Dealing with Cybermen and Daleks since the day the TARDIS kidnapped them, Lila and Theodore fought them across every which way the wind blows, at this point, from desolate planets, planets that tried killing them on top of everything else, it's par course for them, by now, well it should've, hadn't it come to light that the two factions were invading their home world!
So far, Ianto and his team managed to contain the Cybermen, but the problems came when the Cybermen stealthily learnt a great deal of Torchwood's weakness, circumventing the blocks that the team threw up to stop them.
Freed from his constraints, both Al and his counterpart worked with them to buy time while they worked out a way to destroy the Daleks and Cybermen.
As always, there latest problem happens to been the captured Dalek somehow escaping from the constraints despite Torchwood methodically working on studying the damn thing.
Despite being the sole Dalek in the whole building, thus far, it's already doing a sizable number on the Cybermen as they came out of the woodwork from their hiding places.
Yeah, apparently the Cybermen had a different method of hiding their numbers, digging themselves deep within the foundation, like metallic moles, working to bunch themselves together, to avoid detection by the Daleks.
Why they chose Torchwood of all places, well, probably because they thought they could hook themselves into the mainframe, and do some damages to both Daleks and humans, if Al had to guess.
Either way, whichever one's the victor in this, it's not good for the lot of humanity on Earth, that said, Al's working his magic alongside his counterpart, with their combined efforts, they hoped to keep the Cybermen contained long enough to disable them before they break out of Torchwood.
As for the lone Dalek working its magic on the Cybermen patrolling the Torchwood halls, Al's been keeping track, by his calculations, it's already destroyed twenty of the Cybermen, pretty good strategy for a Dalek, having forcefields fed by the blasters take the blow while the Dalek effortlessly destroys the Cybermen.
Maybe forty-five Daleks have a chance, after all!
Unfortunately, while the Daleks had a healthy amount of confidence that one was able to destroy twenty Cybermen, it wasn't deterring the sense of worry of what they may have in mind when dealing with a million Cybermen.
Of course, they'd want the planet for mining and enslaving, that's the Dalek way, but the flashbacks of the Time War reminded Al of what was happening during that point that led the entire planet becoming uninhabitable of centuries while a fraction of it's been salvaged by the late Herman.
If they're pushed enough, the Daleks here might not care what happens to Earth, if the Cybermen and the Doctor gets theirs, and Al knows they've already been made aware that there's three Doctors present, he's getting scrambled messages from the other forty-four Daleks shrieking about the notion that there's three Doctors and they're with the Cybermen.
Wouldn't be a world ending situation without the complications, of course, when Al learnt the Cybermen were here for the sole purpose of getting the Doctor to repay his debt to them, probably thought using Earth as leverage would ensure the Doctor doesn't get cold feet.
This did lead to Lila bringing up the complicating question they still didn't have an answer for, regarding the ticking sound, the severed Cybermen head, whatever the Cybermen hid, but Al said they won't get anything from the Cybermen this time around.
They did everything in their power to rid every reference point related to that event, that there's no hope retrieving it, especially after the severed Cyberman and whatever they were guarding gone, that alone, they don't know what it was, what it was capable, and trust Al, in between writing his sizzling entries for the latest novella, he still doesn't know the answer!
Regarding the Daleks, Al got information that they're from a schism that backed Skaro, still sore about that, yeah, and they been after these particular Cybermen for a while.
Why?
Don't know a damn thing about that and believe Al, he and his counterpart worked trying to find an answer, but there's nothing they found regarding what reason the Daleks had going after Cybermen outside their standard fare.
No way for them to capture one and find out, only the Dalek Supreme knows all, and it's the only Dalek that isn't counted among the Daleks on Earth.
Already, it's putting up barriers preventing the two from finding out, and they used everything under the sun!
Can't get the Dalek Supreme to come down unless there's a victory lap, but that'd require the potential annihilation of Earth, something no one wanted, and well, Al's not sure "beaming" them to the spaceship's going to amount to anything.
Though, hypothetically, if someone were to go up there, plant a neat bomb, get the hell out of dodge, let the remaining Daleks destroy themselves in an effort of becoming the new Dalek Supreme, that could be helpful.
Oh, ain't this a fun time?
"Why couldn't it have been Klingon?" Mr. Watson groaned as he and Ianto helped Lila and Catherine return to their respected TARDIS, there, they broke off into a team of two, with Ianto going with Catherine to help.
