The Doctor and Rory walked down the hallway like the other soldier's did. Stiffly and in sync with on another as they always marched in groups. The two tired to stay as close as possible and the Doctor would always quickly make sure that his sonic screwdriver was on him at all times. They walked along in a row with five other soldiers and to both their surprise none of the guards even bothered with them. But they didn't fuss over that they just followed like regular mind controlled soldiers would.
"You."
The Doctor turned to see a soldier pointing at him. The Doctor stepped out of line and Rory tried to look out the corner of his eye to see what was going on.
"What is your code?"
"G83K0DDG," the Doctor replied.
"Take GWT34K9 and go to the weaponry below in the high containment holdings."
The Doctor nodded and GWT34K9 followed him. The Doctor quickly muttered into the speaker to Rory.
"Keep eyes forward and continue to follow."
"Sure," Rory replied quickly.
He kept his eyes forward as he watched the Doctor and the soldier disappear behind the door.
The Doctor could hear the footsteps of the soldier behind him clearly. He tried to make sure he walked stiffly and straight as possible. He knew that if he messed this up, he would be definitely taken to the lead Cyberman and placed in Upgrade. Soldier GWT34K9 followed in step and almost stepped on the Doctor's heels more than once. The Doctor came to the elevator and then pressed U1 and silently went down underground.
Rory on the other hand was placed on floor 10, ten below the top floor. He was placed on guard duty with another soldier. He was given a new set of clothing and his job was to guard the aliens who were imprisoned on the floor.
"Psst."
Rory turned to see his fellow guard with his visor up. The soldier looked about nineteen-ish and he had really blonde hair and light blue eyes. He also had something in his eyes that Rory noticed that other soldier's didn't have. Fear.
"Can I trust you?" the boy asked, he had a thick German accent.
"Um…?" Rory said dumbly.
"I can trust you, ja?"
"Yeah," - Rory wasn't all too sure on where this was going and he didn't like it either -, "How did you-."
"Know? One of your controllers is not on."
Rory instinctively placed his hand to his ear but he instead his the side of his helmet.
"You don't sound like you come from here."
The boy shook his head, "Came from Germany year ago, the boat dropped us off here."
"Us?"
"Sister and me."
Rory nodded and then looked around to see if anyone was listening.
"What is your name?"
"Guthrie."
"Rory."
A sudden march of footsteps approached and Rory and Guthrie quickly placed down their visors. A large group of soldiers passed, each had a dead look on their face and marching in time with one another. Once they have passed and Guthrie and Rory agreed it was safe, they lifted their visors.
"I have a friend," Rory said, "He is the Doctor."
Guthrie nodded, "Man with you ja? I watched you as he left with soldier. You seemed concerned."
Rory looked around and said, "You know the controllers right? Well they were made by robotic aliens known as Cybermen."
"Cyber-what?"
"Cybermen, they have done this before only in a more parallel universe. But now they are doing it in reality and we have to stop it."
Guthrie looked at Rory as through he announced that the world will end in two seconds, which it might as well.
"Okay," Guthrie said slowly, "And this Cybermen want to take over?"
"Pretty much."
Guthrie nodded and said, "What is plan?"
The Doctor was the first one out as the elevator doors opened and he led the soldier to the weaponry. The Doctor looked down to see that the holding cells were filled with aliens now and the Doctor couldn't help but wonder how Mr. U could find aliens so quickly. They were usually disguised fairly well when they came to Earth. The Doctor went to the code box and typed in the code. The door slid open and the Doctor allowed the soldier to grab some weapons. The Doctor then formed an idea.
"You five," the Doctor said in a monotonic, he made sure that he had a dead like expression on his face when he talked. The five guards turned and looked at the Doctor.
"Help GWT34K9 with the weapons."
The guards looked at each other and then at the Doctor.
"Orders from the valiant Leader."
The others who were guarding the control boxes for the cells, left and picked up a few more weapons.
"Upstairs to the floor."
The guards turned all together and then walked onto the elevator and then disappeared behind closed doors. The Doctor watched the small dial go up and then it stopped at floor seven.
Is that where you are Amy?
The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and then whizzed it at every black control box. The electric defenses went down and the doors that blended into the wall opened allowing the aliens to escape.
