The Cybermen pulled the three into Yvonne's office and stood at the side of the rooms and exits. "What's down there? She was in that room with the sphere. What's happened to Rose?" Jackie cried.

The Doctor gritted his teeth. "I don't know. I'll find her. I brought you here, I'll get you both out, you and your daughter." Jackie looked away not believing him. "Jackie, look at me." He said in the most serious tone. "Look at me." She finally looked at him. "I promise you. I give you my word."

The Cyberleader walked up to Yvonne and stopped. "You will talk to your central world authority and order global surrender."

"Oh, do some research. We haven't got a central world authority." She hissed at it.

"You have now. I will speak on all global wavelengths. This broadcast is for humankind." The Doctor placed on the 3D glasses and listened.

"Cybermen now occupy every land mass on this planet, but you need not fear. Cybermen will remove fear. Cybermen will remove sex and class and colour and creed. You will become identical. You will become like us."

There suddenly was an explosion and fire, mass panic began over the world. "I ordered surrender." The Cyberleader dumbly stated.

"They're not taking instructions. Don't you understand?!" The Doctor shouted at it. "You're on every street, you're in their homes, you've got their children! Of course, they're going to fight!"

"Doctor when I first came here" Rita whispered. "Did I ever mention pepperpots?" She asked and the Doctor looked at her frowning.

"Pepperpots?" He repeated and she nodded.

"In my universe, they had that nickname." She explained then looked at him seriously with slight fear in her eyes. "Doctor their back. The spaceship you found me on, it's them" His eyes widened in horror as he tightened his grip on her hand.

"If they know who you are-" He gritted his teeth and was cut off by the brunette. 

"If this is what I am here for then so be it." Rita firmly replied. "Doctor I know what happens, the price you pay is too big, for once I'm not going to stand around and let the destruction happen around me."

"Rita, no" he coldly told her. "You are not risking your life for anyone, not today, not ever." He firmly told her holding her wrist. "You can't"

Rita opened her mouth to protest and argue again, the Cyberleader however, interrupted her thought.  "Units open visual link." A Cyberman shows up on Yvonne's laptop and a door frame came into view. "Visual contact established."

A Dalek came into view from the door and the Doctor stood up his eyes widening. It wasn't that he didn't believe Rita when she told him, he just didn't want to believe it.

"Identify yourselves." The Dalek ordered.

"You will identify first." The Cyberman demanded.

"State your identity."

"You will identify first." The Cyberman ignored the Dalek repeating itself.

"Identify!" The Dalek screamed.

"You will modify."

"Daleks do not take orders." The Dalek finally identified itself.

"You have identified as Daleks."

"Rose said about the Daleks. She was terrified of them. What have they done to her, Doctor? Is she dead?" Jackie cried.

"Phone" he put out his hand waiting.

"What?" She asked.

The Doctor gritted his teeth. "Phone!" He demanded hissing at the woman.

"We followed in the wake of your sphere." The cyberman said while the Doctor phoned Rose who thankfully answered the three breathed out a sigh knowing she was okay.

"She's answered. She's alive." The Doctor told Jackie. "Why haven't they killed her?"

"Well, don't complain!" She whispered loudly.

"He's not" Rita cut in.

"They must need her for something." He thought holding the phone to his ear to listen.

"We must protect the Genesis Ark." Rita heard the voice of the Dalek through the phone.

"The Genesis Ark?" He muttered aloud. "Rita?"

"It's yours"

"Mine?" He frowned.

"Secrets"

"Our species are similar, though your design is inelegant." The Doctor focused on the laptop placing his 3D glasses on and slightly leaning in.

"Daleks have no concept of elegance."

"This is obvious. But consider, our technologies are compatible. Cybermen plus Daleks, together, we could upgrade the Universe." It finished.

"You propose an alliance?" The Dalek asked.

"This is correct."

The Dalek paused then replied. "Request denied." The Cybermen automatically ready their weapons on their arms ready to fire.

"Hostile elements will be deleted." They began to shoot at the Dalek.

It screamed at them: "Exterminate!" And did just that destroying both Cybermen and leaving no marks at all on the Dalek.

"Open visual link." The CyberLeader ordered and the link from Yvonne's laptop to the Daleks. "Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen." It stated.

"This is not war. This is pest control." It almost spat at it.

"We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?" The Cyberleader asked.

