In the city of San Francisco, A fresh young Keyblade wielder and all of his friends meets the Ninth incarnation of the Doctor for the first time and rescues 19-year-old shop worker Rose Tyler from an Auton attack in the department store where she works. After Rose helps all of them defeat the Nestene Consciousness, he invites her to travel with him in the TARDIS and to whom they grew increasingly attached. They also travel briefly with unruly boy-genius Adam Mitchell, and with 51st-century con man and former "Time Agent" Captain Jack Harkness,
