Chapter 35: The Cyber-Daleks

Cardiff, Wales 2015

Once again, the Doctor, the S.H.I.E.L.D. team and the Avengers had saved the Earth. Every single one of Missy's Cybermen on Earth had been completely sucked into the Cardiff Rift that opened in the sky above the city. However, something came out of the rift as well. The Doctor's old companion Rose Tyler fell out of the rift and was saved by Thor. Then, the Cardiff Rift closed and the sky above Cardiff returned to normal. Everyone was perplexed by Rose's arrival, especially the Doctor. Her hair was still blonde, but longer than he remembered. She wore a black leather jacket, black pants, and black boots. She stood in front of the Doctor, Clara, Danny, Jack, Phil Coulson and his team, and the Avengers on the street next to the TARDIS.

"That's impossible." The Doctor said. "You can't be here."

"Doctor?" Rose asked. "Is that you? Have you regenerated again?"

"Twice." The Doctor said. "Rose. I don't understand. How did you come through the rift?"

"It's a long story." Rose replied. "I sent a message to Jack. He said this world was being invaded by Cybermen."

"It was." The Doctor said. "We stopped it."

"Will someone please explain what's happening?" Hawkeye asked.

"This is Rose Tyler." The Doctor said. "We used to travel together. Now she lives in a parallel universe. Travel between parallel worlds is supposed to be impossible, which is why I'm so surprised to see her here."

"I wish we had time to reminisce, but that's not why I came back." Rose said. "I need your help."

"Of course you do." The Doctor said. "Jack tells me your universe is fighting an unspeakable evil."

"Yes." Rose said. "My parallel Earth is at war. By now they've probably spread to other planets too. They killed my world's version of the Avengers. Your human clone and I got separated about a year ago and I haven't heard from him since. I fear that he may be dead. Torchwood is the dominant global intelligence agency on my world. We put both S.H.I.E.L.D. and H.Y.D.R.A. out of business years ago. I became the head of Torchwood after a few years. This whole thing is on me for not doing enough to stop it earlier. I'm sorry I had to come here and beg for help, but I have no other options."

"What evil are you talking about?" Coulson asked. "Tell us the whole story."

"The evil I'm talking about is a new race of killer aliens called the Cyber-Daleks." Rose said. "They were created in my universe by Tony Stark."

The year was 2012. In this parallel world, the Avengers were assembled by the Torchwood Institute, run by Rose Tyler, to combat an invasion of the planet by the Sontarans. The Avengers defeated the Sontarans and sent them back into space. This world's version of Iron Man was worried that if Earth ever came under attack again, that the Avengers might not be enough to stop it. So, he created a weapon that would be able to defend the Earth if the Avengers could not. A version of Cybermen originated on this world and terrorized it when the Doctor and Rose first came to the parallel world. Stark was easily able to get the blueprints to construct a Cyberman. However, he wanted it to be upgraded so that it would be able to be unstoppable. So, Tony Stark stole classified blueprints for Daleks from Torchwood. He made an indestructible hybrid of the two aliens called a Cyber-Dalek. It looked like a shiny, silver Dalek. However, it was more powerful than any normal Dalek. It's goal was not mindless extermination. It's goal was to fight the enemy and convert them into more Cyber-Daleks so that Earth would eventually have its own army of them. Rose was against the Cyber-Dalek model from the start, but it did prove effective in defending the Earth against an asteroid and a small invasion attempt by the Silurians. So, she allowed the program to continue under a watchful eye.

Eventually, this single Cyber-Dalek realized that it was more powerful than any human and was therefore superior, a mentality shared by both the Daleks and the Cybermen. Tony kept his creation in his laboratory in his home in Malibu. One night, the Cyber-Dalek broke out of its cage and killed Tony Stark and his wife Pepper Potts. Once dead, it used their brains for another purpose, to live again as Cyber-Daleks. They had been converted. Soon, the three Cyber-Daleks went on secret missions to find people across the world and convert them into Cyber-Daleks. Rose was unaware this was happening. This continued for another two years until finally, the Cyber-Daleks had grown to be in the millions. So, they launched a surprise attack on the parallel Earth in 2014. Torchwood scrambled to find weapons at its bases across the globe to help fight the Cyber-Daleks, but none of their weapons were successful. Rose became separated from her family and the human Doctor when Cyber-Daleks invaded their home in London. Rose was forced to remain in the city and command the Torchwood Army against the Cyber-Daleks. She sent her family and the human Doctor to rural Scotland, where she hoped they'd be safe.

Rose continued to fight the Cyber-Daleks with Torchwood for a year before it became clear that the human race had lost. Rose returned to her office at Canary Wharf in London in 2015, one of the only skyscrapers left standing in the entire city. She was hoping to find something in the secret alien vaults that could help them, but all she could find was a powerful alien device capable of projecting a hologram across time and space and universes. She thought this would be the way to contact the Time Lord Doctor back in her native universe and ask for help. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to talk to the Doctor. She spoke to her old friend Jack Harkness for a few minutes before the connection was lost. Rose had to sneak around. The building had been abandoned when London was conquered by the Cyber-Daleks. The Avengers had tried to fight these monsters, but they all perished in battle. Rose sat in her old office, trying to think of what to do next. She looked down out the window at the destruction. London, like so many other cities on this parallel world, had become a battleground. Unfortunately, Rose had stayed in the building too long and was spotted by the Cyber-Daleks. Suddenly, her door was busted open by a Cyber-Dalek laser blast. The silver creature made its way closer into the office.

"You will be upgraded." It said with the voice of a Cyberman.

"Never." Rose said.

"Then you will be exterminated." The Cyber-Dalek said.

Suddenly, a strange event was occurring outside that made both Rose and the Cyber-Dalek look out the window. What looked like a bolt of lightning ran straight across the street next to the skyscraper that Rose was in. It looked similar to the cracks in the universe that the Doctor encountered in his eleventh incarnation. Then, this crack across the street started to open. Inside the crack, there was only darkness and blackness. Then, billions of pieces of broken Cybermen erupted out of this rift in the ground and littered the streets. Rose saw this as her opportunity to escape. These Cybermen came from somewhere. The hologram she spoke to of Jack Harkness said that their Earth was being invaded by Cybermen. If these were those Cybermen then that Earth was now safe and the Doctor could help her. Rose wasted no more time. She jumped out the window and let herself fall through the air until she fell through the rift in the ground and reappeared in Cardiff in her original universe in the air. The rift then closed, trapping Rose in this universe while the Cyber-Daleks continued to destroy the other one.