The Doctor, after seeing how well Missy was behaving for the past few weeks in the TARDIS, had had the bright idea to give Missy a test run, finding a distress call and seeing how she did in the situation. Of course when he had spoken to Bill about it she had outright refused to be a part of the plan. Not trusting the woman, the same as Nardole, and Bill knew it had to mean it was a bad idea when even Raven was against it.
Though Raven was more into letting Missy out and joining them on an adventure rather than the woman taking control and pretending to be the Doctor for the day.
She disliked both ideas.
She claimed that it would be easy for Missy to walk out and slaughter everyone in the room, waving off the fact that she'd be monitored the whole time. She just didn't understand his reasoning. She was his oldest friend, the only person in the universe remotely like him, and he just wanted them to be friends again, like when they were young. No longer chasing each other around the universe trying to kill each other.
"Is this one of your weird habits?" Bill asked as she stepped out onto the roof of the main university building, carrying a bag of chips, as she approached Raven sat at the edge of the roof. "Hiding out on the roof and looking down at everyone?"
"Suppose so." Raven replied.
Bill shivered against the cold wind as she sat beside her, legs dangling over the edge, handing a tray of chips to Raven, "does it make you feel powerful? Looking down at all the little people?"
Raven sighed, tucking one knees up leaving the other dangling over the edge, "sometimes. It's just peaceful up here, and I'm alone. Usually. No one really knows how to get up here."
Bill nodded slowly, "so, your mum used to be your dad. And you helped to kill and enslave the human race?"
"She told you?" She guessed.
Of course she had done, like a typical parent Missy loved talking about her greatest achievments, though their idea of greatest achievements where completely different. Missy was always so proud about the first time she had helped with an evil plan, she didn't think how much she just wanted to forget that time in her life.
"And then time reversed and no one could remember what happened after you kill the president."
"Yeah."
"So, the Time Lords, bit flexible on the whole man-woman thing, then, yeah?" Bill asked, "None of that men are better than women stuff?"
"We're the most civilised civilisation in the universe," Raven stated, "way beyond your stupid human obsession with gender and stereotypes and sexuality."
"But you still call yourselves Time Lords?" She scoffed.
"Shut up." She huffed, eating a few chips in silence, "she won't tell me what happened. Normally when we switch genders when regenerating it's because something happened. Something traumatising. Dying how you never expected. She's keeping it quiet to protect me. Because if I knew who did it I wouldn't hesitate…"
Bill blinked as Raven pulled out a flask from her bigger on the insides pockets, taking a few sips and setting it besides her. "and you think it's someone you know."
"Time travel," she shrugged, "anything is possible."
"It could have been the Doctor," Bill realised as Raven took another swig. "Or Nardole or even…me." She swallowed, she didn'tidn't think she would have it in her to try and attack the woman, even in self defence. "She scares me." She admitted, "Like, she really scares me."
"Yeah," Raven breathed, "don't get on her bad side, when her wrath is directed at you. Just run and hope for the best that she wont find you."
"She ever done that?" she asked, "been that angry at you?" she got her answer as Raven just kept drinking. "So promise me one thing, yeah? I'm asking you because you're more likely going to be able to keep it."
"What is it?" Raven looked at her.
"Just promise you won't get me killed."
"Not by her." Raven handed her the flask.
After hesitating a moment, Bill took a sip, knowing sharing a drink was Ravens way of sealing a deal, only to gag and spit it back out again as Raven smirked, putting it away again, "god! What the hell? That's disgusting! You drink that regularly?"
~.~
Missy sent a wink Ravens way, as the girl crossed her arms behind her, following Missy out into the unknown ship, fruit hat on her head and umbrella in hand, Bill and Nardole regretfully following her out, neither impressed with the Doctors plan.
"Hello." She greeted the empty room as she pounced out, "I'm Doctor Who and this little darling is the Raven."
"Little?!" Raven glared.
"And these are my plucky assistants, Thing One and the Other One."
"Bill." Nardole mumbled, "Nardole."
"We picked up your distress call, and here we are to help, like awesome heroes." Missy continued, twirling around and winking dramatically.
"Yeah, we're not, we're not assistants." Bill countered.
"Ok, right," Missy turned to them, "so what does he call you? Companions? Pets? Snacks?"
"Disgusting." Raven grimaced.