With her father, Lila led him inside the console room where Al's waiting for them, though Mr. Watson wasn't used to the sight of an AI masquerading as Al, yet.
"Why are you Dean Stockwell, anyway?" Mr. Watson had to know the answer, despite everything going on in the backdrop, and Al admitted that he scanned Lila's brain, that's what popped up the most, so he took the form, and been this way since.
Shaking his head, exhaling sharply, Mr. Watson went with it, only because at this point, anything goes, and he just wanted to kick out the Cybermen and the Daleks.
"Well, you're in luck," Al pointed at him, but Lila held a look of horror, as he then said, "we do have means to fortify a bomb, not big enough to cause debris to crash land to Earth, but it does require someone to set it up, and well, you know."
Gesturing, Al struggled, but Mr. Watson got the point, Lila brought up, "You have any idea how much it sucks going on their ships, Al?"
Believe her, it absolutely sucked, they don't have anything marked, Al usually having to make a map for them, and they're never consistent in the designing of their ships, on account how much they steal from other alien species.
Running through Spaceballs would be easier than getting around a Dalek ship!
Worse's the ones with the Dalek Supremes aboard, they're usually heavily guarded.
"Well, we don't have much of a choice, kid," Al admitted that their hands are tied, as he admitted that he suspected the loose Dalek's a walking time-bomb.
His chestnut eyes widened as he heard this, Mr. Watson echoed, "A bomb? Are you kidding me? Don't tell me the eggheads missed that one, too?"
Raising his hands defensively, Al responded with, "An organic bomb!"
The scientists didn't realize it because they were concerned with the chassis, that they never considered opening the Dalek, though had they did, it would've exploded, and well, they get the idea.
"And there's no way of disabling it?" Mr. Watson asked Al and the AI shook his head as he said that because it's organic, he doesn't have any means of disabling the bomb, but the only one that knows how's the Dalek Supreme.
Exhaling sharply as she realized what this meant, Lila goes, "Get on the ship, strap a bomb in, get to the Dalek Supreme, make sure it doesn't blow up the planet, yeah, I get it."
Oh, this is going to suck!
Shrugging, Al pointed out it wasn't the worst thing that happened to them to the date, so there's that, it wasn't enough to comfort Lila, but it's as much as he can say, about their situation.
Looking at his daughter with a dumbfounded look on his face, Mr. Watson asks, "Pumpkin, are you telling me you done this before?"
Weakly shrugging, Lila haphazardly explained that it wasn't their first time blowing up Dalek ships, but it happening on the home front's a new one for them.
Gesturing, Al empathized they're on a timer, Torchwood can't hold back the Cybermen forever, and the other Daleks aren't too far behind, causing Mr. Watson to suck air through his gritted teeth, before finally asking them, "Do I get a phaser?"
As he shrugs, Al answers, "Well, Medi had one around here that he used on them, it's got a wallop of a kickback though, he broke his collar bone from using it,"
At some point in time, during an adventure, Medikus used a phaser to destroy and intimidate the Daleks at the time, it was used briefly, for good reason, the kickback from using it was strong enough that it broke his collar bone.
A good thing he was a full-blooded Time Lord, it took at least a few hours for him to heal, but not to say he wasn't in pain during this, and it led him into shelving the phaser somewhere aboard the TARDIS, complete with a warning.
"Sir, I shot guns with some of the worst kickback known to man, I think I can handle the kickback," Mr. Watson asserts that he can handle the kickback of the phaser, having did his part in hunting with his father and his grandfather, time in the navy, and then some.
Seeing how confident he was, Al shrugs as he mustered, "Don't yell when I tell you, so!"
With Al's guidance, Mr. Watson found the phaser, not the handheld phaser he expected, but a gun that only Arnold Schwarzenegger would hoist above his shoulder during one of his movies.
It baffled Mr. Watson, until Al explained that it was a modification on Medi's part, which he quickly brought Mr. Watson up to speed as, that was Mr. Smith, but Mr. Watson figured it out.
Hoisting it, Mr. Watson stood amazed at the sight of the phaser, if he can call it that, as Al went over the basics on using it, only for Mr. Watson to remind him that he knows how to squeeze the trigger.
"If you break your collar bone, you're not going to hear the end of it from Daphne," Lila warned her father as he carried the phaser with him as they walked back to the console room.
A smile on his defined face, Mr. Watson reminded her, "Not the first time I got hurt, pumpkin."