Mrs. Moore parked the van and they all got out. Everyone who was wearing earpods began walking in the same direction.

"What's going on?" Rose questioned.

"It's the earpods. Lumic's taken control." The Doctor answered.

"Can't we just, I don't know, take them off?" Rose asked, reaching for a random person's earpods.

"Don't." The Doctor said, pushing her arms away, "'Cause a brainstorm. Human race, 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."

"Hey," Jake called out, "Come and see."

We ran over to see what they were looking at. A bunch of Cybermen and the civilians were following them.

"Where they all going?" Rose asked.

"I don't know. Lumic must have a base of operations." The Doctor said, looking at Pete.

"Battersea. That's where he was building his prototypes." Pete replied.

"Why is he doing it?" I asked.

"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." I stated.

"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 said.

"What the hell are you two on about?" Pete questioned.

"Never mind that. Come on, we need to get out of the city. Okay, split up. Mrs Moore, you look after that bloke. Jake, distract them. Go right, I'll go left. We'll meet back at Bridge Street. Move." Rickey said.

"I'm going with him." Mickey announced before kissing Rose and following Rickey.

"Come on, let's go." Mrs. Moore and Zoe stated and we ran from the Cybermen.

The Doctor grabbed my hand and we ran ahead of the others, but not too far ahead. We ran down an alley and hid behind a bunch of rubbish bins. I sat between the Doctor's legs, gripping his knees and he tightened his arm around my waist when we heard the Cybermen stop moving.

He grabbed his sonic screwdriver and pointed it towards the sky and turned it on and the Cybermen left. We all stood up and began running to the Battersea Power Station. On the way we met up with Jake.

"I ran past the river. You should have seen it. The whole city's on the march. Hundreds of Cybermen all down the Thames." Jake panted and Mickey or Rickey ran up. "Here he is! Which one are you?"

"I'm sorry. The Cybermen. He couldn't. "

"Are you Ricky? Are you Ricky?" Jake questioned.

"Mickey, that's you, isn't it? " I asked

"Yeah. " Mickey answered and Rose hugged him, "He tried. He was running. There was too many of them. "

"Shut it. " Jake spat.

"There was nothing I could do. "

"I said just shut it. Don't even talk about him. You're nothing, you are. Nothing. "Jake growled at Mickey

"We can mourn him when London is safe. But now, we move on." The Doctor said before we went to the Battersea Power Station.

"The whole of London's been sealed off, and the entire population's been taken inside that place. To be converted."

"We've got to get in there and shut it down." Zoe stated.

"How do we do that?" Mickey asked.

"Oh, I'll think of something." The Doctor replied.

"You're just making this up as you go along." I smiled.

"Yep. But I do it brilliantly." He smiled down at me.

Mrs. Moore came over with her laptop, "That's a schematic of the old factory. Look. Cooling tunnels underneath the plant. Big enough to walk through."

"We go under there and up into the control centre?" The Doctor asked.

Mrs. Moore nodded.

"There's another way in. Through the front door. If they've taken Jackie for upgrading, that's how she'll get in." Pete said.

"We can't just go strolling up." Jake retorted.

"Or we could, with these." Mrs. Moore held out ear pods, "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 said

"You'd have to show no emotion. None at all. Any sign of emotion would give you away." The Doctor informed him.

"How many of those you got?" Rose asked.

"Just two sets." Mrs. Moore answered.

"Okay. If that's the best way of finding Jackie, then I'm coming with you." Rose told Pete.

"Why does she matter to you?" Pete asked.

"We haven't got time. Doctor, I'm going with him, and that's that." Rose told the Doctor

"No stopping you, is there?" He asked her.

"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."

The Doctor and Jake ran up a hill and my double turned to me, "Here."

She held out a set of ear pods towards me, "Why are you helping me?" I asked.

"You care about Jackie, don't you?"

I nodded, "She's like a mother to me."

"Then take them and go with Rose and Pete. Just don't get upgraded. I don't think the Doctor would be happy about that." Zoe said.

"Thank you." I said, hugging her before putting the ear pods in and following Rose and Pete.

"You're going, too, then?" The Doctor asked and I nodded.

