After a not so smooth ride they eventually landed. The Doctor was the first one to leave the TARDIS. Rose, Jack and Sirius the Clabro followed behind. "Whoa! That is hot!" The Doctor announced loudly. Rose gasped as she felt the heat hit her, the Doctor was right, that is hot.

Rose and Jack both pulled their jackets off and threw them into the TARDIS.

"Venting system. Working at full pelt trying to cool down." The Doctor said, bending down to look at a screen, "At...well...where ever it is we are."

"Hope it's cooler out here." Jack said walking to a door and pushing it open. He was hit with a cool wave of air. Well...it wasn't cold but compared to inside...

"Oi! You three! Get out of there!" voices' were shouting running towards them, a woman with two men. Soon as Sirius followed them out one of the men shut the door they came through.

"Who are you? What are you doing on my ship?" the woman asked the Doctor.

"Are you police?" the man who shut the door asked.

"Why would we be police?" Jack asked, "Did you call the police?"

"No." The woman told him.

"We caught you're distress signal." Rose told her.

"This is a ship right? Why are there no engines?" the Doctor asked.

"It went dead four minutes ago."

"So maybe we should stop chatting and get to engineering, Captain!"

"Secure closer active." A voice over what sounded like an intercom told them.

"What?" the woman said sounding worried.

"This ship has gone mad." One of them men said.

"Who activated secure closer?" Another woman said running towards them making it through a door just as it closed. "I nearly got locked in area 27." The new woman looked at the Doctor. "Who are you?"

"I'm the Doctor; this is Rose, Jack and our dog Sirius." The Doctor answered, for once he didn't sound cheerful in his introductions, but Rose was too busy to notice, she wandered over to a window, bright light shining through it.

"Impact projection 42 minutes 27 seconds." The intercom voice said again.

"We'll get out of this, I promise." The Captain said, seemingly trying to convince herself as well as others.

"42 minutes until what?" the Doctor asked, glancing over at Rose who was staring out the window, shock and fear written all over her face.

"Doctor!" Rose shouted urgently as she saw what was out the window. The Doctor and Jack ran over and looked out the window.

"42 minutes until we crash into the sun." The Captain told them. Outside was a huge burning ball of gas and fire and lava, a sun.

The Doctor ran back to the Captain and grabbed her arms, "How many crew members on board?"

"Seven including us."

"We take cargo across the galaxy, everything's automated." One of the men explained.

"I can get you out!" the Doctor told them running to the door they came through.

"What's he doing?" "Don't!" the Crew shouted at him but he opened the door and was thrown backwards onto the floor by the heat. Sirius who was in line of the heat squealed and ran backwards, knocking into Rose's legs, Rose bent down and petted him once she was sure the Doctor was alright.

"But my ships in there!" he shouted as one of the crew ran and shut the door. Locking it. "It's our life boat." The Doctor told them as Jack helped him up.

"It's lava."

"It's mad in there. Up 3000 degrees in ten seconds and still rising." The 2nd woman told them as she read off a reading which was on the wall next to the door. The pin was far into the red.

"The closer we get to the sun the hot'er that rooms gonna get." The taller of the men warned.

"So we fix the engines and steer the ship away from the sun. Simple." The Doctor said, "Engine room this way right?" the Doctor asked but didn't wait for an answer he ran through the door and down some steps. The Captain and everyone else followed quickly.

"How does the Doctor get everyone just to listen and follow?" Jack wondered as he whistled for Sirius.

They ran down some stairs into a room, which reminded Rose of the garage where Mickey used to work. It was full of pipes, most broken and right in the middle was a huge engine, it didn't look good and even Rose, who doesn't know a thing about engines knew it shouldn't look like that.

"Blimey, do you always keep things in such a mess?" the Doctor asked as he walked over to the engine.

"Oh My God." The Captain exclaimed.

"Guess it wasn't like this when they left then."

"OI. Sirius, No." Jack warned Sirius when he sniffed at a pipe and looked like he was going to bite it.

"What happened?" the shorter man asked. "It's wrecked."

"Pretty efficiently too. Someone knew what they were doing." The Doctor supposed

"Where are your other crew members?" Jack asked.

"Has anyone heard from them?" the Captain asked sounding very worried, she looked at everyone in the group, even right at Jack as if he knew.

