Saving People, Hunting things, The Doctor Who Business
A/N: Hey y'all! Say goodbye to Mickey Smith until the end. I'm crying. Looks like we're back to the three amigos. And I have to find someone for Rose. L
That's going to be fun figuring out. Maybe I'll have Carissa's older brother that I never mention at all come back! HAHA! WHY NOT!?
THE MOST RANDOM CRAP EVER!
Should there be another Dorissa fight? Or have I crushed your hearts enough?
Well it's never enough for authors. Haven't you ever watched Supernatural?
SPOILERS FOR SEASON 9 AHEAD
I just watched the episode where Kevin is a ghost and trying to find his mom, and I was crushed enough when he died so now I'm just crying. And Castiel was kidnapped! SCEW YOU BART! DIE METATRON! And Gadreel.
You killed Kevin. Die.
Okay end of spoilers.
And I want to know who you guys ship. Like your main OTP in this book. I'm generally curious. And please go check out my other book, Raggedy Weirdo! It's good and I'll probably update every couple months.
Enjoy this chapter!
"Delete! Delete! Delete!" The Cyberman shout at us walking forward.
"Nice friends you got! Real smart!" Rebecca yells before crunching down expecting instant death. But instead the sound of a horn honking sounds.
The Doctor pulls out a little green light thing before it starts glowing a bright yellow and it bents them backwards then atomized by the golden energy.
"What the hell was that?!" Ricky asks alarmed.
"We'll have that instead. Run!" The Doctor yells, before grabbing my hand and beginning pulls me forward.
They all run from behind us, before the Van appears in front of us, honking.
Rebecca runs forward, holding Jake's arm, and opens the van's door when it comes to a skidding stop. "Everyone in!"
Pete, who I just noticed was here speaks up. "I've got to go back. My wife's in there." He says stressed. Poor guy. I should've been here.
I could've at least saved Jackie. Rose is going to be so mad at me.
"Anyone inside that house is dead. If you want to help, then don't let her die for nothing. You've got to come with us right now." The Doctor says before pushing him in the van, followed by Mickey, Ricky, Jake, and Rebecca.
"Come on! Get a move on!" Mrs. Moore shouts.
I grab Rose's arm who was staring at the mansion. "It's okay Rose. Your mother is safe back at your home. She's fine. Come on." I say to her who nods.
"Come on you two!"
Rose steps in the van, and when I was to go in as well, the Doctor grabs my shoulder. "Lewis, can I just say-"I stop him with a head shake.
"No you were right. I should've have just remembered. We wouldn't be going through this right now. I'm so sorry. And now Jackie is probably dead because I didn't just follow you guys." My voice cracked a bit and I cleared my throat. "Come on." I say before hopping in.
"Finished chatting? Never seen a slower getaway in my life!"
Rebecca laughs at this and The Doctor hops in finally and the van doors shut behind him and we're speeding off.
"What was that thing?" Ricky asks him after a few moments of awkward silence.
He was up front with Mrs. Moore while everyone else was in the back. Rebecca next to Jake, Rose next to Mickey and Pete, and The Doctor and I next to each other. And he just stared at me sadly.
"Little bit of technology from my home." He says distractedly. "Carissa, I really need to talk to you."
"Don't you think we have other things to worry about?" I tell him.
"It's stopped glowing. Has it run out?" Mickey asks motioning to the thing in his hand.
"It's on a revitalizing loop. It'll charge back up in about four hours." The Doctor says. "Seriously, I was wrong Carissa. After all we've been through, I know you wouldn't do it purposely. None of it was your fault."
"Not right now Doctor." I snap at him.
"So, we don't have a weapon against them anymore." Rebecca scoffs. "Perfect."
The Doctor looks up at her and his eyes widen, before looking at me. "She's not-"
"I know she isn't." I say quickly. "Have that talk with Rose. I don't need it."
"Yeah, we've got weapons. Might not be one of those metal things, but they're good enough for men like him." Jake says pointing at Pete.
Immediately I look at Jake. "Try that, honestly give it your best shot, but in the end, you'll be the one bleeding on the ground, and I'll be the one walking away."
Everyone fell silent as the words left my mouth and I was shocked myself. I couldn't believe I actually said that. Though I have been having an off day. Short tempered is expected.
"Leave him alone anyway! What's he done wrong!?" Rose shouts in his defense after a moment. "I'll help Carissa kill you honestly!"
Ha-ha. Though I don't think Becca would be too happy about that. Not that I care…
Yeah I care. Shut up.
"You wouldn't, and he just laid a trap that's wiped out the Government and left Lumic in charge." Jake yells at us.
Pete glares at him harshly. "If I was part of all that, do you think I'd leave my wife inside?"
"Maybe your plan went wrong. Still gives us the right to execute you, though."
The Doctor speaks up at that. "Talk about executions, you'll make me your enemy. And take some really good advice. You don't want to do that."
"Yeah! And you definitely don't want to make me your enemy! I will punch you in the jaw so hard!" I shout. "After you die, it will still hurt."
Rebecca laughs at this. "I like this chick!"
I give her a little smile at this, but it hurt seeing her. She wasn't my sister, and it really just hurt. She was an echo or a ghost to me.
"All the same, we have evidence that says Pete Tyler's been working for Lumic since twenty point five." Ricky points out.
"Twenty point five? What are you talking about twenty point five? What the heck do you mean?"
My questions are ignored.
"Is that true?" Rose asks the carbon copy of her father.
