Hello! Here's the next chapter.

Jens sighs as he sinks into the captain's chair, waiting for Journey to reappear after storming off. He hangs his head as he yet again thinks of how he left her out, and the way she was crying… he slams his hand down onto the armrest.

Journey walks in a second later with her arms crossed and drops into the navigator's chair silently. He tries to talk to her, but she refuses to even acknowledge his existence. He sinks deeper into the seat as she types in a few characters to set the vehicle in motion before standing up and walking to the observatory window.

Finally, she speaks. "She was one of the few people I could connect with… I hope you're happy with taking away one of my two friends." She turns around to face him. "You're such an idiot. She didn't love you as a partner. She saw you as a father. How could you have not seen it?!" She's yelling now, and without noticing, she had drawn her steel knife from behind her back.

He notices this and says, very cautiously, "Journey… Put the knife down…" He puts his hands up as he walks to her. "We don't need to kill anyone. She said that she'll be back."

She looks down at the knife in her hand. "Oh." She looks up at him before re-sheathing the knife at her side. She glares at him. "You're lucky that I don't run out too. The only reason I'm staying is because I don't think you can handle fighting the Cybermen alone." She turns away and sits down at the console again. She is silent the rest of the way to the Cyber Hub.

When they get close, she says, "We're here." She yanks the ship out of warp and powerslides it sideways into the loading bay, oddly without being fired at. Even more odd, the entire compound is still, silent. Nothing moves, nothing makes a noise. No Cybermen.

Jens notices this almost instantly and pulls out his sword, unsure if the silence is golden, or if there were more sinister meanings… Journey draws her knife again, the purple shimmer of enchantment glowing in the darkness. Despite their interaction earlier, she stays close to his side, even grabbing his arm when a metal beam falls with a loud clang. She looks at him. "It's so quiet… Why do you think that is?"

He shakes his head. "I don't know. The Cybermen usually use the head-on assault technique, so I'm thinking something along the lines of another group, maybe the Silence, came in and stopped them… But where would the others take my kids…" He shakes his head and pulls out his sonic probe, provided by the Doctor before they had left, and starts to scan for his children's vital signals, like heartbeat and DNA match. The sonic starts to whiz loudly as he points it toward a door. "They must be in here!"

He runs to the door. Right before he kicks the door in, Journey grabs his arm and yells "WAIT!" The door falls in with a clang. Inside, there are 4 Cybermen gathered around his children, two pointing blasters at their heads. There is a machine in the corner and discarded pieces of metal scattered around on the floor. Günner and Katerina are unconscious.

The Cyberleader holds a blaster to Günner's head and says in his robotic voice, "You will listen to our demands or your children will be deleted." The leader waits for a response. When there is none, he presses a button on his wrist, which lifts the wall behind him, revealing an army of 500 Cybers. "YOU WILL LISTEN."

Jens lowers his sword and puts his other hand behind his back, to his pocket. The army's sheer size terrifies him, and he could use some help right about now. He takes out the glass rod and snaps it. He then raises his hands above his head and yells out, "Fine! We will listen!" Then, to Journey, "Put the knife away. Swords won't help against metal guys anyway." She puts the knife away.

The Cyberleader walks up to the Dragonborn. "We need you to save us. Your DNA can liberate the Cyber race from the Rust. We took your children to see if your DNA transferred into them. It seems that you are the only way to save us. If you refuse, you will watch as everyone you love is deleted, then we will take your blood by force."

Suddenly, a familiar whirring noise is heard as a blue box materializes in the corner. It's the TARDIS! Jens almost laughs as the door opens, and he expects the Doctor to waltz out, acting confident, but nearly dies when a very familiar looking girl of about 20™ steps out, black hair and purple highlight flowing in the wind that the TARDIS had created. The girl draws her sword calmly and slices the chains holding the kids up and moves them into the TARDIS. She then walks up to Jens and smiles. "It's been awhile… Well, for me it has. I'll explain later, the time lock I put on the Cybermen is going to wear off soon."

Jens stares at her. "XENA?" Suddenly, the Cybermen start to move and fire at them. Journey does a frontflip into a Cyberman, ripping its blaster arm off. She then does a backflip onto the rafters and starts firing back at the Cybermen with her awkwardly improvised Arm-Gun™. Xena draws her Ender blade and shouts, "JIHDAQ!" As she shouts, mysterious characters appear in front of her as a shockwave travels across the room, killing any Cybermen close to her and messes the others up. Jens yells loudly as he draws his sword and runs at the Cyberleader. What he doesn't expect is for his plan to work. He swings the sword down and cuts the Cyberleader down the center of its brain. The machine falls to the ground limp.

The entire army goes haywire, and starts firing upon itself. Within moments, the ground is littered with dead machines. Jens, Xena, and Journey are the only ones left standing. Xena walks to Jens. "I think I need to explain."

Jens nods. She beckons to Journey to come closer as well. "When you turned me down six years ago, it kind of triggered an obsession. I needed to be good enough for you. I know it wasn't healthy, but I got over it. I got the Doctor to take me back six years so that I could come back as an adult, since age is what was keeping me from you." She smiles "Don't worry, six years is long enough to lose an obsession."

Jens nods again. "So you don't think you love me anymore." He sighs with mixed relief and sorrow. "I'm really sorry about how I left you out like that…"

She looks down at the ground. "It's fine, but… I stopped obsessing, but I don't think I stopped loving you…" She looks up to gauge his reaction, and if she had spoken too soon. She sighs in relief as he nods once.

"Been told twice in two days by the same person that she loves me, but under different conditions…" He smiles "I guess, since you're older now… I don't have to turn you down just yet."

He then hears a noise of exasperation from behind him. "Oh my god… you've got to be kidding me!" He turns to see Journey almost in tears. "I finally catch a break when my competition disappears, then she comes back! Jens, I wasn't denying you all those times I made it seem like I didn't want to be with you… I was playing hard to get! But I come to the wrong time after almost dying, and there's someone who I know will f*ck things up for me! When she left I thought I had the way paved clear, but noooooo she had to come back with the only thing keeping you two apart gone!" She is crying now, but they are mixed tears of sadness and anger.

Jens holds his hands up as he approaches her slowly. "Journey, if you liked me you could have just said so in the beginning…"

She pushes him away. "NO, I couldn't! I'm not normal, I can't just say how I feel! And now, I feel so bad… I just wish I would die and get this life over with!"

Suddenly, a lone Cyberman on the ground raises his arm, and fires.

And another one bites the dust.

HOLY CRAPS THATS A LONG UPDATE. Hope it's not too much for y'all lol. the end is near! its not now, but i can feel it. i hope this all ends well.

HT