So this is going to be a Doctor/OC Time Lord fanfic. It will involve a M/M relationship although there won't be any explicit details. I decided to write after reading works by loulouflowerpower and LizzeXX, but instead of using a Time Lady I used a Time Lord. Please review and let me know what you think.

Like LizzeXX I'm gonna do a short description of my Time Lord. The Wizard who is in his 6th body is a tall man, about 6'2, with dark blonde shoulder length hair and light blue eyes. He's dressed in black army combats. I've based his look on Chris Hemsworth.

Return of the Cybermen and the Wizard

The Doctor and Rose are slumped in the chairs of the TARDIS console while Mickey stands by the console.

"And that weird munchkin lady with the big eyes? Do you remember? - the way she looked at you!And then she opens her mouth and fire comes out!" the Doctor grinned telling Mickey the story of one of their past adventures. Rose laughed "I thought I was gonna get frazzled!"

"Yeah! One minute she's standing there, and the next minute - rawwwh!"

He and Rose mimic fire coming out of their mouths, killing themselves laughing. Mickey nods and smiles, not really following. "So where was that, then? What happened?"

"Oh, it was on this um... uh, this uh... planet thing, asteroid. It's a long story, you had to be there." His grin faded slightly looking over at Mickey "Um... what're you doing that for?" noticing Mickey has his finger on a button on the console.

"'Cos you told me to..."

The Doctor blinks "When was that?"

"About half an hour ago..."

"Um" he clears his throat "You can let go now."

As Mickey lets go Rose starts to snigger. "Well, how long's it been since I could've stopped?"

"Ten minutes?" the Doctor shrugged, "Twenty? ...twenty-nine..."

"You just forgot me!"

"No, no, no!" he said quickly, "I was just…I was just...I was calibrating. I was just...no, I know exactly what I'm doing."

Suddenly the TARDIS console exploded, sending Mickey flying backwards and Rose falling out of the seat. The TARDIS jolted, shaking violently as sparks and flames flew everywhere. The Doctor half leapt out of the chair and over to the console, frantically trying to operate it.

"What's happened?" Rose shouted.

"The Time Vortex is gone!" the Doctor yelled back, looking at them, "That's impossible! It's just gone!"

"Brace yourself! We're gonna crash!"

The TARDIS did, throwing them all backwards as gas masks fell from the ceiling, the lights of the TARDIS going out, pitching them into darkness.

"Everyone alright? Rose? Mickey?"

Mickey called, "I'm okay, sorry."

The Doctor stood looking at the console "The TARDIS is dead…" he whispered. He slowly walked around the console.

"You can fix it right?" Rose asked.

"There's nothing to fix. She's perished…" he pulled a lever back and forth fruitlessly, "The last TARDIS in the Universe...extinct."

"We can get help, yeah?" Rose asked.

"Where from?"

"Well, we've landed, we've gotta be somewhere."

"We fell out of the Vortex, through the Void, into nothingness. We're in some sort of no-place...the silent realm...the lost dimension..."

"Otherwise known as London!" Mickey called.

They looked over to see Mickey standing by the door, sunlight streaming through. Mickey laughed and stepped out.

He looked around the area which looked a lot like London, when the Doctor and Rose stepped out behind them, "London, England, Earth," Mickey said, spotting a newspaper, "Hold on..." he jumped off the low wall they were on and picked it up, "First of February this year, not exactly far-flung, is it?"

Rose jumped down after him, coming to look at the newspaper as well while Doctor glanced up before the Doctor jumped down too.

"So, this is London," the Doctor remarked, looking up again.

"Yep."

"Your city."

"That's the one."

"Just as we left it."

"Bang on."

"And that includes the zeppelins?"

Rose and Mickey looked over at him before following his gaze where the sky was full of zeppelins.

"What the hell..." Mickey breathed.

"That's beautiful," Rose smiled.

"Okay…so, it's London with a big international zeppelin festival."

The Doctor just shook his head "This is not your world."

"But if the date's the same..." Mickey argued, confused, before a light went off in his head, "...it's parallel, right? Am I right? Like a parallel Earth where they've got Zeppelins, am I right? I'm right, aren't I?"

"Must be," the Doctor agreed.

