Right, here's the next part.

"But it's... Time Lord." Rose said

"Both sides had secrets." the Doctor told her and then turned to the Daleks "What is it? What have you done?" he asked them

"Time Lord science will restore Dalek supremacy." said Dalek Sec

"What does that mean?" the Doctor asked "What sort of Time Lord science? What do you mean?"

"They said one touch from a time traveller will wake it up." Rose informed him

"Technology using the one thing a Dalek can't do." the Doctor replied "Touch. Sealed inside your casing. Not feeling anything... ever... from birth to death, locked inside a cold metal cage." here his voice dropped to a whisper "Completely alone. And that explains your voice. No wonder you scream."

"The Doctor will open the Ark!"

The Doctor laughed contemptuously. "The Doctor will not."

"You have no way of resisting." Sec reminded him

"Well... you got me there." the Doctor "Although... there is always this." He took his sonic screwdriver out of his pocket.

"A sonic probe?"

"That's 'screwdriver'." the Doctor said

"It is harmless."

"Oh yes." the Doctor said "Harmless is just the word. That's why I like it. Doesn't kill, doesn't wound, doesn't maim. But I'll tell you what it does do - it is very good at opening doors." He activated the screwdriver, and immediately, the doors explode inwards. Jake, his men, and the Cybermen lept into action, firing their guns at the Daleks.

"Delete! Delete! Delete! Delete!"

"Alert! Casing impact, casing impact!" Dalek Cann said

The Doctor and Rose flung themselves to the ground, trying to avoid the guns. "Rose, get out!" the Doctor shouted. Rose tried to get to the exit but stumbled

"Fire power insufficient! Fire power insufficient!" Dalek Sec said

Pete helped Rose to her feet - she's surprised to see him there but obviously there was no time for him to explain. They ran for the door. Mickey picked up a gun and started firing anywhere.

"Daleks will be deleted. Delete! Delete!"

The Doctor managed to reach Rose and Pete where they stood in the doorway, out of harms way.

"Mickey, come on!" Rose yelled

"Adapt to weaponry!"

"Fire power restored!"

The Dalek fired once at a Cyberman, immediately destroying it. Jake managed to reach the door - but Mickey lost his footing and accidentally placed his hand upon the Genesis Ark, leaving a red hot mark there. He ran for the door.

"Cybermen primary target." Dalek Sec said

Mickey winced in pain as he looked at his hand. The rest of Jake's men managed to slip through the door before it closed, sealing both the Daleks and the Cybermen inside.

"Jake, check the stairwell." the Doctor said "The rest of you, come on!"

--

Mickey, Rose and the Doctor ran down a corridor. "I just fell, I didn't mean it!"

"Mickey, without us, they'd have opened it by force." the Doctor said "To do that, they'd have blown up the sun. You've done us a favour!" He kissed the top of Mickey's head, which made Rose laugh "Now, run!" he said as he grabbed Rose's hand and they ran on.

--

Jackie was still hurrying down the stairs. She came to an abrupt halt - Cybermen were approaching from the bottom of the stairs. She started running back up again, then exited the stairwell. She started to run down a corridor. She yelped as she came face to face with two Cybermen "You will be upgraded."

"No, but you can't! Please--" Jackie whimpered. The Cybermen were shot from behind. They fell to the ground dead, to reveal Pete aiming a gun behind them. He was accompanied by the Doctor, Rose and Mickey. Jackie squinted through the smoke clouding him, uncomprehending, then her eyes widened as she realised "Pete!" she said. In the background, Rose's hands went to her mouth

"I said there were ghosts, but that's not fair." Jackie said sounding slightly annoyed "Why him?"

"I'm not a ghost." Pete said

"But you're dead." Jackie "You died twenty years ago, Pete."

