In this place, at all collective periods, there was static. In the beginning, the end, such things held no quantifiable bearing anymore; if they ever did at all. What once was, is, and was to be ceased to exist. An infection had started, before the nothing, when this place was bound by the laws of progression. The infection took root, eating away until there was nothing, and it was everything. Where there was nothing, nothing was; and where nothing was, there was nothing. This, above all other things, was the antithesis to creation.
Where there was once a sky, now a purple tinged void, something appeared from the nothing. Was this some new spark, marking the start of a new way of being? The fires of creation finally bleeding through? Whatever it was, it was new. Whatever it was to where it came from and what it was to this place was difference enough. Through the tear fell a man of sorts, humanoid by all standards.
What sensors it was equipped with were never meant to deal with the absolute lack of everything. This was a new frontier. This was something the Cybermen had never knowingly traversed.
As it fell through the nothing, not even air present to carry its protesting voice, again something appeared from nothing; something that was always there at the end of not-days, and for all the not-days to come. What it was, was what always was, and this Cyberman fascinated it. This was something it had never seen, yet it had always known it was coming. The Cyberman represented a temporal paradox in a realm where time ceased to be.
"Curious..." a voice coming from everywhere and everything spoke. "Bolts. Nuts. Screws. What a curious thing you are... a thing of parts. Yet... you are familiar. Where are you from?"
The Cyberman continued to scream, it's electronic wails fell on no ears. Yet, the scream from its mind in this place was palpable.
"Casing... body and soul... tinged with Anti-Time." The Cyberman's casing began to shudder violently as the incomprehensible forces of this place began tearing at it. The remnants of a human body out in the open for a first time was seen. "My energies permeate you. As if... you've been here before. A paradox. How... exciting! What's that? Your name? Gareth? Hm. You're scared. Don't be. We... no, I am beyond fear here. All your machinery hurts, hm? Shall we fix you? Hrm."
From nowhere; muscle, bone, and tissue seemed to grow. The Cyberman, Gareth, was becoming a man yet again.
"And yet... I sense this is your nature now." What was now real was becoming unreal again, the flesh becoming unmade. "No. No. No tears. No... anxiety. Just go... hrm. Nowhere to go."
As the flesh was uncreated, the casing began to surround the Cyberman again, reattaching to it.
"Let me look into your mind again, little thing of parts. Sent here from... I see a city. Spires stabbing through red wisps of cloud. Anti-Time bleeding through. Braxas, it was called. The city of Braxas. I see now. This is but a stop in the circle you are caught in. I am but a step on this path, serving a function in your... temporal skirmish. I've done this before... or after."
The Cyberman's mind began reciting an old rhyme, broken, incomplete.
"End of days... All other ways." The entity understood. "Your temporal energy fuels me. I sense my growing power through every cycle. Every time you appear, and every time I send you through to... Ah. The planet Mondas. Where you and your Part-Men hail from. Your existence erased by war-mongers. Such laws do not make a difference here. Go. Take some of my power. Exist despite the laws you are bound by. Go. Spread my influence. Start at the start."
The entity, fueled by the temporal energy it had steady gathered from the paradox constantly sending the same Cyberman through to its universe, opened a tiny rip in reality leading to Mondas. Through this tear, a lone Cyberman, its legs gone, crawled uselessly from a Dalek pursuing it. Shipping the Cyberman through and closing the portal, the entity once again faded into the everything that was the nothing, and waited for the next Cyberman in the paradoxical circle it had discovered.