"No." The Taller man told her, shaking his head to emphasis the no.

"You mean someone did this," Rose gestured towards the destroyed engine, "On purpose?"

"Yeah." Jack nodded, "It's too perfectly done."

"How can you destroy something perfectly?" Rose wondered out loud. The only answer she got was Sirius nose butting her leg.

The Captain was talking on the intercom, she was asking for an Aston and Korwin. "Where are they?" The Captain exclaimed when she put the com down, "They should be down here."

"We're in the Tarachy system!" The Doctor sounded happy about that. "You are a long way from home Rose, half a universe."

"Nope." Rose stated causing the Doctor to give her a questioning look, "Home is just a few meters that way." Rose pointed in the direction they came from; the Doctor couldn't help but smile at that.

"The TARDIS is her home."

But his smile quickly disappeared when he saw a new piece of information; he turned and looked right at the captain, he looked confused and slightly angry. "And you are still using energy scopes for fusion, hasn't that been outlawed yet?"

The captain shared a look with one of her crew members, "We're due to upgrade next docking." She walked away from the Doctor.

"She's lying." Rose thought to herself.

"Scan all, engine report?" the Captain shouted to the team.

The taller of the men walked over to a computer screen that sat by the engine. Rose tried to look but didn't understand any of the techno babble on the screen. But she could hear beeps, which sounded like when she used the computer and did something that it didn't like or didn't let her do.

"No response." The Man said, quickly walking over to the side of the engine, leaning over to look at some of the wires and pipes. "Their burnt out." He told them sounding disheartened. He dropped the pipes on the floor. "The controls are wrecked I can't get them back online."

"Oh come on!" The Doctor exclaimed, "Oxsiluary engines! Every craft's got Oxsiulrys!"

"We don't have access from here. Oxsiluary controls are at the front of the ship." The Captain explained.

"There are 29 password sealed doors in-between us at it. You'll never get there on time."

"Isn't there an over ride switch or something?" Jack asked.

"Sealed closer means what it says. They're all deadlock sealed."

"So no sonic then?" Rose asked.

"Nope. Doesn't do deadlock or wood."

"It doesn't do wood?" Rose asked shaking her head.

"We have no engines, no time and no chance."

"Oh listen to you! Defeated before you've even started!" the Doctor shouted at them, "Where's you Dunkirk spirit? Who's got the passwords?"

"Randomly generated, reckon I've got most of them." The short man said, "Sorry, Riley Vashtee." Riley had a Lancashire accent and held out his hand to shake. Jack took it.

"Then what are you waiting for Riley Vashtee?" the Doctor asked, "Get on it."

"It's a two person job. I take this for the questions." Riley pulled a large medical looking bag down from a ledge. "And they'll have to carry this." He pulled down a large red metal thing that reminded Rose of the clamps her and the Doctor held on to so they didn't fall through the void.

"What if I fell...the Doctor...Jack wouldn't be with him...he might not have met Martha...he'd be all alone..." Rose shook herself out of her sad thoughts and concentrated on what was happening.

"I'll help you." Rose offered.

"Jack, go with them as well. If I need you I'll call."

Jack whistled for Sirius to go with them so that he wouldn't get in the Doctor's way. Soon as they left a voice cam over the intercom, "McDonnell, it's Ashton."

The Captain, McDonnell ran over to the speaker, "Where are you? I was calling you!"

"Get up to the med centre now." Ashton ordered, he sounded urgent.

McDonnell ran off back up the way they came, past Rose, Jack and Riley and through another door Rose hadn't noticed before.

"Impact in 34:31." The intercom voice told them.

They made it into another room the med centre, three people were inside, and one was on a table struggling while the other two held him down.

"Korwin!" McDonnell shouted as she ran into the room. "What's happened? Is he ok?"

"Ah! Help me! It's burning me!" Korwin was shouting his eyes were closed tight as if there was something he really didn't want to see.

"How long's he been like this?" the Doctor asked running over and stood by the dark skinned girl looking over at Korwin.

"Aston just brought him in." The dark skinned girl told him, the Doctor assumed the other guy across the table was Ashton.

"What are you doing?" McDonnell shouted as the Doctor brought out the sonic screwdriver and scanned Korwin.

