Once more, there was another flashback. The Doctor saw himself in his 8th incarnation again. Now, we see an elaborately decorated war chamber filled with soldiers, Chancellery guards, generals and other military officials. A table lied at the center of the chamber covered with maps, battle plans and other materials. Sitting at the table with other military officials was a woman with blond hair and wearing a senatorial outfit. He could tell who she was in an instant as he walked up to the table. All around him, everyone was speaking in Gallifreyan. Here was what was said in Gallifreyan, translated.
"Did you call for me Madame President Romana?" the Doctor asked.
Romana glanced up and smiled at him, "Yes, we have been waiting for you. I didn't make you my prime military strategist for nothing. What do you think of this?" Romana asked, pointing at a map on the table.
The 8th Doctor looked down at the map, noticing that Romana has already plotted out the next advance, "I see you haven't been idol much…"
"We are not sure if we have plotted out the correct advance against our enemies," another official spoke, "It is essential that we win the next battle or we will lose half of the Cadonflood Valley…"
The 8th Doctor looked up at the official and then back down at the map. Romana watched on quietly, smiling. "Indeed." the Doctor says, "From what I can see, you have been sending scouts out trying to find the best possible route around the Cadon Pae Hills…"
Back to the present as the ship soon leaves the sight of mere human eyes. Not only was it gone so was the Doctor. Rose, Martha and Donna just stood there, tears showing in there eyes.
One question was on there minds were, 'What happened to the Doctor? Where was he taken?'
Surely, he wasn't killed. The energy field looked as if it had sent him somewhere. Donna slumped to the floor while Martha and Rose just stood and looked at one another, then Rose spoke, "I got reunited with The Doctor. Mind you it wasn't a happy one as I would have wanted but to see his smile once again and now to have it taken away…" she says.
"Don't worry," Martha says, "Will – will get him back…"
Martha walked over towards Donna and squatted down beside her, "Are you OK?" Martha asked.
Donna replied, with tears in her eyes, looking up at Martha, "I don't know. Each time I think I can handle the next thing that comes, I can't. I know I'm lying to myself when I say I'm alright…"
Martha placed her hand on Donna's shoulder, assuring her that all will be well soon.
Suddenly, Mickey came into what was left of the room, "You lot have got to come see this…"
Mickey ran out the door again. Rose followed behind Mickey while Martha helped Donna to her feet, following the others there after. In a part of the building that is still intact, Rose and Mickey are looking over some computer monitors.
"What are we looking at?" Rose asked.
Mickey replied, "I have been able to track some of the smaller ships and they seem to have made a sort of base about 12 miles from here…"
"Well, that's good news…" Rose says, "If we can infiltrate it, we might be able to find out who we are dealing with and maybe where the Doctor has been taken…"
Rose looked at Martha, whom nodded her head as if she had read Rose's mind. Martha picked up a nearby radio and began to mount a team together. Soon, the soldiers are ready and they load up into trucks. Rose, Martha, Mickey and Donna all load up into a separate truck the trucks are on there way. Within a few minutes, they came to a stop about a mile from where the enemy camp was.
"We will continue on foot from here. Soldiers shift! Move!" Martha says.
Everyone unloaded and began to walk. Soon, they find themselves looking at the base. From the computer, they weren't able to know exactly what kind of base it was. But now they could see that it was a large ship round in shape sitting upon the ground, very large in size. They began there descent towards the Ship. Suddenly, without warning, there were explosions all around. Small ships were flying about, firing down at the soldiers. The soldiers all began to fire back but with little effect. One by one, they were taken out by the ships, soon leaving only the four.
"We have to make it to the ship…" Mickey says.
"We've found a way in…" Rose says.
Martha and Donna agreed.
The four began to run and make their way to what appeared to be a door.
"Can you open it?" Rose asked.
"Yes, I think so…" Mickey replied.
"Well, if the Doctor was here he could use his sonic screwdriver thingy on it…" Martha says.
Rose and Donna looked at her and both smiled with a nod. Soon a clicking sound was heard and the door slid open. They began to go into the ship, but Martha suddenly stopped.
"Wait…" Martha says.
Martha took out her phone, pushed a button and placed it to her ear.
"Martha, this isn't the time to call your boyfriend…" Donna says.
Just as Donna heard Martha said "It's me, we need your help. I'll see you soon…" Martha pocketed her phone away.
Rose looked at Martha, "Who was that?" Rose asked.
"That was just some heavy duty muscle…" Martha replied with a smile and said nothing more was said as they continued to enter the open door. Inside, the corridors were narrow and sloped throughout the ship. They turn a corner and suddenly stopped. Mickey took out a device and moved it around, "I'm picking up the major concentration of energy straight ahead…" Mickey says.
Suddenly, a shadow was seen coming around another corner and Rose told everyone to hide. They began to scatter, all hiding behind nearby metal columns. There, they all sat and waited. The shadow turned the corner and slowly crept down the narrow corridor. Suddenly, a familiar sight rolled passed Martha and Rose, one that the both had encountered before as well as Mickey.
