Yvonne walked up to a plain white wall with the Doctor following and Rita behind him.

"The sphere came through here. A hole in the world. Not active at the moment, but when we fire particle engines at that exact spot, the breech opens up."

"How did you even find it?" He lightly touched the wall.

"We were getting warning signs for years. A radar black spot. So we built this place, Torchwood Tower. The breech was six hundred foot above sea level. It was on the only way to reach it.

"You built a skyscraper just to reach a spatial disturbance? How much money have you got?" He questioned.

"Enough."

"Too much" Rita commented and the Doctor hummed in agreement. They walked back to Yvonne's office and Jackie was looking out of the window.

"Hold on a minute. We're in Canary Wharf. Must be. This building, it's Canary Wharf." She looked at the buildings below.

"Well, that is the public name for it. But to those in the know, it's Torchwood."

The Doctor leant against the wall explaining the logic of Torchwood. "So, you find the breach, probe it, the sphere comes through six hundred feet above London, bam. It leaves a hole in the fabric of reality. And that hole, you think, oh, shall we leave it alone? Shall we back off?" He rhetorically asked with a hint of sarcasm. "Shall we play it safe? Nah, you think let's make it bigger!"

"It's a massive source of energy. If we can harness that power, we need never depend on the Middle East again. Britain will become truly independent." Yvonne defended Torchwood. "Look, you can see for yourself. Next Ghost Shift's in two minutes."

The Doctor became cold, his voice darkening. "Cancel it."

Yvonne scoffed. "I don't think so."

"I'm warning you, cancel it." He gritted his teeth.

"Oh, exactly as the legends would have it. The Doctor, lording it over us. Assuming alien authority over the Rights of Man."

"Let me show you." The Doctor stormed into the woman's office gesturing for Rita to follow. "Sphere comes through." He pointed his sonic screwdriver at the glass wall which then cracked. "But when it made the hole, it cracked the world around it. The entire surface of this dimension splintered. And that's how the ghosts get through. That's how they get everywhere. They're bleeding through the fault lines. Walking from their world, across the Void, and into yours, with the human race hoping and wishing and helping them along." He explained. "But too many ghosts, and" he looked at the brunette raising a brow. "Rita" She lightly tapped the glass and it shattered falling to the floor.

"Well, in that case, we'll have to be more careful. Positions!" Yvonne turned and ordered the people to prepare. "Ghost Shift in one minute." The Doctor groaned and walked in front of Yvonne.

"Miss Hartman, I am asking you, please don't do it."

"We have done this a thousand times." She protested. Rita pushed a chair from the office out for herself.

"Then stop at a thousand!" He shouted at her.

"We're in control of the ghosts. The levers can open the breach, but equally, they can close it."

The Doctor then nodded and heading into her office fetching a chair then pulling it up beside Rita's and sat down. "Okay."

She looked at the two of them confused. "Sorry?"

"Never mind. As you were." He waved her off.

"What, is that it?" She asked looking around.

"No, fair enough. Said my bit. Don't mind me. Any chance of a cup of tea?" He looked at the woman sitting at the desk closest to him.

"Ghost Shift in twenty seconds." The woman told them.

"Mmm, can't wait to see it." He hummed putting on a smile.

"You can't stop us, Doctor."

"No, absolutely not. Pull up a chair, Rose." He gestured hitting his own lightly. "Come and watch the fireworks." Jackie then walked over and stood behind the Doctor and Rita watching Yvonne who was watching the Doctor. He raised his brows and waited.

The woman at the desk then began to count down. "Ghost Shift in ten seconds. Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two-"

Yvonne panicked. "Stop the shift. I said stop."

"Thank you." The Doctor nodded.

"I suppose it makes sense to get as much intelligence as possible. But the programme will recommence, as soon as you've explained everything." Yvonne promised crossing her arms.

"I'm glad to be of help." The Doctor told her.

"And someone clear up this glass. They did warn me, Doctor. They said you and the Stone like to make a mess."