"So, a parallel world," Rose nodded, smiling at the action, better her be chummy with Mickey than the Doctor in her opinion, "Where…"

"Oh, come on," Mickey turned to her, "You see it on films. Like an alternative to our world were everything's the same but a little bit different, like...I dunno…traffic lights are blue, Tony Blair never got elected..."

"And he's still alive..." Rose cut in, her gaze caught by a poster right in front of them. There, on the wall, was her father Pete Tyler, a successful businessman, holding some sort of drink, Vitex, according to the advertisement, "A parallel world and my dad's still alive..."

She stepped slowly towards the poster, the Doctor and Mickey following.

"Don't look at it, Rose," the Doctor said sternly, "Don't even think about it. This is not your world."

"But he's my dad...and..." she reached out and touched the poster.

The picture sprang to life for a moment, "Trust me on this," it said, giving a wink and a thumbs up.

Rose stepped back, "Oh, that's weird. But he's real!"

"Trust me on this," the poster repeated.

"He's a success! He was always planning these daft little schemes, health-food drinks and stuff. Everyone said they were useless. But he did it!"

The Doctor reached out suddenly and grasped Rose by the shoulders, leaning over to look in her eyes, "Rose, if you've ever trusted me, then listen to me now," he said urgently. Rose glanced at the poster, "Stop looking at it!" she reluctantly turned back to the Doctor, "Your father's dead. He died when you were six months old. That is not your Pete. That is a Pete. For all we know, he's got his own Jackie, his own Rose. His own daughter who is someone else, but not you," Rose's eyes started to wander back to the poster but she tried to stop herself this time, "You can't see him. Not ever."

Rose gave a tiny nod as Mickey touched her shoulder comfortingly. The poster of Pete started to repeat 'Trust me on this' over and over.

The Doctor looked up at the sound of the TARDIS door opening from where he was fiddling with the controls to see Mickey walk in and close the door behind him.

"I told you to keep an eye on her," the Doctor moaned, shaking his head.

"She's alright," Mickey waved him off.

"She goes wandering off, parallel world, it's like a gingerbread house. All those temptations calling out."

"Oh, so it's just Rose then? Nothing out there to tempt me?"

"Well, I don't know," the Doctor conceded, "I can't worry about everything…if I could just get this thing to…" he suddenly kicked the TARDIS hard in frustration and grabbed his head.

"Did that help?" Mickey asked.

"Yes,"

Mickey laughed at them, "Did that hurt?"

"Yes,"

The Doctor just collapsed down on the chair, ignoring his foot and rubbing his head, "Ow," he grumbled before looking at the console in thought, "We're not meant to be here. The TARDIS draws its power off the Universe, but it's the wrong Universe. It's like diesel in a petrol engine."

Mickey sat down next to him, "But...I've seen it in comics. People are hopping from one alternative world to another, it's easy."

The Doctor shot him a withering look, "Not in the real world," he paused, "Used to be easy. When the Time Lords kept their eye on everything, you could hop between realities, home in time for tea. Then they died, took it all with them. The walls of reality closed, the worlds were sealed. Everything became that bit less kind."

"Then how did we get here?"

The Doctor looked up wearily, "I dunno. Accident? Should've been impossible, now we're trapped. It's not just that though I'm getting a twinge in my head, I feel like I should recognise it but I can't. "

They fell into a short, hopeless, silence when…

"What's that?" the Doctor called looking down to see a tiny green light glowing beneath the console.

"What?"

"That there…" the Doctor pointed, "Is that a reflection?"

The three of them crouched down to stare at it.

"It's a light!" the Doctor cried excitedly, "Is it? Is that a light? I think that's a light! That's all we need!" he reached out and removed the grilling, "We've got power! Mickey, we've got power! Ha!"

He quickly jumped down under, working his way underneath the console, pulling out some rather important looking internal materials from the TARDIS in the process.

"It's alive!" he cried as he reached the light, sounding extremely happy.

"What is it?" Mickey asked.

"It's nothing. It's tiny. One of those insignificant little power cells that no one ever bothers about, and it's clinging onto life. But with one little ounce of reality tucked away inside!"

"Enough to get us home?"

"Not yet," he replied, pulling himself out to sit beside the grilling hole, holding the cell carefully in his hands, "I need to charge it up."

"We could go outside and latch it up to the national grid!"

"Wrong sort of energy. It's gotta come from our Universe."