"Four." It replied in the screeching empty voice.

"You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?" It asked almost like it was laughing and mocking the Dalek.

"We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek.
You are superior in only one respect." The black Dalek told the Cyberleader.

"What is that?" The Doctor and Rita moved across the screen going to look at one if the computers still on the phone listening in.

"You are better at dying. Raise communications barrier!" The Dalek screeched causing the screen to go black for the Cybermen.   

"Lost her." The Doctor handed the phone back to Jackie.

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"Wait!" One of the Daleks shouted. 

"Rewind image by nine rells." It ordered. "Identify grid seven gamma frame." The screen zoomed in on the Doctor and Rita. "This male registers as enemy."

"The female's heartbeat has increased." The black Dalek noticed turnings to Rose.

"Yeah, tell me about it." Mickey muttered

"Identify him." It demanded her.

"All right, then. If you really want to know, that's the Doctor." She nodded. The Daleks slightly roll back away from her.

"The female also registers as an enemy! Identify her." The black Dalek then asked.

"Surprised you haven't recognised her, since you did kidnap her onto your ship once. That's Rita Stone." Rose told them. The Daleks rolled back even further. She grinned a little. "Five million Cybermen, easy. One Doctor and a Rita Stone? Now you're scared."  

"The Stone is with the Doctor!" A Dalek then screamed the others joining in. "The Stone is with the Doctor!" They screeched Rose and Mickey looked in confusion not understanding what they meant by 'the stone' and why the Dalek generally sounded terrified of what she just said.

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The Cyberleader stepped away from the laptop and turned to another Cyberman giving it orders. "Quarantine the Sphere chamber. Start emergency upgrading. Begin with these personnel." The Cyberman walked over taking Jackie and Yvonne as they screamed.

"No, you can't do this! We surrendered! We surrendered!" She cried.

"This one. His increased adrenaline suggests that he has vital Dalek information. The female is the same" it directed at Rita. The Cybermen pulled Yvonne and Jackie who were screaming in fear.

"Stop them! I don't want to go!" Jackie cried. "You promised me! You gave me your word!" She cried trying to get away.

The Doctor gritted hid teeth now shouting himself. "I demand you leave that woman alone!" He pointed at Jackie trying to reach her with the arm not holding on to Rita. "I won't help you if you hurt her."

"Jackie No!" Rita shouted trying to help the poor woman.

"Jackie, don't fight. I'll think of something." The Doctor shouted as Jackie was pulled away past view.

The Doctor gritted his teeth at the Cybermen breathing heavily. Rita stepped closer. "She gets out Doctor" she reassured moving her hand to his and gently rubbing her thumb over the back of his hand. He sighed and pulled her into a hug not wanting to let go in fear of her being taken as well. He needed her more than ever. Daleks and Cybermen, Impossible. Rita Stone? Even more.

The Daleks no doubt knew she was here now, the Doctor had no idea what their reaction to her presents would be like he didn't know why she was on their ship, whatever the reason it was bad. The Doctor finally let go and walked into Yvonne's office still holding Rita and slumping down on the floor sighing. "I don't know how they will react" he murmured holding her hand tightly as she sat down. "The Daleks must know you're here."

"If they do then that's lucky for them."

"I won't let them take you back Rita." he tried to promise her.

"Doctor I know you can't promise me that," she shook her head. "Maybe if they did I would finally find out why I'm here" she shrugged. "Maybe I would get to go back home" she muttered.

"Why?" His eyes snapped up to her's looking slightly terrified. "Do you want to?" He asked, his eyes piercing into hers.

"No" she replied a little quicker than expected. "Just... sometimes I think about the friends I had. Most of them hated the show." She chuckled. "Thought I was obsessed. Then I brought this merchandise and they thought I was mad for buying a stupid old watch that looks exactly like one from the show." She reached to the back of her neck and unclipped a chain taking it off and placing it in her hand. "Stupid thing really" she muttered. "I don't even remember buying it." The Doctor froze at the sight, his eyes darting from the brunette to the 'broken' fob watch. He gently took it from her placing it in his hand and rubbing a thumb over the back feeling the Gallifreyan engraved in the back, before turning the watch over.

"Rita" his voice cracked a little and a memory, something, someone had told him in an earlier regeneration flashed in his mind. "This isn't a stupid replica" he mumbled. "This isn't some merchandise" she frowned at him, not understanding. "Do you know what this?"

