A/N: Hi all, sorry for the late update. I went back to work this week and it has been chaos as well as carnage. Honestly, I've hardly had tie to even sit down and think! Here is the next chapter, I hope you enjoy it.

The Doctor didn't like it. Kari was scared, that meant that something was wrong. He could feel her palm sweating. "Well, there is, er, no immediate hurry. We're just… er… We're just…" He didn't know what to say, he was trying to work out what was wrong with Kari as well as keep the situation they were in under control.

Lucky for him, Clara had been paying attention and knew something else was up. "Browsing." She said, hoping that would satisfy the woman before them.

"Yeah, yeah, browsing." The Doctor was grateful for the quick thinking from Clara to finish his sentence.

"Please, take all the time you need. At 3W, you always have the rest of your life." The woman replied, her eyes trying to stay focused on the Doctor, but still sliding over to Kari a little.

Kari couldn't take it much more, she was feeling very uncomfortable now. "Doctor, what is 3W?" She asked him, knowing what was going to come next. "And just so you know, this place is really freaking me out." Kari knew it was better for her to admit it to him now rather than try to deny it later on.

He looked at her with so much concern in his eyes before turning back to the woman who seemed to have appeared from nowhere. "Exactly what is 3W?" He asked, voicing Kari's question.

The woman had to suppress a smile as she answered. "Apologies. Clearly you have not received the official 3W greetings package."

"Well, you know, it's just an unexpected…" The Doctor didn't get to finish what he was saying as the woman pretty much rushed him, his hand slipping away from Kari's, pushing him against the wall. She met his eyes for a moment before forcing herself on him, kissing him rather fiercely.

While Kari knew that it was nothing to worry about, to get jealous of, she could feel herself getting rather angry. She grabbed a hold of the woman's arm, yanking her off and away from the Doctor. There was such a furious look in her eyes as she gazed at the woman who had just kissed her Doctor. "Do not mess with me." Kari growled. "I am really not in the mood. Do you understand?" There was a slight glow around her now, a sure sign that she was angry.

The woman simply smiled at her. "You also have not received the official welcome package." She stepped towards Kari, the intent clear on her face.

"Back off! Don't you dare. Don't you bloody dare!" She yelled pointing at the woman, feeling herself start to lose control a little. "Just… don't. Stop it."

Both the Doctor and Clara had watched the exchange with concern. They both know what Kari could be like when she was angry, and they could see just how much she was trying to contain it. "Who are you?" The Doctor ended up asking, grabbing a hold of Kari's hand again. He knew he had to calm her down. He had no idea why she was getting so angry and upset, but it was worrying for him.

"I am Missy." The woman said, still watching Kari. All playfulness had been wiped from her face now and she was actually looking concerned herself.

Clara wasn't sure she had heard the woman correctly. "Missy?"

"Mobile Intelligent Systems Interface. I am a multi-function, interactive welcome-droid. Helping you to help me to help you." The woman, Missy, replied.

Kari just glared at her. "Yeah, well that wasn't very helpful." She spat, still having not calmed down. The Doctor was gently rubbing his thumb over the back of her hand that he was holding, hoping it would help. It wasn't.

"I am fully programmed with social interaction norms appropriate to a range of visitors. Please indicate if you'd like me to adjust my intimacy setting."

The Doctor was very quick to reply to that comment. "Oh, yes, please. Please do that. Do that now, right now." He said, noticing that Kari was still glaring at the woman. "I need to speak to whoever's in charge here."

"I am in charge." Missy told him, trying to avoid the glares being sent her way. The woman was still trying to work out what was wrong.

Her answer didn't help the Doctor and he just threw another question at her. "Well, who's in charge of you?"

"I'm in charge of me." Kari rolled her eyes, they were just going round in circles, and she knew it.

The frustration was beginning to show on the Doctor's face now. "Well, who repairs you? Who, who maintains you?"

"I am programmed for self-repair. I am maintained by my heart." Missy told him, before taking a hold of his empty hand and placing it on her chest. "Is everything in order?"

