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"An invisible exoskeleton?" Like bugs, quite fitting really.
"It's only invisible in the water. There's a specially engineered refraction index in the fluid so we can see the tank resident unimpeded by the support mechanisms." She doubts the pet understands any of that.
"So each skeleton is inside something?" She can almost feel the pieces start clicking into place inside her Doctor's mind.
Cybermen- her Cybermen- superior to any others, just like their creator. Missy smirks, placing her hand against the glass. Who even tries to be good these days? The cyberman reaches out too, the skeleton inside seeming to stop several centimetres from the glass.
"We call it dark water. Only organic matter can be seen through it. I keep saying they should use this stuff in swimming pools." Humans really do say the silliest things to people they don't know.
"Why?" Sometimes Missy wondered how long the Doctor had really spent on Earth for him to be so oblivious. Maybe it was just this regeneration, she can't recall the others being so consistently clueless.
"I am thinking about it. Why?" Rassilon, he regenerated badly. Maybe he should go back to Gallifrey and see an actual doctor with real qualifications.
"You're here on business or they wouldn't have let you in. Sorry. Should have checked. Who are you?" And now the ape gets some brains- maybe she should have screened her employees? Then again it's not like she needs them to do anything important…
"I thought that you would never ask. Sort out your security protocols, they're a disgrace." Maybe being prickly is a thing for this regeneration- makes a change. Missy can't say it really disappoints her.
"Another government inspection? So soon? Why is there all this swearing?" Missy almost falls over in laughter- must be the psychic paper.
The Scottishness is quite funny this time around. normally Time Lords maintain a similar personality- if you can call having a stick up your arse personality- but not her Doctor. Oh, no, not him- he changes almost completely- makes things interesting whenever she first encounters him again.
"Oh, I've got a lot of internalised anger." And doesn't Missy know the half of it, "What does 3W stand for?" She swears that there never has or will be anything in existence with more self-loathing and guilt than her Doctor.
"Seriously? You don't know?" The ape sounds shocked. Missy isn't sure why- surely when someone says they don't know something and they aren't under threat it can be presumed that they really don't. Her Doctor seems to share her irritation.
"Never mind what we know and what we don't know, just answer our question." If only he would, the whole conversation is getting so boring Missy isn't sure whether she can resist the urge to just set loose her cybermen and take over the world for real rather than set the stage for the Doctor.
"We're not going to freak out." Oh, she can just imagine those eyebrows dancing about. Maybe the Doctor is so unstable this regeneration because he spent so much time on his eyebrows that he forgot to think about things like social cues.
"She'll be fine."
"Speak for me again, I'll detach something from you. I'll be fine." Considering the Doctor's awareness of almost everything around him she'd have a hard time getting anywhere near him and even if she did Missy would find a way to kill her even with the Quantum Shade following her.
"You know how people are scared of dying? Like, everybody." Oh, Gallifrey, the humans are irritating.
"Of course. It's the most fundamental fear in the universe." At least her Doctor is equally annoyed she supposes with a snort.
"They'd be a lot more scared if they knew what it was really like."