looked at the sign, "Alright then, Hanger Bay 7 is it? That clears things up…"

The robot suddenly turned its head around and reacted as if it was scared of something and began to run off, its metal wheels clicking as it went. Rose began to proceed out the door the robot pointed at, but not before she heard movement. She ducked in a dark corner and began to hide. Suddenly, three Daleks came rolling past her.

One Dalek stopped and turned his top. It began to speak, "All maintenance robots will proceed to Hanger Bay 9 for immediate Dalek ship repair. You will obey…"

The Dalek stood there for a minute, watching as other maintenance robots proceeded out the far entrance of the hanger bay, before it turned and proceeded with the other Daleks. Rose stepped out from the shadows and out into the hallway beyond the entrance next to her. Soon, she came to a door on the far end of the hallway but it isn't opening like the others, so she goes to a nearby panel and punched some of the buttons but nothing worked.

She began to think to herself how sometimes it would be nice to have a sonic screwdriver like the Doctor. She couldn't remember a day when the Doctor was not using it on one thing or another, but since she didn't have one she had to make due. Quickly, she managed to pry the panel loose and inside, began to move things around.

She had learned a few things from watching Mickey but none of what she learned from him worked. Now, only one way to open it was left to her in the end. She aimed her gun at the panel and shot at it, sparks flying.

The door opened and she quickly dashed through it. Now in another hallway, she began to look around where then she found what appeared to be other doors. Making her way to the one on the right, she noticed that on each door, there was a monitor and a key pad on the wall next to them. She quickly realizes that she has stumble onto some sort of a prison hall and a holding area. As she approached one door, the screen on it came on. She could now see who or what was behind the door.

As she looked into the monitor, another flashback occurred. This time, it was in a forest on Gallifrey. The forest is bathed in twilight and a winding dirt road was seen as the moons of Gallifrey shown down high in the sky. Walking on the dirt road was a line of Gallifreyan soldiers brandishing stazer guns and other forms of Gallifreyan weaponry. Walking in front of the line of soldiers was Madame President Romana and the 8th Doctor. The 8th Doctor was wearing a full senatorial outfit, complete with flowing robes, large collar and helmet. However, the Doctor was not at all pleased with having to wear it.

The Doctor grunted in disagreement and then spoke, "Why do I have to wear this horrible disguise? I look like I complete idiot!"

Romana looked at the Doctor walking next to her and giggled, "You are just not use to wearing it that's all. And besides, you have to wear it – unless you want the Daleks to zero in on you. They know you are my primary military strategist. They will not hesitate to shoot you down on sight if they discovered you…"

"Or they will capture me…" the Doctor says.

Romana nodded and looked forward again, "Well, if they find it in their best interest to capture you, they will not hesitate to put you under that horrifying mind probe machine of theirs…"

The Doctor grunted again, "I hate wearing this. I was lucky enough to tolerate wearing it at the Prydonian Academy, minus the large collar and helmet mind you…"

Romana looked at the Doctor again and grinned, "Oh nonsense, you look dashing in it – like a proper and obedient Time Lord…"

The Doctor smirked, "Oh please, I am a renegade. Renegades think and do things differently compared to regular, ordinary Time Lords…"

Romana looked forward again, "Even still, I know you Doctor. You are truly a force to be reconed with. You are strong, clever, caring and willing. And very much a good and proper Time Lord at heart even though you don't live like a proper Time Lord. In other words – you are fantastic…"

The Doctor looked at Romana, smiled and nodded as they continued down the dirt road.

Suddenly, we are back in the present. Rose moved onto the next door and then others, seeing strange and unusual creatures and beings inside. Finally, she found one room where the contents within it are ones that she knew. Inside, she saw Jack, Martha, Mickey and Donna.

