Notes: Sorry about the delay. School has been exceptionally busy, and I've just started my apprenticeship on Saturdays as well. But here is the beginning of the next story for you. I'll try not to take so long in between.

The Doctor and Rose dashed back to the TARDIS, having saved everyone again. They were followed, of course, and the rather handsy and insistent woman that had been flirting with the Doctor the entire time, pushed him up against the time ship.

"Oi there, Nefi! Hands off!" Rose shouted, pulling Queen Nefertiti away from her husband.

"Yes, well, lovely meeting you. Sorry about the mess," the Doctor told her, eager to keep from terribly upsetting the queen or his wife.

"You think I'll just let you leave without me, after what we've just been through?" she protested.

"It would seem that my lovely Fortuna isn't taking too kindly to you at the moment, and besides, you've got the Egyptian people to rule, Queen Nefertiti. They'll need reassuring after that weapon-bearing, giant, alien locust attack we just stopped rather brilliantly," the Doctor insisted. Nefertiti glared at Rose, not convinced that the woman was worthy competition. Rose glared right back at her; several centuries with her husband had given her plenty of confidence in the strength of their relationship.

The Doctor glanced between them nervously until the mobile in his pocket chirped. He pulled it out and glanced at the information displayed.

"Jamie? Torchwood?" Rose wondered.

"Oh dear, no. I've got it set to Temporal News for You. That's interesting, come along, love," he said as he pulled Rose into the TARDIS to check the scanners for more information.

Nefertiti followed them inside, earning her another glare from Rose over her shoulder.

"What's interesting?" the queen asked as she took in the inside of the time ship.

"Take a look at this, Rose. Nothing. Not interesting. Not at all," he added to the uninvited guest. "Ooh, never been there. Exciting!" the Doctor couldn't help but ramble as he looked at the monitor.

"Is she coming too?" Rose whispered to him as he began setting the coordinates.

"No time to argue about it, we'll bring her back later," he assured her.

After visiting the Indian Space Agency in 2367, they discovered that a large space ship was headed on a collision course for Earth and it wasn't communicating its intent. He seemed to recognize enough of the ship type to decide who he wanted to bring along for help.

Rose never really liked Riddell, but he tried to flirt with her almost as much as Nefertiti was doing with the Doctor, so she went along with his plan for now. Perhaps he was trying to pin them against each other so that they'd leave them alone. Rose had her doubts.

"One more trip! We need to pick up the Ponds!" the Doctor announced to their growing team and proceeded to materialize around Amy and Rory. Of course, without checking with them first, meant that the ship also picked up their current company. Rose noticed not only Rory's father, Brian on board, but Jamie and a rather pregnant River as well.

"Umm, sweetheart," Rose interrupted, trying to get her husband's attention as he continued to twirl around the console, setting their next coordinates.

"Hello! You weren't busy, were you? Well, even if you were, it wasn't as interesting as this probably is. Didn't want you to miss it. Now, just a quick hop," he rambled.

"Dad, we weren't going to involve River in anything..." Jamie began, but the Doctor was thoroughly focused on his current mission and hadn't even noticed the extra passengers yet.

"Everybody grab a torch," the Doctor called as he grabbed Rose's hand and pulled her out of the TARDIS and into the large spaceship they had boarded.

With an exasperated sigh, the others exited the ship behind them and took in the odd surroundings. It was obviously some kind of large room, but there were plants, dirt, and the air seemed oddly fresh despite the cobwebs all around them.

"Some kind of spaceship, yeah?" River asked.

"Spiders. Don't normally get spiders in space," the Doctor commented.

"Except in some weird, horror, sci-fi movies," Rose added.

"What the?" Brian gasped when he stepped out of the TARDIS.

"Don't move! Do you really think I'm that stupid I wouldn't notice? How did you get aboard, eh? Transmat? Who sent you?" the Doctor shouted as he aggressively approached Brian.

Rose and Jamie both rolled their eyes at his frequent tendency to miss the obvious.

"Doctor. That's my dad," Rory informed him.

"Well frankly, that's outrageous," the Doctor responded angrily.

"What?" Rory gasped in shock.

"Dad! Stop it!" Jamie interrupted before he could embarrass himself any further.

"Jamie? What are you doing here?" the Doctor questioned, earning himself another eye roll from his son.

"Doctor, we materialized around everyone that happened to be at Amy and Rory's house. Which means, that you've now pulled our very pregnant daughter-in-law into what could be a rather dangerous situation," Rose explained now that he was finally paying attention.

"Oh. Well, yes. My mistake. Hello, Brian. How are you? Nice to meet you. Welcome, welcome. This is the gang. I've got a gang. Yes. Come on then, everyone," the Doctor rambled nervously as he considered all of the new variables involved with the unplanned additions to their group.

"Tell him something, quick," Amy whispered to her husband.

"Yes, thank you!" Rory replied.

"I'm not entirely sure what's going on," Brian announced. "Did she say daughter-in-law? And hang on, you said dad?" He looked confusedly between all of the adults that appeared quite similar in ages.

"Right. As we were about to explain before we were so rudely abducted from our own sitting room, we have some slightly confusing family-type news to give you. You know when Amy and I first got married and we went travelling?" Rory began.

"To Thailand," Brian responded with the excuse he had been given at the time.

"More the entirety of space and time. In that police box," Rory corrected.