"Tell them, Mrs M." Ricky says to Mrs. Moore.
"We've got a government mole who feeds us information. Lumic's private files, his South American operations, the lot. Secret broadcasts twice a week."
"Broadcast from Gemini?" Pete asks them.
"And how do you know that?" Ricky questions.
"I'm Gemini. That's me."
"Yeah, well you would say that."
Pete sighs. "Encrypted wavelength six five seven using binary nine. That's the only reason I was working for Lumic. To get information. I thought I was broadcasting to the Security Services." He scoffs looking around the vehicle. "What do I get? Scooby Doo and his gang. They've even got the van."
Mickey shakes his head. "No, no, no. But the Preachers know what they're doing. Ricky said he's London's Most Wanted."
The carbon copy of him laughs awkwardly, scratching the back of his neck. "Yeah, that's not exactly-"
"Not exactly what?" He questions.
"I'm London's Most Wanted for parking tickets." He tells us.
"Oh great. Brilliant. Really living on the wild side huh?" I ask him raising an eyebrow which earns a glare from him, and a chuckle from everyone else.
"Shut it! Yeah, they were deliberate. I was fighting the system. Park anywhere, that's me." Ricky tells me.
The Doctor smiles at this. "Good policy. I do much the same. I'm the Doctor, by the way, if anyone's interested."
"No one really is interested." I tell him. "Sorry man."
He only rolls his eyes and puts his hand on top of mine which I look at like I would be able to make it blow up. "What the heck are you doing?"
"I'm more comfortable this way."
"Do you want a black eye? Move the hand."
"Well, that is a big stinking problem. Because I'm the Doctor and I don't think I will. And that sounds brilliant to me!"
I glare at the man in my personal bubble, but then notice everyone staring. I clear my throat, letting them know they can continue on with their conversation.
"I'm Rose, by the way! Hello!" Rose says suddenly.
Pete scoffs. "Even better. That's the name of my dog. Still, at least I've got the catering staff on my side."
"Hey now you can get a quick snack!" I point out which he thinks about and nods.
Rose looks at him. "I knew you weren't a traitor."
He tilts his head in confusion. "Why's that then?"
Her eyes widen realizing she only just met him and shrugs. "I don't know. I just did."
Pete looks at us sadly. "They took my wife."
"She could still be alive." Rose points out looking at me for an answer and I shake my head. Her entire face drops.
"That's even worse. Because that's what Lumic does. He takes the living and he turns them into those machines." Pete tells us.
"Cybermen. They're called Cybermen." The Doctor says. "And I'd take those ear pods off, if I were you. You never know. Lumic could be listening."
He grabs the ear pods, but before he could, I pull out my sonic and the headphones start to smoke and spark, then shut down.
The Doctor nods gratefully, but Becca looks at me suspiciously. "I thought you said it was fake. Not a weapon?"
I roll my eyes. "I lied. I do that a lot. One of my talents. If I hadn't, you would've shot me." my chest starts hurting a little causing me to wince, but I continue. "And I don't want to die."
I've been having these chest pains recently and it felt like something was growing inside me. It reminded me of when my sister told me if I ate the black watermelon seeds, a watermelon would grow. To this day, I always pick out the seeds.
Rebecca nods at me. "Fine, I can understand that."
"Back on subject, Lumic's overreached himself. He's still just a businessman. He's assassinated the President. All we need to do is get to the city and inform the authorities. Because I promise you, this ends tonight." The Doctor tells them.
We all nod in agreement, as Mrs. Moore carries on driving.
"So, who are you really?" The twin of my sister asks. "Truth. Why do I feel like I can trust you?"
I sigh. "I don't know. I'm just a traveler. My name is Carissa Lewis and I'm from Virginia Beach. I met the Doctor, Rose, and Mickey, and I started traveling." I explain and Jake raises an eyebrow.
"So you're a freelancer? You just had the money to come to England and now just travel everywhere?" He questions.
"Well, actually I have this, vehicle of sorts. Can take me wherever and whenever." The Doctor speaks up. "It's like the technology of the Cyberman. It's not of this world."
"So what? You're aliens?" Rebecca scoffs. "Yeah right."
"Rose, Mick's, and I aren't. The Doctor is though. Has this blue box that's bigger on the inside." I see their mouths a gape and eyes disbelieving. "Trust me, I can't make this stuff up."
I decided to leave out the part that I'm from a different universe and went to a different universe and now are in another universe, and I know what's going to happen. Because that just might be a little bit weird.
Oh! Also you look like my dead sister! Ha-ha! Let's go save the world now?
Yeah, no.
"That's pretty weird." She laughs. "But pretty awesome."
Jake scoffs. "Well, travelling the world in a van is pretty awesome too." He argues.
Rebecca smiles, pinching his cheek. "Yes it is." She says before kissing the cheek she had pinched.
Ugh. What a disgusting display.
She was so much like her.
I had to look away from them and suddenly an arm is around my shoulder. "It's not her." The Doctor whispers in my ear. "Your sister is dead. This is not her."
"I'm aware."
He nods kissing the top of my head. "I'm so sorry Lewis. I shouldn't have said what I did. I regret is so much. It wasn't your fault. None of this is. You're doing what you can."
"I could've saved Jackie and Sexy, Doc. One time sure I forgot, but Jackie I could've saved if I had stayed with you. Sure meeting Mickey's aunt was awesome, but I could've saved her."