He hugged me, "Good luck."

"You, too." I whispered, kissing his cheek, "I'll see you later."

Rose, Pete and I snuck into the warehouse where everyone was being brought to and hopped into a line. I kept my face blank as a Cyberman walked up to us. When it walked away, I let out a sigh of relief.

Somehow, I lost Rose and Pete. I kept calm as I looked around for them, but I couldn't see them. I whimpered as I became next in line to be upgraded. The doors in front of me opened up, but I didn't move.

"You are next."

I took a couple steps forward, but stopped in front of the doors. I felt a large hand grip my shoulder painfully,

"You will be upgraded."

"Uh... no thanks." I ran past the Cyberman and towards the exit, looking for Rose and Pete as I did.

I heard the footsteps of multiple Cybermen behind me as I ran. I got stuck in the corner, and Cybermen surrounded me. Then, the people waiting in line to be upgraded stopped walking and began running and screaming.

I smiled, he did it.

I felt a hand grab mine, and I turned my head to see the Doctor's brown eyes,

"Run!"

I ran behind him, a lot like the first time I met him, and we met up with Rose and Pete on the roof, where a zeppelin was suspended in the air and a rope ladder leading up to it.

"Come on, let's go!" The Doctor exclaimed as the building began to explode.

Rose went up first, followed by me then the Doctor, and then Pete.

"We did it!" Rose smiled at the Doctor before the ladder shook and I screamed as one of my hands lost its grip.

We all looked down and saw a Cyberman on the ladder, coming towards us.

"Pete! Take this!" The Doctor yelled, giving Pete his screwdriver, "Use it! Hold the button down! Press it against the rope! Just do it!"

The Doctor wrapped his arm around me to keep me from falling as Pete pressed the sonic to the rope,

"Jackie Tyler. This is for her!" Pete exclaimed as the rope gave away.

I followed the Doctor inside the TARDIS, and he put the power cell in the console and the room lit up. The Doctor smiled,

"It worked!" The Doctor laughed, picking me up and spinning around.

I giggled as he sat me down on the railing, "It sure did." I said before pulling him in between my legs and kissing him.

I quickly ended the kiss and walked towards the door, the Doctor following,

"Rose? I've only got five minutes of power. We've got to go."

"The Doctor could show you. " Rose said to Pete.

"Thank you. For everything."

"Dad." Rose began

"Don't. Just, just don't." Pete interrupted before leaving.

"Here it is. I found it. Not a crease." Mickey said, bringing over the Doctor's suit.

"My suit! Good man. Now then, Jake, we've got to run. But one more thing. Mrs Moore. Her real name was Angela Price. She's got a husband out there, and children. Find them. Tell them how she died saving the world." The Doctor said to Jake.

"Yeah, course I will."

"Off we go, then."

"Er, thing is, I'm staying." Mickey stated.

"What?" I questioned.

"You can't." Rose said.

"It sort of balances out, because this world lost its Ricky, but there's me. And there's work to be done with all those Cybermen still out there." Mickey replied.

"But you can't stay." Rose argued.

"Rose, my gran's here. She's still alive. My old gran, remember her?"

"Yeah." Rose answered.

"She needs me." Mickey said.

"What about me? What if I need you?"

"Yeah, but Rose, you don't. It's just you, Zoey, and him, isn't it. We had something a long time ago, but not anymore."

"Well, we'll come back. We can travel anywhere. Come and see you, yeah?" Rose asked, looking over at the Doctor.

"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 replied sadly.

"Doctor." Mickey stated, shaking the Doctor's hand and the Doctor gave him Rose's phone, "Take Rose's phone. It's got the code. Get it out there. Stop those factories. And good luck, Mickey the idiot."

"Watch it." Mickey joked before I hugged him,

"I'm gonna miss you." I whispered.

"I'm gonna miss you, too, Zoey." Mickey smiled at me, "You'll take care of him, won't you?"

"Of course." I answered before walking over to my double, "You watch him. I will personally kick your arse if I find out Mickey died, got it?"

Zoe laughed, "Yes, ma'am."

I gave her and Mickey one last hug before going into the TARDIS. Everyone keeps leaving nowadays...