"Don't get to close to him." The Doctor warned.

"Don't be stupid! He's my husband!"

"He's just sabotaged our ship." The man, Ashton said.

"What?"

"He went mad. Put the ship under secure closer and then sent a heat pulse to metre control." Ashton explained.

"No, he wouldn't do that." McDonnell obviously had a lot of faith in her husband.

"I saw it happen."

"Korwin." The Doctor said softly. "Korwin, open your eyes for me a second."

"I can't." Korwin groaned.

"Yeah, course you can, go on."

"Don't let me look at you! Please!" Korwin begged.

"Alright." The Doctor leaned over and grabbed a sedative gun on the medical table at Korwin's feet. He then leaned back over my Korwin's head and pressed it against his neck and pressed the trigger. After a moment Korwin fell slack, unconscious.

"What's wrong with him?" McDonnell asked.

"Rising body temperature. Unusual energy readings." The Doctor muttered, mostly to himself. "What could it be? I've never seen anything like it...ah isn't that a..." The Doctor nodded to the small opening by Korwin's head, "Statuses chamber. I do love a good statuses chamber, keep him sedated in there and regulate the body temperature." The girl nodded at the Doctor and turned around to use the computer behind her. "And just perform a bio scan for body tissue on metropolis detail."

"Doing it now." She assured him.

"Oh you're good." The Doctor told her with a grin, "Anyone else presenting these symptoms?"

"Not so far."

"Well...that's something."

"Abby, what is the matter with him?" McDonnell begged.

The dark skinned girl, Abby shook her head.

"Some kind of infection." The Doctor took over, "We'll know more after the test results. Now, Allons-y back down stairs. See about those engines. Go." Ashton left to try and help down stairs. "Hey." He said softly, McDonnell looked at him, "Go." McDonnell followed Aston quickly. "Call us if there's news. Any questions?" the Doctor asked just before he left.

"Just one." The Doctor stopped and looked back, "Who are you?" The Abbey asked.

"I'm the Doctor." The Doctor answered quickly before running down the stairs.

"Heat shield failing at 20 percent. Impact in 32:50."

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After the Doctor and McDonnell ran past them, Riley opened up the bag and pulled out a large computer screen, which looked a lot like a Mac. Riley quickly showed Jack and Rose how to fix the clamp on, before he began typing on the computer, "Fix the clamp on!" he ordered. Jack did that quickly.

"What are you typing?" Rose asked, standing next to Riley. "Sit." She said quietly to Sirius who immediately obeyed her, confusion was in his eyes though, "Don't normally need to tell him to do anything."

"This door's trip code is the answer to a random question set by the crew. Nine tours back we got drunk, thought 'em up. Reckoning was, if we're hijacked we're the only ones who know all the answered."

"What's the clamp for?" Rose asked.

"This," He patted the computer, "Sends a remote pulse to the clamp. But we only get one chance per door. Get it wrong and the whole system freezes. We're trapped. Ok, first question. Date of SS Pentallian's first flight? That's alright." He quickly typed in the answer, "Go!"

Jack grinned as a light on the clamp turned green and the door swung open. They ran through leaving the door open once they passed.

"Abby, how's Korwin doing?" Rose, Jack and Riley heard the Doctor ask over intercom.

"He's under heavy sedation. I'm just trying to make sense of this data. Give me a couple of minutes and I'll let you know." Abbey replied back, she sounded worried and unsure.

"Rose? Jack? How you doing?" The Doctor asked.

"Past one door on to the next." Rose told him.

"You need to move faster!" Rose choose not to answer him, instead focused on taking the clamp from Jack and fixing it on as Riley read out the next question.

"Write in the next number in the sequence: 313, 331, 367. What?"

"I thought you should know all the answers? The crew set them right?" Jack asked him reading over his shoulder.

"Yeah, but we swapped around as we set them."

"379." Jack said after a moment.

"What?" Riley asked.

"379. He's right, type it in." The Doctor ordered through the intercom.

Riley typed it in, a moment later the light on the clamp turned green and the door opened.

"Keep moving, fast as you can. And Rose, Jack? Look after each other. There might be something else on the ship."

"Great." Rose muttered, "Some crazy monster again."