"Oh, someone's watching." Missy noticed the camera in the corner of the room, "Well, that's quite a good beat, really, isn't it?" She moved in time with the beeps sounding around the room, the distress call calling out.
"Yeah. Maybe we should be moving on?" Nardole suggested.
"Yeah, and he calls us friends." Bill added.
"Ew, Doctor." Missy called, "But think of the age gap." Raven laughed at that as Missy smirked, setting her umbrella down and removing her hat, setting it on Ravens head.
"Stop mucking about and concentrate." The Doctor rolled his eyes from the chair at the edge of the console. "Nardole, do something non-irritating."
Raven snorted, "good luck with that one."
"On it, sir!" Nardole ignored Raven, moving to a computer panel and searching through the ships datebase.
"Time Lords are friends with each other, dear." Missy remarked, checking her make up in a glass panel, "Everything else is cradle-snatching."
"Oh, it's a big one." Nardole frowned at the results on the computer, "Ship reads as 400 miles long and 100 miles wide."
"It's big, even for a colony ship." The Doctor frowned at that, "Anything else?"
"Er." They saw through the comm as Nardole looked up, spotting an observation dome showing a black hole outside, "Oh, look at that."
"Fina-fucking-lly!" Raven moaned, "It's like watching plants grow."
Nardole watched with his head tilted to the dome, "It's heading towards a black hole."
"No." Missy shook her head.
"No, it isn't." The Doctor agreed.
"The engines are very slowly in reverse." Raven stated.
"Oh." Nardole blinked at her, "Well, it's succeeding."
"Very, very slowly." Missy murmured.
"Explains the distress call, I guess." Bill shrugged.
"So, a 400 mile ship, reversing away from the gravitational pull of a black hole." The Doctor said, "Are we having fun yet?"
Missy hummed, wandering to Ravens side, wrapping arm around her shoulder, taking her hat back.
When the large screen before them turned on, showing the black and white image of a man, "Hello?" He called to them, "Who's there? Hello? Please report status."
"Oh, hello." Missy smiled at the screen, her arm not moving from Raven, "What have we got here? You're probably handsome, aren't you? Well, congratulations on your relative symmetry."
"Who are you?" The man demanded.
"Well, I am that mysterious adventurer in all of time and space, known only as Doctor Who. This is my darling daughter Raven." The girl held a hand up in greeting, "And these are my disposables, Exposition and Comic Relief."
"We're not functions." Nardole glared.
"Darling, those were genders." Missy grinned.
"Please, stay exactly where you are for your own safety." The man on screen ordered.
"He likes me. So exciting."
"I'm coming through."
"Hurry, my stallion. And if I'm in the shower, just bring me some beans on toast. That's...That's roughly human flirting, isn't it?"
"It's weird." Raven pulled a face, "I don't like it. Don't do it."
"Ooh and you're in charge are you?" Missy raised an eyebrow at her.
"Yes." She answered instantly as Missy pulled a face and the Doctor snorted on their ears.
"Why do you keep calling yourself Doctor Who?" Bill questioned Missy.
"Because I'm pretending to be him." She rolled her eyes, "Because that's the whole point of this ridiculous exercise."
"It's not an exercise, it's a test." The Doctor countered.
"Are you eating?" Missy hissed, hearing the faint crunching in her ear, trying to be quiet but not quite managing it.
"No."
"Yeah, well, don't test me eating crisps!"
"Yeah, but he's called the Doctor," Bill frowned, still caught on the fact Missy was calling herself Doctor Who instead of the Doctor while pretending to be him, "so..."
"There are two different conversations going on at once." Raven muttered, "it's confusing me." She removed her ear cuff, stubbornly ignoring the Doctor.
"Is she ignoring me?" The Doctor called.
"Lucky thing." Missy answered, smirking as she knew the Doctor was rolling his eyes. "He says, I'm the Doctor, and they say, Doctor who?" Missy turned to Bill, "See, I'm cutting to the chase, baby. I'm streamlining. I'm saving us actual minutes."
"Yeah, ok, whatever." Bill shrugged.
"Also it's his real name."
"It's what?"
"All those screens are angled to a single viewpoint." Raven mused, staring at the screen.
"Slow today, Raven."
Raven glared seeing Nardole grinning to himself, "What?" She demanded before turning to Missy, "Did he say something?"
"Don't you worry about it." Missy assured, "you just ignore the mean idiot."
"Shut up."