"Of course I do" she scoffed. "In the show it held... it held" she stuttered trying to think of the words then chuckled a little, slightly and changed the subject. "My head hurts a little."

"You're trying to remember and you can't because you are in there" he softly replied holding the fob watch out to her placing it in her hands. "Have you tried to open it?"

"Why would I?" She asked ignoring what he mentioned about her being 'inside the fob watch' "It's broken and a fake"

"Have you ever tried?" He raised a brow.

"No" she shook her head.

"Why don't you?" He asked shuffling away a tiny bit to give her some space. "I'm right here, the Cybermen are busy worrying about the Daleks to notice" he reassured her. She looked at the watch and the Doctor slightly worried but she trusted him so she did as he said and pressed the button opening it. A golden glow of light shone out, she squeezed her eyes shut at the same time as she closed the watch.

"I heard a voice" she whispered. "Let me go" she repeated exactly what she heard. "She sounded so scared Doctor"

"I'm sure she is" he chuckled a little. "All on her own." He lightly shook his head having a small idea of who it could be, what someone had told him years ago, something that only unlocked in his mind now. "Open it again" he softly told her. She gulped then clicked it open again keeping the watch open this time hearing the whispers of the woman echo in her ears.

Let me go.

Please.

Please just let me go.

The light brightened the office and the Doctor shielded his eyes as it engulfed Rita, changing her.

"Unknown readings located" a Cyberman walked in and the Doctor snapped his head up at it.

"No, no, no!" He shouted jumping up and standing in front of the brunette squinting his eyes at the light.

The Cyberman pushed him aside stepping towards the brunette too occupied with the glow of the watch to notice. It reached down and grabbed the fob watch from her. She gasped as it was forced closed.

"It wasn't finished!" The Doctor shouted running over to her.

"There wasn't anything left anyways" she breathed. "The Daleks, no doubt did something, did this to me" she gulped gesturing to herself. "But everything else is gone. Memories gone, I can remember some things." She shook her head. "But then there are also some things that are like dreams" she then screamed a little clutching her chest in pain. "God I forgot that, how did I manage" she chuckled. "Two hearts" she smiled a little panting. She looked at the Doctor sitting beside her looking a little worried and hurt as if he lost someone which technically he thought he lost a friend. "Still me Doctor" she looked at him seriously. "I'm still Rita. I just have two hearts and some other things."

"How did you-" she held up a hand for him to stop.

"Not right now, you forced me to open the watch at a seriously bad time. Daleks and Cybermen? What could be worse?" She sarcastically muttered standing up almost falling over she grabbed onto the table for support. "Oh, look at me, forgotten how to walk"

"It's still you" he smiled in realisation helping her stand up.

"Of course it is still me idiot" she swatted his arm. "God, you never listen do you?"

"Afraid not" he muttered.

"Somethings I can't remember about the 'human me', oh that's weird 'human me'" she repeated again frowning causing the Doctor to chuckle a little. "It's like it's locked away" she mumbled to herself finally standing up own and brushing herself off. "There we go, little better" she shrugged. "Now where did they put that watch, I liked that watch"

The Cyber Leader walked through into Yvonne's office standing before the Doctor. "You are proof."

He looked up at it. "Of what?"

"That emotions destroy you."

The Doctor muttered. "Yeah, I am." Then looked up grinning. "Mind you, I quite like hope. Hope's a good emotion. And here it comes." He nodded then dived to the left pulling Rita with him.

There was a flash and a group if people appeared, there was a loud echo in the room and light flickered all around the sound of guns firing which then caused the Cybermen to be electrocuted and fall to the floor dead. The CyberLeader stepped out of Yvonne's office, about to shoot a man before he shot first and the leader fell to his knees. It's head then explode causing smoke to escape and rise from the gap.

The Doctor and Rita stood up brushing themselves off with the brunette groaning. "Doctor? Good to see you again." A man removed a mask to show none other than Jake standing before him.

"Jake?" The Doctor said confused and shocked.

"The Cybermen came through from one world to another, and so did we." He beamed.

The Doctor frowned and then looked at Rita for anything who just shrugged at him. "Locked away remember" she tapped her left temple. "I'm pretty useless without foreknowledge at the moment. Due to having no foreknowledge"

"What is she on about?" Jake asked.

