Chapter 3: Companion Reunion

"How?" The Doctor asked.

"Hello." Rose said. "Is that you Doctor? They told me you regenerated again."

"How can you possibly be here?" The Doctor said.

"Doctor?" Clara asked. "Shouldn't we be warning Torchwood?"

"I don't understand." The Doctor said in complete ignorance of Clara's question.

Clara wondered who this girl was. They very sight of her made the Doctor forget about the oncoming Dalek attack entirely.

"Do you know who she is?" Clara asked Regina, Hook, and Rumplestiltskin, hoping they might know something.

"Yes." Hook said. He did recognize her from a long time ago. "When I was in Neverland, she flew onto my ship one night."

"She flew?" Clara questioned.

"She was using pixie dust to look for the Doctor, but she didn't quite know how to fly and she ended up on my ship. Then, the lost boys came and took her away." Hook said.

"Then what?" Clara asked.

"I don't know." Hook said. "I never saw her again. A man came by in a big blue box identical to this one and asked what happened to her. I told him. Then he disappeared."

"That would be the Doctor." Clara said.

"It looked like the TARDIS, but it was a different man. He was a little taller and his hair was all spiked up." Hook said.

"Like I said. That was the Doctor. You met him before he regenerated into his current form." Clara said.

"What sort of creature is he?" Hook asked.

"Time Lord." Clara replied. "So who is she?"

"She said her name was Rose." Hook said.

"You know Ariel don't you?" Rose asked the Doctor. "You gave her the telepathy pendant."

"Yes." The Doctor responded.

"Apparently mermaids can travel between worlds." Rose said. "Peter Pan sent her to my world to retrieve the blue diamond."

"What!" Rumplestiltskin furiously exclaimed. "I sent that thing to that parallel world so people like him would never get their hands on it."

"Don't interrupt." The Doctor said.

"What Pan didn't know was that the entire planet was at war with the Cybermen. Eventually we found the blue diamond and I used it to destroy every single Cyberman." Rose said. "I discovered that I have magic."

Clara didn't know what the big deal was. When the Sontarans invaded the Enchanted Forest, she unlocked her own magic and used the red diamond briefly.

"So how did you get back here?" The Doctor asked.

"Ariel took me with her." Rose said.

"Why did you come back?" The Doctor asked.

"Because of you." Rose said. "I wanted to have one last conversation with you."

"Me?" The Doctor questioned.

"Yes." Rose said. "On the last day I saw you, you left without even saying goodbye. After everything we've been through I have a few things to say to you."

"You came back to scold me?" The Doctor asked.

"Not quite." Rose said. "Who are all these people? I recognize Captain Hook."

"This is Clara Oswald." The Doctor said.

"Right." Rose said. "Martha told me about you."

"Remember how we went to Neverland and we met Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, and Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys?" The Doctor asked.

"Of course." Rose said.

"Well this is Rumplestiltskin and the Evil Queen." The Doctor said.

"The Evil Queen?" Rose asked. "Like Snow White?"

"Don't remind me." Regina said.

"If you don't mind my asking," Rumplestiltskin said, "what happened to the blue diamond?"

"Pan has it." Rose said. "He used a small army of Gorgons to distract Torchwood while he stole the red diamond."

"He has both!" Rumplestiltskin shouted.

"That's it." The Doctor said. "It makes sense now. In Agrabah, Jafar said that someone hired him to show the Daleks how dreamshade works and convince them to go to Neverland. It must've been Peter Pan."

"The Daleks?" Rose asked. "I thought they were all dead."

"So did I." The Doctor said. "I always do until they show up again."

"You also met Jafar?" Rose asked.

"Well no," the Doctor said, "but we saw him. We also met Alice from Wonderland."

"Wonderland is real too?" Rose asked.

"Can we focus on the more important fact that the Daleks are going to Neverland!" Rumplestiltskin shouted.

"If that's true," Rose said, "then why are you here and not in Neverland?"

"Because the Dalek ships don't have enough power to get to Neverland. They need to take a shortcut through the Cardiff Rift." The Doctor said.

"No." Rose said.

"That's right Rose." The Doctor said. "The Daleks are coming back to Earth."

Rose then led everyone down into Torchwood's base where they met up with Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Martha Jones, and Mickey Smith. The Torchwood team was still distrustful of Regina, particularly Mickey who was still living without a heart. The Doctor and Rose told Torchwood what they had discovered about Peter Pan and the Daleks.

"How are we going to stop the Daleks again?" Gwen asked.

"You could open the rift so the Dark One and I can use magic." Regina said.

"Absolutely not." Jack said. "We're not letting you have any sort of power."

"What about Mickey?" Regina asked. "I used magic to rip his heart out and I'll need magic to put it back in."

"We could use a bit of magic on our side don't you think Doctor?" Rose asked.

"Opening the rift is dangerous." Jack said. "If we open it, things could come out and the Daleks would be able to go through. Last time it opened, a Dalek and a Weeping Angel were let loose in the city along with Regina's Minotaur."

"Your what?" Rumplestiltskin asked Regina.

"Bigger issues right now." Regina reminded.

"We need some sort of plan." Martha said.

"You all know me." The Doctor said. "I usually just make things up as I go along."

BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

The loud alarm rang through the massive underground base, alerting the Torchwood team that something dangerous was happening above. Ianto rushed over to the nearest computer to see what the problem was.

"The Daleks are here." Ianto said. "One small ship just arrived in space right above the Earth."

"That's it?" Clara asked. "I thought they were invading the planet."

"They're only invading this city." The Doctor said. "They need to use the Cardiff Rift as a gateway. That small ship will still have about one hundred Daleks on it and they'll all be coming to Cardiff to force Torchwood to open the rift. The good news is now I have a plan."

"You didn't have a plan five seconds ago." Regina said.

"Now that I know exactly what's coming, I do have a plan." The Doctor said.

"Jack," Ianto said, "the ship just entered the atmosphere."

"Are you going to share this plan with us?" Jack asked.

"There's no time." The Doctor said. "We have to get moving now and I'll explain on the way."

"On the way?" Clara asked.

"Yes Clara. On the way. I wasn't speaking in riddles." The Doctor said. "I need Clara, Hook, Rose, Martha, and Mickey to come with me in the TARDIS. Bring any special Torchwood alien weapons or whatever you have that can destroy a Dalek. The rest of you just stay here and stay alive. Don't open the rift, just keep the Daleks busy."

"I hope you know what you're doing." Jack said.

"Don't I always?" The Doctor asked.

"No." Rose, Martha, Jack, Mickey, and Clara all said simultaneously. They'd all traveled in the TARDIS before and knew that the Doctor rarely knew exactly what he was doing all of the time.

"No time to lose." The Doctor said.

The Time Lord and his appointed friends then ran back up to the street and ran into the TARDIS. As the TARDIS dematerialized, the single Dalek ship arrived over the skies of Cardiff. On the ship's bridge, the two Daleks began assessing the situation.

"Torchwood is below us." The first Dalek said.

"Send fifty Daleks down." The second Dalek ordered. "The other fifty will remain here and fly through the rift once it is open. Exterminate all who resist."