With Abel hot on their heels, the Doctor, Rose, and Martha ran for their lives out of the building and back onto the college campus.

They began weaving in and around the college students, who were completely shocked, with some staring at the action as Abel began to catch them and close the gap. Their chase soon took them to the street, where a car almost hit the Doctor, slamming on its brakes as he briefly put his hands on the hood in a defensive posture. The driver looked on in annoyance as the three of them ran away.

Abel was now a foot behind as the travelers headed into an alley. The long run was starting to make Rose wince from the pain in her partially healed leg, but the TARDIS wasn't too far off. Get to the TARDIS, and they could be safe and plan their next move.

Martha turned over a couple of garbage cans behind them in the interest of slowing down their pursuer, which worked as Abel had to push the cans out of his way in haste to continue chasing them.

The Doctor called out, "It's just a couple more blocks!"

Rose replied through her strained breath, "The sooner the better!"

As they rounded the corner in the alley, Martha unconsciously kicked a a small pebble forward through her stride, which Rose stepped on next with her right foot.

Suddenly, the pain shot through her leg, and Rose fell forward on to her stomach with an "Umfff."

The Doctor and Martha stopped and turned around to quickly help her up, but Abel had caught them and stopped right next to Rose's body. The blonde tried to get up but stopped, letting herself fall back in an almost fear. Abel's cocky voice brought a tingle of fear in all of them. "Rose. Seems you've seen me recently the way you are looking at me."

Through Rose's pain, she muttered, "I lived, no thanks to you."

The Doctor stepped forward warningly. "Leave her alone, Abel."

"Nice to see you again too, Doctor, and…"

Martha realized that Abel hadn't yet met her as she replied, "Martha." This meeting was apparently before the Time Agent encountered them in the future Earth's New Roman Empire. Timelines…

Abel winked at Martha suggestively before grinning at the three travelers again as if he liked what he saw. "I don't have a single weapon on me, and yet you lot seem to fear me."

The Doctor answered chillingly, "It's not you that we fear."

Abel smirked. "Oh, you mean the Dalek? All those years in training of the Time Agency you kept hearing fear the Daleks. Fear the Daleks. Their loss. I say, when it really comes down to it why not form an alliance with the most honest creature in all of time?"

Martha testily replied, "Because they're crazy. Just when you think you have the upper hand Caan'll kill you."

"Not when I have something he wants, he won't."

Rose added in realization, "The army. You're building up a whole fleet of Daleks."

The Doctor realized the implications. "You'd be like Davros."

Abel shook his head in disgust. "Never that, I'm a business man, Doctor. Not some chair ridden legend that's uglier than my dead uncle, Malphonius."

Rose propped up her body with her arms to sit and looked up at the man. "I'm sorry for your uncle, but you must see reason here."

Abel looked down at her from his still taller stance. "I'd much rather see the big bad wolf dead."

Rose knew about the Game Station or at least the vague details of it. It was enough to know that he was threatening her and she was having none of it. Especially after she had just reached out in sympathy following an attack on her life. Rose was a bit peeved to say the least. "I'm right here helpless on the ground! Why don't you kill me right now then?"

The Doctor warningly called out. "No, Rose. Don't!"

Abel sneered seemingly backing off. "I'll get my opportunity, I'm sure. Maybe even this next time I see you. You're ready to die aren't you? I can see your badge and weapon behind that skin of yours."

Rose said nothing as the Doctor looked on with a sad realization. Martha wouldn't believe it though. Maybe the Doctor felt that he no longer knew his Rose anymore, but the Rose that she knew could never be described like that. It was downright insulting even. "Rose is no soldier."

Abel looked Rose up and down studying her as he grinned an all-knowing smile. "Quite." He peered down at his wrist strap briefly before continuing. "I really must be going, though. Got an afternoon meeting I really must make. We'll meet again, I'm sure."

The Doctor smiled confidently. "That I'm sure of."

Abel saluted the three of them as he added, "Looking forward to it."

The Time Agent pressed a button on his wrist strap with the other hand, and soon he vanished, lab coat and all, before the three time travelers' eyes. He was gone, and they had no idea where or even when he had gone to…