The Doctor. I really didn't know how meeting him would go, but I was actually surprised about the, dare I say it, friendly banter. Unfortunately, I couldn't really be near him for long, or else I would go bonkers for sure.
I had spent the past month scavenging for parts to fix the Tardis, damn primitive technology had to be taken apart and rebuilt to suit my needs because it was all so damn archaic. Not to mention that the Tardis had been more damaged than I first expected.
So I basically hadn't slept in a month, catching maybe two hours of sleep every two days. If that wasn't bad enough my Tardis didn't have a zero room, and neither did she have the power at the moment to create one. Whoever owned that Tardis before I acquired it was a dumbo.
Which meant that my personality was all over the place, Rina and Nari hadn't had time to settle down in peace so it was like I was constantly at war with myself. Case in point, meeting the Doctor.
Rina was excited and happy, she wanted to jump all over the place. This was the Doctor, The bloody Doctor. She had watched all his epic adventures plus the 10th doctor was her favorite Doctor. Not to mention he looked like a doppelganger of David Tennant, her goddam favorite Death Eater. She was in a fangirling daze.
Nari on the other hand, not so much. There was a lot of bad blood since the moment he had left Gallifrey without telling her or the Master. She still hadn't forgotten about the dinosaur, and the Time War still hit close to home. She had found out after the merge with Rina that the Doctor had used the Moment to destroy their home planet, she wasn't pleased. Not that she had any emotional attachments to the place, it was more the fact that he used the moment, something she had a hand in creating, to destroy the most scientifically advanced planet in the cosmos. So yeah, she wanted to throttle him. Maybe push him into one of her landmines while laughing as he turns into a tree. Or maybe lock him up with the Master for a few decades, now that would be a laugh.
So, yes. Talking with the Doctor while my mind jumped from fangirling to plans of revenge made me want to rip my hair out. The Master went mad with drumbeats, I would go mad with two opposite mentalities inside my head. Give me drums any day.
So after teasing him a bit and ignoring the blonde ape (ignoring her was actually the only thing both Rina and Nari agreed on) I grabbed liquid courage to help my headache and spent the rest of my evening teasing the mortals. At least until the rudy machines appeared.
"No! Stop shooting, now. We surrender! Hands up. There's no need to damage us. We're good stock. We volunteer for the upgrade program. Take us to be processed." I heard the Doctor say, trying to protect the humans.
"You are rogue elements." The pathetic piece of technology replied.
"But we surrender." The Doctor exclaimed, trying to reason with the thing.
"You are incompatible."
"But this is a surrender." For the third time, the Doctor tried. If it was me I would already have blasted the things to smithereens.
"You will be deleted."
"But we're surrendering! Listen to me, we surrender!" He exclaimed once more, and I decided to get out of my hiding spot.
"You are inferior. Man will be reborn as Cyberman, but you will perish under maximum deletion." The Cybermen replied, holding up their arms towards the group.
"I'm sorry to interrupt but that was funny." I said, chuckling at the machines who turned towards me. "A pathetic piece of machinery, created by an inferior species using the feeble brain of said inferior species, is calling a Time Lord inferior. Oh man, what a laugh."
The Cybermen turned their arms to aim at me but before they could shot I put my hand up and used my right thumb to touch the metallic ring I had on the ring finger, activating a codified magnetic pulse that literally blew their brains up.
"Holy hell that was awesome!" Mickey declared, gaping at the robots on the ground.
"You have a sonic ring?" The Doctor asked, frowning at my ring as if I had just burned down his sonic screwdriver. A second ago he was looking at me with relief, now he was annoyed that my toys were better than his?
"Some of us have something called style." I sassily replied, while lazily throwing my hair behind my right shoulder. "Practical and fashionable."
"Since when are you fashionable?" He gaped at her, still looking at me with narrowed eyes.
"Says the guy with the multi-colored scarf and the celery." I replied, narrowing my eyes at him. Did he want to pick a fight? Must be his male ego not believing I just saved his ass. Ugh, men.
"Says the red tacky outfit and the red leather boots." He replied with a smirk, was he teasing me? He shouldn't have mentioned the boots, those boots were great.
"Don't diss the boots." I replied, almost growling at him.
He gave her a cheeky grin but before we could continue Pete spoke up. "I would love to hear you both fight like a bunch of five-year-old but let's not forget we're in mortal danger."