Now the Doctor had gone from frustrated to serious. He was fed up with the games and wanted to get some answers. He also wanted Kari to be okay. "Who maintains your heart?"

"My heart is maintained by the Doctor." Missy replied with a grin on her face. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed Kari raising an eyebrow at her. Although the anger has started to subside, Kari was still in a pretty foul mood.

There was a look of confusion on the Doctor's face. "Doctor who?" He asked, not knowing if he wanted to know the answer or not. He was so used to people saying that phrase to him, it felt weird saying it himself to someone else.

"Doctor Chang!" Missy shouted, causing Kari to flinch a little. The woman walked away from the trio, looking utterly disinterested in all the confusion she was causing.

Suddenly another voice sounded and a man came walking into view. "Who's there?" He said, before stopping the Doctor, Kari and Clara. "Hello."

Both the Doctor and Clara said hello, while Kari kept her mouth firmly closed. She was too busy watching Missy walking away from them as if nothing had happened.

"So. Hey. Condolences." Dr Chang said, greeting them all properly.

Clara, however, was a little confused. "Condolences?"

"It's a mausoleum. It's our hello. Is there a particular dead person you want to talk to?" Dr Chang said, causing both Clara and the Doctor to go wide eyes. Kari felt a shiver down her spine again, and saw the smile that had appeared on Missy's face as she looked at her. Kari was getting more and more freaked out, even though she knew exactly what was going on.

"Yes. Yes, there is." Clara announced, drawing Kari's attention back to what was going on around her.

"This way then." There was a hint of a smile on the man's face as he began to walk the way he had come, expecting the group to follow him.

Finally, Kari started pulling herself together once more. "Clara, are you okay?" She asked her friend, knowing that she was anything but okay.

"No." She managed to say, before taking a hold of Kari's hand.

"Good." The Doctor told her as they started to follow Dr Chang. "There would be something very wrong if you were." He said, before looking at the woman next to him, clutching his hand. "Kari?"

She knew what he was asking. "Nope. I'm not okay. I am very far from okay. I am the complete opposite of okay." Kari was hating every second of this adventure so far. Sure she knew what was going on and what was going to happen, and she knew everything would all be sorted in the end. Mostly at least. But it didn't change how she felt. Some very strong feelings from the past were surfacing and it was getting to her. At least she was being honest with the Doctor about how she felt. "I hate this place." She muttered, before dragging the Doctor and Clara into Dr Chang's office.

"Come in, come in. Going to need to take a reading off you." Dr Chang told Clara while the Doctor and Kari noticed yet another body in a tank in the spacious office.

There was confusion written all over Clara's face as she tried to keep up with what was going on. "A reading?"

"Won't hurt." Dr Chang replied, before flicking a switch on some machine by the wall. A red light came on the moment he had.

Clara was still confused. "What won't?" The man hadn't been clear, he hadn't explained what this scan was and why she shouldn't be worried about it hurting.

But the Doctor was more concerned about those skeletons in the water. "How does the body keep its integrity? Why isn't it just a bunch of bones floating about?" He asked, noticing the way that Kari kept glancing towards the door. Something was telling him that she knew something more, something that she wasn't sharing with him. He just didn't know what.

Dr Chang was more than happy to answer the Doctor's question. "Each body is encased in a support exoskeleton."

"An invisible exoskeleton?" Clara actually seemed surprised by what he had said.

"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." Dr Chang informed them all.

This time it was Kari to speak up, to stop the Doctor from worrying. She needed to remember to act normal. "So each skeleton is inside something?"

Once again, Clara was awestruck. "Are you serious? X-ray water?"

Now there was a grin on Dr Chang's face. It was easy to see that he was enjoying explaining everything to them. "It's so cool. Look at this. We call it dark water." They all watched as he put his arm into a jar of the water that was sitting on one of the desks. They watched as everything vanished, his watch, his clothes, all disappeared. All that they could see was his flesh through the water. "Only organic matter can be seen through it." When he pulled his arm out it was dripping with the water. He quickly picked up a small hand towel and began to dry himself off. "I keep saying they should use this stuff in swimming pools."

