Veronica and Martha sat down with their backs against a different door from before to temporarily rest after having sealed it with dry ice. Veronica observed, "That'll hold them for now."

The com sounded with the Captain's voice, "Good work, you guys. Right now it's holding, but I want you two to hold your positions."

"Will do."

Martha motioned to the com. "Can I ask him something?"

Veronica nodded and handed her the com. Martha's voice seemed a little worried as she asked, "Sam, have you heard from the Doctor?"

"They're fine, they just closed a door and locked it, but the Ice Pirate is trying to outsmart the system, and open the door. All I can do is warn them of what's going on."

"Thanks."

Veronica became curious. "You kind of fancy him don't you?

"Well, I wish, but we're just really good friends."

"Right. So, he's with Rose?"

"You too, huh?" Martha sighed. "He likes Rose over me, and so it's like I kinda get left out sometimes."

Veronica smiled encouragingly. "Right, well, for right now we've got each other! Don't we? I mean, you seem like a good person. Don't worry yourself over what that man thinks. What's he know, right? I mean, what's so special about Rose that you don't have?"

"He's never really told me. Just kept mentioning her name before, but he lost her so I suppose that's why he likes her more – 'cause he saw what it's like for her to be gone."

"Yeah… Martin. I always had a thing for him. Can't…" Her face fell. "Just can't believe that he's gone…"

Martha scooted closer to her and rubbed her back comfortingly. It kind of put everything in perspective for her.

On the other side of the ship, the Doctor and Rose had reached the engine room. Before them was a round cylinder encased in glass with controls all around it.

The Doctor knew that time was short and they had to make this as quick as possible. He asked Rose hurriedly, "Do you see any random metal objects hanging around?"

"Yeah, right there!" Rose ran over to it and threw it to the Doctor.

The Doctor caught the heavy object smiling broadly and pulled out his sonic screwdriver to scan it. "It's perfect!" He then moved around the engine's console until he found a small crawl through door for repairs. The Doctor opened it and was cascaded by very hot smoke.

Once it cleared, he noticed one of the holes for ventilation. If he could expose the metal to the extreme heat he could have a potential weapon to combat against the Ice Pirate that was soon to catch up. The Doctor only got the metal object into the hole barely, but couldn't get it in more. "It's not fitting!"

Rose yelled encouragingly, "Push it harder!" The Doctor pushed as hard as he could and made it budge.

"Doctor, we've got company." Rose could slightly hear the Ice Pirate that was pursuing them. "Tell me you have it ready, I'm serious."

"It's not hot enough. Give me another second."

Rose tentatively grabbed another object. She knew she had given her location away by talking to the Doctor, but she might still be able to fool it and whack it with the metal to save time if she stayed quiet. She was ready to hit it as soon as it decided to emerge.

Suddenly, the lights flashed off and Rose was on her own. She really couldn't communicate with the Doctor now so she took a step back slowly with her heavy metal makeshift weapon at the ready.

Rose could barely see anything as the only light was coming from the opening in which the Doctor was in. A patter of a foot followed as she took another step backwards toward the light and the Doctor with her heart jumping a beat in response.

It was quiet, just too quiet. Maybe her mind had been playing tricks on her. Rose muttered to herself quietly, "I know you're here."

After a couple more steps backwards, she had reached the opening when she felt the Doctor's foot against her leg. If Rose called for him she'd give away her position so she kicked him.

"Oi! Watch it! What's that for?"

Rose shook her head in disgust at him before moving to kick him again, but at that moment she was roughly grabbed from behind by icy cold and whitish gray scaling hands which made her jump.

As Rose turned to look at her captor it immediately grabbed her body and pulled her back into the dark. She instinctually screamed before becoming muffled.

Immediately after hearing her, the Doctor pulled the metal out whether it was ready or not. He made sure not to touch the exposed heated end and dropped it to the floor before bringing it out with him into the darkness. It was so hot he couldn't touch it for more than thirty seconds so it stayed at his feat as he stood up.

Rose was nowhere to be seen and the Doctor was starting to get very worried. "Rose? Rose? Where are you?" All he knew was Rose and the Ice Pirate that was likely holding her against her will, were in the room. He could smell both of them. It was thankfully using Rose as a diversion so it could kill them both instead of just her.

He could only throw the object once, but if he missed it would all be over. The deaths of two of the members of the S.S. Centari were all the proof he needed. The Doctor had no idea what to do and he knew he had very little time in which to do it.

Just then he heard something kicked followed by an angry growl and Rose's voice desperately yelling "Throw it, Doc…muh!" Her voice became muffled again as he distinctly heard an empty click from a gun.

With his Time Lord senses, the Doctor knew how hard and in what direction to throw it, but knew he'd be throwing it straight at Rose which would knock her down and possibly burn her as well. At the exposed end it could melt lead. It was a chance he'd have to take to make sure she lived.

Just as quickly, the Doctor picked up the excruciatingly hot receptacle muttering painfully, "Ow!" and threw it like a hot potato into the dark.

Firing from a gun followed before he heard a couple bodies hit the ground with an "Oomf" illuminated from the light being given from the smoky metal. Pained growling and Rose's scream followed which made the Doctor race over to them.

As he neared, he saw Rose throw the glowing metal off of her and onto the other body screaming painfully, "Bloody, HOT!" It seemed to be over so the Doctor passed her to the wall and found the button for the lights once again.

Rose was lying there clutching her chest painfully while staring at their pursuer who had already started melting. It had managed to throw the heavy metal object off, but the grayish white humanoid figure was increasingly becoming more and more of a liquid. Its pained growling was almost heartbreaking until it ceased entirely.

The Doctor made his way over to Rose and asked her, "How bad is it?" When the Doctor was close enough she removed her hand and he gasped as she hissed from the deep pain. It looked bad at first glance and he was the one that had hurt her…