"Who said that? Who's the Stone" Rita turned to the Doctor who slightly tensed." First they know about me like I'm some kind of hero which I am not." she held up a hand before the Doctor could put in a word. "On some file and now they and multiple people keep calling me 'the Stone' who even is that?" She said before pausing for a breath. "Then they know I apparently make a mess"

"Someones been watching you Rita" the Doctor hummed not thinking what he was guessing to be at all possible.

"Yeah, I don't like it, not even meant to be in this universe and here I am."

"You might be, never know" he shrugged getting up and moving the chair back to the desk than sitting down again.

"So these ghosts, whatever they are, did they build the sphere?" Yvonne asked the Doctor.

"Must have. Aimed it at this dimension like a cannon ball." He shrugged.

"Actually no." Rita interrupted. "They didn't" the Doctor opened his mouth to speak but the brunette continued before he could. "Secrets I can't say"

"Secrets?" Yvonne frowned.

"You also don't have that on record do you?" Rita question slightly smirking. "Quite disappointing for someone who knows that I like to make a mess when I don't know that myself." the Doctor smugly smiled at the brunettes comment. "You certainly make it out that you know more about me than you actually do."

"It's a bit... odd" Yvonne looked at the brunette. "The records on you show two different sides. Like two different people" Yvonne muttered.

"Weird" Rita frowned but was pulled out of thought by the scientist from before requesting for Yvonne on a computer. "Yvonne? I think you should see this. We've got a visitor. We don't know who she is, but funnily enough, she arrived at the same time as the Doctor." Yvonne moved her computer around so the Doctor could see Rose and Rejesh on the screen.

"She one of yours?"

The Doctor pursed his lips and shook his head while crossing his arms. "Never seen her before in my life."

Yvonne smiled. "Good. Then we can have her shot."

The Doctor sighed. "Oh, all right then. It was worth a try." He groaned. "That's, that's Rose Tyler." He nodded at the screen.

"Sorry. Hello." She waved sheepishly smiling. 

"Well, if that's Rose Tyler, who's she?" Yvonne looked at Jackie.

"I'm her mother." Jackie scoffed out of annoyance.

"Oh, you travel with her mother?" Yvonne looked at the Doctor who didn't look very comfortable.

Jackie protested wanting to make it clear that she had no say in it. "He kidnapped me!"

"Please, when Torchwood comes to write my complete history, don't tell people I travelled through time and space with her mother." The Doctor begged and Rita let out a laugh.

"Charming." Jackie groaned.

"I've got a reputation to uphold." He looked over his shoulder.

"You lost that when you walked the wrong way" Rita chuckled.

"Cheeky"

"Rude and not ginger" she threw back, the pair began to smirk at each other. The two's attention was diverted when Yvonne stood up confused and annoyed.

"Excuse me?" She walked out of her office. "Everyone? I thought I said stop the ghost shift. Who started the programme?" She looked at the people on the computers. "But I ordered you to stop! Who's doing that?" She looked at the levers now moving on their own. "Right, step away from the monitors, everyone." She ordered, they all stepped away but three who had ear pods in both ears, blinking away similar to those the Doctor and Rita had witnessed before. "Gareth, Addy, stop what you're doing, right now. Matt, step away from your desk." She shouted. "That's an order! Stop the levers! Andrew!" Yvonne stormed over to the desks. The Doctor and Rita stood up frowning and following her over to the desks as a scientist grabbed one of the levers trying to force it back. "Stop the levers!"

The Doctor waved a hand in front of a woman's face then clicked his fingers trying to see if it would have an effect. "What's she doing?"

"Addy, step away from the desk. Listen to me. Step away from the desk." Yvonne now begged.

"She can't hear you. They're overriding the system. We're going into Ghost Shift."

"It's the ear piece. It's controlling them. I've seen this before." He told them. "Sorry. I'm so sorry." He used his sonic screwdriver to disable the ear pieces causing the woman to scream, the two other people did the same then fall to the floor dead.

"What happened? What did you just do?" Yvonne looked at her concerned.