"Oh, she's a Time Lord, well Time Lady." He rubbed the back of his neck. "Sort of hard to explain." He placed the 3D glasses on watching Jake who began to order the people. "Defend this room. Chrissie, monitor communications. Kill one CyberLeader and they just download into another. Move!" He shouted and they all ran off.

The Doctor removed his 3D glasses and looked at Jake. "You can't just, just, just hop from one world to another. You can't."

"He's right" Rita nodded. "It's impossible"

"Well, we just did." He shrugged then brought out two yellow mettallion disks with chains. "With these." He threw one to the Doctor and Rita.

"But that's impossible. You can't have this sort of technology." The Doctor studied it.

"We've got our own version of Torchwood. They developed it. Do you want to come and see?" He asked them pressing the button before the Doctor could reply. The two with Jake vanished from their world and reappeared in the same place in the parallel world they visited before.

They looked around, wire and old machines were laying on the ground in the dark room identical to where they were moments ago. "Parallel Earth, parallel Torchwood. Except we found out what the Institute was doing and the People's Republic took control." Jake explained.

"We've got to get back. Rose is in danger, and her mother." The Doctor stepped forwards towards him.

"That'd be Jackie." Pete walked in, the Doctor and Rita turned around. "My wife in a parallel universe. And as for you, Doctor, at least this time I know who you are."

"Right, yes, fine, hooray. But we've got to get back, right now." He stepped towards Pete gritting his teeth a little.

"No, you're not in charge here. This is our world, not yours. And you're going to listen for once." Pete firmly and calmly said.

"Listening isn't going to help save my friends," Rita stepped forward cutting in. "I was on one of the Dalek's ships before. I have seen what they can do even if it seems like a dream and could be just a dream." She glared at him. "I have seen what they are like. We have to go back, you may not think that she is your daughter but she is my friend and she has no idea what's going on." She then stepped forward coming face to face with the man slightly looking up at him. "She has no idea who I even am anymore and I have got to fix this!" Rita shouted finishing her rant now standing very close to Pete staring at him coldly.

"Rita this isn't your world either so before you start to demand from me listen" he snapped at her. "When you left this world Doctor, you warned us there'd be more Cybermen. So we sealed them inside the factories."

The Doctor walked up and pressed his head against the wall. "Except people argued. Said they were living. We should help them." Jake added. Standing beside Pete.

"And the debate went on. But all that time, the Cybermen made plans. Infiltrated this version of Torchwood, mapped themselves onto your world, and then vanished."

"Cleverer than I thought" Rita tilted her head having to give that one to the Cybermen.

"When was this?" The Doctor crossed his arms.

"Three years ago." Rita's and the Doctors eyes widened.

He walked away from the wall towards what was Yvonne's office. "It's taken them three years to cross the void, but we can pop to and fro in a second. Must be the sheer mass of five million Cybermen crossing all at once."

"That can't be good,You do" Rita said aloud.

"Yeah, Mickey said you'd rattle off that sort of stuff Doctor" Pete muttered. The Doctor then looked around seeing if Mickey was anywhere.

"Oh, where is the Mickey boy?"

"He went ahead first. Any chance to go and find Miss Rose Tyler." He said as if she was a random woman he didn't know, which was a lie because he did.

"She's your daughter. Do you know that? Did Mickey explain?" The Doctor asked moving to the window.

"She's not mine. She's the child of a dead man." He coldly stated then looked out of the window with the Doctor. "Look at it, a world of peace. They're calling this The Golden Age."

"Who's the President now?" The Doctor questioned.

"A woman called Harriet Jones."

"Oof. I'd keep an eye on her." The Doctor commented.

"You said that" Rita chuckled. "Practically spat 'Britains golden age' in her face Christmas morning when she was still prime minister"

"So I did" he hummed.

"But it's a lie." Pete then started to explain crossing his arms and staring out of the window looking down at the building below. "Temperatures have risen by two degrees in the past six months. The ice caps are melting. They're saying all this is going to be flooded." He paused and looked at the Doctor. "That's not just global warming, is it?"

"No." the Doctor replied moving out of the office.

"It's the breach," Pete answered for him.

"I've been trying to tell you. Travel between parallel worlds is impossible. Then the Daleks break down the walls with a Sphere." He waved his hands.

"Daleks?" Pete questioned.