"But we don't have anything…"

"There's me..." the Doctor replied, lifting the cell to his mouth. He then took a breath and blew gently on the cell as it glowed brightly. The Doctor started beaming at it.

"I just gave away ten years of my life," he told Mickey, "Worth every second!"

He giggled dorkishly as the light started to fade.

"It's going out. Is that okay?" Mickey frowned.

The Doctor looked up from the cell "It's on a recharging cycle," it started to grow brighter again, then dimming, basically pulsing.

"It'll loop round, power back up and be ready to take us home in about 24 hours."

Mickey smirked at the action, "So, that gives us 24 hours on a parallel world?"

"Shore leave!" the Doctor grinned, "As long as we keep our heads down. Easy. No problem!" he stood up and tossed the cell in the air before placing it in his pocket.

They found Rose sitting on a bench along the Thames, looking out at the river.

"There you are!" the Doctor called, "You alright? No applause, I fixed it!" he held up the power cell, "24 hours, then we're flying back to reality," he sat down on the bench beside her while Mickey stood beside it, holding the cell out to her. Rose didn't even glance at it, lost in her thoughts. His grin faded, seeing the mobile in her hands, "What is it?"

"My phone connected," she replied, "There's this...Cybus Network, it finds your phone. It gave me Internet access."

"Rose, whatever it says, this is the wrong world."

"I don't exist."

"What do you mean?"

"There's no Rose Tyler. I was never born. There's Pete, my dad, and Jackie...he still married mum...but they never had kids."

The Doctor reached out, trying to snatch the mobile, "Give me that phone."

But Rose pulled it away before he could get it, "They're rich. They've got a house and cars, and everything they want," then she paused, "But they haven't got me," she got up and walked away from the bench, turning to face the Doctor, "I've gotta see him."

"You can't."

"I just wanna see him."

"I can't let you!"

"You just said 24 hours!"

"You can't become their daughter, that's not the way it works!" the Doctor said, before looking over at Mickey, "Mickey, tell her."

"24 hours, yeah?" Mickey asked, looking just as thoughtful as Rose had been.

The Doctor looked between them, bewildered, "Where're you going?"

"Well, I can do what I want!" he began moving back.

Rose started walking backwards from the bench, "I've got the address and everything."

The Doctor looked between them frantically, "Stay where you are, both of you! Rose, come back here! Mickey, come back here right now!"

"I just wanna see him."

"Yeah, I've got things to see and all," Mickey agreed.

"Like WHAT?" the Doctor turned on him.

"Well, you don't know anything about me, do ya?" Mickey countered, getting angry, "It's always about Rose. I'm just a spare part."

"I'm sorry," Rose called, walking away, "I've gotta go."

The Doctor looked between Rose and Mickey, both of them walking away from him in opposite directions, unsure which way to go.

"Go on then," Mickey gestured to Rose, "No choice, is there? You can only chase after one of us, and it's never gonna be me, is it?"

"Back here in 24 hours," he called and ran after Rose, disappearing around the corner.

"Yeah if I haven't found something better?" Mickey said to himself before turning away.

Rose and the Doctor walked along the streets, Rose filling the Doctor in on where exactly Mickey had gone off to.

"Mickey's mum just couldn't cope," she explained, "His dad hung around for a while, but then he just sort of wandered off. He was brought up by his Gran," she smiled, "She was such a great woman. God, she used to slap him! Then she died. She tripped and fell down the stairs. It's about five years ago, now. I was still in school."

"I never knew," the Doctor commented.

"Well, you never asked."

"You never said!"

"That's Mickey. I s'pose I…we just...take him for granted. Do you think she's still alive, his Gran?"

"Could be. Like I said, parallel world, gingerbread house. We need to get out of here as fast as we can."

There was a short alarm sound and everyone around them suddenly froze. The Doctor and Rose looked around, very confused.

"What're they all doing?" Rose frowned.

"They've stopped…" the Doctor commented, looking around, "Look at that! It's the earpieces...like Bluetooth attachments, but everyone's connected together."

Rose's phone beeped and she pulled it out of her pocket, "It's on my phone. It's automatic, look. It's downloading. Is this what they're all getting?" the Doctor looked over her shoulder and put his specs on, watching as Rose scrolled through the daily updates, "News...international news...sports...weather..."

"They get it direct. Downloaded right into their heads."

"TV schedules...lottery numbers..."

