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She gasped as she was pulled backwards, and the army in front of her suddenly blocked off by the door shutting again. She spun around, and found herself face to face with the Doctor.

"Doctor!" she gasped, throwing her arms around him. He hugged her back, lifting her off the floor slightly, before dropping her back down and smiling at her affectionately.

"Did you miss me?" he asked, grinning.

"Not a bit!" Rose laughed, lowering her arms. The Doctor's smile faded, and he looked at her seriously.

"You ok?"

"Yea, just about. You?"

"Been better. Right!" he turned around suddenly, clapping his hands together, "Time to find out exactly what's going on here. Rose! Did you find out anything that might be useful? What did they say to you?"

"Oh, just some stuff about them watching you and bringing you here. It's not true though, is it?" she said, laughing. But when the Doctor didn't laugh and instead gave her a rather grim look, she started to get worried. "Doctor?"

"I think they have," he said, walking off back down the corridor.

"But, Doctor…" she called out, following him. She caught up with him, almost running by his side as he strode down the corridor. "They can't have done, can they? I mean, how can they watch you like that?" The Doctor didn't answer. "Doctor, what are they?" He stopped and looked at her, with an expression she couldn't quite decipher.

"They're the Rashetea, from the planet Alifrygel; Gallifrey's sister planet. Gallifreyan legends say that right at the beginning of time when the Gallifreyans were just starting to learn of the their powers over time and space, the Rashetea were also learning of the Gallifreyan powers, and wished to have them for themselves. So they formed an army lead by a Rashetea called Tyhedra and attacked Gallifrey, hoping to learn the secret of the Gallifreyans, so they could use the power themselves. With this power, they could rule over time and space and shape the universe into their own image, instead of leaving it to grow the way it should do. But the Gallifreyans defeated them, and banished them to the vortex, so they could never escape. And the Gallifreyans would look over the vortex and make sure they couldn't get back through, a job that was then passed on to the first Time Lords.

But as time passed, eventually it passed into legend and no one believed any of this. Even the Time Lords. They would make sure none of the creatures living in the vortex or the void, such as the reapers, could get to the universe, but they never thought the Rashetea actually existed. But now that the Time Lords have gone, there's no one keeping them in the vortex. Time is in flux, and the vortex is always rupturing, not enough to cause any damage, but it makes it easier for anything living in the vortex to get out. Maybe that's how they got through. And it took them this long because it would still be hard for them all to get through, there's a whole planet's worth of people on this ship. And then they gathered any excess energy from the Time War to create the time ripple, to lure me here. If the TARDIS didn't have the time ripple to follow, then it wouldn't have seen Gallifrey. Somehow they brought Gallifrey back, and now they want mine and Susan's powers over time and space." He stopped, and sighed. "That was a long story, wasn't it?"

"But Doctor, they said they've been watching you. How did they do that?" Rose asked. The Doctor thought for a second.

"It's said that from the vortex, with enough practice, anything living in it can see any part of time and space they desire, but they can't change it in anyway. I think that's what they may have done. Gallifreyan parents would always say to their kids 'if your naughty the Rashetea will see and come and get you,' but it was just a threat. Maybe it was some truth in it, though. Maybe they have been watching me, from the vortex. Maybe they could somehow see a time after the Time War, and knew I was to be the last Time Lord. I don't know. But I think it's about time we found out!" He pulled out his sonic screwdriver, and pressed a button. "There we go, put the teleport back online. Now we just wait for them to teleport us ba-"

He didn't even get to finish his sentence before they were teleported away.


They reappeared as second later in the same room they'd been in before, once again surrounded by people. The Doctor pressed another button on the sonic screwdriver.

"Teleport off again," he said, grinning, "you're not taking Rose again." He put the sonic screwdriver back in his jacket, and looked at Tyhedra, who was once again in front of him.

"So, you've figured it out."

"Yea, I have, haven't I? But I suppose you knew that was about to happen. I suppose you knew I was going to teleport out and save Rose. I suppose you knew I was going to punch you in the mouth."

"We have not seen this, but we know we will succeed."

"Why? Because it's our destinies to die here?"

"Yes."

The Doctor sighed and rolled his eyes. He didn't care what they were saying, there was no such thing as destiny and fate, and there was no way he was going to let them kill Susan and Rose.

"How did you know I would be the last Time Lord? You can't go to a time after the Time War then go back before the Time War. During the Time War Gallifrey was wiped from time and space, its existence eradicated, so that that it never even existed in the first place! So how did you know I would survive?"

"We can see more than you think in the time vortex. We have been living inside it for so, so long now. We have learnt to travel to different points in the universe, even points that were wiped from history. We could go back to Gallifrey right now, if we wanted to. But once we have your powers, not only will we be able to see anywhere in time and space, we will be able to control and manipulate it. We can erase the entire history of the universe!"

"Some things never change," muttered the Doctor, "How did you get Gallifrey back, then?"

"We used excess power from the time ripple."

"But resurrecting a planet takes a phenomenal amount of power, you can't have had that much!"

"We had enough."

"Well, I guess I can't really argue. One more question. What 'power' does Rose have, exactly?"

"A power beyond anything we have ever imagined. With your power, Doctor, we can travel back in time and manually stop anything from happening, and work to shape and change the universe. With her power, we need not move or work, we can simply change the course of time with a thought."

"What are you talking about?" asked the Doctor in a voice slightly higher pitched he had hoped. Tyhedra smiled, and his eyes thinned.

"You will see. Once we have absorbed your power, Doctor, we shall take hers."

"You're not taking my power or Rose's. How you even think you're going to do this I don't… wait, what about Susan?"

"We created her. We cannot get anything new from her."

"And what are you going to do with her?"

"Dispose of her."

"You are not."

"We are going to do this, Doctor, and there is nothing you can do about it. Now, Doctor, we will proceed with out plan. We will take your power, and with it, reawaken hers."

"How are you going t-"

"Doctor!" He spun round, and saw the men behind him grabbing Rose and Susan, pulling them backwards.

"No! Let go!" he shouted, running over to them, but before he could get to them, he was pulled backwards himself. He struggled desperately, kicking and throwing his arms around, but it was no use; there were too many of them. He was pulled backwards away from Rose and Susan, who were trying to escape and get to him, shouting for him. "Rose! Susan!" he screamed, but it was no use. He was turned to face Tyhedra, who was standing quite calmly in front of him, smiling. "So what are you going to do now?" he demanded, "Extract my power, I suppose."

"That is correct."

"And what are you going to do with me afterwards?"

"You will die."

Before the Doctor could protest any more, Tyhedra was raising his arms, with a particularly evil glint in his eye. The Doctor stared, wide-eyed, open-mouthed, as his hands started glowing. Then he screamed as he felt his energy being sucked out of him.

"Doctor!" Rose screamed at the top of her voice, as bright, white light started to flow from the Doctor to Tyhedra, lighting up the whole room. The men holding the Doctor let go and stood back, as energy started to flow from the Doctor's body. The light became golden white, and the Doctor fell to his knees, screaming in agony. Finally the flow of energy stopped, as the Doctor's body fell to the ground in front of Tyhedra, who looked down at him as if he was a piece of gum he'd scraped of his shoe. "Doctor!"

The last thing the Doctor heard before his world went back was Rose scream his name one more time, and his last thought was, 'I'm sorry Rose. I'm so sorry.'