Hello, all! First off I want to thank you all so much for read my story! It makes my heart happy to know you guys like it! This chapter was fun to write, but I went back and forth on the beginning, I was not sure how I want it to go. I hope you like it!
The Doctor's POV
I had been pacing the hallways of the TARDIS all night just waiting for Harper to awake up. I wanted to talk with her… no I need to talk with her.
I was in love with Harper. I am not sure what made me come to this realization, it could've been Reinette or something else, but I know for sure I am in love with her.
I loved Rose, yes, but in the way you love a friend or your sister. And not in the same way as I do Harper. I had to tell her; it could not wait until morning.
I quickly walked to her room only to find her bed empty. 'Where is she?' I asked Sexy.
A door appeared next to me and I took that as a sign to where I would find her. I found myself in the console room and saw Harper sitting at the door of the TARDIS looking out into space.
I went and sat beside her neither of us saying anything for a minute or two. "Isn't it amazing?"
I turned to her and asked, "what?"
"Space," she pointed out but did not turn to look at me. "No matter how many times you look at it, you can always find something new. It's ever changing, and just… fantastic."
I smiled at her choose of words, "umm, I guess your right."
We fell into silence again when I said, "look Harper…" the same time she said, "Doctor…"
We both smiled at each other and she said, "you go first."
"I'm sorry for overreacting at the ball. I just didn't like seeing you dancing with those men. I let my own opinion of those men get in the way, and I'm sorry for that."
"It's okay, I was a bit dramatic also. I should not have said that about you snogging every girl you meet. Not sure what came over me. We all make mistakes. Forgive and forget, right? Friends?" She held her hand out for me to shake and my heart sunk.
I smiled and shook her hand anyways saying, "friends." I couldn't tell her. She doesn't fell the same and I am not sure I could handle that heartbreak.
We fell back into silence both of us in deep thought when I suddenly asked, "What's going on with you and Mickey?"
"Umm… what do you mean?"
"You two just seem to be very chummy lately," I tried to keep the jealousy out of my voice.
She smiled, making my hearts stop for a second, "We're friends. Best friends, really. We can… I can talk to him about things that I can't talk about to anyone else."
I had a frown on my face, "I'm not your best friend?" Why can't she talk to me?
She laughed, "You are my alien best friend! I guess I kinda see Mickey as my older brother in this universe. He acts enough like my brothers did, so it fits."
I let out a breath I did not know I was holding, "I guess that makes sense."
"Well Doc, I am headed to bed. See you in the morning," she got up to leave and called over her shoulder, "sweet dreams."
"Night Harper, and don't call me Doc. I'm not a dwarf!"
I heard her laugh and think, 'oh come off it. You love it when I call you Doc!'
'You're right,' I thought back with a smile.
Harper's POV
As I walked into the console room I heard the Doctor telling Mickey about one of our adventures, "And that weird munchkin lady with the big eyes, do you remember the way she looked at you?"
Mickey was standing at the console holding a button down while Rose and the Doctor were setting on the jump seat laughing. "And then she opened her mouth and fire come out!" The Doctor said.
"I thought I was going to get frazzled," Rose said laughing.
"Yeah! One minute she's just standing there and the next minute…"
Both Rose and the Doctor gave a fake, "rawwh!" I rolled my eyes at them and went over to Mickey wondering why he was holding down the button.
"Yeah… where – where was that, then? What happened?" Mickey asked.
"Oh, it was on this… um… uh, this planet thing, asteroid. It's a long story, you had to be there," the Doctor dismissed him.
"Mickey, why are you doing that?" I asked.
"Cos he told me too," I looked over to the Doctor who looked a little sheepish all of the sudden.
"When was that?" He asked.
"About half a hour ago…" Mickey trailed off.
"Um… you can let go now," the Doctor said trying to hold in a laugh. Rose was trying to as well, but not doing as good of a job.
"Well, how long's it been since I could've stopped?" Mickey asked letting go of the button.
"Ten minutes? Twenty… twenty-nine?"
"Doctor!" I chastised him, 'We talked about this… you need to be nicer to Mickey!'
'Oh, it's not like it hurt anything!'
