It has been a while since my last update, but I plan to release chapters like you would an episode, so as not to bombard you all with cliffhangers. Well I hope you enjoy. And if any one notices any mistakes in my writing or story please point them out to me. Thanks.

Ch 2- Limitations

The Tardis gave off a wheezing sigh as its engines faded out to a stop.

"Ok fine, it moved with quite the dramatic flare, I'll give you that." She said standing up after having been knocked down by the boxes sudden movements, multiple times.

"Well then why not take a look outside?" The Doctor smiled, dramatically flipping a switch to which the Tardis hummed in reply. She tapped her fingers against the center consul of the ship, and glanced off at the door. The Doctor could see the girls eagerness to step out the door, but worried pride at being proved wrong. She peeled her eyes from the door to look at the Doctor.

"How do I know this isn't just some elaborate prank, that the moment I step out you won't close these doors and ride off in your not-so-little blue box?" She said protectively crossing her arms.

"Well then" he replied with a smile holding his hand out to her.

"I guess we will just have to step out, together." He said wiggling his out stretched fingers just waiting for her to grab his open hand. She felt her brow twitch at his irking confidence, and his annoying assurance that everyone he smiles at will blindly follow him to the ends of the earth. She paused and taking a breath she gave him a wide innocent smile, before grabbing his collar and half dragging him through the doors, ignoring his protests about messing up his 'bow-tie'.

"I agree, but let's not forget our manners now a gentlemen should open the doors for a lady." She said placing him in front of the doors. He turned giving her a surprised look which quickly turned to amusement. He returned her comment with yet another confident grin, he slowly lifted up his hand with a brief pause he snapped his fingers. Letting the doors swing open to the blinding light of the sun 'this is going to be an interesting adventure.' He stepped out the doors, she followed but ran square into his back. He had stopped just outside the doors.

"Doctor?" She asked stepping around him as she rubbed her nose, to see the tip of a long spear pointed and only inches from the Doctors face. Her eyes followed down the length of the spear stopping on a man clad in bright red and gold detailed armor, with a terrifying mask that could only be described as a demon. It was a Samurai, she looked around in disbelief they were surrounded by them on every side, their eyes wide with a range of emotions from fear to confusion and just a hint of wonder. But all of their weapons drawn and directed towards them.

"Dareda inuka?!" The spear wielding samurai shouted. They both froze, the Doctor turned to Sky, and spoke.

"He just said 'who are you?'"

"Yea got that." She replied still trying to take everything in. 'It's impossible, there's no way.' She thought to herself. She turned to the Doctor ignoring the man with the spear.

"Fine! Well done you've moved us!" She said throwing her hands up into the air.

"That much I'll admit, but I still don't believe we traveled back in time!" She said folding her arms across her chest, clearly flabbergasted at the whole scenario.

"Sky, this isn't a show." He said calmly using one hand in an attempt to wave her back behind him. She stepped away and closer to the armed man.

"Well my question is, who are y-" she began but was cut short, as the man had instantly turned on his heel and with a shot swung his spear, aiming for her head. She reacted bending backwards as the spear sliced the air where her head had been a split second before. The blade had continued its path easily slicing the tip of her hair, she watched it fall with her as gravity pulled her down to the ground. Where she landed with a soft thud staring up at the beautiful sky.

"Sky!" The Doctor shouted, as he moved to go forward another samurai held him at bay. The spear wielded surprised at her doge swung the spear down at her once again. She felt her adrenaline surge, and time seemed to slow. She rolled out of the way as the spear plunged into the ground, she hooked her leg on his kicking it out sending him into a full split. Seemingly unaffected the man quickly spun back up to his feet, she could see the little bit of his face had turned red at his anger of loosing his cool in front of his men and to the enemy. He pulled out his short sword letting his anger boil. He came on with a flurry of slashes, but she dogged each one with a surprising display of skill. Causing everyone to stand open mouthed at the scene unfolding, even the Doctor was at a loss for words. She dogged as gracefully as a butterfly and it wasn't before long that the samurai was becoming noticeably slower with the suns heat and his constant onslaught in his heavy armor was taking its toll. When she tripped landing hard onto the ground, bringing the audience back into reality. The Samurai saw his chance and took it, lunging at her, blade in hand. The Doctor was about to leap at the man.