"They're dead." The Doctor darkly told them moving away.

Jackie gasped then cried out. "You killed them."

"Oh, someone else did that long before I got here." He protested looking at the other computers.

"But you killed them!" Jackie cried out again.

The Doctor looked at the woman seriously. "Jackie, I haven't got time for this."

"What are those ear pieces?" The Yvonne went to reach for one.

"Don't touch them" Rita warned Yvonne.

"But they're standard comms. devices. How does it control them?" Yvonne ignored the brunette.

"Leave them alone," the Doctor told her.

"But what are they?" Yvonne reached down and pulled one of the pieces out of the woman's ear and a long strand of grey followed it. Yvonne and Jackie gasped at the sight and Yvonne threw the earpiece down on the floor. "Urgh! Oh, God! It goes inside their brain." She cried.

"I told you not to" Rita muttered holding a hand to her mouth feeling slightly sickened.

"What about the Ghost Shift?" The Doctor moved around the computers.

"Ninety percent there and still running. Can't you stop it?" She asked the Doctor.

"They're still controlling it. They've hijacked the system." He used his sonic screwdriver.

"Who's they?" Yvonne asked watching the Doctor.

"It might be a remote transmitter but it's got to be close by. I can trace it. Jackie, stay here!" He ran out with Rita following with him holding his sonic screwdriver out following its signal.

"You're not going to like it at all Doctor" Rita promised him as he followed the signal through the building. Running through the halls which then lead to the unoccupied floor.

"What's down here?" He held his sonic screwdriver out still following it.

Yvonne stuttered. "I don't, I don't know. I think it's building work. It's just renovations."

"You should go back." The Doctor spoke over his shoulder then noticed the two guards she had brought along with her and quietly groaned.

"Think again." Yvonne followed him and Rita through the plastic curtains. "What is it? What's down here?"

"Earpieces, ear pods. This world's colliding with another, and I think I know which one."

"You guessed correctly Doctor" Rita winced a little seeing the figures of Cybermen behind the plastic curtains.

"What are they?" Yvonne gasped as the figures began to cut through the curtains allowing them to step through.

"They came through first. The advance guard." He gritted his teeth. "Cybermen!" He shouted grabbing Rita's hand and pulling her away. Yvonne followed and the soldiers then began to open fire at the Cybermen.

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The Cybermen escorted the Doctor, Rita, Jackie and Yvonne back to Yvonne's office as prisoners with their hands on their heads. "Get away from the machines. Do what they say. Don't fight them!" The Doctor shouted at everyone in the room. The Cybermen then shot the two scientists trying to pull the levers back and moved into a position around the Doctor, Rita, Jackie, Yvonne and some scientists that the Cybermen had not yet kill.

"What are they?" Jackie asked the Doctor staring at them. The Cyberman closest to her then turned answering in its annoying robotic voice.

"We are the Cybermen." It stated. "The Ghost Shift will be increased to one hundred percent." The levers then moved further up.

"Online." The computer said.

"Here come the ghosts." The Doctor muttered holding Rita's hand with his left and shielding his eyes just like everyone else. The 'ghosts' began to walk through the walls in rows like normal until their appearance began to change and a distant stomping sound was heard echoing in the room getting louder and louder.

"But these Cybermen, what've they got to do with the ghosts?"

"Do you never listen? A footprint doesn't look like a boot." The Doctor gritted his teeth knowing what happened now.

"Achieving full transfer." The Cyberleader said and the 'ghosts' began to transform.

"They're Cybermen. All of the ghosts are Cybermen. Millions of them, right across the world." The Cybermen then solidified and were through. "But I don't understand. The Cybermen don't have the technology to build a Void Ship. That's way beyond you. How did you create that sphere?" The Doctor asked them.

"The sphere is not ours."

"What?" He frowned.

"The sphere broke down the barriers between worlds. We only followed. Its origin is unknown."

The Doctor then muttered. "Then what's inside it?"

"Rose is down there." Jackie gasped in horror.