I crossed my arms and shut him out. "You just forgot me," Mickey said.
"No, no, no! I was just… I was… I was calibrating. I was just no, I know exactly what I I'm doing." Right when he said that a small explosion happened at the console and the TARDIS started to go haywire sending us to the floor.
I felt a jolt go through me cause an awful pain in my head.
I was having a hard time hanging on to the console and Rose asked, "What's happened?"
"The time vortex is gone! That's impossible… it's just gone." We were still trying to hold on when the Doctor yelled, "Brace yourself, we're gonna crash!"
Not seconds later the TARDIS crashed making us fall away from the console. The pain was still in my head, but it seemed to only get worse now that we stopped.
"Everyone all right?" The Doctor called. "Rose? Mickey? Harper?"
"I'm fine. I'm okay, sorry ya. Harper, you okay?" Mickey came over to me as I had yet to move. The pain was too terrible, I couldn't. "Hey, Doctor you may want to come over here."
"What is it? Harper?" I heard him asked, voice full of concern. He was beside me in a second with his hands on either side of my face. "The vortex gone, and what is inside Harper is trying to connect to the rest. It's taking over her mind."
"Can you help?" Mickey asked, he sounded just as concerned.
"Yeah. Harper, Love, you are going to have to open your mind." He put his forehead against mine. I could barely concentrate because of the pain but I was able to open up my mind to him. I could feel in him my mind pushing the vortex back down. The pain slowly started to lessen and thankfully he did not try anything stupid that could cause him to regenerate.
"Better?" He asked once he had pulled back out of my mind.
I weakly nodded my head. He pulled me in for a hug and then we both looked up at the TARDIS, "She's dead," I said sadly. A tear escaped, rolling down my cheek, "The TARDIS is dead."
"You can fix it," Rose said coming over to us.
The Doctor stood up and started walking around the console, "There's nothing to fix. She's perished. The last TARDIS in the universe, extinct."
I saw Mickey headed for the doors, but stayed where I was.
"We can get help, ya?" Rose tried again.
The Doctor asked, "Where from?"
"Well, we've landed. We got to be somewhere."
"We fell out of the vortex, through the void, into nothingness." While the Doctor was going on and on I kept thinking about him calling me 'Love' and wondering if it meant something. "We're in some sort of no-place… the silent realm… the lost dimension…"
"Otherwise known as London!" Mickey laughed from the doors and we all followed him. "London, England, Earth. Hold on…" Mickey jumped down a small wall and picked up a newspaper and Rose followed. "First of February this year. Not exactly far-flung, is it?"
I was still a little shaken up and stayed close to the TARDIS. I felt the Doctor take my hand and give it a little squeeze.
'You sure you're okay?' He asked me.
I didn't answer, 'Something's off?' I told him, having an uneasy filling.
'Look up,' was all he said and I looked up to a big suspires. "So this is London?" The Doctor asked out loud.
Mickey said, "Yep," as we moved over by him and Rose.
"Your city," the Doctor continued.
"That's the one."
"Just as we left it."
"Bang on," Mickey said.
'Why do I have to be nice to him? He can be so… thick.' The Doctor whined.
'Because he is our friend and you should be nice to friends, also you can be thick sometimes too but do I say anything.'
The Doctor rolled his eyes at me before asking Mickey, "and that includes the zeppelins?"
"It's beautiful," Rose, said when they noticed them.
"Okay," Mickey was back peddling just a bit. "So it's London with a big international zeppelin festival."
"This is not your world," the Doctor said.
"But if the dates' the same… it's parallel, right? Am I right? Like Harper's world, a parallel Earth where they have zeppelins, am I right? I'm right, aren't I?" Mickey said sounding excited.
"Must be," the Doctor said, but I could tell he was in deep thought. 'How did he know about your world?'
'I told him, best friend remember?'
"So parallel world with…" Rose said to say.
"Oh come on. You've seen in on films, like an alterative to our world," Mickey looked very excited. "Where everything's the same but a little bit different. Like I don't know… track lights are blue, Tony Blair never got elected…"
"And he's still alive," Rose said looking over to an advertisement with her father on it. "Parallel world where my dad's still alive."