"Yamaro!" A loud voice boomed and the samurai froze, his face becoming pale, he retreated several feet giving a low bow to the newcomer sitting high up on a pure black horse he came out from behind the crowd. His long black hair tied back into a high pony tail with a loop in it. A black beard to match his hair he looked straight ahead, ignoring his platoon of men all in a low bow. He looked to be in his late thirties but it was hard to tell. The man came to a stop in front of Sky who was still laying on her back after her tumble. She could tell he was an important person, as well as incredibly strong. She couldn't explain why but a fear began to well up inside her, she could tell this man, was dangerous. The man glanced at the scene letting his eyes drift from the mysterious blue box to the Doctor and his bow-tie, before coming to Sky, to which he held his gaze a moment more. His cold eyes made her shutter, as he spoke in a calm but powerful voice.

"Anata, dare?" He said. She sat still looking up to the man then to the Doctor, he held up his hand, gesturing for her to wait. He twisted around to give the Tardis a good whack to which it hummed in reply, causing the Samurai to jump up to aim their weapons at the strange box.

"Sorry, hello, I'm the Doctor and this is Sky P-" he stopped as the man had blindingly drawn his sword pointing the long blade at the Doctors face.

"I was speaking to the woman before me, Interrupt again and it may be the last thing you ever do." He said with ice on his voice, but kept his eyes locked on Sky's. The Doctor closed his mouth and looked at Sky who seemed surprised at the sudden change in language. He nodded to her in silent assurance that she would be ok. She gulped slowly standing up she brushed herself off, and opened her mouth to speak.

"You know... Where I come from its only polite to introduce yourself first before asking the name of another." The Doctor slapped his hand over his face and hung his head, drawing the baffled looks of Sky and several of the Samurai. The others too surprised by the girls rude reply to their leader. Everything went silent, before the man let his lip curl into an amused smirk, as he fingered his pointed beard. She felt the atmosphere change, as if this mans mood controlled the temperature of the area surrounding. But it was deceiving, not even having seen his hand move she felt cold steel pressed against the nape of her neck, as a small trickle of blood ran down to her collar.

"And from where, I am from, and where we are now. Any intelligent being who has plans on seeing tomorrow answers the questions to whom they have been asked." He said calmly. She froze, and with one look up into the mans eyes she knew this wasn't Kansas any more, or even the 21st century.

"My name is Sky, and this man is the Doctor." She spoke slowly trying to keep her cool. The man smiled victoriously as he re-sheathed his katana, which normally would have pissed her off, but she could tell that this mans confidence was by all means justified. He dismounted his horse to stand before her almost a head taller than her.

"And I am Oda Nobunaga."

Sky opened her mouth to reply back but quickly closed it realizing she actually wanted to live to see tomorrow. She brought her hand up to her neck noticing her bleeding had already stopped from her blood running cold. Her adrenalin began to diminish as she was finally able to slow down and look at the scene before her. There wasn't a single thing out of place, and no evidence saying it was a tourist trap or a movie set. The air felt impossibly clean for it to be her own time regardless of where you went. Surrounded by authentic samurai, she had to resist the urge to take a selfie with one. It was no dream of Psychotic delusion, this was Japan, and not in her own time. Oda Nobunaga, she had heard that name before. When she remembered, countless films and books, and documentaries of this man. Known for almost conquering all of Japan the ruthless war lord Oda Nobunaga. One of her favorite subjects in history class even though they had only lightly touched the subject she had done more research on her own. She shuttered looking at the Doctor. She could tell he was contemplating to speak as Nobunaga examined his blue box as the other samurai continued to point their weapons at it. So she decided to speak before him.

"We are, travelers from far away, and we had gotten lost in our blue... Wagon of sorts. We apologize if we have disturbed you in anyway" she replied with a curt bow.

