The Warrior pants as she sprints through the burning fields of once green grass. Bounding over a ruined column of stone she lands in a crouch as an explosion erupts behind her blowing the longer shreds and tatters of her black combat suit around her. Pushing herself to her feet, she tightens her grip on her rifle and takes off at a dead run.
Almost there.
The sonic boom of another space to ground salvo thunders across the sky and explodes, showering her with dirt and bits of pulverized stone as it blots out one of the three suns. The sounds of the legions of Cybermen marching on the Capitol City fill the air, the hydraulic ups of their knees and the stomping of their footfalls, the Warrior had lost and millions were dead or would be soon.
If they were lucky.
The Warrior ducks inside a bombed out building, her chest heaving her breath condensing in the cold morning air as she jogs down the steps towards the command bunker. Jumping the last four steps she turns a corner and a metal arm clotheslines her, sending her onto her back.
The Cyberman raises its weapon arm and fires, the Warrior rolling out of the way a moment too late. The pain of the blaster shot burns into her side as she rolls onto one knee and pivots, sweeping out with her leg she returns the favor knocking the Cyberman onto its back. She pounces on it circling its chest with her knees.
The machine swings with its left arm and she deflects it wrapping her arm around it she twists her torso wrenching the arm out of its socket, the servo motors screaming in protest. Letting the now useless arm drop she grips the two right angle protrusions on either side of its head and twists, the head and neck assembly snapping apart with an audible screech of twisting metal.
She pushes herself to her feet picking up her rifle and steps over the disoriented machine, the rifle barrel falling towards the floor she squeezes the trigger, almost casually, putting the Cyberman down for good. Making her way down the corridor her boots make no sound as she stops in place looking at the smoldering remains of the command center.
Bodies lay draped over consoles, some were on the floor died while crawling towards the doorway she now stood under. An eyeball count told her six had been taken for conversion. There had been seventeen personnel when she left, now only eleven remain. She winces as she clutches her side looking down at the burnt and bloody blast wound in her side, turning on her heel she limps for the sewer.
The Warrior drops from the last four rungs of the ladder the landing making her cry out in pain. Resting a hand on her knee she grimaces in pain, pushing herself to her feet she hurries down the tunnel. Rounding the corner she stops so abruptly her boots slosh in the small trickle of water running through the tunnel.
The Cybermen examining her TARDIS turn towards her, the Warrior shakes her head as her shoulders go limp.
"All right, all right you caught me." She raises both her hands in the air.
"You are a rogue element." The Warrior nods a smirk coming to the corner of her lip.
"Thanks. Oh, yes right- I surrender, no need to damage me further-"
"You are incompatible. You will be deleted."
"Yeah, I had a feeling you'd say that." The Warrior reaches for the rifle slung against her side, snaps it up and fires. The rifle spits four bolts of laser fire sputters then fires once more before giving her an obstinate click. One Cyberman falls to the ground his chestplate in pieces as the rest stare at her.
"All right..." She tosses the rifle aside as the Cybermen raise their weapon arms, she reaches behind her and draws the thin katana like sword from the sheath belted to her torso.
"We'll do this the hard way." The Cybermen rush her as she whips the sword around her.
She deflects one of the metal arms, wrapping her free hand around its arm she twists her body kicking one Cyberman away from her.
Spinning the one she trapped in her grip around behind her and planting her boot on his chestplate, she kicks him away as she takes a two handed grip on her sword and swings lopping one of the Cybermen's head off.
Two of the Cybermen try to pin her between them as she ducks under and rolls out of the way jamming the heel of her boot into another's knee joint, she turns back to the pair of Cybermen that crashed into each other and jams her sword through its back and through the chestplate of the other.
Releasing the grip on her sword she whirls around and plants her boot on the Cyberman's chest, gripping the right angle protrusions she rips its head from its body and lets it clatter onto the sewer's stone floor. Turning once again she rips her sword from the two tangled Cybermen and turns as the remaining Cyberman picks her up and throws her against the stone wall.
She cries out in pain as she slides down to her feet, bobbing to the left as the Cyberman drives his metal fist through the stone wall.
The Warrior ducks another thrust of the mechanical arm and then another locking her hand around its wrist her eyes widen when the gun pops up from its forearm and a bolt of fire sprays her with pulverized stone, bringing a ring to her right ear.
Gripping the arm she pivots and forces it to the small of the Cyberman's back then lets out an animal like growl as she forces the forearm up using it as a lever to tear the upper arm out of its socket.
Grabbing the wires at the top of the arm and the hand she drops the elbow around its head and twists throwing the Cyberman across the tunnel. She doesn't give the Cyberman a chance to recover as she crosses the tunnel and steps off her back foot driving her boot through the faceplate in a shower of sparks.
She grunts as she clutches her side and falls to one knee, then to her hands the pain like fire across her entire midsection.
The Warrior crawls towards her TARDIS blood now flowing freely from her side. She grunts in pain as she looks up at the small shuttle, the shuttle that was just an illusion. The broken and dismembered pieces of six Cybermen left in her wake, only a few feet away.
Crying out in pain she moves a little further, stumbling and falling onto her face tears stream from her eyes as she grits her teeth and lifts her right arm. Her fingers drip blood onto the stone floor as she snaps her fingers together, sending droplets of blood flying in every direction.
The rear hatch falls with a loud clang as the Warrior slowly crawls up the ramp and into the control room. The lights begin to glow as the engines ignite with the familiar whir and hum. She rolls onto her side curling into a ball as she sobs in silence, the door grinding closed behind her.
"Voice interface." She manages after a few moments gritting her teeth again as she pulls one knee under her and uses the railing leading up to the control platform to pull herself to her feet, the room beginning to spin.
"Voice interface activated." A hologram of a dark haired man in a simple grey shirt and slacks snaps to life in front of her.
"Set destination. Gallifrey."
"Unable to comply." She groans as her knees give out and she falls to her hands on the deck, clutching the massive hole in her side.
"Set destination. Gallifrey." She tries again, adding extra emphasis on each syllable.
"Unable to comply." Tears stream down the Warrior's face as she tosses her dark blood soaked hair from her face, looking up at the central column surrounded by the six person Master control console. She reaches out for it as if her arm could grow in the distance between but winces in pain as her hand falls back to the deck.
"Clarify."
"Unable to locate."
"Fuck-" The Warrior curses in pain as she looks down at the smoldering blast wound, lightning pain arcing up her side and down her arm.
"Explain! You blasted piec-"
"Unable to locate. State alternative destination." The Warrior's eyes roll back in her head as she slumps to the deck, unconscious.
"State alternative destination."
The interface hologram looks down at the Warrior's prone form then snaps off as the lights dim around her, the TARDIS engines clang as the Time Rotor begins to move up and down and a hum fills the air.