"Why?" The Doctor asked in confusion.

Kari coughed a little, getting his attention. "Never you mind why, I'll explain that one later. 3W, what kind of name is that? What does it mean?" She wanted to get things moving along, the sooner they started all of this, the sooner they could get the hell out of there.

"Well… you know, don't you? You're here on business or they wouldn't have let you in. Sorry. Should have checked. Who are you?" Now Dr Chang was panicking. He hadn't even bothered to check who these people were, he was just telling them everything. That was the kind of stranger the Doctor liked, the ones who would just blurt everything out and tell him as much as he wanted to know.

"I thought that you would never ask. Sort out your security protocols, they're a disgrace." The Doctor told him, whipping out his psychic paper and showing it to the man.

Dr Chang carefully took it and his face just fell. "Another government inspection? So soon?" He asked, before frowning a little. "Why is there all this swearing?"

"Oh, I've got a lot of internalised anger." The Doctor informed him, taking back the psychic paper and putting it away. "What does 3W stand for?" He repeated the questions that Kari had asked because he had failed to answer it the first time, and he wanted to know what it was all about.

"Well, the three words." Dr Chang said, expecting them to know exactly what is going on.

Kari rolled her eyes. "Er, what three words?" She asked him, getting a little fed up with it all now. "Look, will you just answer the question? This is an inspection after all and right now things are not looking good. So, Dr Chang, I suggest you start answering all questions put to you. We are not going to freak out, we are testing you and your ability to do your job, and quite frankly you're failing. This isn't going to look good on your personal review." Kari told him, pulling a pen and notepad out of the inside of the Doctor's jacket pocket.

There was a look of horror on the man's face, and yet the Doctor couldn't stop the smile from stretching across his face. "If you've had a recent loss, this might be… this will be disturbing." Dr Chang said, trying to defend himself, while Kari frowned, shook her head, and carried on making notes on the pad.

"She'll be fine." The Doctor said, knowing that Clara was a lot stronger than people would give her credit for.

However, Clara wasn't so happy that the Doctor was saying these things, that she wasn't allowed to use her own voice. "Speak for me again, I'll detach something from you." She told him, before looking over at Dr Chang. "I'll be fine."

Finally, Dr Chang relented and walked towards his desk. "You know how people are scared of dying? Like, everybody." He asked them, heading over to some controls on the wall.

"Obviously." Kari said, feeling her nerves creeping up again. "It's the most fundamental fear in the universe. Every living being from every culture is scared of dying."

Dr Chang nodded in agreement with her, before flipping one of the switches over on the wall. "They'd be a lot more scared if they knew what it was really like." The 3W logo appeared once as something started loading on the screen that had just turned on.

Kari pulled out one of the chairs at the desk and sat herself down. "Might as well get comfy." She said, looking at the Doctor and Clara. "I've got a feeling this is going to take a while." Kari added, letting out a sigh.

"Do you know?" The Doctor called to her, the expression on his face unreadable.

She didn't really know what to say. Did she admit that she knew everything or did she say she knew absolutely nothing? "Not everything." Kari ended up saying. "It all seems familiar but… I'm not sure. I'm sorry." She hoped that she could get away with that.

"This isn't the first time you've not been sure. It's been happening a lot." The Doctor replied, causing her to look at him. Did he not believe her, or had she really started forgetting things? Was there something wrong with her?

"I knew about Danny. I knew that he had died. I knew that one day Clara was going to do something drastic to get him back." Kari wanted to be careful. She needed to reassure him but not give him too much.

The Doctor looked at her, as if he was trying to figure out if she was telling the truth or not. "Okay. Later, I'll do a few more scans, to make sure you're okay." There was actually a lot of concern in his voice when he said that, and it just made Kari feel even more guilty. She didn't realise that this regeneration was going to end up worrying about her so much, especially after what had happened the first time she met him.