He shakes his head. "It wasn't really his aunt, but that's beside the point. Carissa, what could you have done without being taken yourself?" He asks me. "I'm glad you didn't. I can't lose anyone else. Especially not you."
Tears gather in my eyes when I think about that he would lose Rose and Mickey would leave and I squeeze his hand.
"I'm human Doc." I remind him which earned another aching pain in my heart. "I'm going to die one day. And I really don't want you to be hung up over it when I do."
He runs a hand over his face, the one that was holding my hand. "Lewis, don't. Please just don't."
I nod at that, but didn't apologize for saying it. Honestly it's true. But he'll hate me anyway when Rose gets stuck in the parallel world. That was coming closer and closer, it had already been a year, or maybe more since I got here. And it went by fast.
And I still had no idea what I was going to do exactly with the Rose situation.
The van stops and we all head out, ditching the van on the street.
On the street, people walked by with their ear pods buzzing with no expression on their face. All going the same way.
"What the hell?" Jake says aloud holding onto Becca.
"Whoa, they're walking zombies." She states going up to one and waving her hand in front of their face with no response.
"What's going on?" Rose asks.
The Doctor walks up to one, inspecting him before noticing the ear pod. "It's the ear-pods. Lumic's taken control."
"Can't we just, I don't know, take them off?" Becca asks about to grab one, but I grab her hand and pull it away as the Doctor explains.
"Cause a brainstorm. Human race. For such an intelligent lot, you aren't half susceptible. Give anyone a chance to take control and you submit. Sometimes I think you like it. Easy life."
Jake walks around a corner before his eyes widen. "Hey, Come and see." He tells us.
We all walk over to see more people, and a squad of Cyberman walking with them. All going the same way as everyone else.
"Okay, where are they going?" Rebecca asks me.
"Most likely, Lumic's base for operations, right?"
"Battersea. That's where he was building his prototypes." Pete confirms nodding.
"Why is he doing this in the first place?" Becca asks him.
"He's dying. This all started out as a way of prolonging life, of keeping the brain alive at any cost."
"The thing is, we've seen Cybermen before, haven't we? The head. Those handle shapes in Van Statten's museum." Rose states.
"Yup. The metal heads are back."
"Ah, there are Cybermen in our universe. They started on an ordinary world just like this, then swarmed across the galaxy. This lot are a parallel version, and they're starting from scratch right here on Earth." The Doctor tells us.
"What the hell are you two on about?" Pete asks. "What's this universe nonsense?"
"That's what you were talking about Issa? You're from another universe." Becca asks me which I nod. "That's freaking sweet."
Ricky shakes his head. "Never mind that. Come on, we need to get out of the city. Okay, split up. Mrs Moore, you look after that bloke." He says pointing to Pete and us. "Jake, Rebecca, distract them. Go right, I'll go left. We'll meet back at Bridge Street. Move."
He takes off down the street and immediately I jump into action. "I'm going with." I said before smiling at Rose and the Doctor. "Alonsy!"
I take after Ricky and briefly here Mickey say the same and soon it's just the three of us. The Doctor not even having a chance to say no.
We end up at an industrial unit, out of breath. "Which way? I don't know where we are." Mickey asks Ricky once we come to a stop.
"Yeah, Mister Navigator, where to?"
He sighs looking behind his back. "Did they see us?"
Mickey sighs. "Do they know where we are?"
"I bet they can see us. I bet they can see in the dark." He states.
"I bet they've got satellites."
"I bet they saw us in the dark."
"They know where we are." They say in unison which causes me to roll my eyes.
"I bet, my head is about to spin off my head. And I'm with two nerds. Which is okay, because I'm one too. TRIPLETS!" I laugh, but they just stare at me.
"I don't get it. What is it with you? You are exactly like me." Ricky complains.
"I don't know, I reckon you're braver." Mickey says.
"Nah, he's wanted for parking tickets keep in mind Micks."
"Oi! I am braver, ten times! But you've got good friends. I'll give you that." Ricky praises him.
"Oh that's Carissa, Rose and the Doctor. I just tag along behind." He tells Ricky.
"Now, you know good and well that's not true." I tell him slapping him in the back of the head.
"Either way then, you're not bad." Ricky compliments.
"Do you think?" Mickey asks.
"Yeah, I suppose."
Suddenly, Cybermen feet start to clomp as they walk.
"Split up!" They both say before splitting up and I follow Ricky. Staying behind him.
We all run, and the adrenaline in my veins kept me going. Not once did a pant escape me, though my chest started hurting again. Worse this time.
"Oi! Why are you following me? Get in front!" Ricky orders which I shake my head too.
"No can do man. You stay in front." I say and if anything I'll smite them with my weird Atron energy or whatever. But I was hoping I'll just push him ahead and run like hell.
Finally, the infamous fence comes to view, with Cyberman right behind us. Immediately I push Ricky forward not giving him a second to start climbing.
He gets over and the Cybermen walk faster as I start to climb. I climb faster, but they grab my leg. And before they electric could go through me, they're smoking up and exploding.
My eyes start burning, realizing what I just did, and decide just to keep going before going over the edge. The other Cyberman on the other side.
Mickey and Ricky stare at me in shock and I take a deep breath to bring the energy back in. Soon my eyes stop hurting, but my chest burns and I wobble on my feet.
Before I can fall, Mickey catches me and puts my arm over his shoulder and Ricky does the same with my other arm and they start running, dragging me along with them.
