The Doctor stared blankly not believing the sight before his eyes as Rose and Martha finally saw it. The vision was completely and utterly beautiful as right before their eyes sat a couple buildings more technologically sound than anything either of them had ever seen encased in a clear globe. On the Sirian landscape it was utterly breathtaking, but the Doctor knew exactly what this was.
He explained. "That's a citadel fashioned by only one race ever in the history of the universe."
Martha replied in realization, "Yours."
"This… this can't be here! No, there's no way! Everything is gone. This is impossible! No..."
Rose suggested, "Maybe a Time Lord taught the Sirians. They seemed smart enough when we met them."
The Doctor walked forward toward the impossible citadel with both women following as he countered, "Only they couldn't, not even the most brilliant minds couldn't because you see those edifications right there? They are made of a rare metal that was only found on Gailifrey and it's all gone. This should have too."
Rose and Martha didn't say anything. For the first time since knowing the Doctor they truly saw the scale that he lived on and how completely different he really was. Neither had a clue what the structure standing before them was, but they could both agree that it's effect on the Doctor was encouraging. A whole home that he had lost had a small flicker left.
The Doctor walked closer until he touched the walls of the citadel as a satisfied grin graced his features. He could feel familiar textures that made up the surrounding glass, but he also felt something else. "Rose, Martha." The Doctor gently spoke, "I can feel it. It's so beautiful. I can sniff it and taste it and it's so sweet. I've missed this! I've gone so far and never thought I'd ever again feel this again!"
They were both behind him now feeling the walls for themselves in complete wonder. Both women removed their hands as soon as they figured they could feel nothing. Rose asked him, "What do you feel?"
The Doctor grinned like a downright giddy school boy. "Time! I can feel time! This building gives off the strongest sense of time I've felt in over a hundred years. I can see so much. All that was and will ever be is much clearer than ever. It's tickling me like a feather with revelations." The Doctor turned laughing a little to himself to face his companions with still one hand on the wall before his features became desperate. The Time Lord frightenly called out, "Rose! Dodge left!"
Both Rose and Martha immediately turned to their left expecting the most horrifying thing they could think of, but found the same untouched rocky cliff.
Martha's fear seemed to die down a little bit, but maybe whatever it this was was hiding. "Where is it, Doctor?"
They both turned back towards the Doctor who looked at them confused not touching the walls anymore. "Where is what?"
"You shouted for Rose to avoid something to the left. Why did you say that?"
Rose commented darkly in realization, "It hasn't happened yet."
The Doctor felt like a child on Christmas morning. "I must get in there and find out what's inside!"
Martha offered, "We'll help look." From their vantage point a door was nowhere to be seen.
The three time travelers journeyed around with Rose going around the citadel on the left side almost superstitiously as the Doctor and Martha took the right, hoping to find some sort of entrance, but found nothing as they saw each other on the other side. The dome seemed like it was made to protect whatever was inside from ever being found.
The Doctor peered inside from this new vantage point putting both his hands on the wall. He concentrated real hard this time filtering out any visions as he looked for any type of clue to get in. The women as well looked, but all three of them found nothing.
Martha suggested, "Can we use the TARDIS?"
The Doctor sighed. "I wish, but it didn't even work that way back home. These barriers work in both time and space, but on Gailifrey there was always a door that would deactivate it. Whatever's in there someone doesn't want it to be found."
Rose rose her voice questioningly. "But that doesn't make any sense. Why just leave something behind with absolutely no code to check on it? At least some type of override that only they know."
All of them were equally confused as the Doctor blurted. "There's nothing!"
As they looked on in bewilderment Martha was the first to realize an ominous shadow larger than the citadel. "What the…?" The shadow kept moving until all three were engulfed by it staring into the sky as the star that lit Sirius shone around a dark object much like an eclipse.
They looked briefly, but it was more than obvious. That was no moon. It was some type of spaceship that had been angled at just the right degree to block out the sun.
The shadow kept moving on to the West and soon they stood in day again. The Doctor muttered with a sense of foreboding, "Someone has been waiting for us."
Soon all three of them began seeing a shining almost silvery wall surround them individually as they all tried moving towards each other with no avail. The scenery around them began to faze out of existence as the time travelers looked about madly and scared to find out what was going on.
A new location began to fill their vision of being inside golden painted walls and a window to the right full of a starry sky. They were being transported onto the ship that had passed overhead. Someone indeed wanted them.
The inside of the ship and a ground came clearly into view as the silvery walls dropped. Before either the Doctor, Rose, or Martha could speak they heard the cocking of a gun and a familiar male voice of Abel's proclaim happily, "Welcome to the S.S. Bad Wolf…"