Jack smirked at Rose, "Always is."

"Impact in 30:50."

Rose fixed the clamp on while Riley read out the question, "Classical Music: Who had more pre-download number ones, Elvis Presley or the Bea-at-les? How we supposed to know that?"

"Elvis or the Beatles? Mum was a huge fan of both of them!" Rose mumbled to herself, "I should know this!"

"Doctor?" Jack asked through the intercom, "Who had more number one downloads, Elvis or the Beatles?"

"Elvis! No! The Beatles! Arg. I don't know. I am a bit busy!" The Doctor shouted, sounding annoyed.

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"Where was I?" the Doctor muttered to himself when Jack cut off on the intercom, "Here comes the sun...no Resources, so the powers still working, the generators going, if we can harness that..."

"Use the generator to jump start the ship?" McDonnell asked, getting on track to the Doctor's train of thought.

"Exactly! Or at the very least it'll buy us some more time."

"That is brilliant." McDonnell sounded very impressed.

"I know. See. A tiny glimmer of hope." The Doctor grinned at the crew.

"If it works." The taller man said who the Doctor now knew as Scannell.

"Oh believe me. You're gonna make it work." McDonnell ordered. Scannell sighed slightly and walked back over to the engine.

"That told him!" The Doctor said cheerfully, smirking at McDonnell.

"Doctor. These readings are starting to scare me?" Abby said through the intercom.

"What do you mean?" The Doctor asked.

"Korwin's body's changing, his whole biological make up, it's impossible...This is med centre! Urgent assistance requested, urgent assistance!" the Doctor didn't hesitate, he ran, straight for the med centre.

"Stay here! Keep working!" the Doctor shouted back. But McDonnell and Scannell followed him.

"Abby. They're on their way." Erina told her.

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"Impact in 29:46."

Jack pulled his phone out, "Got some friends I can ring."

"Martha?" Rose asked.

"No, haven't got her number yet...I'll ring Ianto's desk at Torchwood. He's more likely to answer." Jack told Rose as he typed in the number.

It was answered after only one ring, "Hello? Ianto Jones. How can I help?" a strong welsh accent said through the phone which was on loud speaker.

"Ianto! How great it is to here you're sexy voce."

"Jack?" The man Ianto said down the phone.

"Did you say Jack?" "Is that Jack?" More voice's asked in the background.

"Ianto, I need you to look something up for me."

"Gwen!" Ianto shouted, his voice sounded a short distance away.

"Jack where the hell have you been?" another welsh accent said through the phone, female.

"Gwen, I haven't got time for this now. Give the phone back to Ianto."

"No Jack, when u disappear for-" Gwen was cut off and Ianto came back on.

"What do you need Jack?"

"Look up who had more downloads, Elvis or the Beatles?"

"Doing it now, what do you need it for?"

"Save mine and some friends lives." Jack answered honestly.

"Ah. Better be quick then."

"Please."

"Burn with me." A very creepy male voice said over the intercom causing Jack to look up.

"What was that?" Rose asked, Riley shrugged and shook his head.

"Elvis." Ianto answered.

"Are you sure? We only have one chance."

"That's what every page on Google says."

"Elvis." Jack told Riley who quickly typed it in. "Thank you Yan! You are fantastic."

A loud pained scream echoed throughout the whole ship. "What was that? Jack, where are you?"

"Can't talk. We might need you again, stay ready please. Explain later." Jack quickly cut off as they ran through the door.

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The Doctor saw Scannell running next to Captain McDonnell. "I told you to stay in engineering."

"I only take orders from one person round 'ere." Scannell told him and walked right past him.

"Is he always this cheery?" the Doctor asked. McDonnell followed Scannell past the Doctor.

A scream echoed through the whole of the ship and the Doctor began to run. "Doctor, what was that?" Rose asked through the com.

"Keep working on those doors!" the Doctor shouted back choosing not to answer just yet.

"Impact in 27:06."

They made it into the med bay and there was nothing, "Korwin's gone." McDonnell muttered in surprise, the Doctor walked to the bed where Korwin was before and scanned it with the Sonic Screwdriver.