We run around the corner into the open street. The Doctor, Rose, Jake, Rebecca, Mrs. Moore, and Pete are all in view.
Rebecca sees us and her eyes widen and runs over. "What happened? Is she okay?" She asks them.
"I-I don't know. A Cyberman grabbed her but then it just exploded and she almost fell over." Ricky explains. "It was odd alright. And you're human?" He asks me which I nod weakly to.
The Doctor notices and walks over only to take me from them, and hold my arm over his shoulder instead, telling them he's got me.
"You saved someone again?" He asks me which I nod to. "Did the Cyberman zap you?"
I shake my head. "They didn't get the chance. My Atron energy reacted I guess. But my chest really hurts."
His eyes widen before his face goes calm again. "I'm sure it was just you using too much energy. Especially after running. Well, that and the Adrenaline from the Cyberman."
The look on his face told me he was lying. But I didn't have time to question it now.
We all gathered up. "Jake what's the word?" Ricky asks.
"I ran past the river. You should have seen it. The whole city's on the march."
"Right, we should get on the move then." Becca states. "Right Ricky?"
Ricky nods. "Yup. Let's move!" He yells before we all start to run again, but not really me since the Doctor was carrying my dead weight.
Rose runs over to where the Doctor and I are running. "Carissa? Is she okay?" She asks while Mickey runs over to us as well.
"Yeah, she did that eye glowing thing. Luckily I went in front of Ricky so he didn't see." He tells us. "He might just think it was a faulty wires or something."
Rose and The Doctor nod. "Okay Carissa, anything we should know?"
I nod. "I'm staying with you and Mrs. Moore. No questions asked. Alright?" I tell him. "I'm dead serious."
The Doctor sighs. "Fine. Only because you'll be safer with me. Well, that depends where we are going. Well, you still would be safer with me."
I nod in agreement. "Definitely. Er, no offense, Rose and Mickey."
"None taken." Rose waves off.
"A little bit taken, actually." Mickey complains.
"Alright Droseys! Let's save the world!"
We arrive at a Waste Ground, right on the opposite side of the Battersea Power Station. Crowds of people, the whole of London, walking into an unknown building to be upgraded. All because of technology.
The Pilgrims and Colonists would have laughed at us.
"The whole of London's been sealed off, and the entire population's been taken inside that place. To be converted." The Doctor says pointing to the building.
"We've got to get in there and shut it down." Rose says.
"Agreed. We have to infiltrate the building." Ricky says.
"How do we do that?" Mickey asks.
The Doctor smiles. "Oh, I'll think of something."
"You're just making stuff up as you go along?" Rebecca asks him.
"Yep. But I do it brilliantly."
"Believe what you want." She says unimpressed rolling her eyes. "Issa, you going to be okay?"
My heart warmed at the thought she was worried about me, and it made me think of when Pete felt a connection to Rose even if she wasn't really his daughter. Maybe it worked the same.
Mrs. Moore comes soon with a Cybus Industries Laptop. "That's a schematic of the old factory. Look. Cooling tunnels underneath the plant. Big enough to walk through." She tells us, going through the blueprint of the building.
"We go under there and up into the control centre?" The Doctor asks.
Mrs. Moore nods.
"There's another way in. Through the front door. If they've taken Jackie for upgrading, that's how she'll get in." Pete points out.
Ricky shakes his head. "No, we can't just go strolling in. Sorry mate."
Jake nods. "He's right."
Mrs. Moore pulls earpods out of her pocket. "Or we could, with these." She says showing it to us. "Fake ear pods. Dead. No signal. But put them on, the Cybermen would mistake you for one of the crowd."
"Then that's my job." Pete says taking them.
The Doctor looks at Pete seriously turning me to look at him as well since he was still holding me up. "You'd have to show no emotion. None at all. Any sign of emotion would give you away."
Pete sighs. "How many of those do you got?" He asks Mrs. Moore.
"Just two sets." She says holding out the other sets.
"Okay. If that's the best way of finding Jackie, then I'm coming with you." Rose says taking the ear pods out of Mrs. Moore's hands.
"Why does she matter to you?" Pete questions.
"We haven't got time. Doctor, I'm going with him, and that's that." She tells us.
"There's not stopping you, is there?" The Doctor asks.
"No."
"Tell you what. We can take the ear pods at the same time. Give people their minds back so they don't walk into that place like sheep. Jakey-boy? Lumic's transmitting the control signal. It must be from over there." He says taking out his sonic and it buzzes in the direction of the Zepplin strapped to the factory.
"There it is. On the zeppelin, you see? Great big transmitter. Good thing Lumic likes showing off. Reckon you could take it out?"
Jake nods. "Consider it done."
"And I'll come with." Ricky says. "And Mickey." He says.
Rebecca raises her hand. "And me. I don't like sewers and there's only two sets of ear pods."
Jake shakes his head. "No, you're waiting in the van."
I shake my head. "Sorry Jake, but I can already tell you that isn't going to work. She's coming with you and that's that."
She nods, while he groans. "It's dangerous!"
"I don't care. It's dangerous for you too. And Issa is hurt and she is still going!"
"Well, I certainly don't need the copy of Ricky!" He says gesturing to Mickey. "He'll be useless."
Mickey speaks up at that before I could. "What, stay out of trouble? Be the tin dog? No, those days are over. I'm going with Jake, Rebecca, and Ricky." He says. "I'm not useless and you can need me up there."