As Rose started for it the Doctor said, "Don't look at it, Rose. Don't even think about it. This is not your world."
I had to think about my own family and if they are here or not.
"He's my dad." She reached up to touch the screen and we heard Pete Tyler said, 'Trust me on this.'
"That's weird, but he's real. He's a success. He was always planning these daft little schemes, health drinks and stuff. Everyone said they were useless, but he did it," Rose said with a smile.
"Rose, if you ever trusted me, then listen to me now." The Doctor grabbed her arms, "Stop looking at it. Your father's dead. He died when you were six months old. That is not your Pete. That is A Pete. For all we know, he's got his own Jackie, his own Rose, his own daughter, who's someone else but not you. You can't see him. Not ever."
The Doctor and I were in the TARDIS just trying to see if there was anything we could do. Mickey walked in and the Doctor got mad saying, "I told you to keep an eye on her!"
"She's alright," Mickey said coming over to me.
"She goes wondering off, parallel world; it's like a ginger bread house. All of those temptations calling her," the Doctor said.
"Oh, so it's just Rose then?" Mickey sounded offended. "Nothing out there to temp me?"
"I don't know I can't worry about everything. If I can just get this thing to work," the Doctor kicked the console and went over to the jump seat.
"Did that help?" I asked him.
"Yes."
"Did that hurt?" Mickey asked.
"Yes!" Mickey grinned at me and I let out a giggle. We both sat down beside the Doctor on the jump seat with me in the middle. "Where not meant to be here. The TARDIS draws its power from the universe, but it's the wrong universe. It's like diesel in a petrol engine."
"But I've seen it in comics," Mickey said. "People are hopping from one alternative world to another, it's easy."
The Doctor looked at Mickey before saying, "Not in the real world."
We fell silent so I said, "Used to be easy, right? When the Time Lords kept an eye on everything."
"Yeah, you could pop between realities and be home in time for tea. Then they died and took it all with them. The walls of reality closed, the worlds were sealed. Everything became a bit less kind."
I leaned me head against the Doctor shoulder trying to offer some comfort. "Then how did we get here?" Mickey asked.
"I don't know. Accident? Should've been impossible but now we're trapped."
Then I noticed something, a very small light under the console. Both the Doctor and I sat forward at the same time and both of us asked, "What's that?"
"What?" Mickey asked not seeing the light.
"That there. Is that a reflection?" The Doctor asked excitedly.
"It's a light!" I said once we had got down to get a better look.
"Is it? Is that a light?" The Doctor was getting more excited by the minute. "I think that's a light. That's all we need we've got power." Mickey and the Doctor picked up one of the grate panels moving it out of the way, "Mickey we've got power! HA!"
The Doctor cheered and gave me a quick kiss on the lips before going down to the lower part of the console. I looked after him wide eyed and Mickey smirked at me.
"It's alive!" The Doctor called as Mickey and I watched him pull the TARIDS apart.
"What is it?" Mickey asked.
He answered Mickey, "Nothing. It's tiny. One of those insignificant little power cell that no one every brother about and it's clinging on to life. With one ounce of reality tucked away inside."
"Enough to get us home?" I asked.
"Not yet, I need to charge it up." He came back up with the power cell in hand.
"We could go outside and latch it up to the national grid," Mickey suggested.
"No, that's the wrong sort of energy," I said looking at the power cell.
"Yep, gotta come from our universe," the Doctor agreed.
Mickey looked defeated, "But we don't have anything."
"There's me!" The Doctor stated. He lightly blow on the power cell causing it to glow bright. He smiled cheerfully and said, "I just gave away ten years of my life. Worth every second."
We all watched as the light went out of the power cell, "It's going out is that okay?" Mickey asked.
"It's on a recharging cycle. It'll loop around, power back up, and be ready to take us home in um… 24 hours," the Doctor said.
"So that gives us 24 hours in a parallel world," Mickey said.
"As long as we keep our heads down."
"Since when have we ever been able to keep our heads down?" I asked.
"Oh, it's easy! No problem, let's go," the Doctor said getting up and walking out of the TARDIS.