Raven glared at Nardole a moment longer before setting herself in the command chair, Missy leaning over her shoulder, "All those screens have been angled to a single viewpoint."
"But not originally," Missy followed, "they've all been moved."
"Which means?" The Doctor pressed.
"Giant ship, single pilot, but not designed that way. Something's happened to the others."
"Yes. And now it's time for you to figure out what."
"And were doing the dirty work because you're too stupid to work it out yourself." Raven smirked.
"Missy tell your daughter to shut up."
"Shut up, Doctor."
"Nardole tell Raven to shut up."
Nardoles turned to do as told only to catch sight of Missy glaring at him, "no, sir."
The Doctor sighed, "Bill..."
Rolling her eyes, Bill passed on the message, "the Doctor said shut up."
"Because I'm right!" Ravens smirk grew.
"Shut up."
"Uh oh." Nardoles moaned, catching a glance at the camera as they shifted to them, "Someone else has noticed us."
"Sorry, what do you mean, it's his real name?" Bill shook her head, still confused by that, "Nobody knows the Doctor's real name."
"I know it." Raven shrugged.
"I do," Missy nodded, "because I grew up with him, and his real name is Doctor Who."
"Bill, she's just trying to wind you up." The Doctor remarked.
"Chose it himself, you know, trying to sound mysterious. And then he dropped the Who when he realised it was a tiny bit on the nose."
"Stop teasing her and focus."
"Is she serious, though, Doctor?" Bill gaped, "Is your real name Doctor Who?"
The door on the right opened and a blue-skinned humanoid entered, a weapon in his hand, aimed at the group.
"Oh, you're blue." Nardole smiled at him, "Nice. I should go back to blue."
"Stay where you are." The man ordered, his shaking hand pointing to them in turn.
"Stay calm." The Doctor murmured in their ears, "He's very frightened."
"Deary me," Missy sighed dramatically, "I thought you were handsome, and now you've gone all cross and you're pointing a gun, not only at me but at my daughter! Is this the emotion you humans call spanking?"
"Are there only four of you? Are any of you human?"
"What has happened to this ship and how long have you been here alone? You're looking very sickly."
"Two days." He answered, his gun at Missy, "Are you human?"
"Oh, don't be a bitch."
He turned his gun to Raven, not noticing Missy's look darken, "Are you?"
She cocked an eyebrow at him in disbelieve, "bitch do I look human?" she held up a finger at Bill, "don't even say anything. Time Lords came first. You can keep quiet.
"How did you get on board?" The man demanded, noticing the TARDIS behind them, "Is that your capsule?"
"Yep." Missy grinned.
"No." The Doctor deadpanned.
Growing more frantic by the minute, the blue man turned to the side of the room where three lifts were quickly ascending, two moving up faster than the third. "There, look! Three lifts. They're coming."
"What's in this ship?" Nardole frowned, the man was far too afraid for something they could wave off as nothing.
"Super-fast inertia lifts." Missy noticed as the lifts continued to rise.
"Well, what's inside? What's coming up here?"
"Things." The man breathed, "I don't even know where they came from. One of you must be human." He turned his weapon on them again, "They only come up if they detect human life signs."
"What for?" Bill whispered.
Whatever was in those lifts, they were coming for humans. And in this situation she was the only human. They were coming for her.
"They take them away."
"Take them where?" Raven demanded, slowly standing, Missy tugging her back in case the terrified man finally decided to fire. And with how the man was acting it was likely to accidentally fire at one of them. And she'd be damned if it was going to be Raven. Screw the human and weird robot man. Not her problem. Her only concern was her daughter...and herself.
"So those are the lift doors, yeah?" Nardoles eyed them, "that's where they come out?"
"I'll be right with you." The Doctor muttered, cutting the comm.
"Which of you is human?" The man contained to wave it around at them.
"Be careful where your pointing that thing smurf," Missy hissed, "especially when my daughters in the room."
"I'm fine." Raven reassured, "Seriously," She turned to the man, "lower the gun."
He didn't, turning it to the Doctor as he stepped out of the TARDIS.
"Me." Bill gasped, moving in front of the Doctor, "Me, me. I'm human. I'm the only one. Just, just me."
"Fire and I spray." Raven warned, pulling her perfume out and readying to attack.
"Please stop this." The Doctor tried to reason with the man, slowly approaching so not to spook him even more, "Stop right there, now."
