Ashena made her way to the one place she really didn't want to go, the location of the people who were organising the resistance. They thought it was well hidden...as if. She spotted the lookouts and boldly stepped out to shouts of surprise.

She was expecting to be treated harshly and she was as she was shoved through the gates of the camp. She tried to ignore the insults and hostiles stares; she had business to do.

She was pushed into a cell and what seemed an eternity later she was taken from it and into a room containing what were not no doubt the civilian leaders of the rebellion.

There was a scattering of uniforms, high ranking, but none that counted; they were somewhere amongst that horde.

She took a deep breath and started to speak and was surprised at how much like her mother she sounded.

"No need for introduction...you know me, you hate me...enough said."

She was silenced by on the people sitting at the table. "You took a huge risk coming here. You must have good reason to risk summary execution."

She nodded. "You have a bigger threat than my parents coming your way."

Another person spoke. "How can anything be worse that your parents?"

"Hard to believe, but there is. I know you won't believe the words I'm saying...so how about I show you?"

She moved forward but found several rifles in her face.

"I'm not going to hurt him...I'd be dead in an instant."

"Let her approach," the first person who had spoken said. "Show me, but be aware, you will die is this is trickery...Huntress."

What she showed the man must have done the trick as she was taken away to a small room just off to the side. She could hear the murmur of heated discussion; if she convinced the rebels it would be half the problem solved.

The hardest part would be to persuade her parent's army to follow her; they would be reluctant to follow her as she was yet unproven in battle, but accept her they must.

The door opened and she was taken back in.

"We will assist you in this matter, but even a civilian like myself knows we are outnumbered.

"Yes and that's the next part of my deal."

Ashena staggered back and wiped her bloody blade and then straightened.

"Anyone else question my right to command. I am the daughter of the Lord Master and the Lord Doctor...I bleed the same blood that flows through their veins and you will follow me!"

The roar that followed gave her the answer she wanted and she walked over to the same councillor and said.

"Now we have an army."

Jack was relieved when the Horde stopped. He was puzzled as to why they had not been attacked yet; they were deep inside rebel held territory.

Several group had left the Horde, scouts no doubt. No tents were raised, only camp fires made and the smell of roasting something filled the air.

He was pulled away from the beast and chained to a stake that had been hastily hammered into the ground and left alone for what seemed hours before he saw the Doctor...no Sorsha approaching and Ianto was trailing behind with an armed escort.

Sorsha said something to the creature who prodded Ianto to put the tray down that he'd been carrying and then moved away to leave Sorsha with Jack.

He pushed the tray towards Jack; it held food and water. Jack was hungry but he didn't touch the tray.

"Do you think it's poisoned?" Sorsha said and picked up a piece of meat and ate it. "If I wanted you dead, you would be."

Jack spoke then. "It's your boyfriend I'm worried about."

"Sisai, he knows his place in my heart and he knows his place. He will not harm you, you are valuable to me, an immortal born of time itself. You are precious beyond anything."

They were interrupted by the arrival of one of the scouting party. They rattled of a string of snarls and growls and Sorsha scowled and let out his own snarl and the scouts rode off and the camp stated to mobilise.

"It seems battle is afoot. Come Jack Harkness, time for you to see the weapon the Time Lords created.

The two armies faced each other on a strip of flat land between Mount Perdition and its lesser brother Mount Redemption...it was in all senses a killing field with steep slopes either side; death was a certainty.

Jack, Ianto and Gwen had been brought together and were standing on a rocky outcrop along with Sorsha and Sisai.

"So few against so many...bravery is a fine thing when you are not outnumbered...but suicide," Sorsha said.

Jack looked up at him. "More powerful things than you have tried and failed."

"We have fought things you cannot imagine, they are nothing but ants."

Jack said nothing...let hubris run its course. He'd seen the mix of soldiers...this wasn't the whole army.

A trap was being laid and he knew exactly who was setting it...someone with the cunning of her father and the strategic genius of her mother.

A roar went out from the other side of the valley and was answered by the Horde and both armies advanced...the battle had started.

Ashena watched the two armies approach each other; she was playing a dangerous game...a suicidal game.

There was a saying she'd heard her father say, "If you want to catch a Siskra, you have to draw its sting."

She was about to do that and if it meant sacrificing a few thousand men, then she would.

She raised her binoculars and looked over at a distant group sat on a rocky outcrop; it was her parents, but there was something about them that wasn't right...an air of arrogance that they had never, well her mother had never shown.

Even their movements on whatever those things they were riding were different.

She recoiled when her mother looked directly at her and the light flared in his eyes...no definitely not right.

She looked again and saw him riding down the slope with her father just behind.

She dug her heels into her horse and began her own descent.

Sorsha saw the two armies move and he relished the slaughter that was to come; it had been an eternity since he'd smelt the stench of fear and blood and this body had seen battle and he knew it was capable of much violence.

The glint of sun on glass caught his attention and all his focus was turned on it. He needed no aid to see who it was, he could feel it; it was one of the Time Lord's children.

"Sisai," he snarled and dug his heels into the flanks of his mount and it shot forward and raced down the slope, followed by Sisai, leaving Jack and the others with two soldiers as guards.

A look passed between them and their whole demeanour changed and the look was...be ready.

As Ashena rode she was joined by her own personal guard; she knew what was coming, the battle that was about to start was not her concern, saving her parents was.

A roar from the Horde made her pull up and she saw the reason why...racing down a rocky slope were her parents, the beasts they were riding going a what she assumed was full tilt.

Her plan to snatch her parents away crashed and the one thing she didn't want was about to happen; she may have to face one or both of her parents in combat.

She spurred her horse forward, hoping that the people she'd put in charge would see what had happened and have the wits to improvise.

Then she forgot about them as she pushed her horse to greater speed...straight towards the now running Horde and straight towards her parents.