The Doctor's POV
We went to find Rose and tell her the good news, but when we found her I had a feeling something was off.
"There you are, you all right?" I asked Rose as we walked up to her. "No, applause, I fixed it. 24 hours, then we're flying back to reality." When she didn't say anything I asked, "What is it?"
"My phone connected. There's this… Cybus network, it finds you're phone." I saw Harper off to the side pulling her phone out. "It gave me internet access."
"Rose, whatever it says, this is the wrong world," Harper said not looking up from her phone.
"I don't exist."
"What do you mean?" I asked Rose.
"There's no Rose Tyler… I was never born. There's Pete, my dad, and Jackie, still married mum, but they never had kids."
"Give me that phone." I tried to grab it from her but she was too quick. 'Don't even think about it Harper!'
Harper sighed and put up her phone.
"They rich… they've got a house and cars and everything they want. They haven't got me." Rose stood up from the bench she was sitting on, "I've got to see him."
"You can't," I told her.
"I just wanna see him."
"I can't let you."
"You just said 24 hours!" Rose said angrily.
"You can't become their daughter, that's not the way it works. Mickey tell her."
"24 hours, yeah?" Mickey said standing up and backed away from me in the opposite direction as Rose.
"Where're you going?" I yelled at him.
"Well, I can do what I want!"
"I've got the address and everything," Rose said holding up her phone.
I looked at Harper who was looking back-and-forth between Rose and Mickey. "Stay where you are, both of you!" I yelled at them, "Rose, come back here. Mickey come back here right now!"
"Just want to see him," Rose cried.
"Yeah, and I've got things to see and all," Mickey said.
"Like what?" I asked.
"Well, you don't know anything about me, do ya? It's always about Rose. I'm just the spare part."
"I'm sorry I gotta go," Rose said as she turned from me.
"Hey Mickey, wait up," Harper called.
I watched in horror as Harper jogged to catch up with Mickey, "Harper?"
"I'm sorry Doctor, but go on, no choose is there? You can only chase after one of us. It's never going to be me or Mickey is it?"
'Harper I…'
'I'll be fine, go…' She gave me a small smile and I knew then what I had to do.
"Back here 24 hours," I yelled at them as I chased after Rose.
Harper's POV
Mickey and I had been walking in silence and it was killing me. I have been with the Doctor so long that I was used to someone talk constantly.
"So, when you said 'if I haven't found something better,' are you planning on staying here?"
Mickey gave a sigh, "I don't know, maybe. I just need to feel like I belong, and I don't think I will ever feel that way on the TARDIS."
"Aww, come on. You belong just as much as Rose and I do."
"Specking of you…" Mickey had a look on his face that could only mean one thing, trouble. "What is going on with you and the Doctor? I mean, since when does he call you 'love'? And that kiss…"
I let out a groan and Mickey laughed at me, "I don't know! He can be the most frustrating man. I don't know where either of those things came from. I wish I could know what was going on inside of that head of his. Well… I can, but he keeps stuff hidden. And we finally talked about the ball, and he apologized for his weird behavior..."
"Which we both know it was jealousy," Mickey put in.
"Yes, of course it was. Wait… what? No it couldn't be that."
We had stopped walking, "And why not?"
"Because he cares for Rose," I said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"And I care for you, but it doesn't mean I want to snog you."
He started walking again as I was trying to process what he said, "Wait, the Doctor wants to snog?" He just laughed and kept walked.
Mickey and I came across some guards and Mickey asked, "Are we alright to get across?"
"Yeah, why brother? Curfew doesn't start until ten," one of the guards said.
"There's a curfew?" Mickey asked.
"'Course there is. Where've you been living, mate? Up there on the tops?" The guard looked up to the sky. Mickey and I looked up to see the zeppelins.
"I wish," I said with a laugh.
We headed to the gate and Mickey waved to the guards, "See ya."
"So we are going to see your gran?" I asked Mickey.
"Yeah, you're going to love her. I can't wait to see her again." Mickey walked up to the door and knocked.