While the pair had been having a conversation in their head, both Clara and Dr Chang had been watching them, just waiting. When Dr Chang realised he had their full attention he began to explain. "White noise off the telly. We've all heard it. A few years ago, Dr Skarosa…"

"Sorry, what?" Kari said, the name having caught her attention. "What was that name again?"

Dr Chang gave her a bit of an odd look, as did the Doctor and Clara. "Dr Skarosa."

"Skarosa? As is, Skaro-sa?" Kari said, an eyebrow raised. She was trying to give hints to the Doctor, although she had to admit, she hadn't picked up on that name before.

"Yes. Skarosa. Is there a problem?"

Kari quickly shook her head, seeing that the Doctor hadn't really taken as much notice of what she had said as she had hoped. "Nope, never mind. Carry on."

"As I was saying, Dr Skarosa, our founder, did something unexpected. He played that noise through a translation matrix of his own devising. This is a recording of what he heard." He pressed a button on the tablet-like device in front of him on the desk and the screen began to show waves. Along with the waves there was sound, and it sounded a lot like voices.

They listened to the voices carefully, Kari more so than everyone else. "He found voices, and?" She ended up saying, realising that neither the Doctor nor Clara were going to speak up.

"Over time, Doctor Skarosa became convinced these were the voices of the recently departed. He believed it was a telepathic communication from the dead."

The Doctor didn't know if he should take the man seriously or not, and his face showed that. "Why? Was he an idiot?"

Dr Chang chose to ignore that comment, which resulted in Kari once again scribbling on the notepad in her hand. "He was able to isolate some of the voices, hear what they were saying."

"So, an idiot then." The Doctor said, glancing over at what Kari was writing. He thought she was just making a play of it all, but she wasn't. She really was writing things down. Just not what he was expecting. Kari had written Skarosa on the page in big letters, several times.

"What I'm about to play you will change your life and not for the better. These are the three words which caused Doctor Skarosa to set up institutes, like this one, all over the world, to protect the dead. If you'd rather not hear these words, there's still time…"

Kari let out a sigh. "Can you please, just… get on with it. We haven't got all day you know. We are very busy people." She was starting to get impatient and just wanted to move along.

Suddenly a voice sounded from the desk speakers. "Don't cremate me. Don't cremate me!" Whoever it was, they were clearly upset, they were crying.

"There is one simple, horrible possibility that has never occurred to anyone throughout human history." Dr Chang said, looking to see how the group of three were so far taking it. Out of all of them, Clara was the one looking the most unsettled. The Doctor and Kari were concerned, but less wide eyed. He decided that it was safe to continue "The dead remain conscious. The dead are fully aware of everything that is happening to them."

While Clara seemed to be taken in with it all, the Doctor was feeling the complete opposite. "Fakery. All of it. It's a con, it's a racket!" He announced, standing up and taking Kari with him. It wasn't just this whole still being conscious after death thing that was bothering him, it was the way Kari was acting.

"I promise you this is not a con." Dr Chang assured him, and he and Clara both stood up as well.

Then Clara noticed it, another noise that wasn't there before. "What's that beeping?"

"Never mind about beeping. Who cares about beeping?" The Doctor certainly didn't. "The dead are dead. They're not… they're not talking to you out of your television sets. They're just gone and all these poor souls down there in these tanks, I'm sorry, but they're just dead and they're not coming back."

"Oh, Doctor. I wish you hadn't said that. I really, really wish you had not said that." Kari mumbled, feeling the panic starting to rise inside of her again.

The Doctor just gazed at her, while Dr Chang began fiddling with a device on his desk. Suddenly there was another voice. One that Clara recognised instantly. "Clara? Clara? Clara, are you there?"

Straight away she rushed back over to the screen, to where his voice was coming from. "Danny! I can hear you. Is that you? Oh, please, say it's you."