Jake sighs but doesn't say anything else.
The Doctor clears his throat. "Mrs Moore, would you care to accompany me and Carissa into the cooling tunnels?"
Mrs. Moore smiles. "How could I refuse an offer of cooling tunnels?"
He nods. "We attack on three sides. Above, between, below. We get to the control centre, we stop the conversion machines."
"Sounds like a plan, Stan. I like that we have a lot of people. I feel a lot safer." I smile. "Makes you feel more confident, you know?"
"Alright, that's all settled. Good luck then, Mickey, Rebecca, Ricky, and Jake." The Doctor says.
"Yeah, you too. Rose, I'll see you later." Mickey says to Rose as everyone else walks away.
"If we survive this, I'll see you back at the Tardis." The Doctor says sternly.
"That's a promise." He says before walking off.
The Doctor hands me over to Mrs. Moore, before hugging Rose telling her good luck. She smiles before walking away telling him the same and walking away with Pete.
Soon, the pain goes down, and I'm able to walk on my own. Which is lucky since it was just as we go down a latter into the cooling tunnels.
As we enter, even with my flannel I start shivering like a maniac. It was freaking freezing. The Doctor leads with Mrs. Moore in the middle and I behind them. By my own request.
"It's freezing." Mrs. Moore complains as we walk into the dark tunnels.
"Any sign of any lights?' I ask them.
"Can't see a thing. But I've got these. A device for every occasion." She tells us which we oo at.
She takes it out from her pack she brought with the laptop, and turns on her headband torch light causing it to glow up, lighting the darkness.
"Haven't got a hotdog in there, have you? I'm starving." The Doctor asks.
I sigh before reaching in my flannel pocket, and pulled out a jolly rancher before handing it to him.
"That's not food. That's chemicals."
I shrug. "Chemicals that are Blue Raspberry flavored." I state before popping it in my mouth. "Get on my level nerd."
Mrs. Moore laughs. "Of all the things to wish for. That's mechanically recovered meat." She says in reference to hot dogs.
The Doctor sighs. "I know. It's the Cyberman of food, but it's tasty."
"I'm more of a hamburger person." I say. "Hot dogs, just taste funny to me."
"Noted." He says as if committing that to memory.
"A proper torch as well." She sighs.
"Let's see where we are." He says before Mrs. Moore hands us both a headbands which we both put on and turned on to reveal Cybermen lined up on the walls on both sides.
"Already converted, just put on ice. Come on." He says before tapping on the Cyberman's face that earns no reaction from it.
"Let's go slowly. Keep an eye out for trip systems." He tells us before we all start moving forward.
As we walked the Doctor decided to make small talk. "How did you get into this, then, rattling along with the Preachers?"
Mrs. Moore sighs. "Oh, I used to be ordinary. Worked at Cybus Industries, nine to five, till one day, I find something I'm not supposed to. A file on the mainframe. All I did was read it. Then suddenly I've got men with guns knocking in the middle of the night. Life on the run. Then I found the Preachers. They needed a techie, so I, I just sat down and taught myself everything."
"What about Mr. Moore?"
"Well, he's not called Moore. I got that from a book, Mrs Moore. It's safer not to use real names. But he thinks I'm dead. It was the only way to keep him safe. Him and the kids." She sighs sadly at this. "What about you? Got any family, or?"
The Doctor shakes his head. "Oh, who needs family? I've got the whole world on my shoulders." He laughs, but it was a sad laugh. I walked next to Mrs. Moore so I could hold his hand, which he squeezed before speaking up again. "Go on, then. What's your real name?"
"Angela Price. Don't tell a soul." She orders us which I raise my hands in surrender.
"Not a word from us, Mrs. Price."
She elbows me lightly before walking ahead of us.
The Doctor and I both smile at her. "Amazing woman." He comments.
"Oh definitely. We got to get her to her family if we have time after this." Because she was going to stay alive if I could help it.
"Oh yes!"
Behind us, I know one of the Cyberman activated a signal, so now I was on guard. No way was she dying. No one else was dying. Not Ricky, not Angela, no one.
As we walk ahead, Mrs. Moore and I see a Cyberman move just the slightest. "Doc! It just moved." I warn him pointing to the one that did.
"It's just the torchlight. Keep going, come on." He tells us.
Wrong.
One starts to grab me but I pull away and the Doctor grabs me. "They're waking up! Run!" He yells, starting to run, and I grab Mrs. Moore's arm to make sure she's staying with us.
The other Cyberman all stood up and started walking after us hurriedly. At the end of the tunnel, there's a ladder.
"Get up! Quick! They're coming! Open it! Open it!" She yells as we climb up and open it.
"Come on! It's open! Come on up!" I yell at her which she obeys and as soon as we're all up, the Doctor shuts it and sealing it back with his sonic.
"Oh, good team, Mrs Moore, Carissa." He smiles which we both laugh in response.
"Yes, real life version of Supernatural."
They look at me confused and I sigh. "Never mind. Get into the fandoms."
We walk up to the corridor to see a Cyberman walking up to us. "You are not upgraded." It says to us.
She laughs pulling out a small rod wrapped around with wire. "Yeah, upgrade this!" She yells throwing it at it. It sticks to the metal and the Cyberman jerks, then sparks and collapses.
The Doctor looks at her wide eyed. "What the hell was that thing?"
"Electromagnetic bomb. Takes out computers, I figured it might stop the cyber-suit." She tells us shrugging.