"Your blue box wagon appeared out of thin air?"

"We are also magicians."

"To appear in the middle of my army's camp ground?"

"We are very good magicians." She finished, looking over at the Doctor who gave her a smile and a discrete thumbs up. He turned to Sky his swords clanking against one another as he did so, placing his hand on the hilt of his longest blade.

"Magicians whose martial arts skills were able to match up to one of my greatest fighters unarmed and a woman no less." He said raising an eyebrow.

"And an attractive one at that." He smirked.

"Thank y- what?" She said taking a step back.

"I think I will have you show me more of your magic, and skills back at my home, so I will have you and your Doctor man accompany me for the ride back." He said pulling himself back up onto his horse, he quickly reached down grabbing her wrist and pulling her up onto his horse as well with almost no effort, sitting her in front of him on the saddle.

"S-sky?!" The Doctor asked unsure as he went forward only to be pulled back by one of the soldiers.

"Uh, d-Doctor?" She replied.

"Give the Doctor man a horse as well, the horsemen will ride ahead through the night to reach the castle late tonight, foot soldiers will pack and follow at their own pace. We are in need of a Doctor any how he said giving him a glance. He used one hand to grab the reigns and the other he wrapped around her waist to keep her steady. She instinctively flushed, with embarrassment. He gave her an amused smile at her reaction before turning to one of the soldiers also on a horse.

"Takashi, ride on ahead and tell Mitsuhide that we are heading back early, and that I expect a celebration dinner to be ready by the time I get there. Also notify him of our two guests, and that one will be my companion for the evening" he finished.

"Your what?!" Her and the Doctor exclaimed in unison. As Takashi nodded and quickly rode off ahead. The Doctor slipped a little as he was about to pull himself up onto the horse. This was going to be a long ride. The soldiers hurried to pack up the tents and equipment to pack it onto the wagons pulled by the horses as Nobunaga and his group readied to leave before them. A group of men went over in an attempt to lift the blue box onto a nearby cart, even after 10 of them lifted at once it refused to budge even an inch. The doctor went over to them kindly explaining that none of them could lift it even if they tried, and that their attempts would only make them look stupid. He stepped into the blue box pulling the door closed drawing the eyes of everyone nearby including their noble lord. He quickly reopened the door just enough to stick his head out.

"You may want to stand back." He simply said before disappearing back into the box, the men cautiously stepped back as the box let of its now familiar howl as the box vanished from view, causing a mixed reaction from the crowd. Surprised shouts and and scared cries drowned out the sound as the box suddenly reappeared perfectly onto the cart. She looked back at Nobunaga's face, to which she couldn't help but smile at his attempt to restrain his wide eyed look. The Doctor stepped out of the box letting the doors close he jumped down giving a finishing bow, to which several of the men cheered and whooped the act of sorcery before them.

She couldn't tell just how long they had been riding for as she wasn't allowed more than a foot away from Nobunaga the entire time in case she ran. They only let the horses rest once or twice for ten minuets at best and she couldn't go and ask the Doctor either. Who had become the personal entertainment of several nearby soldiers as he did several decent vanishing tricks with a coin. The sun had hidden behind the tall trees but light was still present, when she couldn't stand it anymore.

"Ok! I promise I won't run off, but if I don't stand and walk a bit I feel like my legs are going to fall off." She cried clearly in pain, her entire lower body had gone numb from the uncomfortable riding position. And she looked up to Nobunaga with pleading eyes, as she felt her head become light. He looked down surprised at her sudden outburst, but nodded in understanding.

"Fine, but I don't recommend going to far, ninjas inhabit this area. And I believe it's getting close to their hunting time." He said with a slight amusement. His voice gave off an air of sarcasm with an overwhelming amount of disgust to top it off. He clearly didn't like ninjas, he helped her down as tried to stand in place on her wobbly legs. Letting the blood flow go again, giving her the feeling of pins and needles. Out of the corner of her eye she could see the spear wielded from before glaring at her from afar, clearly upset about the situations turnout. 'If looks could kill' she thought to herself looking away, as she tried to spot the Doctor. She suddenly felt as though she was falling back when a hand came out from behind halting her decent. The Doctor held her up to keep her from tumbling yet again.