Rose looked for a way to open the door. On the wall next to the door, there was a panel that looked different from the other panels on the other doors. It was triangular in shape and had a hole in the center. This panel does not remove from the wall like the others so she gave it the Rose touch once more by aiming her gun at it. This time, she placed the nose of the gun to the hole. Before firing it, Jack looked up at the door and noticed her standing there. Rose soon noticed that Jack saw her and gave a hand signal through the monitor that she was going to blast the door open. Jack warned everyone around him by telling them to stand back from the door.

Rose aimed at the panel again and fired. The impact of shooting the gun nearly threw her off her feet, but it does the trick and the door opened. She rushed in through the open door, "Were any of you looking for me?"

Mickey ran up to her, "Rose, are we glad to see you…"

"Likewise…" Jack says.

"How did you find us?" Martha asked.

"No time to explain. We got to get out of here…" Rose says.

"What about the Doctor? Have you found him yet?" Donna asked.

"Yeah, speaking of the Doctor, where is he?" Jack asked, "I assume he was supposed to be with you…"

"We don't know," Martha says, "He disappeared before we could find out where he went. We've been here ever since we were beamed up and brought here…"

"Well I think its time we found him. Let's go…" Rose says.

As the group proceeded outwards and into the hallway, a group of Daleks were waiting there for them. There, they began to fire on Rose and the others.

"Take cover!" Jack yelled, firing back at them with Rose's gun.

He has the only weapon, which he manages to hit one or two Daleks, causing them to explode. The Daleks soon began to fall back as so does Jack and the others. Jack and the others soon take up refuge in a nearby room, which appeared to be a laboratory of sorts. It appeared to be where other Daleks were made.

Donna looked around, "This place gives me the creeps…"

"Nothing to worry about, Martha replied, "It's just a bunch of harmless Dalek shells. Maybe there is something in here we can use as weapons…"

Not noticing a red light began blinking on a nearby console, Jack found some Dalek lasers which he managed to get working for use of human hands.

Suddenly, everyone turned, stopped and began to stare at Donna.

Donna shook her head, "What? – What's the matter? What is it? What?"

Mickey began to point, saying nothing.

Martha spoke up, "Turn your head, slowly. Look at your right shoulder. There is something right behind you…"

Donna suddenly froze in fear. Fearfully, she slowly turned her head to look at her right shoulder and noticed a long spider leg of metal. There was a Dalek behind her, but it stood high on a pair of metal spider legs, looking down on the others. It was a Spider Dalek.

"Hold on, that thing just came out of nowhere…" Mickey says.

"It had its invisibility cloak on. Spider Daleks were specifically made to fight in the Time War. Some say they are better at what they do then ordinary Daleks, being able to ambush their targets ten times better. It just came out of nowhere…" Jack says, trying to get closer.

The spider Dalek looked down at Jack and spoke, "Halt! Do not move or she will be exterminated!!"

Donna screamed hysterically, "Get it off!!"

Jack tried to get closer, but it gripped onto Donna tighter, causing Donna to scream out in pain and collapse to the floor. The others ran towards Donna, but suddenly stopped when the spider Dalek wrapped a type of long metal tentacle around Donna's neck and aimed its gun at the others. Jack looked up at the spider Dalek then looked behind it at something while the others kept their eyes fixed on the menacing creature before them. Then, he looked back up at the spider Dalek and spoke, "So you want to play games do you? Well try this one…", Jack leapt forward at the spider Dalek.

Rose cried out, "Jack! NO!"

The Dalek aimed and fired, "Exterminate!!"

Jack was hit and fell to the floor with a thud. Suddenly, a large tarp is thrown over the Spider Dalek, causing the Dalek to panic, "Alert! Vision Impaired! I can not see!!"

Donna managed to break free from the Spider Dalek's grip, then ran to Martha. Rose didn't know where the tarp came from until she looked around it at the figure that stood behind it. It was the Doctor. The Spider Dalek moved its body and arms around in a panic, unable to see where it was going, until the Doctor came up behind it and kicked it over the edge of the platform it stood upon, falling 10 feet to the cold, metal floor bellow.