Back on Earth the Doctor was having a dilemma of his own – he had used the subspace relay on his Tardis to track the same signal that the Vanguard had used to find his ship in the first place. The Doctor knew that the Sword of Gallifrey was a Tardis at heart and so could travel in time but the readings he was getting told him that it was being used as a ship rather than to timetravel and so it wouldn't be too difficult for him to track it. After several short taps on the Tardis' keyboard and more than its fair share of sparks and clunking noises the Tardis located the Sword many light years away steaming through the galaxy it was currently in heading for the next.

"What's the plan Doctor?" Amy asked standing at his shoulder "do we find this handsome man?"

"I must – I need to know how he got out. He suggested many got out and I need to know why. I also need to know why that ship was pretending to be the Nightmare Child and where the Vanguard is going to track it next. I have many questions." He smiled.

"So when do we head off for the new ship?" she asked

"We don't, I know I say this a lot but this time it really is too dangerous. This is a Timelord at his peak – he has a lively trigger finger and seems to be a fan of shooting holes in people. I can't put you in that kind of danger."

"It's ok, we volunteered and Jack is adamant that he joins us. He's the only one getting shot." Amy said happily as she bounded towards the door.

"I don't even know if I can dock with the Sword of Gallifrey!" the Doctor told her

"You can – you know you can," Jack stated as he entered the Tardis "First rule – the Doctor lies."

"Yes but here isn't the time for lying – this is a Timelord who is happy to kill people. I need to get him to trust me."

"He can trust us all," Amy said "come on Doctor, we aren't just going to leave you by yourself to face someone like this; we have your back."

"You don't understand!" the Doctor pleaded but Amy raised her hand for silence.

"I'm sorry Doctor but we are all going. That is it." She told him sternly.

The Doctor sighed – there was no arguing with her it would seem.

"Best get aboard then – next stop the Sword of Gallifrey!" he tapped several keys while Jack checked with his wrist-band.

"I'm instructing Torchwood to keep an open channel with us – if anything happens while we are away they will be able to get a message through to me." He explained before closing the leather cover.

Without further ado the Doctor locked onto the Sword's signal and with a few more carefree levers being thrown the course was plotted and the Tardis vanished from its place in Cardiff.

With the usual sound of the universe rushing past them accompanied by the constant shaking and crashing of energy beyond the many walls of the Tardis the Doctor tried his best to stay in place and watch the course of the Tardis as it hurtled after the sword.

"He has stopped in the orbit of a planet! But scanners indicate he hasn't seen us!" the Doctor beamed as they bared down on the Sword of Gallifrey where it had stopped, slowly orbiting one of the planets in a system far away. As the Tardis emerged in space opposite the Sword of Gallifrey the Doctor cursed as the control panel threw out a torrent of sparks and smoke before the entire ship went dark.

Sitting in his control room, leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed – in a state of energy preservation while he waited – the Vanguard was awoken by a slowly pulsing buzzer on his screen, his eyes remained closed as he raised his hand and tapped on the screen to bring up the diagnostic alarm that was buzzing away. It told him that something was approaching very fast, straight towards his current position.

"Shut it down," he ordered casually as he reached out for his pot of tea. A millionth of a second before the Tardis materialised the Sword of Gallifrey chose its position in the endless black and fired. The Tardis was barely solid when the energy beam ploughed into it spinning it through the sky like a stone hurled by a giant. The Vanguard watched passively as the Tardis continued to spin through the darkness for several moments before managing to stop itself.

Inside the Tardis the world was chaos, the four heroes lay in various places having been spun like a hamster in a wheel. While the Doctor remained balanced on one leg, the other stretched far behind him pushing against the bar to keep himself steady, Jack was picking himself up from the floor while Amy had managed to end up on one of the upper walkways. Slowly the lights flickered back into life.

"Rory? Rory!" Amy shouted as she ran down from the catwalk to find no sign of her husband. Grumbling and covered in flour, Rory appeared from one of the exits deeper into the Tardis.

"Doctor – since when has that door been a link to the bakery?" he asked wiping the powder from his eyes.

"I thought it would make breakfast easier," the Doctor explained "so I moved it, save walking all the way through."

"Since when have we had a bakery?" was Rory's next question

"Just a few months – I made it for when Amy was or wasn't pregnant. Everyone loves the smell of fresh bread."

"But it's never been used."

The Doctor tapped several keys on the console

"Done. Moved. That door will take you to the spiral staircase through the levels. In future god help you find the bakery when you want bread and it's no use crying to me!" the Doctor replied.

"Never mind that – what was that?" Jack asked pulling the console towards him but immediately had it pulled back by the Doctor.

"Clamping beam. It should have incapacitated us completely but since we upgraded out shields against the Dalek's it's still holding strong." The Doctor checked the readout – the Sword of Gallifrey was making no manoeuvres to attack them and it hadn't fired a second shot.

"Now what?" Rory asked "are we just going to float here?"

"No Rory we aren't going to just float here – but I don't know what we are going to do as I can't put my Tardis on the Sword of Gallifrey. Two different Time Vortex in the same place will rip the universe to little pieces. You can't have two unlimited-universes in one box. It's just crazy even for me."

"So what we just…" Amy started but stopped as the Doctor vanished in a flash of white light.