"I'm sorry!" He cried, gun aimed at Bill, "I'm so sorry, but you're the reason that they're coming."
"Put it down. Put that down now."
"They won't come if she's dead." He reasoned as the lifts reached floor 45 and still rising.
"You don't need to do this. I can get her off this ship. I can shield her life signs."
"You know what, Doctor?" Bill hissed at him, "I said this was a bad idea."
"This isn't mums fault, though." Raven reminded her.
"Please, listen to me. Look at me. Go on, look at me. That's good. That's very, very good. Now, do you see this mad woman?" The Doctor gestured to Missy who rolled her eyes, "Her name isn't Doctor Who. My name is Doctor Who."
"It's not, is it?" Nardole looked at him.
"I like it." He defended, "You don't know it yet, but in a short time, you will trust me with your life. And when I save you and everyone on your ship, one day you will look back, and wonder who I was and why I did."
The lifts arrived with a ping, the blue man flinched and upon instant fired him weapon, still aimed at Bill, firing a hole directly though her chest.
A moment later the man fell to the ground in a heap, Raven narrowing her eyes at him as she kicked him back, holding her perfume bottle threateningly, when Missy lowered her arm. Raven stared at her in disbelieve. Here she was, actually, willing to kill someone, something Missy always wanted from her, and now she was ensuring that she wouldn't do it. She wasn't certain she wanted to kill him, but still, if Missy was encouraging her it would certainly make it easier, but she didn't want her too. finally she understood she wasn't a murdurer.
Everything seemed to happen too quickly for her to react.
The Doctor dropped to Bill's side as she fell backwards, her glassy eyes staring ahead as figures covered in bandages, wheeling IV drips with them stepped out as the cargo lift arrived, two similar figures stepped out with a gurney where they set Bill on it to repair her.
"What are they?" Nardole breathed, "What are those things?"
"You're too late," the Doctor glanced up from Bills side, "she's dead. Don't you touch her! Don't you lay a finger on her!"
One of the figures jabbed a finger on the keyboard on its IV drip, "Stand. Away. Stand. Away. She. Will. Be. Repaired."
"Repaired?"
"Stand. Away."
"You can help her?" The Doctor breathed as Bill was gently placed on the gurney brought by the slower lift, "Is that what you mean? Where are you going? What are you going to do with her?"
"Re pair."
"Don't try and stop them." The blue man warned, "They'll snap you in half."
Raven turned to the man but Missy shook her head, "don't...the little smurf isn't worth your time."
"When do you bring her back?" The Doctor demanded of the figures as the rolled Bill back into the lift.
"We. Will. Not." The figure states as they returned to the lifts and headed back down the ship.
The Doctor touched the lift doors, closing his eyes, "Wait for me. Wait for me. Wait for me."
"What are you doing?" Raven eyed him.
"Leaving a message in her subconscious."
"Is she..." she swallowed, "you know?"
"Those things are going to repair her, so no."
He pointed his sonic screwdriver at the lift, scanning them as Missy held out her so umbrella.
"Assumption." Missy hissed.
"Deduction." He corrected.
"Hope."
"Faith."
"Idiot." She snarled.
"Always!"
The blue man pointed his weapon at the Doctor, "Sir, step away from those doors. You'll bring them back."
"What do you care, Smurf?" Missy rounded on him, if he hadn't fired them Bill would still be alive (not that she cared about the ape) but Raven did, the way she spoke asking if the human was actually dead, for Ravens sake she hoped the human could be repaired, "They're not even interested in you."
He swallowed, "Sir, I swear to you. Step away from that lift or I will kill you."
"Don't." The Doctor murmured, "You will only make me angry."
"Honey, listen to him."
"Why?"
"If somebody kills you and it's not me, we'll both be disappointed."
"You," Raven glared at the man, "What were those things?"
"I don't know." He stuttered, lowering his gun, afraid of the women.
"How can you not know?" The Doctor scoffed, "They're on your ship."
"The ship is supposed to be empty."
"But it's a colony ship." Nardole pointed out.
"But it's brand new." He argued, "The colonists haven't arrived yet. We were on our way to pick them up. A skeleton crew, fifty of us, that's all."
Rolling his eyes, Nardole brought up the hologram of the ship, displaying that at the bottom of the ship, furthest away from the black hole, where hundreds of life sighs, spreading out towards the top of ship leaving just the four of them at the very top. "It's not empty now, is it? Look, thousands of life readings."