The Doctor stepped forward in an attempt to explain "It's Pete from a different Universe." he said "There are parallel worlds, Jackie. Every single decision we make creates a parallel existence, a different dimension where--"

"Oh, you can shut up." And for once, the Doctor did as she asked and stepped into the background beside Rose. Pete smiled "Oh... you look old." she said

"You don't." Pete replied

"How can you be standing there?" Jackie asked

"Just got lucky... lived my life." Pete answered "You were left on your own. You didn't marry again, or...?"

"There was never anyone else." Jackie said quietly. The Doctor and Mickey smirked "Twenty years, though. Look at me - I never left that flat. Did nothing with myself."

"Brought her up." Pete said "Rose Tyler." The Doctor and Mickey smiled "That's not bad."

"Yeah." Jackie whispered

"In my world, it worked." Pete said "All those daft little plans of mine. They worked. Made me rich."

"I don't care about that." Jackie said and then she paused "How rich?"

"Very."

"I don't care about that." she said again "How very?" Pete laughed, Rose rolled her eyes and the Doctor smiled fondly.

"Thing is though, Jacks, you're... you're not my wife. I'm sorry, but you're not. I mean, we both..." he tried. Jackie nodded and he looked at her, trying to fight it "You know, it's just sort of..." he gave in and started to walk towards her "Oh, come here." he said and they ran to meet each other, Jackie was starting to cry. Pete swept her off the ground in a hug.

--

The Doctor opened the door to where a battle between the Cybermen and the Daleks was taking place, peering into the lab, waiting for the right moment to enter. He dove into the room, watched anxiously by Rose who winced every time a beam passes near him. The Doctor picked up two of the magnaclamps, using them to deflect the rays from himself. He made his way back towards the door with them, dodging the beams. He tripped over a Cyberman's body. "Come on, please." she whispered. The Doctor quickly got to his feet and slipped through the door to safety. Rose closed it after him. After a few moments, the Doctor opened it again, and he looked around it, this time, he was wearing the 3D specs.

"Override roof mechanism." The roof began to open slowly.

"El-ev-ate."

Rose watched with the Doctor "What're they doing?" she asked "Why'd they need to get outside?!"

The Doctor was baffled "Time Lord science-- what Time Lord science?" He took the specs off "What is it?" Dalek Sek elevated through the ceiling into the open air with the Ark. The Doctor shut the door. He ran back down the corridor, shouting to the others as he went "We've gotta see what it's doing, we've gotta go back up! Come on! All of you! Top floor!"

"That's forty-five floors up!" Jackie said "Believe me, I've done 'em all."

Jake popped his head out of the lift "We could always take the lift..."

--

The Doctor and the others finally stepped out of the lift on the top floor and they ran to the window, the Doctor dumped the magnaclamps down on Yvonne's desk as he went. As the Genesis Ark spun, Daleks shot out of it, more and more of them. The Doctor stared in horror. "Time Lord science..." he said "it's bigger on the inside."

"Did Time Lords put those Daleks in there?" Mickey asked "What for?"

"It's a prison ship." the Doctor answered

"How many Daleks?" Rose asked

"Millions." her husband replied

Pete walked away from the window "I'm sorry, but you've had it." he said "This world's gonna crash and burn. There's nothing we can do. We're going home. Jacks, take this." He tossed her one of the yellow buttons

"But they're destroying the City!" Jackie said

"I'd forgotten you could argue." Pete said affectionately. He put the button around her neck himself "It's not just London, it's the whole world." He took her face in his hands and made her look at him "But there's another world, just waiting for you, Jacks. And it's safe. As long as the Doctor closes the breach. Doctor?" The Doctor turned from the window with his 3D specs on and a big grin.

"Oh, I'm ready." he said "I've got the equipment right here. Thank you, Torchwood!" He ran to a computer "Slam it down and close off both universes."

"Reboot systems."

"But we can't just leave." Rose said "What about the Daleks? And the Cybermen--?" The Doctor turned

"They're part of the problem." he said "And that makes them part of the solution. Oh yes!" Rose laughed nervously "Well?! Isn't anyone gonna ask? What is it with the glasses?"