"You figured right. Now, let's have a look." He says kneeling over it and pointing his sonic at the logo. "Know your enemy. A logo on the front. Lumic's turned them into a brand. Heart of steel, but look." He tells us before removing the logo and put his finger in the inside revealing a gooey substance with some electrics.
Immediately, I stand behind Mrs. Moore and keep watch. I'll collapse again before I let her die.
"Is that flesh?" She asks him.
"Hmmm. Central nervous system. Artificially grown then threaded throughout the suit so it responds like a living thing. Well, it is a living thing." He says poking around in it before pulling out something. "Oh, but look. Emotional inhibitor. Stops them feeling anything."
"But why?" Mrs. Moore asks.
"It's still got a human brain. Imagine its reaction if it could see itself, realize itself inside this thing. They'd go insane."
"And that would not be good. For them anyway." I tell her still looking out.
"So they cut out the one thing that makes them human." She says disgusted.
"Because they have to."
Suddenly a robotic voice speaks. "Why am I cold?"
"It's ALIVE!" I yell with my hands raised up in the air which earns glares. "Sorry. Bad time."
"We broke the inhibitor. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." The Doctor apologizes to the once human being.
"Why so cold?"
'Why so serious?' I think to myself but decide now is not the time to say it.
"Can you remember your name?" The Doctor asks it.
"Sally. Sally Phelan." She/it says.
"You're a woman." Mrs. Moore says shocked.
"Might be. I met a guy named Stacie. Good guy. Very athletic."
They both look at me again and I decide to stay silent.
"Where's Gareth?" The Cyberman asks.
"Who's Gareth?"
"He can't see me. It's unlucky the night before." The Cyberman says causing tears to fall from my eyes. Another person I can't save.
"You're getting married." Moore states.
'Was getting married.'
"I'm cold. I'm so cold." The Cyberman groans.
By now, the water in my eyes wouldn't stop and I was glad I decided to look away.
"It's all right. You sleep now, Sally. Just go to sleep." The Doctor says before the sonic starts buzzing and the Cyberman goes silent.
"Sally Phelan didn't die for nothing, because that's the key. The emotional inhibitor. If we could find the code behind it, the cancellation code, then feed it throughout the system into every Cyberman's head, they'd realize what they are."
Mrs. Moore frowns still crouching down. "And what happens then?"
The Doctor sighs. "I think it would kill them. Could we do that?"
She nods. "We've got to. Before they kill everyone else. There's no choice, Doctor. It's got to be done." She starts to stand up but I see the Cyberman coming and push her out of the way and duck from under the arm it was raising.
She stares at me with shock and The Doctor glares at the Cybermen that had just entered the room. "You would've killed her."
"Sensors detect a binary vascular system. You two are an unknown upgrade. You will be taken for analysis." They say in a robotic voice before turning to Mrs. Moore. "And you shall be taken for upgrade."
I laugh. "Not happening." I say firmly. "She comes with." I order.
"You shall not make demands."
I glare and my eyes start glowing, but it doesn't blow up, and I felt very weak and almost fall over as my chest starts to hurt again.
"Unknown Atron energy along with a growing binary vascular system. She must be taken for analysis. Bring the human!" One says and they all agree before leading us all away.
The Doctor holds me up as I hold onto Mrs. Moore making sure she sticks close.
"You saved my life." She points out.
"Yeah, don't thank me yet. Just stay close to me." I tell her.
We were lead to the control room, where Pete and Rose stood as well. Cybermen stood guard by the walls.
The Doctor scoffs. "We've been captured, but don't worry, Rose and Pete are still out there. They can rescue us. Oh well, never mind." He sighs. "You okay?"
They both nod. "Yeah. But they got Jackie." Rose tells us.
I mouth 'I'm sorry.' To her but she only shrugs it off.
Pete looked more destroyed. "We were too late. Lumic killed her."
"Then where is he, the famous Mister Lumic? Don't we get the chance to meet our Lord and Master?" The Doctor asks the Cyberman in the room.
"He has been upgraded."
"So he is another version of you guys now? Perfect." I say sarcastically.
"He is superior. The Lumic Unit has been designated Cyber Controller." It tells us.
Doors open in the front of the room and in wheels Lumic as a Cyberman in a wheelchair still, but it's upgraded as well.
"This is The Age of Steel and I am its Creator."
'Cinema Sins says in the background, Roll Credits!'
Just me?
After a few seconds we start to hear yelling and screaming echoing and The Doctor smiles. "That's my friends at work. Good boys! Mister Lumic, I think that's a vote for free will." He tells Lumic who scoffs as a Cyberman does.
"I have factories waiting on seven continents. If the ear pods have failed, then the Cybermen will take humanity by force. London has fallen. So shall the world."
"It's good to have goals." I tell Lumic. "Though, those are a little out there, I've got to say. And they call me The Dreamer and even I know that! I mean come on! The world falling? Not until the Earth burns billions of years from now. Sorry."
"Cyberman shall rule the world! And make it better!"
"Better? BETTER!? Seriously? Taking out emotions and having no love, and no happiness is better? I hate to see your worst honestly."
"I will bring peace to the world. Everlasting peace. And unity and uniformity." Lumic tells us.
"I doubt that." Mrs. Moore says which I nod to.
"Same here."
"And imagination? What about that? The one thing that lead you here, imagination, you're killing it dead!" The Doctor yells.
"What is your name?" Lumic asks him.