Before Danny was able to reply the connection dropped. "Just lost the signal. But I can track it back, I'm pretty sure." Dr Chang told her, fiddling with it once more and trying to get Danny back.

"I don't… I don't understand. What is happening?" Clara was still stunned, she had heard Danny's voice, she was so certain of it.

"We've been scanning you telepathically since you came in. You said you wanted to speak to someone who's passed, and we've found you a match in the Nethersphere." Dr Chang continued, still working on getting the signal back so that Clara could talk with Danny.

The Doctor, however, was not so keen to believe any of it. It was just strengthening his resolve that this was all a scam. "This isn't possible. The dead don't come back."

And yet Clara was still going to go against him. Kari understood, Clara never got to say goodbye. And honestly, she at least deserved that. "It was him. It was his voice." Clara announced.

"Clara, if they've scanned you telepathically, they could've lifted a voice print. It could still be a fake." Kari told her, knowing that they all needed to be very, very careful now.

"Exactly. Think about it, Clara. How can this all be real?" The Doctor added, trying to get her to see, to understand.

Dr Chang was still working away at the machine, trying to get that signal working once more. "Getting him back, very nearly!" He told them, sounding very confident and not paying any attention to what Kari and the Doctor were saying.

It worked, and Danny's voice sounded once more. "Clara, can you hear me?"

She let out a sigh of relief. "Yes, Danny, I can hear you. Can you hear me?" Oh she was glad to be able to talk to him once more, she was glad that he was there and she could speak with him.

"Yeah, yeah, I can hear you. Clara! Oh, God. Clara…" It was pretty obvious that Danny had no idea what to say. He had never expected to be able to speak to her, to talk to Clara one last time. But he was, and words seemed to just fail him.

That was when Clara turned to look at the Doctor and Kari. "What do I do?"

"Who are you talking to?" It was clear that Danny had heard her speaking to the others.

She was quick to reply to him. "Hang on just a moment."

Kari looked her in the eyes. "You ask him questions. You ask him the questions that only Danny Pink would know. You ask him the most painful questions, because that is the only way to be sure, to be certain. Okay?" She spoke softly to her friend, knowing that this was going to be difficult for her friend. "Come on, Doctor." Kari then said, dragging him with her towards the exit.

There was now a look of confusion on Clara's face. "Where are you two going?"

Kari stopped and turned to face her. "Those tanks. There's something not right, something that the Doctor and I are both missing. We need to check them out. Don't worry, we'll be careful."

"Clara?"

The Doctor had more to add for Clara still. "Sceptical and critical, remember? Be strong, even if it breaks your heart. Dr Chang, you're with us." He said, pointing to the man behind the desk. The Doctor took a few steps before stopping and looking at Kari in confusion. "Who would harvest dead bodies? I feel like I'm missing something obvious."

Kari was silent as they made their way back to where they had walked past all those tanks. She knew what was coming next, she knew what was going to happen. Kari was about to face a foe that she hadn't come across yet, even though the Doctor had battled them for centuries. But it wasn't just that, it was who else was going to be there, who was going to finally reveal their self.

The next thing she knew, the Doctor was standing in front of her, his hands on her cheeks as he tried to catch her gaze. "Kari? Kari, look at me. Look at me and calm down." She had managed to get herself into a real panic, and now it looked as if she was having a full blown panic attack. "Kari, you're okay. Everything is okay." He told her, hoping that she would calm down.

"Not… not okay, Doctor." She breathed, finally realising what she had done to herself. "This is wrong, this is all wrong."

"What is? What's wrong, Kari?" The Doctor asked her, getting very worried as each second passed. "You need to calm down."

She finally managed to get her eyes to lock with his eyes. "The tanks, Doctor. It's what's in the tanks." Kari could feel everything around her changing, the whole atmosphere was shifting and it was scaring the hell out of her.

The Doctor just grabbed her hand and they ran along the corridor a little more until they could see all of the tanks. "Oh, my God." Dr Chang said, looking at the tanks. All the skeletons were now standing up and the fluid was beginning to drain. "The tanks are activating! They're not supposed to do that."

