Disclaimer: I do NOT own Ace, although the rest of the characters are MINE! All mine, and I'm keeping them in my pencil case!

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Some say she'd died. Some say she was just watching. Nobody knew. Nobody cared. The truth was She was Time's Vigilante. A lone spectre, watching over time itself. Nothing could change under her watchful eye. She would patrol time, a time hopper attached to a motorbike. She was a human Time Lord, and her name was Ace. Ace had never liked her home. She didn't care if her family never remembered her, she didn't even care if he forgot her, but she could watch for all eternity and he never would. She started out as the Doctor's companion, but now she was the Doctor (on a much smaller scale). This wasn't just a job; it was her life. She was the Universe's protector.

Ace was battling herself. She knew she had to go, but she didn't want to.

"You have to!" she told herself. "It's your duty! It was a crucial part in history; anything could go wrong!"

"Yes," the other side of her, the side that had fought the daleks, said, "but it's also your duty not to interfere! You know you will! It may not seem like it, but this decision could change the future of the human race!" Ace scoffed out loud, "Yeah right."

She had been absentmindedly drumming her fingers on the massive motorbike beside her. Finally, she came to a conclusion. Before she changed her mind, she set the co-ordinates and swung her leg over the bike, inserting the key and revving it up. She closed her eyes against the increasingly bright, white light that engulfed her and kept her thumb firmly against the forcefield stabilizer. A sudden lurch of the Time Vortex sent her and the bike flying backwards. That had never happened before! Something was wrong. Without warning, the bike jolted again. Someone was making a rift! She had to stop the bike, but the emergency stop button was just that little bit too far for her to reach. It was on the same side of the bike handles as the forcedfield stabiliser. If she let go of that, well, who knows? She could die, or just be badly injured. Her other choice would be to let go of the other handlebar, causing her to lose balance and crash into the wrong time zone. She made her choice. She let go of the other handlebar and pressed the little red button that could cost her life. The bike steered wildly off-course. She fell out of the time vortex and off the bike and crashed. She rolled to her left just as her bike came down and crashed next to her, just missing her. One of the wheels had come off and fell out of the Vortex, hitting her badly on the head, then everything went black.