"He's the Doctor." I answer for him.
"I could've said it, Lewis."
"Well, that's too bad I said it first."
"A redundant title. Doctors need not exist. Cybermen never sicken. A redundant title as well Dreamer. Cyberman do not dream."
"Bite me, robot." I snap at him.
"Cybermen do not bite."
"Hope Cybermen can fly!" I yell about to lunge but Rose and Pete hold me back.
The Doctor interrupts us. "Yeah, but that's it. That's exactly the point! Oh, Lumic, you're a clever man. I'd call you a genius, except I'm in the room. But everything you've invented, you did to fight your sickness. And that's brilliant. That is so human. But once you get rid of sickness and mortality, then what's there to strive for, eh? The Cybermen won't advance. You'll just stop. You'll stay like this forever. A metal Earth with metal men and metal thoughts, lacking the one thing that makes this planet so alive. People. Ordinary, stupid, brilliant people."
"You are proud of your emotions?" Lumic asks.
"Oh, yes."
"Then tell me, Doctor, do you know grief, and rage, and pain?"
"Oh, yes."
"And they hurt?"
"Definitely." I answer. "And sometimes it reminds you that you are alive."
"I could set you free. Would you not want that? A life without pain?" Lumic asks us.
"Doesn't exist. But if it did, you might as well kill me." I tell him.
"Then I take that option."
The Doctor groans. "It's not yours to take. You're a Cyber Controller. You don't control me or anything with blood in its heart."
"You have no means of stopping me. I have an army. A species of my own." Lumic tells us.
"Thanks for the update. We're aware, thanks." I say smiling.
"You just don't get it, do you? An army's nothing. Because those ordinary people, they're the key. The most ordinary person could change the world." The Doctor says before looking at the camera that's flashing red.
"Some ordinary man or woman, some idiot. All it takes is for him to find, say, the right numbers. Say the right codes. Say, for example, the code behind the emotional inhibitor. The code right in front of him." He tells Lumic as he paces around the room.
"Because even an idiot knows how to use computers these days. Knows how to get past firewalls and passwords. Lnows how to find something encrypted in the Lumic Family Database, under er. What was it, Pete? Binary what?" The Doctor asks turning to Pete.
Catching on Pete coughs out. "Binary nine."
"An idiot could find that code. Cancellation code. And he'd keep on typing. Keep on fighting. Anything to save his friends." He tells Lumic.
"Your words are irrelevant." Lumic responds.
The Doctor shrugs. "Yeah, talk too much, that's my problem. Lucky I got you two that cheap tariff, Rose, Lewis, for all our long chats. On your phone."
"You will all be deleted!" Lumic yells at us.
"Yes. Delete, control, hash. All those lovely buttons. Then, of course, my particular favorite, send. And let's not forget how you seduced all those ordinary people in the first place." The Doctor says. "By making every bit of technology compatible with everything else."
My phone beeps with the code and I open it up to the text. "It's for you!" I say before throwing it to him before he catches it.
"Like this!" He tells him before plugging my phone into the computer and the whole thing sparks and the Cybermen all fall to their knees and scream. Except for Lumic. The code appeared on every computer screen in the room.
The Cybermen all clutch their heads, one near us looking at itself in a silver screen.
The Doctor looks at it sadly. "I'm so sorry."
"What have you done?" Lumic yells.
The Doctor grabs Mrs. Moore and me by the arm. "I gave them back their souls. They can see what you've done, Lumic, and it's killing them!" He yells at him before running out with us, Rose and Pete running behind us.
We end up at a corridor where Cybermen explode in front of our eyes. The exit is blocked by all them and a large fire starts.
"There's no way out!" Mrs. Moore yells.
Rose, The Doctor, Pete, and I look around for another exit, before the phone in the Doctor's hand buzzes and he hands it to me and I answer.
"What is it?"
"Carissa! Can you hear me!? Head to the roof!" Mickey yells through the phone.
"Yeah, Issa! We have lots to talk about!" I hear Rebecca yell as well. "Mickey told me."
My eyes widen, but quickly tell them. "It's Mickey! He says to head for the roof!" I yell to them.
We all eye a medal staircase before running for it and going up fast. One after another going up to the roof.
Once on the roof, we see the Zeppelin and Ricky, Mickey, Jake, and Rebecca out the window. "Where did you learn to fly again?" I ask Mickey who I could tell was at the wheel.
"PlayStation! Just hold on! I'm coming to get you!" He tells us before hanging up and spinning the wheel to make it lower.
Then, a ladder falls from it, almost hitting Mrs. Moore in the face, but I push her out of the way. "Let's go!" I tell them all.
Mrs. Moore went up first, then Rose, and the Doctor, and then Pete, and I went up last.
"Hold on tight, we're going up! Welcome to Mickey Smith's Airline. Please enjoy your flight. Woo!" He yells throw the speaker causing us to laugh at him, as the air balloon rises in the air.
"We did it!" Mrs. Moore yells. "We actually did it!"
"Did you ever doubt it!?" I ask her who shrugged.
But just as things seemed to look bright, Lumic pulled on the latter and started to climb up.
I glare at Lumic before taking out my sonic and hold it against the rope under me. "This is for Sally, The President, Jackie Tyler, and anyone else turned by the Cybermen or worse because of you!" I yell at him as the rope cuts and Lumic falls screaming.
As he falls, the building blew up below him. And he was consumed by the flames.