"Two days ago there was nothing." The man explained, "Those readings came out of nowhere."
"Well, obviously you were boarded." Missy reasoned.
"No."
"Your ship was taken over. It happens."
"No." The Doctor spoke this time. "This is worse than I thought. Much worse. Fifty of you, taking your brand new ship, fresh from the factory, to pick up some colonists. Two days ago, you almost bump into a black hole. What did you do then?"
"We tried to reverse out of it." The man replied.
"And you sent a team down to the other end of the ship to reverse the rear thrusters, yes?"
"Yes."
"How many people in the team?"
"About 30." He guessed.
"And you never heard from them again. And then the whole ship just lit up with all these new lifeforms. Correct?"
"Exactly."
"What happened then?"
"Those creatures arrived, took the rest of the humans away. They weren't interested in me. I tried to fight them, but they were too strong."
"Well, maybe something came out of the black hole." Nardole suggested.
"Nothing comes out of a black hole, egghead." Missy muttered.
"Nothing boarded this ship." The Doctor remarked, "I'm afraid you'll never see your crew again. Black hole, 400 mile spaceship. It's a matter of Time." He pulled the sonic screwdriver apart revealing a marker pen hidden inside, "Pay attention." He turned to the glass panel, drawing a diagram on it, of the ship and how the black hole affected the time difference between the two ends, "Short version. Because of the black hole, time is moving faster at this end of the ship than the other. It's all about gravity. Gravity slows down time. The closer you are to the source of gravity, the slower time will move. If you're standing in your garden, your head is travelling faster through time than your feet. Don't they teach you this stuff at space school?"
"Space school? I'm basically the janitor."
"That's a good job. But you've got to concentrate more. Now, listen. A black hole isn't just any old gravity. It's Superman gravity. You really want to slow down time, park next to one of these guys. Trouble is, one end of the ship is closer to the Superman gravity than the other.
"But what about these lifeforms?" He shook his head, "What are they? Where did they come from? How can there be so many?"
"Those are the descendants of your crewmates. Two days for you, generations for them."
"What are these..."
Raven gave the Doctor a look, "Are you going to do something or am I going too?"
The Doctor sighed, "Look..." And grabbed the mans arms flipping him in a summersault where he landed with a thud, "Sorry, pressed for time."
"That was good." Nardole commented.
"Venusian Akido."
"I thought you needed four arms for Venusian."
"I've got hidden talents, as well as hidden arms." He flashed the sonic at the lift, calling it up.
"If it's been 10 minutes for us." Raven began, "then how many years had it been for Bill?"
"I don't know."
"We can take the TARDIS, go back and get it right." Nardole suggested.
"This close to a black hole, even Raven couldn't pilot her accurately."
Raven couldn't even deny it.
The lift arrived as they all piled in, standing in silence as they headed down to the bottom of the ship.
~.~
They stepped out of the lift as they reached the bottom of the ship, stepping out into what looked like a dark corridor of a hospital.
"Ok, you three, welcome to a new time zone. Not knowing the differential, I don't know how much time has passed here. Right, we need to find out more about this ship."
"On it." Nardole nodded, moving to the console before them.
The Doctor shook his head, "No Missy, you do it. Nardole, you come with me."
"But I'm the computer guy. That's always me."
"Sorry, she's cleverer."
"She's more evil."
"Shut it, Nardole." Raven hissed.
Missy just shrugged, "Same thing."
"No, it's not. Don't let him get to you."
"Oh, it is a little bit. A little bit the same."
"No, it's not."
"Raven, stay with your mother." The Doctor began.
"Keep me out of trouble." Missy muttered.
He just rolled his eyes and walked off, "Nardole!" The man quickly ran after the Doctor.
"Long needed peace." Raven sighed as the corridor fell silent with the men gone.
"Why do you put up with him?" Missy shook her head as she worked away in the computer.
"I have no idea. Either of them. Why do you put up with him?"
"Hello." Raven glanced back, while Missy did not, as a man in rags with long hair and a beard shuffled round the corner and spoke to them.
"Hello, ordinary person." Missy remarked, "Please maintain a minimum separation of three feet. I'm really trying not to kill anyone today, but it would be tremendously helpful if your major arteries were out of reach."
"You're doing brilliantly." Raven smiled.
