The Doctor could hardly hear the sounds of the weapons being fired across the battlefield, as she ran with the wind blowing through her hair and with three of her favourite people by her side. Of course, when she said they were going to explore the war, what she meant was that they were going to end the war. Running through the battlefield started to give her flashbacks of the horror that was the Time War. As all the memories she had tried so long to keep out of her head came flooding back, she didn't realise that she had stopped in the middle of the battlefield. Yaz began to worry as she saw The Doctor had stopped running. All of a sudden, she saw a laser beam shooting across the sky. "Doctor, watch out!" she screamed, as she pulled The Doctor out of the way. They both fell onto the ground, and the Doctor abruptly came back to reality. '
"Yaz, are you alright?" she asked, the panic rising in her voice. "I'm fine. How about you? Did the blast hit you at all?"
"Don't think so" she replied. "Thank you for saving me, you could have gotten killed." She smiled weakly at Yaz. They both turned their heads as they saw Ryan and Graham running towards them. "Are you two ok?" said Ryan, Graham behind him trying to catch his breath. "Yeah, we're both fine" Yaz replied.
Ryan and Graham helped the other two up off the floor. "We should probably keep on running," The Doctor said, "before that happens again."
The four of them turned around and froze. There were several aliens in battle suits standing in a circle around them and pointing huge guns in their faces. "Come with us." The alien who had spoken had an almost robotic voice. "I think we should do what it says" The Doctor said to the others. They walked away with the aliens, who moved in a robotic way too, and The Doctor realised that they must be very powerful, since no one was trying to shoot them. They were lead into a dark, damp cave, and could hear their footsteps echoing through the long tunnel. The Doctor turned to her right and whispered to Yaz. "I'm so sorry I got us into this mess. I will do everything I can to sort it out. It's my fault we're here, and I'll get us back, I promise."
"It's fine Doctor, honestly. You can't blame yourself, it's not your fault." she replied. The Doctor sighed. "Hmm, maybe. But we're still here, and I don't know what's going to happen."
Yaz held The Doctor's hand to try and comfort her. This made The Doctor look up sharply, but once she realised who was holding her hand she relaxed. Both of them were glad for the darkness since red was creeping up their cheeks. "Listen Doctor, none of us blame you for any of what's happening. Besides, we always get out of things, it'll be the same this time. Don't worry about it." While Yaz was trying to comfort The Doctor, she was also trying to tell herself that it would all be ok.
Finally, they came to a stop. They were in a large room with dim orange lights. "Stay." The alien demanded. "Where are we?" asked The Doctor. "Why are we here?"
"Stay." the alien repeated. It walked out of the room and all the other aliens followed it. The four could hear their footsteps gradually getting quieter as they left the cave. "What should we do now?" asked Graham. "I don't know," The Doctor replied, "I guess we just have to stay here."
"What were those aliens? They were like robots." Yaz said. "Except they're not robots." The Doctor said. "My sonic registered them all as life forms. I'll have to scan them again to see exactly what they are."
"Identify yourselves." A voice echoed around the room. It sounded exactly like the alien before had, but it was nowhere to be seen. "Who are you? Why are we here? Let us go." The Doctor shouted.
"Identify yourselves."
"No. Tell us who you are, and why we're here."
"You dared to disrupt the conquest of the Cybermen. Identify yourselves or you will be deleted."
"This isn't a war, it's an invasion. That's why no one was shooting at you. You're the ones killing everyone." The Doctor said in realisation. "But that makes no sense. Those aliens from earlier, they weren't humans turned into Cybermen. Since when did the Cybermen upgrade other species?"
"We wanted to experiment. The human species is weak, we needed stronger soldiers. So we invaded other worlds make them. Identify yourselves. How do you have such knowledge of the Cybermen?"
"You invaded entire planets just to make better robots?"
"IDENTIFY YOURSELVES."
"What if I don't want to."
"Then you will be deleted."
"Oh, right. Fine then. I'm The Doctor, remember me? I'm the one who's going to stop you."
"The Doctor will be deleted. The Cybermen are unstoppable"
"Ha! Now, that's where you're wrong." She turned towards the other three.
"Get ready to run."