Mickey flies us to where the TARDIS is parked and it gives us all a moment to talk with one another.
The first person to walk up to me was Rebecca, who smiled at me. "So you're from a different universe and in your universe, I'm your sister?" She asks.
I look at the ground. "Yeah, but I know you're not her! And I don't want you to pretend to be-"I end up being interrupted by her hugging me.
"I've always wanted a little sister. And I'm glad the other me had you." She smiles with tears in her eyes. "Though she apparently didn't have any sense to let you walk out of the house without at least one designer piece of clothing!"
I laugh at her. "Trust me, she did. But she-um…" I trail off as tears fall from my eyes.
Becca stops me. "I know. Mickey told me everything. And trust me when I say this, it wasn't your fault. And I'm glad I got to meet you to tell you that. Because if I'm like her that much, she doesn't blame you."
I nod my hands shaking a little bit, as I hugged her tighter. "I'm really glad I got to meet you too." I say shakily.
We let go of each other. "I would ask you to stay, but I'm pretty sure I know the answer." She says eyeing the Doctor.
"I would ask you to come with, but I already know the answer as well." I answer back eyeing Jake. "Good choice."
"Same on your end too." She tells me before looking behind her at Jake who was waiting. "Looks like I have to go." She hugs me one last time before letting go. "Take care of yourself Issa."
"Do the same Becca."
I walk over to Mrs. Moore and hug her tightly. "Go find your family."
"That's what I was planning." She smiles. "All this made me realize how precious life is. And I don't want to never see them again in my life."
I nod. "Good. Tell them about this. Tell them how you saved London. But don't be braggy about it." I warn and she laughs.
"Will do. Goodbye Lewis!" She says saluting and walking away.
"Goodbye Angela Price."
I walk over to see Pete walk away in a hurry and Rose in tears so I run over and hug her. "It's okay." I tell her who nods sadly.
I walk her over to The Doctor who had just finished talking to Ricky. "I found it!"
The Doctor sees Mickey running over with his jacket in it. "Not a crease!"
"My suit! Good man." He praises Mickey before turning to Ricky. "Take Mrs. Moore to her family. She's going to want to see them."
Ricky nods. "I will."
"Off we go then!" The Doctor says.
Mickey shakes his head and my heart drops. "Er, the thing is, I'm staying."
Ricky looks at him wide eyed, but then thinks it over and shrugs.
The Doctor looked at him shocked. "You're what?"
"You can't!" Rose pleads.
I look at Mickey knowing nothing could change his mind. So I stayed silent.
"There's work to be done with all those Cybermen still out there." Mickey tells us.
"You can't stay." She says but Mickey shakes his head.
"Rose, my gran's here. She's still alive. My old gran, remember her? Ricky and I will come up with something to tell her!" He tells us and Ricky nods.
"Okay, but don't think you'll be her favorite."
"We'll see about that!"
I laugh at them, now able to picture them as brothers. "I'm rooting for Mickey."
"Oi! Watch it Carissa!" Ricky tells me, which I only respond with my tongue sticking out.
"What about me? What if I need you?" Rose asks him.
Mickey sighs. "Yeah, but Rose, you don't. It's just you, Carissa and him, isn't it? We had something a long time ago, but not anymore." He tells reminds her.
Rose nods tears in her eyes. Well, we'll come back. We can travel anywhere. Come and see you, yeah?" She asks, her voice starting to cry.
My eyes started to water as well. I knew I would see him again, but it still hurt.
"We can't. I told you, travel between parallel worlds is impossible. We only got here by accident. We, we fell through a crack in time. When we leave, I've got to close it. We can't ever return." The Doctor says.
"Doctor." Mickey says sternly. Water gathering in his eyes as well.
The Doctor shakes his hand. "Take Carissa's phone. It's got the code. Get it out there. Stop those factories. And good luck, Mickey the idiot." He says as I hand Mickey my phone.
"Watch it." He says softly.
Ricky sees Rose walking closer to him. "I'll wait in the van with Jake. I'll see you in hell, Carissa, Doctor, Rose." He tells us before leaving.
The Doctor starts to pull me in the TARDIS but before he could, I run into Mickey hugging him tight. "I'm going to miss you so much." I say sobbing. "Thank you for letting me stay at your apartment. You've become one of the greatest friends I've ever had."
He starts crying as well. "I'm going to miss you too, Carissa." He says. "Everything will work out with the Doctor."
I nod breathing in deeply before heading into the TARDIS as well. The Doctor stood by the control panel. The TARDIS already fully powered up.
I don't blame you Dreamer. And neither does he.
I smile, happy to have Sexy's voice back in my head, that I actually hugged the console.
Okay that was a little much. I mean you got it wet!
I laughed as I felt air dry of the tears on the console and my face. The Doctor smiled as well, before hugging me tightly.
"I'm sorry, Lewis. I'm so sorry." He says softly.
"You already said that. It's okay."
"It doesn't feel okay."
Rose walks in, crying her eyes out and I pull away from the Doctor and hug her tightly and we both end up on our knees, on the floor as the TARDIS takes off.
It was a little bumpy, but it was as if the TARDIS didn't want us to be disturbed so she flew as smoothly as she could.
The TARDIS stopped and Rose ran out the Doctor close behind her and I went out slowly.
When I walked out, I saw Rose crying in her mother's arms and the Doctor watched.
I reached over and grabbed his hand and he held it, and suddenly all I felt was relief.
For a moment, I felt like everything was going to be okay.