"Everyone shares the same information. Daily download published by Cybus Industries."

The download scrolled down to 'Joke' and everyone around them chuckled before going about their business as though nothing had happened.

"You lot, you're obsessed," the Doctor said, a small amount of disgust in his voice, "You'd do anything for the latest upgrade."

"Oi...not my lot," Rose argued, "Different world, remember..."

"It's not SO far off your world. This place is only parallel," he pressed a few buttons on the phone, holding it out for her, "Oh, look at that. Cybus Industries owns just about every company in Britain, including Vitex. Mr. Pete Tyler's VERY well connected."

Rose said nothing, but hung off his arm, smiling innocently up at him, eyeing him hopefully.

He sighed, "Oh, okay. I give up," he tossed her phone back to her, "Let's go and see him."

A van pulled up to an abandoned building, the man, Jake, hopping out first and looking up, "There's a light on. There's someone inside the base," Mickey hopped out having been taken their after having spoken with his gran, they seemed to know his parallel self so he'd had to go along with them "Mrs. Moore, we've got visitors."

The three of them snuck down the side of the house like spies, Jake and Mrs. Moore with guns ready, till they came to crouch before the front door.

"One...two...three...go!" Jake counted before shoving the door open. They burst into the room, Mrs. Moore and Jake pointing their guns, only to see another Ricky standing there.

"What the hell are you doing?" Ricky demanded.

Mrs. Moore and Jake looked from him to Mickey, bewildered as Jake turned back to Ricky, "What're you doing there?"

Ricky advanced slowly, "What am I doing HERE?" he stared at Mickey, his brow furrowing, "What am I doing THERE?" he pointed a finger at Mickey. Mrs. Moore and Jake immediately spun around and turned their guns on him.

Then from the other room, another man appeared he was over 6 foot with dark blonde hair and light blue eyes, he had the build of a soldier. However, unlike the other's he wasn't carrying a gun, but rather a long metal rod with seem to be glowing at the end. "Now this interesting."

~8~

The Doctor and Rose crouched down outside the mansion that apparently belonged to the Tyler's, watching as expensive car after expensive car pulled up. He grabbed his again briefly while Rose was focusing on the car's but shook it off quickly.

"They've got visitors," the Doctor whispered.

"February the first, mum's birthday," Rose reasoned, "Even in a parallel Universe, she still loves a party."

"Well, given Pete Tyler's guest list, I wouldn't mind a look and there is one guaranteed way of getting inside," he waved the psychic paper around.

"Psychic paper!"

"Who do you wanna be?"

Rose and the Doctor stepped through the door that led from the kitchen into the drawing room. Both were dressed as waiters. A woman took some nibbles from Rose's tray before moving on, past the Doctor holding a tray of champagne.

"We could've been anyone," Rose muttered under her breath.

"Got us in, didn't it?" he grinned.

"You're in charge of the psychic paper! We could've been guests. Celebrities. Sir Doctor, Dame Rose. We end up serving. I had enough of this back home."

They both smiled politely as various people took the champagne and cocktail sticks from their trays.

"If you wanna know what's going on, work in the kitchens," the Doctor reasoned, before laughing slightly.

He then nodded to one of the guests, "According to Lucy, that man over there…"

"Who's Lucy?"

"She's carrying the salmon pinwheels," the Doctor nodded over to the woman.

"Oh, that's Lucy, is it?" Rose eyed her.

"Yeah! Lucy says, that is the President of Great Britain. Gotta say something about a party eh?"

"What, there's a President, not a Prime Minister?"

"Seems so."

"Or maybe Lucy's just a bit thick," Rose remarked, as they moved to another room.

"Excuse me!" Pete Tyler called, "Thank you very much. Thank you, if I could just have your attention, please?"

"Pete!" someone in the crowd shouted, "Go on, Pete!"

"Thank you very much!" he laughed.

"It's about time you did some work! I thought you liked them young!"

Rose followed the voice of her father down a hallway to the bottom of a set of large stairs, the Doctor following. Pete was standing in the middle of them, "Um, I'd just like to say, er, thank you to you all, for coming on this er, this very special occasion. My wife's...39th..." the crowd chucked, "Trust me on this…" he added, giving his trademark thumbs up, earning a bigger laugh, "So, without any further ado, here she is. The birthday girl...my lovely wife...Jackie Tyler."