"Who's that there?" We heard her yell from inside the house. Mickey's gran opened the door. I could tell she was blind from her glasses. "Who is it? I know your there shame on you, tricking an old lady. I've got nothing worth stealing. And don't think I'm gonna disappear, your not going to take me."
I gave Mickey a light elbow to the side and he said, "Hi."
"Is that you?"
"It's me, I came home."
"Rickey!"
"It's Mickey!" Mickey smiled.
"I know my own grandson's name. It's Rickey. Now come here."
Mickey hugged his gran and I had to laugh at what he said next. "Okay I am Rickey. Of course I am. Rickey, that's me."
"And who's that?" Mickey's gran asked.
"Oh this is Harper. She's…" Mickey said to say, but his gran cut him off.
"Harper!" She sounded shocked. "Oh, my dear, come here." She pulled me into a hug, "I am glad to know you are safe."
She then pulled way and started hitting Mickey. "You stupid boy. Where have you been?"
Mickey was trying to keep her from hitting himself and said, "Stop hitting me."
"It's been days and days. I keep hearing all these stories, people disappearing off the streets. There's nothing on the download," she pointed to the ear pod she had on. "But there's all these rumors and whispers. I thought they had gone and disappeared you."
"Rickey, how could you?" I asked in mocking horror.
"And I thought after you married Harper you would be more responsible," Mickey's gran said. Both Mickey and I got wide eyed as we looked at each other.
'Oh, you are never going to believe how Mickey and I are connect here!' I told the Doctor.
'How are you connect?' I heard him think back.
'I really want to see your face when I tell you, it's just to good.'
'Oh, come on. That's not fair; you can't say something like that and not tell me.'
'Trust me, it's worth the wait.'
I saw Mickey turn back to his gran to say something but stopped when he looked behind her, "That carpet on the stairs. I told you to get it fixed. You're gonna… fall and brake your neck."
"Well you get it fixed for me," she said.
"I should have done it way back. I guess I'm just kinda useless."
I put my hand on his arm in comfort as his gran said, "Now I never said that."
"I am though, and I'm sorry gran. I'm so sorry."
"Don't talk like that," I said hitting him on the arm.
"Harper's right, don't talk like that! Do you know what you need? A nice sit down and a cup of tea, you got time?"
"For you I have all the time in the world," Mickey said with a smile.
"Oh, you say that, but it's all talk. It's those new friends of yours. I don't trust them."
"What friends are they?" Mickey asked in confusion.
"Don't pretend you don't know. You've been seeing them. Miss. Chan told me, driving about all helter-shelter in that van."
Mickey looked to me and I just shrugged my shoulders. "What van's that then?" I asked.
"You know full and well. Don't play games with me. Get inside."
Right then a blue van pulled up and a man jumped out. He grabbed Mickey yelling, "We've been looking for you everywhere!" He pushed Mickey into the van and I was just able to jump in when they zoomed off.
"Rickey, you're the one who told us, you don't contact your family cause it puts them in danger," the man said.
"Yeah, Rickey said that. 'Course I did, just testing."
"And you found Harper! Your alive!" He hugged me and I hugged him back but looked at Mickey in confusion.
"Yep, can't keep me down for long," I said with an awkward laugh.
"I saw them," the man said sounding excited. "I tapped them. They went around gathering the homeless like a child catcher. They must of took four dozen."
"The vans were hired out to a company called International Electromagnetics," the woman driving the van said. "But I did a protocol search; turns out that's a dummy company established by guess who…"
"I don't know, who?" Mickey asked.
"Cybus Industries," the both said together.
"Well now we got evidence," the man said.
"Bad news is, they've arrested Jimmy. So that just leaves you," the driver said to Mickey.
"Leaves me what?"
"The number one," the man said. "Top of the list. London's most wanted."
"Haha, okay cool." Mickey smiled until it hit him what they just said. "Say that again."
I was trying hard not to laugh at him, Mickey Smith London's most wanted. Who would have guessed?
We pulled up to this abandon looking building and it had one light on. "There's a light on, there's someone inside the base," The guy, who we found out is named Jake, said. "Mrs. Moore, we've got visitors." He said to the driver.