Rose grinned "What is it with the glasses?" she asked, indulging him

"I can see!" he said "That's what! 'Cos we've got two separate worlds, but in-between the two separate worlds, we've got the Void. That's where the Daleks were hiding. And the Cybermen travelled through the Void to get here! And you lot - one world to another, via the Void! Oh, I like that. Via the Void! Look!" He pressed the glasses onto his wife's face "I've been through it. Do you see?" He dodged about so Rose could see, with the aid of the glasses, that he was surrounded by floating green and red particles. She reached out to try and touch them.

"Reboot in three minutes."

"Void stuff." the Doctor said

"Like um... background radiation!" she said

"That's it." he said "Look at the others." She turned to look a Jake, Mickey, Pete and her mother. Jackie was the only one not surrounded by the 'Void Stuff' "The only one who hasn't been through the Void - your mother." He said pointing "First time she's looked normal in her life." Rose giggled

"Oi!" Jackie said indignantly

The Doctor ran into the clear white area, Rose followed him. "The Daleks lived inside the Void." he said "They're bristling with it. Cybermen - all of them. I just open the Void - end of verse. The Void stuff gets sucked back inside."

"Pulling them all in." Rose said

"Pulling them all in!"

"Sorry... what's-- what's the Void?" Mickey asked

"The dead space." the Doctor "Some people call it 'Hell'."

Mickey put his button around his neck "So... you're sending the Daleks and Cybermen to Hell." Mickey said to Jake "Man, I told you he was good."

"But it's... like you said, we've all got Void stuff. Me too, 'cos we went to that parallel world." Rose said. She flexed her finger, examining the particles floating around them. She pulled the glasses of. The Doctor stood in front of her "We're all contaminated. We'll get pulled in."

"That's why you've gotta go." the Doctor said. This was the most difficult thing that he'd had to do since regenerating

"Reboot in two minutes. "

Rose stared at him. "Back to Pete's world." he said pointing at Pete "Hey, we should call it that - 'Pete's World'." he turned back to his wife "I'm opening the Void, but only on this side. You'll be safe on that side." Rose continued to stare at him

"And then you close it. For good?" Pete asked

"The breach itself is soaked in Void Stuff, in the end it'll close itself. And that's it. Kaput." the Doctor replied. Rose had finally realised what this meant

"But you stay on this side...?" she asked

"But you'll get pulled in." Mickey said.

The Doctor held Rose's gaze for a moment before he ran over to the magnaclamps. Rose stayed put, looking like she'd been slapped round the face. "That's why... I got these. I'll just have to hold on tight - I've been doing it all my life." he replied

"I'm supposed to go?" she asked

"Yeah." he answered, trying to hid the fact that this was hurting him more than her

"To another world, and then it gets sealed off?"

"Yeah." It was obvious that he didn't want to talk about it. He went to another computer

"Forever." Rose said with a false laugh "That's not gonna happen."

A crash from outside shook the building.

"We haven't got time to argue, the plans works, we go in. You too. All of us." Pete said

"No, I'm not leaving him!" Rose said angrily

"I'm not going without her." Jackie said

"Oh, my God. We're going." Pete said

"I've had twenty years without you, so button it. I'm not leaving her." Jackie replied

"You've got to." Rose said

"Well, that's tough!"

"Mum..."

"Reboot in one minute."

Rose started to speak, her voice trembling with suppressed tears "I've had a life with you for nineteen years. But then I met the Doctor and... all the things I've seen him do for me. For you. For all of us. For the whole... stupid planet and every planet out there. He does it alone, mum." Behind her the Doctor was watching with sadness in his eyes as he silently took a button on a chain out of his pocket. "But not anymore." she backed away from her mother and towards her husband "Cos now he's got me."

Right, that's it. I'll explain in the next chapter.

TTFN

Julie.