Rose strained for a look while the Doctor glanced at her, worried. An elegantly done up Jackie descended the staircase, smiling at the crowd as it applauded and cheered for her, taking pictures. Rose stared as Jackie came to stand next to Pete.

"Now, I'm not giving a speech, that's what my parties are famous for, no work, no politics, just a few good mates and plenty of black-market whisky," the crowd laughed, "Pardon me, Mr. President!" she added jokingly at the man the Doctor had pointed out earlier, "So, yeah! Get on with it, enjoy, enjoy."

There were more cheers as Pete took Jackie's hand and they descended the rest of the stairs to mingle with their guests.

"You can't stay," the Doctor said quietly to Rose, "Even if there was some way of telling them."

"Course I can't," Rose nodded, "I've still got my mum at home, my real mum. I couldn't just leave her, could I? It's just...they've got each other. Mum's got no one."

"She's got you! Those two haven't!" he sighed, "All these different worlds, not one of them gets it right."

"Rose!" Jackie called suddenly, followed by a series of barks and yelps, "There's my little girl!" they watched as a small dog pattered over to Jackie who picked her up, "Come to mummy, come to mummy! Yes, good girl! Good girl, aren't you?"

Rose's mouth dropped open as she stared at the dog that had replaced her in this life. The Doctor took one look at her face before bursting out with laughter. She gave him a withering look.

"Not you," he said quickly, "Not laughing at you."

"Oh aren't you?" and started sniggering again

Mickey had both been tied to chairs by Jake, Mrs. Moore, Ricky and the other man who had yet to introduce himself.

"He's clean," Jake turned to Ricky, "No bugs."

"But this is off the scale," Ricky commented, eyeing Mickey, "He's flesh and blood, how did that happen? Got any explanation Wiz"

The man frowned at Rickey "I told you not to call me that." He then waved his rod up and down Mickey which made a whirring noise which reminded him of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver

The man crouched slightly looking at Mickey in the eyes, "Your name is Mickey, not Ricky?"

"Yeah, Why?"

"Cause using my device here I can detect artron energy coming from you, which means that you've been time travelling. So I'm gonna guess that you've come from a parallel world." He stood back up to his regular height and rocked on his heels. "How am I doin?"

Mickey gasped "How'd you know about time traveling and what the hell is that the device?"

The man grinned "Well it's kinda in the title for me being a Time Lord. I'm the Wizard nice to meet ya. Oh and this device I call a wand but if you wanna be technical you could call it a sonic probe."

"The Wizard, so kinda like the Doctor"

The Wizard jumped forward again grabbing his shoulders and almost shouted "You know the Doctor, where is he?"

Ricky coughed and the two men looked over "Kinda missing the point here Wiz, we need to make sure his isn't a threat"

"If he's traveling with the Doctor, I can almost guarantee he isn't, the Doctor isn't big on violence, I should know he's my best mate"

"Seriously, he's never mentioned you" Mickey looked at the odd man "God it's like Sarah Jane all over again"

"Ah Sarah, how is she?"

"Um Wiz" Jake commented, "Doing it again"

The Wizard stepped back still looking at Mickey. "We do need to find the Doctor though, he'll be able to help"

"So, who are you lot?" Mickey asked.

Rickey straightened and resumed circling the chair again, "We…we are the Preachers. As in Gospel Truth. You see?"

"No ear plugs," he continued, "While the rest of the world downloads from Cybus Industries, we…WE have got freedom. You're talking to London's Most Wanted. But target Number One is Lumic, and we ARE going to bring him down."

"From your kitchen?" Mickey asked.

Jake smirked as Ricky glared, ""Have you got a problem with that?"

"No, it's a good kitchen."

Before anyone in the room could respond to that, the laptop before Mrs. Moore beeped, her and the Wizard went over to it.

"It's an upload from Gemini," she called.

"Who is Gemini?" Mickey asked.

"The vans are back," she read, ignoring Mickey, "They're moving out of Battersea. Looks like Gemini was right. Lumic's finally making a move."

"And we are right behind him," Ricky nodded, the Wizard waved the wand and Mickey's rope's fell off. "You're coming with us until I get you back to the Doctor"

"God you make me sound like a stray dog"

The Preachers hid out in the shadows of a building, waiting for the huge lorry from Cybus Industries to drive past before following. Ricky drove, leaving Jake and Mrs. Moore in the back, preparing and loading their guns.

