Rose stood still with her arms in the air while staring her death in the face personified by a couple of soldiers pointing their guns at her. All that seemed to consume her thoughts was surprisingly not her fragile mortality, but rather regret with what her position could make the Doctor do. The TARDIS had even let the soldiers inside sensing the same timeline that the Doctor had sniffed. Rose was to die here and now and all she could say with a slight tear was, "Doctor, please let me die."

For a long while the Doctor stood incomprehensibly leading no clues about what he was about to do. It could even be assumed that he didn't even know himself. The Doctor's next words came as a surprise to even him as he said them. "All those years ago I was the boy that ran. I looked into the untempered skism seeing what is, was, and could ever be and ran as far as I could from it completely terrified. Nine hundred years later, and I'm still running. You see, Rose is supposed to die." Abel and Dalek Caan watched intently as both Rose and Martha continued to listen in. "At least that's what the timelines say and without Time Lords who am I to change what is to come?"

Abel half smiled. "Precisely, Doctor."

"Thing is once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away… Sorry, that's Star Wars. Great story, but don't get me started about the…" The Doctor trailed off as Abel looked at them in the weirdest way before recollecting his thoughts. "You see, my people used to live in time wasting away our days until a man by the name of Omega harnessed the power of a star and formed the first black hole. The device he used harnessed the raw energy of time itself and that's what you found down on Sirius. The Hand of Omega, which could give its holder the power that the Time Lords used to have. During Gailfrey's last days the legend went that a man with the short name Marlin hid it on a nearby planet instructing its leaders to never tell a soul because the masses would come for it just like they are right now. That's what the code hidden in time itself comes out to. 5, 15, 1, 13, 7, which spells O, M, E, G, A. The hidden code is the star itself that never existed in our great constellation of Kastaberous. Kaserrayalisa. Inputting that will open up the citadel."

Abel stood completely bewildered having not expected the revelation. "You know what you're doing, right?"

"I don't run from time anymore. Time runs from me!"

Dalek Caan responded, "The-Doc-tor-shows-his-true-col-ours."

Rose began to scream as if she had been begging for her life, "Doctor, no! Don't do this!"

Her pleas fell on death ears as the Doctor made his way over to the computer and begin to press buttons. "Martha, I'm inputting the codes into the time lock right now and it should unlock precisely in ten seconds."

Martha stood tall and ready staring at the motionless citadel for a few seconds not knowing what she was soon going to see. Hearing the conversation had made her feel on edge expecting Hell itself to be inside this thing, but a light rumbling broke Martha out of her thoughts.

The rumbling grew in magnitude before cracks began to form over the surface of the planet much like an earthquake. The citadel's walls before Martha shattered suddenly as a white light shot out of the building into all directions. Martha was immersed by it and began to walk toward it with complete anticipation. Soon she disappeared inside it…

Above on the S.S. Bad Wolf, Abel grinned at Dalek Caan. "Well, it's been real fun partner, but you didn't really think I'd share the powers of time and space with a Dalek did you? I've been using you every step of the way!"

If a Dalek could show emotion it was completely demonstrated as Caan screamed. "Ex-term-in-ate!" Caan took a shot in Abel's direction only to miss him and hit the ship's wall as Abel dematerialized while laughing in victory.

Rose immediately noticed that she was still in peril as the soldiers continued to stand armed and ready. "We did what you asked. The Doctor opened the citadel. Now let me go."

Caan and the soldiers remained silent as the Doctor realized what was to happen. With anger seeping within he addressed Dalek Caan, "You're still going to kill her, aren't you?"

Caan responded very stoically. "Bad-wolf." A second Dalek came into the room stopping in the doorway to block the Doctor from even thinking about running to save Rose.

Rose knew what the Dalek meant. Seemingly years ago full of the power of the heart of the TARDIS she wiped out an entire Dalek fleet including the Emperor from existence. She still couldn't recall the feelings or thoughts that went with the action to this day, but she knew she had done it all the same. This was her reckoning as Dalek Caan had been planning to kill her all along. At the very least Rose would die inside the TARDIS. It was the only solace to her fastly beating but terrified heart.

The Doctor was vivid. "We had a deal! Doesn't honor and integrity mean anything to the Dalek race anymore? You lot have always been brutal, but something I've always respected about you is your honesty. You lied, Dalek Caan! You are no Dalek!"

Caan's eyestalk met the Doctor with an intimidating gaze. "I-am-the-last-of-the-Cult-of-Skar-o. We-are-bet-ter-than-oth-er-Dal-eks-us-ing-en-emy-tac-tics-a-gain-st-our-en-e-mies. You-taugh-t-us-to-lie." The Doctor's shocked realization said it all.

Down below on the planet admist a white blinding light, Martha screamed as she was quickly grabbed roughly from behind by a male body. Her attacker whispered into her ear. "If you want to live you'll stay still." Abel drew out his gun and cocked it before putting it against the back of her head. "The Hand of Omega is mine."

Above on the S.S. Bad Wolf, Dalek Caan called out, "Ex-ter-min-ate."

With that, the two soldiers fired directly at Rose as her eyes readied for her ultimate and prophesized death while the Doctor was powerless yelling "No!" He couldn't even bring himself to watch it on the view screen…