Mickey and I followed Jake and Mrs. Moore as they snuck into the base. Both of them had guns at the ready, which made me a little concerned.
"One… two…" Jake counted down, "three, Go!" They busted into the room guns pointed at… Mickey.
I turned to look beside me to make sure he was still there and figured that was the real Rickey.
Rickey turned around to look at us and asked, "What are you doing?"
Both Mrs. Moore and Jake looked shocked and turned to look at Mickey and then back to Rickey, "What are you doing there?" Jake asked.
"What am I doing here? What am I doing there?" Rickey pointed at Mickey who had guns pointed at him in the next second.
The Doctor's POV
"We could have been anyone," Rose complained as we walked out of the kitchen.
We were currently part of the wait staff for the party at the Tyler's. We were trying to get information on Cybus Industries, which mister Pete Tyler seems to be apart of.
"It got us in, didn't it?"
"You're in charge of the physic paper. We could have been guest. Sir Doctor, Dame Rose, and we end up severing. I got enough of this back home."
People were taking drinks off the tray I was carrying so I said in a hushed voice, "If you wanna know what's going on, work in the kitchen. According to Lucy, that man over there…"
"Who's Lucy?" Rose asked suddenly.
"She's carrying the salmon pinwheels," I nodded over to the young girl.
"Oh, that's Lucy is it?" Rose sounded jealous.
"…Yeah," I chose to ignore her tone. "Lucy says that is the President of Great Britain."
"What there's a President not a Prime Minster?"
"Seems so…"
"Well, maybe Lucy's just a bit thick," Rose mumbled as we started walking again.
"Excuse me!" We heard Pete say from the main staircase. "Thank you very much. Thank you… if I could just have your attention, please?"
We walked in and looked on as Pete made his speech. "Um, I'd just like to say, er, thank you to you all, for coming on this er, this very special occasion. My wife's… thirty-ninth. Trust me on this..." He gave a thumbs up when he said the phrase he was best known for. "So, without any further ado… here she is. The birthday girl… my lovely wife… Jackie Tyler."
Everyone started clapping as Jackie entered the room, but I looked to Rose to make sure she was ok. I knew this would be tough on her.
"Now, I'm not giving a speech. That's what my parties are famous for," Jackie said. "No work, no politics, just a few good mates and plenty of black market whiskey. Pardon me, Mr. President! So yeah, get on with it… enjoy, enjoy!"
"You can't stay. Even if there was some way of tell them," I whispered to Rose as Pete and Jackie passed us.
"'Course I can't," Rose said. "I've still got mum at home, my real mum. Can't just leave her could I? It's just… they've got each other; mum's got no one."
'Jackie's got her!' I heard Harper say in my mind.
'Are you listening in on my conversations?' I asked her.
'Always! I have to make sure you're not going to get us killed, or worse!'
'What expelled?'
'HA! I knew you were a Harry Potter nerd.'
"She's got you, those two haven't." I told Rose after ignoring Harper's last thought. "All these different worlds, not one of them gets it right."
"Rose!" We heard Jackie exclaim. We turned to look at Jackie talking to a small dog. "There's my little girl. Come to mummy, come to mummy! Yes, good girl. Good, girl, aren't you?"
I turned to Rose and could not help but laugh. She gave me a look and Harper was scolding me in my mind so I said, "sorry…"
Harper's POV
As Jake and Mrs. Moore were tying Mickey to a chair, Rickey pulled me into another room.
"Harper," he pulled me into a hug. "How… how are you alive?"
I pull way with a sad look on my face, "I am so so sorry…"
"Your not my Harper, are you? You like that… that other me."
"It's really hard to explain, but…"
"No," Rickey interrupted me. "I don't want to know. But you are still Harper, my wife, and I will still protect you while I can."
When we got back to the room Mickey was in a chair and Jake was scanning him, for what I am not sure.
"He's clean, no bugs," Jake said.
Rickey walked over to Mickey, "Well, this is off the scale. He's flesh and blood, how did that happen?"
"Well it could be that Cybus Industries have perfected the science of human cloning, or you father had a bike."
"Your real name is Mickey, not Rickey," Rickey asked.