The Wizard looked at Mickey while the others were busy, looking like he was dying to ask more questions but noticing it wasn't the time "Can't go without them things?" Mickey asked, eyeing them as well.

He smiled "Know what you mean, don't really like guns myself but they won't leave without them"

"We don't know what we're up against," Jake replied, "Gotta be prepared."

Mrs. Moore nodded, "Lumic's computers should be simple enough to crack with Wiz here, so at least we know where we're going."

~8~

The Preachers had pulled up to a rather fancy mansion a few minutes ago, Jake and Ricky heading out to try and get a closer look while Mickey, Mrs. Moore, and the Wizard sat in the truck. Mrs. Moore was now in the driver's seat while the Wizard sat shotgun, the laptop n his lap, Mickey with his head sticking out between the seats to talk to both of them.

"I've identified the address," the Wizard informed them, "It belongs to Peter Tyler. The Vitex millionaire."

"Pete Tyler?" Mickey looked at her, startled.

"He's listed as one of Lumic's henchmen. A traitor to the state."

"But...but...we've gotta get in there!"

"Why?" the Wizard asked.

Mickey looked at him and Mrs. Moore "If you want the Doctor, that's where he's gonna be"

"Handy coincidence, just give me a sec, need to get some stuff ready"

With that he climbed over seats and went through the stuff in the van searching for something.

The Doctor frowned as he watched a promotion on some sort of invention for a Mr. Lumic.

"The most precious thing on this Earth is the human brain..." Lumic narrated as the presentation continued, displaying the brain, "This is the ultimate upgrade. Our greatest step into cyberspace."

The Doctor's expression grew more horrified as he watched the brain placed into a metallic body, "Cybers…" he breathed, dashing out of the room.

"So what you looking for" Mickey asked as the Wizard still searched.

" Something I made that can help against the Cybermen" she replied.

"Cybermen?" Mrs. Moore repeated with a frown.

"What are Cybermen?" Mickey asked.

The Wizard stopped searching and looked up, " There human beings without their humanity. It's a human brain encased in a body of metal…completely emotionless...completely merciless. They will kill anyone who doesn't 'upgrade.'" With this he held up what looked like a pack of playing cards.

"We need to warn Ricky and Jake," Mrs. Moore gasped, horrified at what Lumic was truly doing.

"Got it," Mickey jumping out of the van. The Wizard followed "You'll need my help"

"Really, with a pack of playing cards"

"Hey a Wizard needs his tricks, and really you think there just playing cards" he said before running off into the night with Mickey following.

The Doctor pushed his way through the crowd and over to Rose's side, both of them staring out the window as metallic figures approached the house.

"It's happening again," the Doctor breathed.

"What do you mean?" Rose looked at him.

"I've seen them before."

"What are they?"

"Cybermen."

Suddenly several of the Cybermen smashed through the windows, gaining entry into the house. The guests screamed and began to cower as the Cybermen stepped through the windows, pushing everyone into the center of the room.

The President's communicator beeped, "Mr. Lumic," the President greeted distastefully.

"Mr. President," Lumic wheezed, "I suppose a remark about crashing the party would be appropriate at this point?" he laughed evilly.

"I forbade this!"

"These are my children, sir. Would you deny my family?"

"What are they?" Rose whispered to the Doctor, "Robots?"

"Worse than that," he replied.

"Who were these people?" the President demanded.

"Doesn't matter," Lumic waved him off.

"They're people?" Rose gasped, horrified.

"They were," the Doctor agreed, "Until they had all their humanity taken away. It's a living brain jammed inside a cybernetic body. With a heart of steel. All emotions removed."

"Why no emotions?"

"...because it hurts."

"I demand to know, Lumic, these people, who were they?" the President demanded, his voice growing louder in anger.

"They were homeless, wretched and useless until I saved them," Lumic chuckled, "And elevated them. And gave them life eternal. And now, I leave you in their capable hands. Goodnight, sir. Goodnight, Mr. President."

As Lumic disconnected one of the Cybermen squared itself before the crowd, "We have been upgraded."

"Into what?" the Doctor called.

"The next level of mankind. We are Human-Point-Two. Every citizen will receive a free upgrade. You will become like us."