Yet another flashback was seen, this time it was on a battlefield on Gallifrey, veiled in a heavy fog. On one side of the battle line was the Gallifreyan soldiers while on the other side was the unseen enemy. The ground trembled as a line of heavily armored Gallifreyan dune buggies crept slowly forward, there weapons blazing and shooting forward at the unseen enemies. All the Gallifreyan soldiers wore elaborate contraptions on their heads with an eye piece covering over one eye. Through the eye piece, the contraption allowed them to see through the fog. One of the dune buggies branded a brightly colored flag with the symbol of the Gallifreyan fleet on it. Driving behind the wheel of the flagged dune buggy was the 8th Doctor. He saw through his eye piece two lines of enemy soldiers. He spoke up to the rough looking fleet brigadier standing behind him, "We have two lines of enemy soldiers crossing over the Sliver Moon Ridge sir…"
The fleet brigadier turned to the Gun Master sitting at the large gun in the buggy next to him, "Do you have them in your sights?"
Without saying a word, the gun master placed his eye against the sights, signaling to the Doctor that he did. The fleet brigadier smiled and spoke, "Fire at will…"
The weapons began to fire. All around the dune buggies, Gallifreyan soldiers walked along side them while two soldiers in the Doctor's dune buggy used small, bright flags to signal to the other dune buggies, coordinating their part of the fleet and signaling to other flagging dune buggies nearby. Soldiers all around them were running and shouting at each other as explosions and shots continued to be heard. Suddenly, from out of the fog, the enemy appeared. Their metallic skins and long, stalked eye pieces were unmistakable. One of the enemy fleet cried out while it fired it's weapon all around it, "Alert! Alert! Enemies in Section 547. Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminateeeee!!"
It was back in the present again. Their enemies were the Daleks. Everything was making sense now expect 'Why did they take the Doctor?'
Moments later, the area was clear they began to make there way towards the control room. After a few minutes, Mickey spoke up, "We're here. Whatever it is we will find behind those doors…"
Suddenly, the doors opened, "Wow Mickey that was fast…" Rose says.
"I didn't do anything…" he says.
"Well, guess we need to proceed with further caution…" Martha says.
They entered the room. Once inside, they saw that it was a large storage bay. After a few more steps inside, the doors shut behind them. They paused. Mickey and Donna tried to force the doors open but with no lucky. Then, the room began to hum and the walls began to take a new shape. Small openings began to appear and with that, a pair of Daleks appeared, "Alert! Alert!! Intruders! Exterminate!!"
They began to fire on the team whom now take cover behind the crates and counters, firing back.Rose yelled to the others, "Aim for the eyes. That is their weak point…"
Firing goes on what seemed like forever. Several more Daleks appeared and are taken down, but more seemed to be appearing out of nowhere.
"Where's this Heavy duty muscle you called for?" Donna asked in a sarcastic tone.
"Now would be a good time for it to show up…" Mickey says.
They two forces continued to fire back and forth at each other. The firing goes on with what looked like now an end in sight or at least what appeared to be an end. Suddenly, the doors behind Rose and the others explode open. Everyone stopped firing as the smoke and debris cleared. A figure of a man in a dark coat was seen. Soon, Martha and the others soon see who it was – it was Jack.
"So, did someone call for help?" Jack says.
Martha looked up at him and smiled then the firing began again. Jack, who was holding two rather large cannon like guns fired back, each time hitting a Dalek. When hit, the Daleks shook and the top of there bodies exploded off. One of the Daleks is hit in the eye, "Alert! Vision Impaired! I can not see!!"
More Daleks entered. Jack ducked over near Rose. He glanced in her direction and smiled, "Rose, I knew you were alive…" Jack says.
"Yes…" Rose replied.
"But if we don't get out of here soon we will all be dead…" Donna yelled.
"On the count of three, everyone run out the doors behind us. One-Two-Three…" Jack yelled.
He jumped up and began to fire rapidly into the air. The four make there way to the doors and Jack ran backwards, still firing. Soon, he joined the rest of them, running down the corridors and through the exit. Soon, they ran across the field. At their trucks, they stopped to catch their breathe. Jack placed his guns down on the ground next to the truck. They all leaned up against the truck, panting for air. At this moment, Jack looked to the right of him at Donna and Martha then looked to the left of him at Rose and Mickey.
Jack smirked, "I say, it's a bit full isn't it?"
"Nice coming from the man who is always full of it…" Martha replied.
"I take it you're preferring to my guns…" Jack replied.
"Yes, exactly…" Rose says.
Donna walked up to Jack and asked, "And you are?"
Jack shook Donna's hand, "Capt. Jack Harkness, the most gorgeous man you'll most likely want to meet and you must be Donna..."
"OK, that's enough of that…" Martha says.
Jack turned to Mickey, looked at him and smiled, "And you must be Mickey. I take that back, you're gorgeous to…"
"No really, that's enough of that…" Rose says.
Jack looked at Rose, "I was just saying hello…"
"OK, will somebody put a leash on this
man?" Donna says.
"Woof woof…" Martha says.
Jack looked at Martha and grinned.
"Down boy…" Rose says.
Jack raised his hands in response, "OK, OK. I get the picture," Jack looked around at everyone, "So ladies and gentleman, what are we up against besides the rampaging fleet of Daleks that are currently invading Earth? Give me some details…"
But before Rose could say anything, a medium size ship zoomed over and fired not a weapon, but some sort of light beam, which engulfed Martha, Jack, Mickey and Donna while missing Rose. Suddenly, the ships began to break off and disappear. Rose looked on, now realizing she was all alone. Somehow, she now knew she had to rescue not only the Doctor, but Martha, Jack, Mickey and Donna as well.
