Disclaimer: not one character used here is mine.

I looked at my two companions as we flew through this... tunnel. I had no other word for it. How do you call something that seemed to give off every color, and yet no color you know? Something that seemed to take you everywhere into every reality, and yet in itself didn't exist anywhere at all? It was something I didn't fully understand, and neither did my companions, so each had their own reaction to what was happening. The guy with a blue scarf and red shirt, who called himself Merlin, he looked in wonder around him. While I was scared of the dimension we were in, he seemed completely in awe about it. It was like everything he saw was somehow beautiful. The girl in the sailor-like outfit, carrying a sword, who called herself Saya, squinted her eyes, and kept her arms crossed during the whole trip. It was as if she was bored with what was going on.

After a long time, a hole opened up, and all three of us fell through. Unlike the last time this happened, I didn't land on the soft moss of the forest, rather I fell on the hard metal of the street. Metal? I thought to myself that streets are made of... all sorts of material, but metal wasn't one of them. Still, this made for a much smoother spot to land on, so at least we didn't get scratched.
"That was incredible." Merlin said.
"You're easily impressed, aren't you." Saya didn't sound like she was asking.
"Come now, Saya, can you honestly say you've ever lived through something like this before?" Merlin asked.
"More than I would like." she replied.
I looked at my timer. It read 00:12:38:15. I showed my two friends.
"Oh..." Merlin sounded sad, "We have twelve hours before the next ride. That's a shame."
"Where are we anyway?" Saya asked.
All three of us looked around. Much like the street we landed on, every building around us seemed to be made of either metal or plastic. But what was stranger than what we saw around us, was what wasn't anywhere. Traffic signs, gutters, no sewer-entries, no trees or any kind of plants, no stray animals, no cars,... We were in a city, and it seemed completely abandoned. That was until we heard some heavy footsteps coming toward us.
"I hear some people approaching, we can ask them." Merlin said just before he ran from us.
"Merlin, wait!" Saya ran to stop him.
Not one of us had to go anywhere, as the people we heard just appeared around the corner. Most of them looked almost the same. They were gray, had three holes in their faces (two for the eyes and one for the mouth), looked like walking tanks, and either carried their guns, or had guns on their wrists. With them were what looked like pale and bald people in black electrical suits. There were more, but I stopped looking when I recognized one of them. It looked like a robot with a shiny armor, and had a red light in its visor that went from left to right. Remembering who they were with, I hid myself behind Saya.
"What's the matter with you?" she asked me.
"What are you afraid of?" Merlin asked, upon which I heard a shift in his tone: "You? Why would he be afraid of you?"
"Identify yourself." one of them said.
It was an electrical voice. One that sounded almost ghost-like.
"I asked you first." Merlin responded.
"You will identify yourselves." that same voice replied, "Or we will be authorized to use force."
"STEP BACK!" I heard Merlin shout, accompanied by what sounded like a ring, followed by the clanging of metal against metal. With this, I got up from behind Saya.
"There was that language again." she said, "What is that?"
"Just an ancient language of my world's old religion." Merlin explained.
Again, I found myself wondering how I could understand his words without realizing he was speaking a different language.
Merlin walked up to me: "You recognized them?"
I nodded.
"Are they with that Army?"
I nodded again.
"Good." Saya said, "We found another base. Let's wreck it."
"Er... that might not be as easy." Merlin said.
As he spoke, I heard several more footsteps. From every building around us, more of these gray men were appearing. All of them were of the same type, with those three holes in their faces. All of them raised their guns.
"Merlin, whatever you did, you better do that again." Saya said.
"I can't." he said.
"What?"
"Lay down your weapons." that same ghost-like voice sounded.
"You two better hide." Saya said as she drew her sword.
She ran at these people. All of them tried to shoot at her, but she was too fast for them, they either missed her, or accidentally hit each other. Saya, in turn, used her sword to cut her way through these people, or to cut their heads off. I couldn't understand how a girl of that size could do what she did. So fascinated was I at the sight of this, I didn't realize the others were closing in on us until one of them had grabbed my arms. Two more did the same with Merlin, who mumbled something, and I could see his eyes glowing like before, only this time nothing happened.
"Seize and desist, or we will kill these two." one of the men holding us spoke.
Saya turned to see what happened to us. That look in her eyes told us she was annoyed at what was happening, but she knew she had no choice. She dropped her sword, and let the others grab hold of her.
"This one has powers we do not know." one of the men holding Merlin said, "We should upgrade him."
"This humanoid scans as an anomaly." another one spoke, "She may not respond well to upgrading."
"But she may be an interesting subject for experimenting." another one spoke.
"Wait!" a completely new voice cried.
The ones holding us turned to look at who spoke. This time, we saw a just a regular man. He looked to be in his thirties, had bowl-cut hair, and a face that you would listen to even if you didn't like the way he looked. He was accompanied by five guards, who seemed similarly armored like these metal men, except their suits were black, and resembled cougars more than anything else.
"You Cybermen are so quick to upgrade everything into what you are." the man spoke, "But there may yet be a different use for them."
He spoke with a distorted voice. I instantly remembered having heard that sort of voice before. I started having difficulty breathing. I tried to run away, but these metal men (Cybermen, as they seemed to be called) kept me where I stood. This other man noticed the way I reacted to him.
"You have encountered my kind before, have you not?" he spoke to me directly.
"Leave him alone!" Merlin threatened.
"Or else?" he didn't seem intimidated by Merlin's threat.
Merlin sank his head, clearly unable to reply.
"I don't believe this." Saya grumbled.
"I assume you have a prison-cell somewhere?" the man said, "Hold them there."