"I'm sorry," the President turned and approached the Cyberman, "I'm so sorry for what's been done to you," he turned and walked around, "But listen to me, this experiment ends. Tonight."

"Upgrading is compulsory."

"And if I refuse?"

"Don't," the Doctor warned as Rose glanced at him.

"What if I refuse?"

"I'm telling you, don't," the Doctor stepped forward.

The President just ignored him, "What happens if I refuse?"

"Then you are not compatible," the Cyberman said.

"What happens then?"

"You will be deleted," the Cyberman reached out and grasped the President, whose eyes widened in shock, by the neck. A moment later the crowd screamed as the President was electrocuted before them.

The crowd scattered, running, trying to get away. Some were lucky, others found themselves electrocuted as well. The room exploded in chaos as the Doctor grabbed Rose's hand and pulled her outside through one of the broken windows.

"There's nothing we can do!" the Doctor shouted, pulling Rose along.

She broke out of his grasp, trying to get back inside, "My mum's in there!"

The Doctor just pulled her back, "She's not your mother! Come on!"

They ran up a slope only to see a row of Cybermen approaching. They quickly spun and ran around the side of the house just as Pete leapt out the window.

"Quick!" Rose shouted, spotting him, "Quick!"

Pete ran after them, following them around to the front of the house, "Pete, is there no way out?" the Doctor called, looking around.

"The side gates!" Pete led them in that direction, "Who are you? How do you know so much?"

"You wouldn't believe it in a million years…" he began only to skid to a halt when another row of Cybermen approached. They twisted and ran towards the back of the house, seeing two figures running towards them against bright lights, holding guns.

"Who's that?" Rose shouted.

"Get behind me!" Ricky shouted as he and Jake fell to a kneel. The Doctor, Rose, and Pete ran behind them as they fired at the Cybermen who stopped marching. Rose quickly ran to Ricky, fussing with his coat.

"Oh my God," she breathed, relieved, "Look at you..." she pulled him into a tight hug, much to his bewilderment, "I thought I'd never see you again!"

Ricky pulled away, staring at her oddly, "Yeah, no offence, sweetheart, but who the hell are you?"

Just then Mickey sprinted down the lawn towards them, "Rose! Doctor!" he stopped when he reached them, "That's not me. That's like...the other one."

Rose looked between the two of them in shock.

"Oh, as if things weren't bad enough, there's two Mickeys!" the Doctor grumbled.

"Oh don't say that Doc, things might get better" the Wizard said as he approached.

"Wizard" the Doctor looked at him "What the hell are you doing here?"

"Who the hell are you, what kind of name is the Wizard" Rose glared.

"What kinda is Doctor" the Wizard shrugged turning briefly to her before looking at the Doctor.

"But there's more of them..." Mickey cut in, nodding at the Cybers.

They looked around in fear as the Cybermen surrounded them.

"We're surrounded..." Rose breathed.

Ricky raised his gun when the Doctor turned on him, "Put the guns down. Bullets won't stop them…" Jake, though, ignored him, firing rapidly. The Doctor pushed the gun aside angrily.

"Wiz you got anything that can help"

"Yeah he's got special playing cards apparently" Mickey said

"Trust me Doc" looking the Doctor in the eyes.

"Yeah go on"

The Wizard they took the cards and threw individual cards at each of the Cybermen. As they landed the Cybermen seemed to short circuit. The Wizard did a small fist pump, "Told you they'd work. Each card carries a small electromagnetic current which should short circuit them temporarily."

The Doctor grabbed him into a quick hug "Ha brilliant as always" he stepped back "got anymore."

"No sorry only a limited supply."

Unfortunately, more Cybers were approaching and now had them completely surrounded. The Doctor just turned to the Cybers, "We surrender! Hands up..." he told them, raising his hands, getting them to do the same, "...there's no need to damage us, we're good stock. We volunteer for the upgrade program. Take us to be processed."

"You are rogue elements," a Cyberman replied.

"But we surrender."

"You are incompatible."

"But this is a surrender!"

"You will be deleted."

"But we're surrendering! Listen to me, we surrender!"

"You are inferior. Man will be reborn as Cybermen but you will perish under maximum deletion."

The Cyberman raised its arm, reaching out towards the Doctor as did the others, all chanting, "Delete! Delete! Delete!"

To be continued ...