"You don't want to know,frowing" Rita told him and the Doctor continued to rant. 

"Then the Cybermen travelled across, then you lot. Those discs." He pointed at them. "Every time you jump from one reality to another, you rip a hole in the universe. This planet is starting to boil!" He shouted pointing towards the window. "Keep going and both worlds will fall into the Void."

"But you can stop it? The famous Doctor. You can seal the breach?" Pete smiled a little.

"Leaving five million Cybermen stranded on my Earth." The Doctor looked at him coldly.

"That's your problem. I'm protecting this world, and this world only."

The Doctor then began to laugh. "Hmm. Pete Tyler. I knew you when you were dead. Now here you are, fighting the fight... alone." He looked at the man who looked confused. "There is a chance, back on my world, Jackie Tyler might still be alive."

"My wife died," Pete mumbled like it was a curse to say.

"Her husband died. Good match."

"Doctor the matchmaker" Rita chuckled and the Doctor raised a brow as if he was asking if she had a problem with it.

"There's more important things at stake. Doctor, help us." Pete pleaded for his help.

"What, close the breach? Stop the Cybermen? Defeat the Daleks? Do you believe I can do that?" He raised his brows at the man.

"She does" Pete nodded over to Rita.

"Do you?" He asked her.

"Yes." She smiled. "And so does Pete, Jake, Rose and Mickey not so sure about Jackie though." She laughed.

The Doctor smiled laughing at her joke. "Maybe that's all I need. Off we go, then!" Pete pressed the button on the disk around his neck and they reappeared in the Torchwood building.

The Doctor ran over to the phone in Yvonne's office picking it up and dialling a number. "First of all, I need to make a phone call. You don't mind?" He asked over his shoulder putting the phone to his ear.

"You two, guard to door." Jake pointed at two men holding guns, they both nodded at him and headed over to where he gestured.

"And I need to find that watch, loved the watch." Rita chuckled looking on all of the desks. "Ah!" She beamed picking it up still in perfect condition, well as perfect as it was just like before she became human although it looked very much older and had a hint of rust. "Must fix that" She mumbled reattaching it around her neck and tucking it under her shirt. "Clothes are a little weird at the moment, I do like them though" she hummed in thought.

"Jackie, you're alive." The Doctor breathed and Rita looked up then walked over to the Doctor leaning beside him with the phone between them so she could also hear. "Listen." He said but was cut off by the terrified blonde woman.

"They tried to download me but I ran away!" She cried breathing heavily.

"Shush, shush, shush." He said into the phone making her shut up. "Listen, tell me. Where are you?"

"I don't know. Staircase." She replied.

"Yeah, which one?"

"Anything there to tell us Jackie? Rita asked. "We need to know!" Rita cut the Doctor off who then groaned at her.

"Yes!" She beamed and the Doctor and Rita's face lit up. "A fire extinguisher."

"Oh" Rita's face fell slightly.

"Yeah, that helps." The Doctor sarcastically commented.

"Oh!" She then gasped. "Wait a minute. It says N3." She described to them.

"That's the north corner, staircase three." Rita explained and the Doctor nodded. "Just keep low, we're trying our best." He told the woman.

"No, don't leave me." She cried out into the phone making Rita's hearts ache for the woman.

"We've got to go. I'm sorry." He sadly told her placing the phone down. He then looked up placing his hands in his pockets and proudly smiled at Pete. "Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Tyler."

Pete shook his head protesting. "She's not my wife."

"I was at the wedding. You got her name wrong." He walked away tugging on his ear a little. "Now then, Jakey boy, if I can open up the bonding chamber on this thing, it'll work on polycarbite."

"What's polycarbite?" Jake asked frowning.

"Skin of a Dalek." The Doctor answered.

"I prefer the name Pepperpots." Rita grinned.

"Rita not now" She blinked confused not understanding how she heard the Doctor without him opening his mouth. He smiled at her and shook his head "Don't look so scared Rita" He chuckled quietly, she blinked again not understanding how he was doing that. 'You'll figure it out soon' he read the confusion on her face and she slowly nodded trusting him. "Rita can you make a little white flag with some paper?" He asked her aloud.

"Do I look like an arts and crafts woman?" She raised a brow.

"No but you're going to do it anyways" He smirked at her, she groaned slightly then walked off following the orders he had given her.