"Mickey. Dad was Jackson Smith used to work at the key cutters on Clifton's Parade. Went to Spain, never came back."
Rickey got mad, "But that's my dad. So… were brothers?"
"Be fair, what else could it be?" Jake asked.
"I don't know, but he doesn't just look like me. He is exactly the same. There's something else going on here, Jake."
"We could always ask Harper," Jake offered.
I back up a little, but did not have to worry too much because both Mickey and Rickey yelled, "no!" at the same time.
"S…so who are you lot?" Mickey asked.
"We? We are the Preachers, as in gospel truth. You see… no ear pods. Why the rest of the world downloads from Cybus Industries we… we have got freedom. Your talking to London's most wanted."
'Mickey… London's most wanted? HA never thought I would see the day,' I heard the Doctor think.
'Now who is listening in? But I know! Try keeping a straight face with this going on.'
"But target number one is Lumic and we are going to bring him down." Rickey finished his speech.
"From your kitchen?" Mickey asked.
I let out a laugh at that and Rickey turned to look back at me before turning and asking, "Have you got a problem with that?"
"No, s'good kitchen."
"It's an upload from Gemini," Mrs. Moore said.
"Who's Gemini?" Mickey asked.
"The vans are back, there moving out. Looks like Gemini was right. Lumic's finally making a move," Mrs. Moore said not answering Mickey.
"Then we are right behind him. Pack up we're leaving," Rickey said.
The Doctor's POV
I saw an opening and left the party to try and find something useful. I found a room with a computer and started to work on it.
'Hey Doc, looks like we got trouble just be warned,' I heard Harper think.
'Why what's going on?'
'No idea, but it big.'
I was getting worried about her, 'Are you safe? I will kill Mickey if anything happens to you!'
'I'm fine! Gosh, you're such a worrywart. I will stay at of trouble, I was just giving you a heads up,' I could tell she was rolling her eyes at me even with out being with her.
'Good, see you soon, Love!' And that's when it dawned on me; I had called Harper love twice now and kissed her. I really need to pull myself together!
Harper's POV
Mickey, Mrs. Moore and I were in the van outside a big fancy house while Rickey and Jake we spying on the Cybus Industries vans.
"I don't know what there doing, but this seems to be the target. Big house, fair but of money, now we've got to find a way to get in there," Rickey said over the radio.
"I've identified the address. It belongs to Peter Tyler, the Vitex millionaire," Mrs. Moore said.
"Oh no," I said quietly so only Mickey could hear me, "Peter Tyler?" Mickey asked.
"He's listed as one of Lumic's henchmen, a traitor to the state," Mrs. Moore continued.
'Hey Doc, looks like we got trouble just be warned,' I thought.
'Why what's going on?' I could hear the worry in his voice.
'No idea, but it big.'
'Are you safe? I will kill Mickey if anything happens to you!'
'I'm fine! Gosh, you're such a worrywart. I will stay at of trouble, I was just giving you a heads up,' I rolled my eyes at him.
'Good, see you soon, Love!' Did he just… did he just call me Love, again? What has gotten into him, and whatever it was needs to happen more often.
"Well… we've got to get in there," Mickey said. I knew he was worried about Rose.
"Now, shut it, duplicate," Rickey said. "That's what I just said."
The Doctor's POV
I pulled up a video watching it with concern. I never finish the video as I said, "Cybus!" and ran from the room.
I looked around trying to find Rose because we need to get out of here and quickly. When I found her we went to the window to see dozens of figures heading this way. "It's happening again," I said.
"What do ya mean?" Rose asked.
"I've seen them before…"
"What are they?"
"Cybermen!" Right as I said that the Cybermen started breaking into the house. Everyone started to scream and back around from the windows. More Cybermen came from the front of the house blocking again exit.
"Mr. Lumic," the President said with disapproval is his voice.
"Mr. President, I suppose a remark about crashing the party would be appropriate at this point," Mr. Lumic said over a radio.
"I forbade this!" the President said.
"These are my children sir," Mr. Lumic said. "Would you deny my family?"
"What are they?" Rose whispered to me, "Robots?"
"Worse than that," I whispered back.
