Author's Note: Sorry this took so long to update. This is the final part, and I apologise for being so lazy and not updating it sooner!

Episode 6

"Skaro?" Rose inquired.

"Yes. Dalek homeworld." The Doctor replied, frantically hitting the controls. "I'm locked out!"

"What could have done that?" Rose asked in a panic.

"Probably that Dalek by the TARDIS." The Doctor assumed, more concerned with fixing the TARDIS. "I suspect that Adam took a cut of the TARDIS key without telling me."

"So what can we expect to find on Skaro?" Rose asked nervously.

"Depends when we're heading to Skaro." The Doctor answered. "If it's after 1963, not a lot."

"Why after 1963?" Rose inquired.

"Because that's when I blew it up." The Doctor replied with a grin. "Wasn't me actually. It was- Well, it's a long story."

"It usually is." Rose sighed. "So, have you found out when yet?"

"Ah, yes. We're-" The Doctor froze. "Oh no."

"What? What is it?" She asked quickly, worried by the emotionless expression on the Doctor's face.

"We're heading for Skaro the day before the final battle of the Time War. The day the entire Dalek fleet assembled there before departing for Gallifrey. We'll be destroyed for sure." The Doctor explained.

"Won't that mess with the web of time you're always going on about?" Rose asked hopefully.

"Oh, yes. The Daleks don't care about that kind of thing though. Hence the Time War." He was working quickly, barely paying attention to Rose. He hit a button and something flickered. A holographic Dalek appeared in the centre of the room.

"Doctor!" It spat in its monotone voice. "You have crossed the Daleks for the last time. This is to be your death. You will be destroyed by the Dalek population on Skaro. We have calculated all possibilities. You cannot rewire the TARDIS in time. You are doomed." The hologram flickered away and the Doctor paused thoughtfully.

"Nothing?" He pondered.

"Can't we just stop the engines? Bump ourselves in another direction?" Rose asked.

"No, that's not possible." The Doctor shook his head. "I'm afraid we're going to die." He suddenly snapped his fingers. "Wait a minute! Fantastic! Rose Tyler, you genius! Bump ourselves!" He started hitting buttons on the TARDIS. "Nothing can penetrate the time vortex but the TARDIS, right?"

"Right. So what are you going to do?" Rose asked.

"Ah ha! Wait and see!" The Doctor grinned as he hit a button.

Elsewhere in the time vortex, on a very different looking ship, a girl in a short pink skirt ran over to a white console, looking at a beeping button.

"Doctor! What's that?" She called. A man with blonde curly hair and a multicoloured coat walked purposefully over to the controls, and hit a few buttons.

"It's a distress call." He answered with a tone of seriousness.

"From who?" The woman inquired.

"Hm. From myself." The man in the multicoloured coat seemed slightly surprised. "Looks like I've got myself in a bit of bother. TARDIS controls are locked out. I'll have to bump myself out of the vortex using this TARDIS to keep the other me safe." He decided.

"Doctor, is this safe?" The woman asked.

"Of course it is, Susan!" Snapped the man in response.
"Peri." The girl said bluntly. "My name's Peri."

"That's what I said, Nissa." The man smiled. The girl sighed in frustration, still having her doubts about the man's latest regeneration. "Right, if I just push this and we should-" The entire interior of what was evidently an older form of the TARDIS lurched as it slammed into another identical spinning blue police box in the time vortex.

The Doctor and Rose were flung to the floor with a thud as the TARDIS broke out of the time vortex viciously. The Doctor sprang up enthusiastically to the controls, looking over the beeping readouts.

"He did it!" The Doctor cried. "I did it!"

"I don't understand." Rose muttered.

"This is a time machine." The Doctor explained.

"I know that much." Rose grumbled.

"I just got a little help from myself." The Doctor grinned. "I got another version of me elsewhere in space and time to use his TARDIS to bump ours out of the vortex."

"So where are we now?" Rose inquired.

"I don't know. We've certainly landed. Want to find out?" The Doctor gestured to the door.

"What if the air isn't breathable out there?" Rose asked nervously.

"Then we'll suffocate won't we. Only one way to find out." The Doctor grinned again and Rose grumbled.

Elsewhere, in the older TARDIS, the man in the multicoloured coat got up from the ground. The girl scrambled up, using the console to help herself to the feet.

"Did you do it?" The girl asked.

"Either that, or I vaporised myself." The man shrugged. "Oh well, it's done now." He paused. "If the old girl's still malfunctioning in the future then I think it's about time I started repairing her!" He confidently marched towards the chameleon circuit, something that had been broken for a long time.

"How do you know it wasn't your past self?" The girl inquired.

"You should never ask to many questions!" The man casually flung as a response, without a satisfactory answer. "I assume I would have remembered it, Tiegan."
"Somehow I don't trust your memory right now." The girl muttered. The man removed a few panels and prepared to get to work.

"Here we go again." He stated, ready once more to battle the broken equipment, as the girl watched from a distance and he fiddled with the circuitry.

In another time and world the Doctor and Rose stepped out, finding themselves on a huge hill overlooking a massive castle. The two stood there for a moment, looking around before they heard a sound off in the distance. It sounded like a battle.

"Another adventure awaits then, Doctor." Rose offered.

"Here we go again." The Doctor grumbled.

Author's Note: About the appearance of the other Doctor, that's supposed to be the sixth Doctor and Peri, inspired as the last episode I watched was Attack of the Cybermen and I needed another Doctor to knock the TARDIS away. As the story goes, that bit is supposed to actually occur just before Attack of the Cybermen, with the sixth Doctor's last line being the first one he says in that episode.

The ending with Rose and the Doctor is supposed to just be a teaser of another adventure. One I doubt I'll write (but you never know). Technically, the TARDIS is still broken at that point, but the idea is they find time to fix it on that planet. Or maybe they don't, and the malfunctioning TARDIS is a key part of the adventure! Maybe you'll never know. I'm cruel like that (or lazy).

I also apologise for a bit of an anti-climax. I could have had the TARDIS materialise on Skaro, but I couldn't think of a good way to get it to work and I liked the idea of the TARDIS getting bumped by itself. On a side note, I did do my best to avoid referencing regeneration, so as far as Rose is concerned, it was her Doctor that bumped into them, hence why she's unfamiliar with regeneration still in The Parting of the Ways.

Other than that, I hope you enjoyed the story and thanks for reading! Please leave a review with your opinions, even if they're extremely negative. It's the only way I'll learn after all!