"So you are telling me a man with a laser gun who cannot be seen by cameras, who has a holographic grandmother with apparent super speed and cunning just walked in here and used Windows XP and your satellite system to hack into my Tardis and drag it 14,200 years into the past before then sending a relay signal which sent me shooting twenty centuries forward in time?" the Doctor asked

"Exactly," Jack replied looking at Amy and Rory who looked sceptical before back to the Doctor who was silent.

"Well you should have called me sooner!" the Doctor jumped to his feet and turned to the offending station that had called him forth "I have spent the last two weeks trying to get sand out of the Tardis' chameleon circuit. It's spent most of the last month in the image of a tree which considering we were on a planet of underwater forests made it especially difficult to relocate,"

"I was going to say, I contacted you several times, including a text message," Jack told him

"Text message? Jack you know the Tardis doesn't accept texts," the Doctor laughed "it's a Tardis not a mobile phone. You expect too much of the old girl!"

"Speaking of old girl, have you remodelled her? She sounds sweet and looks just fantastic!" he said walking around the outside and listening to the engines hum.

"We had a bit of a change the both of us," he said straightening his suit jacket and bowtie

"Bowties are cool," Jack commented with a smile. The Doctor smiled smugly at Amy

"See… bowties are cool," he said before turning back to the computer "right then whoever was here certainly knows how to track a signal, quite a genius move it was too to actually draw the Tardis in rather than simply phone it… not an easy thing to do especially to my Tardis, the most wonderful Tardis in time and space and every was,"

"Doctor do you have any idea who could have done it?" Jack asked

"Of course, it could have been many people, many different races across the universe," the Doctor explained "I think what I need to do is meet this man. Jack, can you arrange that?"

"I wouldn't advise it Doctor, he recognised your Tardis as being what it was before he knocked you back and fled the scene, plus he has a habit of shooting me," he trailed off

"Four times now he's shot him, or is it five?" Owen wondered aloud counting on his fingers "and he's only known him a day or so,"

"So a man with an ichy trigger finger comes to town to trouble you. Did he say what he wanted?" the Doctor asked

"He said he wanted a way to make contact to something deep in time and space, that was what drew him here in the first place," Toshiko explained "he narrowed it down to the mobile phone which he used to draw you in,"

"So who would want to contact something in space. Maybe a ship perhaps?" the Doctor wondered

"That's why we wanted to contact you Doctor – there was a ship approaching Earth at a high rate of speed, way faster than anything we have ever seen it looked like it wasn't going to stop then suddenly it halted. Engine explosion. The same day this man arrives in town with his laser guns and fancy equipment. It's too much of a coincidence," Jack told him "I want you to have a look at this ship Doctor,"

Jack ran up to his office where he grabbed the images of the ship in Mars' orbit before running back down the stairs and thrusting them into the Doctors hands. The room was silent as the Doctor flicked through the pictures, his face becoming longer and more sullen with each image.

"That ship Doctor, you know it?" Jack pressed

"I know it, we all know it, all Timelords know it because it was there. No, it can't be here, the timewar is timelocked. Nothing can get out!" the Doctor frenzied throwing the pictures down on the desk.

"You got out," said a cold voice from the shadows in the corner of the room "I got out, in fact quite a lot got out right near the end,"

The Doctor whirled around to look into the eyes of the man who emerged from the darkness, laser pistol in hand.

"Timelord," the man smiled "it has been quite sometime," he pointed the laser gun at the Doctor "throw me your sonic weapon," he ordered. Gingerly the Doctor reached into his pocket and retrieved his screwdriver.

"It's a screwdriver actually," he pointed out as he threw it to the man who caught it and gave it a quick once over.

"It is enough," he said "now back away from the Tardis," he gestured for Amy and the others to move too. They did as they were told, hands in the air.

"You know you can't fly that thing without me," the Doctor pointed out "and I have no reason to help you," the white haired male shot Jack in the chest sending him crashing into the desk again

"Really?" the white haired man smiled gesturing for the Doctor to get into the Tardis "it's ok, we're not going anywhere I just need your subspace relay,"

"What would you possibly need that…" but before he could finish the white haired male grabbed him by the bowtie and dragged him into the Tardis, slamming the doors behind him.

"Very rude!" the Doctor commented as he was pushed towards the Tardis' main control panel

"You'll get over it," the man explained as he hit a few switches on the Tardis' dashboard before moving to the scanner and tapping in a few bits of information.

"I'm sure. What exactly are you doing?" the Doctor asked walking around to where the man was working to look at the scanner "you're probing a specific point in space. Why? Why are you doing that? There's nothing there!"

"There's nothing there now but the Tardis can probe the same point for a millennia. There will be something there," he explained before turning to the Doctor "also can you move away? I don't quite trust you,"

"What am I going to do, really?" the Doctor asked "you have my screwdriver and a laser gun,"

"I don't know, I never trusted Timelords," he said turning back to the screen and typing quickly before striking the return key and causing the Tardis to make a pinging sound similar to that of a sonar

"So you have met Timelords before?" the Doctor wondered

"I have probably met you before – who knows?" the man said as he watched the screen expectantly.

"So you don't remember?" the Doctor asked

"I remember plenty," he said before being cut off by a particular important ringing out "aha!" he smiled as a ship appeared on the scanner.

Casually he threw the screwdriver back to the Doctor before walking to the doors of the Tardis

"I would say see you around, but I expect I won't be able to get rid of you," the male said before disappearing in a golden shimmer of light.

The group started as the Doctor threw open the doors to his Tardis and hurtled out of them.

"Come on!" he shouted running up the stairs into the Torchwood presentation room followed by everyone including Owen who was struggling to carry a recently re-conscious Jack.

Tapping quickly the Doctor opened the direct feeds from the satellites in space that were monitoring the ship near mars. For a few minutes there was nothing except for the cold, dead ship floating in the vast expanse but then something happened, a star appeared in the heavens burning white and gold, burning so bright it threatened to darken the very sun. From the glittering star emerged a long silver spike followed soon by a great spherical ship that looked very much like a sharpened zephyr. The great ship dwarfed even the ship labelled TNMC. As it emerged completely the ship turned slowly, banking to face the other ship before in a hail of gunfire obliterating it entirely. The group watched the action unfold in horror, it was so calculated, so perfect and so unbelievably easy. As it banked again and headed back for outer space they got one brief glimpse of the golden letters stamped down the hull of the ship before it disappeared in a flash of golden light;

The Sword of Gallifrey