"And all your dead people are standing." The Doctor told him, now understanding why Kari was panicking. "Don't you think you skipped the headline?"

That was when Missy appeared, stepping out from where she had been hiding. "Now, now, children. Naughty, naughty." She said, holding some kind of device in her hand and pointing it at the Doctor and Kari, before letting it land on Dr Chang who was on the other side of her.

"Dr Chang, your welcome droid has developed a fault." The Doctor said, holding Kari's hand tightly as they walked towards where Missy was standing.

There was confusion on Dr Chang's face as he looked at the Doctor. "That's not a droid. That's my boss." He told them, which just resulted in the Doctor becoming that little bit more confused.

"You know, I might have been guilty of a just teensy, little fibette." Missy said to the Doctor, smiling away as she did so, before turning back to Dr Chang. "Dr Chang, I really liked working with you. I've enjoyed every day of it."

Kari knew what was going to happen next, and she needed to somehow try to stop it. "Missy, don't." Kari said, getting her attention. "Please, don't do it."

All the woman could do was smile at Kari, before completely ignoring her. "You know, I've even got a little photograph of you looking so sweet. I'm always going to keep it. Always!"

That was when a hint of realisation appeared on his face and he had a terrible feeling he knew what was going to happen next. "Are you going to kill me?" Dr Chang asked, a hint of uncertainty in his voice.

"Now, come on. Let's not dwell on horrid things." Missy replied, faking emotion in her voice. "This is going to be our last conversation, and I'm the one who's going to have to live with that."

Now Dr Chang was certain of what was going to happen, and the fear and panic were taking over. "Please don't kill me."

"Say something nice." Missy said, just looking at him. Behind her, Kari was racking her brain, trying to think of something, something to say or do to stop her.

"Please, please. I don't… I don't want to die. You're going to kill me, aren't you?" Now Dr Chang was filled with even more fear, his hands were shaking.

"We have to do something, Doctor." Kari told him, unable to think of something that she could do by herself to stop what was about to happen. "She will kill him, we have to stop her."

He looked at her, just as Missy started speaking again. "Say something nice." She repeated, only a little more firmly. All playfulness had left her voice now, she was completely serious.

"Please!" The man was ready to beg for his life, but the Doctor just didn't know what to do. He was lost in his own little world trying to work out what was going on around him, to work out who Missy was. He heard the way Kari had spoken to her, as if she knew her. He had to work it all out.

Missy let out a heavy sigh. "Dr Chang, I've got all day. And I'm not going to kill you until you say something nice."

The man tried to pull himself together, in the hopes that if he did as she asked he would be spared. "It has been an absolute pleasure working with you, and I truly believe that you'll never be able to find it in your heart to murder me." Instead, she held up the device she was holding in her hand, and right at that moment Kari rushed forward. She made a grab for the device, to take it away from Missy, to stop her at the last minute. But she was too late, too slow. Missy fired the device and Dr Chang burned up. Leaving nothing behind but ash. "Now, I'll be with you in a moment. Just feeling a bit emotional at the moment." Missy said to the Doctor and Kari as the pair of them started backing away from her.

Kari was angry at herself for not trying harder, for not actually stopping Missy, but the Doctor had finally worked out what was going on. The later level had dropped and now instead of a skeleton head showing in the tank, there was a metal head that he recognised all too well. "Cybermen!" He cried, gripping Kari's hand and giving it a tight squeeze. "They're Cybermen, all of them. We've got to stop them getting out."

"Now who's missing the headline?" Missy asked him, amused with the way he was now acting. "The Nethersphere. You know it's ever so funny, the people that live inside that think they've gone to heaven." The Doctor and Kari both looked up and saw a metal sphere with red lights on it. There was a look of recognition on the Doctor's face.