She really was doing well with the whole cold turkey from being bad test day. She really was actually trying to not kill anyone just because they were in the same room.
The ragged man just laughed, "I have been so looking forward to meeting you."
"Right. I'm very happy for you." Missy muttered, silently and unnoticed, shuffling Raven a bit closer to her side in case the man did do something. He was giving an odd vibe.
"I was watching you on the screen. It took me a while to work out who you were."
They both elected to ignore him, "Oh, this is super interesting."
"How do?" Raven asked peering at the screen, showing a planet very much like Earth.
"I assumed this ship was from Earth, full of squishable little humans, but it's not from Earth at all, is it?"
"You don't remember me, do you?" The ragged man grinned, "either of you?"
"Looks like an Earth-like planet, but not Earth itself. Very Earth-like. If planets had twins..."
"Earths twin planet." Raven frowned, "What's Earths twin planet?"
"Does Earth have a twin planet?"
"I'm sure it does. Doesn't it?"
"You don't remember being here before, do you?" The mans grin turned into a smirk.
"I've never been here before." Missy answered him, "Will you please stop wittering on or I'll have to splat your brains for finger paint." Raven looked disturbed, "I won't really." She winked, speaking quietly, "it's just a threat to the weirdo."
"Oh, you have been here before. You really can trust me on that."
"Mondas." Ravens stated quietly after a moment just before the planetary ID appeared on the screen. "That's Earths twin planet."
"Doctor!" Missy's gasped, moving to find him.
"Doctor!" The man mimicked, "Ooh, Doctor! Doctor!" He pulled out a gun at them.
Missy turned at that, a dangerous glint in her eyes at the gun aimed at not only herself (she could deal with that) but at Raven too. "Ok, listen to me. I may be about to take that silly little gun away from you."
"He'll never forgive you," the man just chuckled, "you know, He'll never set you free. Not when he discovers what you did to his little friend."
"I haven't done anything to his silly little friend." Missy sneered.
"Oh, but I'm afraid you did. But a long time ago."
"What do you mean?" Raven shook her head. Missy only met Bill during that time with the Monks. There was no possible way she could have hurt Bill before they met her, at least without Bill knowing Missy.
"Come on, Raven." The man smiled at her, a genuine smile, "You're cleverer than that."
"How do you know my name?" She demanded.
"Am I supposed to know what you're talking about?" Missy glared the man down, "Would it help you focus if I extracted some of your vital organs and made a lovely soup?"
"You would never be so self-destructive."
"So what?"
"But then again, neither would I." He tossed the gun aside.
"Oh fuck no." Raven breathed.
Of course. How could she have missed it? That face was far too round to not be recognised even under the disguise. She stepped over to him, ignoring Missy's attempt to stop her and pulled over the mask and hair to reveal Missy's previous body smirking at them.
"Hello dad."
"Clever girl." He grinned, "That took you far too long though. Have to say, little bit disappointed. Do you still like disguises?" He asked Missy, the woman staring eyes wide, "Of course, they are rather necessary when you happen to be someone's former Prime Minister. Hello, Missy. I'm the Master, and I'm very worried about, not only my future, but my daughters future. Give us a kiss."
~.~
The Doctor stood in the dark operation theatre with Nardole using the sonic as a torch, finding out about something call an Operation Exodus, whatever that was, before A Mondasian Cybermen stomped into the room, recently converted, the Doctor had managed to get it to locate Bill only to find out that that Cybermen was Bill.
"Bill?" He breathed, a hand resting on her metal chest, "Bill, talk to me. What have they done to you?"
"Operation Exodus," Nardole mumbled, "whatever that is."
"Oh, wrong name, for a start." Missy smirked as she walked over and stood by Bills right shoulder.
"I waited." Cybermen Bill stated.
"This is not an exodus, is it?"
"More of a beginning really, isn't it?" Raven agreed as she moved to stand in front of Bill.
"I waited." Cyber Bill repeated.
"In fact," The Master smirked, loving the Doctors face fall at the three of them standing smirking before him, "do you know what I'd call it? I'd call it a genesis." He stood at Bills left shoulder.
"Doctor, you know my dad." Raven said as both of her parents rested a hand on each of her shoulders. Missy was a lot more gentle than the firm grip of the Master.
"Specifically, the Genesis of the Cybermen."
Bill reached a robotic arm out to the Doctor, "I waited for you."