"Oh My God." Scannell muttered the Doctor and McDonnell turned to look at Scannell. Scannell was looking at the wall, it was red, but with a huge black scorch, human shaped with one arm above the head and a bump on the head, looking suspiciously like the bun Abby had her hair tied up as. The Doctor walked slowly over to it, "Tell me that's not Lerner?" Scannell asked.

The Doctor touched the edge of the human scorch mark. "There's vaporisation and oh..." the Doctor turned to look at the other two in the room, "I've never seen one this ferocious. Burn with me..."

"That's what we heard Korwin say." Scannell realized.

"What? Do you think...? No way Scannell, tell him! Korwin is not a killer! He can't vaporise people, he's human." McDonnell tried to convince the Doctor but he didn't listen, instead his attention turned to the paper on the floor.

"Bio scan results," He explained looking at them. "Internal temperature 100 degrees...body oxygen replaced by hydrogen? Korwin hasn't been infected, he's been overwhelmed." McDonnell snatched the papers out the Doctor's hands.

"Test results are wrong!"

"What is it though?" the Doctor wasn't stopped by McDonnell and took the paper back from her. "Parasite? Mutagenic virus? Something that needs a host's body, but how'd it get inside him?" The Doctor held the results up to the light.

"Stop talking like he's some kind of experiment!"

"Where's this ship been? Have you made planet fall recently?" McDonnell shook her head, "Docked with any other vessels? Any sort of external contact at all?"

McDonnell shook her head again, "What is this? An interrogation?"

"We've got to stop him before he kills again."

"We're just a cargo ship!" McDonnell cried, she turned and covered her face with her hands.

"Doctor if you give her a minute." Scannell asked.

The Doctor stood impatiently for a moment. "We don't have long!" The Doctor resisted the urge the tap his foot.

"I'm fine." McDonnell assured them, "I need to warn the crew." She reached for the intercom, "Everybody listen to me. Something has infected Korwin. We think...He killed Abby Lerner. Don't go anywhere near him, is that clear?"

"Understood Captain." Ashton replied, "Erina, get back 'ere with that equipment. Quickly."

"Impact in 24:51"

"Is this infection permanent? Can you cure him?" McDonnell asked.

"I dunno." the Doctor lied.

"Do not lie to me Doctor. Eleven years we've been married. Choose this ship together. He keeps me honest." She looked him in the eye, "So I don't want false hope."

"The parasite's to aggressive. You're husbands gone." The Doctor said honestly. "There's no way back I'm sorry."

"Thank you." McDonnell nodded shutting her eyes.

The Doctor nodded, "Are you certain nothing happened to provoke this?" he asked her a moment later. "Nobody's working on anything secret? 'Cause it's vital that you tell me."

"I know every inch of the ship. I know every detail of my crew's lives. There is nothing."

"Then why's this thing so interested in you?"

"I wish I knew."

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They made it through door number 17 after a particularly difficult question about human DNA.

"Come on!" Riley hit the side of his computer when it was working to slow. "Everything on this ship is so cheap!"

Sirius began growling quietly. "Sirius, what is it boy?" Rose asked. Jack fixed the clamp on the next door and glanced back at Sirius. "Doctor, I think something's up, Sirius is growling."

Before the Doctor could reply everyone in the room heard a bang of metal on metal was heard from the door they just came through.

"Who's there?" Riley demanded.

"Rose, what is it?" The Doctor replied.

"Doctor someone's here, area 17."

"I'm coming." He cut off and started running.

A man stepped through the door; he was wearing green top and a red helmet on his head, a black sheet covering over his eyes and a small dial next to the eyes.

"He looks like that child who kept asking for him mummy..."

"Is it Korwin?" Jack asked.

"No, hold on a minute. Ashton." Riley told them, he sighed, relieved.

"Burn with me." Ashton said in the same creepy voice as they heard earlier.

"Doctor! It's Ashton, something's not right."

"Well. If you wanna help-"

"Burn with me. Burn with me." Aston repeated he lifted his hand to move the small dial.

"Wait." Jack ordered, Ashton brought his hand down from his helmet and Jack stepped slightly in front of Rose, "What do you want? Who are you? No scrap that. What are you?"

Ashton just looked at him a moment and his hand quickly went the dial and all Jack had time for was to push Rose away from him and cover his eyes as a huge bright light enveloped him. All he could do was scream in pain.