"GO!" the Doctor said to the cautious aliens, "Go while you can."
Once the aliens were all gone, the Doctor smiled and then called the elevator.
Upstairs on the tenth floor, the alarms went off and the aliens in the cages went nuts. Rory looked around and then unlocked the control box and hot wired it. Within three seconds the cage doors opened and the aliens poured out.
"RUN!" Rory shouted.
The aliens didn't need to be told twice and they rushed off. Rory remembered the initiating drills that he, Amy and the other aliens they set free encountered.
"What are you doing?" Guthrie asked.
"Saving them."
Rory started to quickly hotwire the rest of the box until it over loaded by the pressure of energy and heat. In the screen in front of him, a large red sign flashed: [WARNING: SYSTEM OVERLOAD, SHUTTING DOWN SECURITY SYSTEMS]
Rory sighed a breath of relief.
"Rory," Guthrie said, "We need to go now."
Rory looked behind him and saw shadows of running soldiers coming towards them. Rory nodded and they raced to the elevator before the herd of soldiers go there.
Up in at the top floor, Mr. U was having trouble with the power. Everything was working perfectly when the power suddenly shut off and that meant the codes to the Void shut down too. Mr. U tried to fix it but nothing prevailed and the whole top floor went into a power outage. C8Y9QWG2 nodded and spoke briefly into his radio.
"Sir," C8Y9QWG2 said, " The aliens have escaped and are out."
"Again?" Mr. U exclaimed.
"Yes sir."
Mr. U sighed and said, "I want fifty foot soldiers after the escapees, the rest will stay here. Is the high security containment still up?"
C8Y9QWG2 muttered into his radio and then he looked up and shook his head. Mr. U clenched his fists and then said, "Doctor."
On the main floor, the Doctor had unlocked the doors quickly as a herd of aliens raced by him. They smashed through the doors and windows towards freedom and disappeared. The Doctor could hear the armed vehicles starting and then a sputter of smoke spewing from the garage doors. The soldiers choked on the poisonous gas and died.
Before the Doctor had gone to the front, he managed to find a secret passage into the garage where he disabled the vehicles and the weaponry upon the vehicles before actually going out into the main floor.
"After the alien," a lead soldier replied.
Exactly fifty soldiers then took up large automatic weapons and raced after the aliens. The Doctor was one of them.
Up on the third floor, Rory and Guthrie managed to sneak and then blend in with another group of soldiers before being split up again.
"Floor seven," a lead soldier said to Rory, "Guard the prisoner."
Prisoner? Rory thought but he only nodded and jogged off to the elevator.
Up four floors, Rory came to a room that had large thick plastic strips hanging down from every doorway and thick plastic sheets tacked to every window. A sudden Cyberman startled Rory but it took everything for Rory to remain still.
"Identify," the Cyberman said.
"D9FK3L1," Rory said monotonically, his heart pound so heavily that if the Cyberman looked close enough, he could see it.
"What are you doing on this floor?"
"Here on orders to guard prisoner."
The Cyberman nodded and then led Rory to the second last door. The Cyberman opened the door and then closed it, locking it behind Rory.
Rory looked around the pearl white room that it made him go practically blind. There were of course no windows and only a slider for the Cybermen to see what was inside the cell. Rory advanced to the middle of the room where a young woman was bound by metal cables to a metal chair. Dried blood already formed on the cables from her desperate attempts to escape. Some even pooled over and down the chair. It took every nerve in Rory's body to not kick down the door and destroy every Cybermen. Amy looked extremely pale and a black metal blindfold was placed over her eyes. Rory almost bawled at the sight. He could tell that Amy was asleep and her breaths were very faint. Rory turned and then shuffled back to the door.
"Who's there?" Amy asked, her voice was hoarse from all her screaming.
Rory stopped and turned around.
"Who's there?"
Rory looked back and then walked up to Amy and gently said, "It's me."
Amy noticed that voice from anywhere and she gave a weak smile.
"Rory," she whispered.
"I'll get you out of here, I promise."
"Rory," Amy said, "You can't they'll Upgrade you too."
Rory placed his hand in hers, he felt tears brim in his eyes but he brushed them away.
"I'll make sure you are free Amy Pond," Rory said, "If it's the last thing I do."