"Thanks" she whispered, also taking the canteen of water he offered her.

"Anytime" he replied with a smile. One thing she had noticed, that even in the face of unknown terror, the Doctor still seemed to be genuinely enjoying himself, Regardless of the situation.

"Where do you think we are going?" She asked the Doctor quietly.

"Probably to Nobunaga's castle or perhaps Mitsuhide's home, Nobunaga's retainer. It's hard to say, pretty sure they just came back from a battle though to which we landed in the middle of their camp. Not my best parking jobs I must admit." He said fingering his chin as he remembered some of his 'better' parking jobs.

"Well that's helpful, but now what do we do?" She asked beginning to worry.

"Well here's a crazy thought. Why not just ask him where we are going, seems he's taken a liking to you after all." He teased.

"Shut up" she retaliated clearly embarrassed. She turned to Nobunaga who was only a few feet away still on his horse alert and on guard. She began to talk getting him to turn to her.

"Uh, sorry mr... Nobunaga but do you think you... Could..." She began to trail off as she spotted a small glint of reflected metal just behind him in the trees, she felt her gut scream of the danger, and her body seemed to move on its own.

"Watch out!" She shouted pouncing at Nobunaga as several small silver stars flew out of the canopy for Nobunaga's back. She tightly wrapped her arms around the man as she tackled him off of his horse and to the ground as he braced for the fall.

"Ninjas!" Cried one of the samurai as several came out from the bushes to engage several of the men in close combat. 4 of the samurai wrapped around forming a protective circle around their leader from any oncoming ninja attacks. Shots fired into the trees by three skilled gunmen dropped 2-3 of the ninjas from the tall trees. They watched as the only ninja left alive fled into the dark forest.

"Damn these Iga ninja!" One of the gunmen cursed over the body of another samurai and a bloodied ninjas corpse. She tried her best to sit up and push her self off the now seated Nobunaga.

"S-sorry, about that." she stuttered apologetically "body sorta moved, on its own." She mumbled reaching her hand up to steady her head. When she heard the surprised gasp of several surrounding samurai.

"Your arm!" One of the samurai said pointing to her raised arm, where a small five sided star protruded from her mid bicep, a fresh stream of blood trailing down her arm. She looked at the star surprised, she haven't felt it at all. She went and pulled it out of her arm, it was a good inch in, as she held it in her fingers looking it over unable to focus on the sounds around her. She looked to her side, to see the Doctor pushing everyone back. She noticed the fresh red stains on her white shirt and tilted her head.

"Man, and.. I just bought this...too-" she said before everything went black. Collapsing into Nobunaga's arms.

"Give her some space!" He shouted, taking control of the situation. Nobunaga nodded in understanding carefully getting up to issue the same command to his men. He issued them to form a protective perimeter with guns at the ready, and to be sure there were no more ninjas nearby. The doctor carefully picked up the star turning it over in his fingers, he sniffed it reeling back he put it back down opening her eyes and checking the wound again. "Thorn Apple poisoning" he mumbled but loud enough for Nobunaga to hear.

"Well Doctor man, what do we need to do?" He asked looking down at the unconscious Sky. The Doctor used his belt tying it off above the wound to slow the poison.

"Everything I need is back on the Tardis, my blue box. But it's too far away!" He said frustrated at his inability to think ahead.

"How far are we from the closest building?"

"If we rush the horses, 5 minuets." He replied

"Alright we've got no time to lose, take me there, I also need someone I can tell what supplies I need, he stood carefully lifting her up onto the horse before getting on himself he held her up and in place between his arms, as he pulled the horse around ready to go. Nobunaga quickly jumped on his own horse, before turning to his men.

"You three come with us, the rest finish the sweep then collect all the injured and dead and follow were going ahead! To Mitsuhide's!" He shouted kicking his horse he sped off to the trees the Doctor and three samurai close behind.