"Who were these people?" The President asked.
"Doesn't matter," Lumic said.
'Oi, doesn't matter! Who is he to decide that!' Harper screamed in my head.
'A little loud there, dear.'
'Oops, sorry!'
"There people?" Rose asked in disbelief.
"They were; until they had all their humanity taken away. It's a living breathing brain jammed inside a cybernetic body, with a heart of steel. All emotions removed," I said in disgust.
"Why no emotions?" She asked.
"Because it hurts," I said looked at her.
"I demand to know, Lumic! These people, who were they?!" The President yelled.
"They were homeless and wretched and useless until I saved them and elevated them and gave them life eternal," Lumic said. "And now I leave you in their capable hands. Good night, sir. Good night, Mr. President."
One of the Cybermen stepped up to the President and said, "We have been upgraded."
"Into what?" I asked.
"The next level of mankind. We are human.2. Every citizen will receive a free upgrade. You will become like us."
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry for what's been done to you," the President said. "But listen to me, this experiment ends tonight."
"Upgrading is compulsory," the Cyberman said.
"And if I refuse?" The President asked.
"Don't," I warned.
"What if I refuse?" He asked again.
"I'm telling you, don't?"
"What happens if I refuse?"
"Then you are not compatible," the Cyberman said.
"What happens then?" The President asked.
"You will be deleted," the Cyberman put his hand on his shoulder sending a shock through him, killing him.
After that everyone started run and screaming. Cybermen were 'deleting' more of the guest so I pulled Rose and we jumped out the window. "There's nothing we can do!"
"My mum's in there!" Rose shouted.
"She's not your mother," I grabbed her hand to make her start running. "Come on."
We ran one way only to find more Cybermen so we turned to go the other way when I heard Rose yelling, "Pete! Pete!"
I turn to look and saw Pete Tyler had jumped out the window also, he quickly ran after us.
As we ran around the corner of the house I asked, "Pete, is there a way out?"
"The side gates." As we started running he asked, "Who are you? How do you know so much?"
"You wouldn't believe it in a million years…" We got stopped by more Cybermen and had to turn once more.
"Who's that?" Rose asked as we saw to figures running our way.
"Get behind me!" Mickey yelled. Mickey and another man started shooting at the Cybermen stopping them.
Rose immediately starting to fret over him once the shooting stopped. "Look at you, thought I'd never see you again."
She pulled him in for a hug but he pulled away quickly, "Yeah, no offense, sweetheart, but who are you?"
"Rose," we turned to see another Mickey running towards us. "That's not me… that's like the other one."
"Oh, as if things weren't bad enough… there's two Mickey's."
"It's Rickey, actually." I heard from behind me. I turned to see Harper smile brightly at me. I pulled her into a thigh hug laugh happily.
"Hey, hands off." Mickey… no Rickey said coming over to pull us apart. "Harper I thought I told you to say in the van."
"Well…" Before she could say anything Mickey said, "There's more of them." He was looking out at the Cybermen who had started to circle us.
"We're surrounded," Rose said.
"Put the guns down. Bullets won't stop them," I told them, but the other man with Rickey started shooting again. I push the gun down yelling, "No, stop shooting now! We surrender! Hands up."
'Oh, please tell me you have a plan?' Harper said.
'I am working on it.'
'Well, that comforting.' I looked back at her and saw how Rickey seemed to be a little to close to her for my comfort. I had to get that out of my mind, get us to safe, and then get Harper away from him.
"There's no need to damage us. We're good stock. We volunteer for the upgrade program. Take us to be processed."
"You are rogue elements," one of the Cybermen said.
"But we surrender," I said.
"You are incompatible."
"But this is a surrender!"
"You will be deleted."
"But we're surrendering! Listen to me, we surrender!" I yelled.
"You are inferior. Man will be reborn as Cybermen but you will perish under maximum deletion." The Cybermen started walking towards us again saying, "Delete, delete, delete, delete."
Of course the Doctor is going to get them into trouble! What do you think about Rickey and Harper? I have got big plans on the Doctor's reaction! Thanks so much for reading, love you guys! Until next time my Whovians!