Somehow the Doctor was even more confused. "That's a matrix data-slice. A Gallifreyan hard drive. Time Lord technology." How could she have it? How could it have gotten there? What was the point of it all? And why was Kari being so quiet? These were all the things that were running through the Doctor's mind.

"Imagine you could upload dying minds to that. Edit them. Rearrange them. Get rid of all those boring emotions. Ready to be re-downloaded. Meanwhile, you upgrade the bodies. Upload the mind, upgrade the body. Cybermen from cyberspace. Now, why has no-one ever thought of that before?"

Kari was feeling a whole range of emotions now, and she was done with it all. "Will you just stop with the games!" She shouted, causing the Doctor and Missy to both flinch. "Just stop it! You just killed Dr Chang, even though I asked you not to. I am sick and tired of your games. Every single time, you play games and people get hurt and I am done with it." She was starting to get angry again, and she just didn't care. "No more games, Missy."

There was silence, no one daring to say a word. Neither of them wanted Kari to get even more angry, they knew that would just make the whole situation worse. "We need to get Clara, Doctor." Kari eventually said, still trying to calm herself down.

Missy simply rolled her eyes. "Oh, Clara, Clara, Clara! You know I should shoot you in a jealous rage. Now, wouldn't that be sexy? I've turned the lift off, though." Kari quickly shot the woman a glare.

The Doctor noticed the way Kari had looked at her. "I presume you have stairs."

"Well, I'm not a Dalek." Missy replied sarcastically.

"Sometimes I wish you were, they don't play the games that you do." Kari muttered, causing Missy to let out a giggle. "A Dalek is honest. The Doctor said that once. All you do is lie and cheat and play stupid, stupid games."

The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to get out of the corridor and hopefully find himself in a stairwell. Instead he was even more confused than he had been before. "Oh, dear, Doctor. Didn't you realise where you were?" Missy asked him, following the pair outside. They were now standing at the top of the steps of St Paul's Cathedral in London. They were on Earth the whole time, apparently. The bells were sounding in the background and they were not helping the Doctor to think.

The Doctor felt a tug on his hand, and he glanced down to see Kari looking at him with worried and scared eyes. It suddenly dawned on him, everyone was standing around, everyone was in danger. "Get away from here! All of you, run!" He shouted, rushing down the steps and along the pavement. "Go! Go! Get away from here! Run away! Run, run! Get away from here, all of you, now!" He shouted, just as the Cybermen started to file out of the cathedral.

Missy, however, was just sitting on the steps, playing with the device she had in her hand. "I'm sorry, everyone. Another ranting Scotsman in the street. I had no idea there was a match on." She said, enjoying the Doctor and Kari running around like mad people. But the Doctor wasn't giving up, so she had to step in. "Stop shouting, love." Missy said, going up and stopping him. "Stop making a fuss. It's too late. All the graves of planet Earth are about to give birth. You know the key strategic weakness of the human race? The dead outnumber the living."

"Who are you?" The Doctor asked, noticing how Kari had literally frozen in fear. That wasn't like her, his Kari was filled with that much fear.

Missy seemed to be really enjoying herself, she was just so full of joy and happiness. "Oh, you know who I am. I'm Missy."

The Doctor didn't know what else to say, apart from one thing. "Who's Missy?"

Now Missy was getting a little bored, with the same questions all the time. "Please, try to keep up. Short for Mistress. Well, I couldn't very well keep calling myself the Master, now could I?" The realisation finally hit the Doctor and he looked at her with wide eyes as he backed away from her, and the approaching Cybermen. Now it made sense, now he knew why Kari was so afraid. Missy, she was afraid of Missy, of who she was and what she had done.

A/N: I do hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I have been enjoying writing Missy, she is just so much fun to play around with. In the next chapter you will get way more of Kari and Missy and the dynamic that they share.

Thank you to all who have favourite/followed the story recently, I'm glad you like it! And a massive thank you to all those who have taken the time to leave a review. I do appreciate it, the good and the bad.

Hopefully I will get a chance to write some more this week, but until then take care,

Pippa.