"As much as I'd love to finish our planned discussion with Brian, I think it would be best to put that off for a moment and determine what the current emergency is. I don't want River here any longer than necessary at the moment," Jamie interrupted as the entire ship rumbled ominously.

"Well, I sense it's orbiting. More like pre-crashing. On a spaceship, don't know. Hello, Ponds, and Tylers! Time flies, how far along are you, River? This is Nefi, this is Riddell. They're with us," the Doctor babbled rapidly as he hugged his son and daughter-in-law.

"Don't worry, Jamie. We won't let anything happen to your precious cargo," Rose assured him as she also hugged everyone in greeting.

"Charmed," Riddell said as he kissed the back of Amy's hand. Rory glared at him and took his wife's hand possessively.

"With you? They're with you? Are they the new us? Is that why we haven't seen you?" Amy demanded. She rolled her eyes at Rory's jealousy over the cheesy-looking man in safari gear.

"No. They're just people. They're not Ponds. I thought we might need a new gang. Not really had a gang before. It's new," the Doctor defended himself against her sudden onslaught.

"Oh Amy, of course they aren't replacing you. You're family. We had one adventure with Nefi over there and the Doctor just picked up Riddell because he thought he might be useful for some unknown reason. And there is nothing new about you having a gang, love. We were quite a large group when we stopped Davros and I came back to you," Rose clarified for everyone.

They were all interrupted from their discussion by the sound of some kind of machinery on the other side of the room. Red lights began to flash around a large bulkhead door, warning them of something important about to happen.

"It's coming down," the Doctor announced.

"What is it?" Riddell questioned as he braced himself for a fight of some kind.

"No idea," the Doctor replied excitedly.

"More fun that way," his wife added with a smirk.

The giant cargo lift stopped with a loud thump and the doors opened to reveal two large ankylosaurs. The creatures roared loudly and stormed toward the startled group as they all ran out of the way before they were trampled to death.

"Not possible," Brian insisted with wide eyes.

"Run!" the Doctor shouted, urging everyone to safety as he clutched his wife's hand tightly. Their wedding bracelets clicked together and their mutual excitement flared even brighter in their minds. This was the kind of thing they lived for. The thrill of something new and the danger that was always involved in saving the world yet again.

"I love this!" Rose beamed at him.

"I know. Dinosaurs! On a spaceship!" he exclaimed happily and pulled her along behind the others as they ran from the stampeding dinosaurs.

"This way!" River shouted, dragging her husband along behind her despite the added weight of the baby.

"In here!" Nefertiti agreed as she ducked into an alcove that was too small for the beasts behind them, but large enough to fit the group of people safely.

With everyone safely gathered in the space, the experienced travellers checked each other over for injuries.

"I could take one of them. Short blow up into the throat," Riddell said as he drew a large hunting knife.

"What?!" Jamie gasped, wondering just why his father had brought along such a violent man.

"Or not. We've just found dinosaurs in space. We need to preserve them," the Doctor chastised.

"Who's going to preserve us?" Riddell argued.

"Me," River snapped.

"Shush," Amy interjected and watched as the dinosaurs finally gave up on waiting for them to come back out again, and left the area.

"Okay, so, how and whose ship?" Rory asked.

"Good questions, Rory," Rose said approvingly.

"Quite right, there's so much to discover. Think how wise we'll be by the end of all this," the Doctor agreed.

"Sorry, sorry. Are you saying dinosaurs are flying a spaceship?" Brian asked, still rather confused by everything.

"Brian, please, that would be ridiculous. They're probably just passengers. Did I mention missiles?" the Doctor responded.

"Missiles?!" Brian shouted.

"Dad! Honestly!" Jamie groaned. He had managed to keep his pregnant wife away from trouble for the past eight months. Now that she was reaching a stage where running for their lives was getting harder, they had to get pulled into a crashing spaceship, being targeted by missiles, and filled with dinosaurs.

"Didn't want to worry you. Anyway, six hours is a lifetime. Not literally a lifetime. That's what we're trying to avoid. And we're all really clever. Ooo, let's see what we can find out. Come on," the Doctor explained briefly as he ran to a nearby computer interface. He swept a cobweb out of the way as he visually inspected the computer.

Amy looked at the gouges in the wall and asked, "How many dinosaurs do you think are on here?"

"Who knows," Jamie replied and approached his mother. Rose could feel his worry quite clearly and hugged him tightly. "We were doing so well."

"Oh, sweetheart, it'll be alright. Would you feel better going back to the TARDIS? Or taking her back home with your vortex manipulator?" Rose suggested.

"We haven't got them right now. I don't like the idea of River travelling with that while she's pregnant anyway. Besides, mum, you know the TARDIS could have taken you to pick up Amy and Rory at a point when we weren't there. You might need us, and we're part of events at this point," he told her honestly.

"You are rubbish at this," River grumbled as the Doctor struggled to get the computer to respond. She pulled out her own sonic from the trip to the Library and with a quick buzz, the monitor blinked to life.

"Right, yes, fine," the Doctor sputtered, embarrassed to be shown up by his daughter-in-law. River, Rory and Brian all looked over his shoulders at the screen to see what he could find. "Oh, well done, whoever you are. Looking for engines." At his request, the display switched to show him the location of all of the engines on the ship. "Thank you, computer. Look at that. Different sections have engines, but these look like the primary clusters. Where are we now, computer? We need to get down to these engines," he commented and in a flash, everyone at the computer station disappeared.

"Fantastic," Rose sighed sarcastically.