The moment he said that a woman appeared in a van and told us to get in. I frowned at the archaic mode of transportation, it looked more like a death trap, but before I could object the Doctor grabbed my hand and pulled me inside.
"What was that thing?" Mickey asked sending a glance my way, before nodding towards the ring on my finger.
"From the looks of it it's a sonic ring, how did you activate a cerebral meltdown?" The Doctor replied while looking at me for an explanation.
"It's still a human brain inside the machine, I just sent out a magnetic pulse coded to the human brain." I replied with a shrug.
"That would have blown the heads of all the humans in the area." The Doctor growled out, grabbing me by the arm. "Do you even think?"
"I do not owe you any explanations." I replied pushing his hand away. "But unless you failed to notice your pet humans all have their heads attached because It was a pulse coded to a human with suppressed chemicals in their brains."
"You coded it to their lack of emotion." He realized, blinking in surprise. "Why didn't I think of that?"
"Because you're not a neurochemist." I replied, still glaring at him. "Plus your an idiot."
Mickey let out a laugh while Rose frowned at him. "I like you. I don't even know your name but you can shut him up, I definitely like you."
"I'm the Rani." I replied with a nod. "I've been shutting him up since he was a bleeding tot, you can say I have experience."
"I'm Mickey Smith." He replied. "Can we use that ring as a weapon?"
"The range is small and it has isomorphic controls so only I can use it." I replied, looking down at the ring I had created during the past month with the Cybermen in mind.
"Right." Mickey's doppelganger, Ricky I assumed spoke up. "So we don't have any other weapons against the bloody robots."
"Yeah, we've got weapons." Some other guy said glaring at Pete Tyler, I didn't remember his name and I didn't feel like asking Rina if she did. "Might not be one of those metal things, but they're good enough for men like him."
"Leave him alone. What's he done wrong?" Rose said, glaring back at the guy.
"Oh, you know, just laid a trap that's wiped out the Government and left Lumic in charge." The human continued and I rolled my eyes at the chatting, not paying attention.
The Doctor noticed my bored look and grabbed my hand, trying to form a telepathy link with me. I frowned looking down at his hand before sighing and allowing it. It would be better than listening to the human babble.
We need to talk.
I'm aware Doctor.
I need to know, how long has it been since the war for you?
I told you, I've been waiting for a month.
Oh, Rani ...
Spare me your pity, I'm not in the mood.
That wasn't pity.
Don't care. If it's about you using the Moment, I'm aware.
How?
Who do you think built the damn thing? Rassilon? Ah, don't make me laugh.
I'm sorry, we...
We're the only ones left, I know.
I had to do it. Please, I'm ...
Later.
With that, I took her hand back. I didn't want him to hear the other two that pranced in my head, a minute longer and it would have been a four-way chat room. The Doctor gave me an overly emotional look, before forcing a smile on his face to join in on the human conversation.
" We've got a government mole who feeds us information. Lumic's private files, his South American operations, the lot. Secret broadcasts twice a week." Another random human in the vehicle whose name escapes me said. Really, I should just start calling then human one and human two and so on so forth.
"Broadcast from Gemini?" Peter asked.
"And how do you know that?" Doppelganger Mickey replied.
"I'm Gemini. That's me." Peter replied.
"Yeah, well you would say that." Ricky said, shrugging his shoulders.
"Encrypted wavelength six five seven using binary nine. That's the only reason I was working for Lumic. To get information. I thought I was broadcasting to the Security Services. What do I get?" Pete replied frowning. "Scooby-Doo and his gang. They've even got the van."
"No, no, no." Mickey declared, looking towards his twin from another universe for confirmation. "But the Preachers know what they're doing. Ricky said he's London's Most Wanted."
" Yeah, that's not exactly..." Ricky replied, not sure how to put it into words.
"Not exactly what?" Mickey asked, dumbfounded.
"I'm London's Most Wanted for parking tickets." Ricky admitted.
I let out a laugh, amused. "Oh yeah, you're a real Renegade." The Doctor sent a smile my way when he heard the word Renegade, he too was amused it seemed.
"Great." Peter sighed.
" Yeah, they were deliberate. I was fighting the system. Park anywhere, that's me." Ricky explained, after glaring at her for a second.
"Good policy. I do much the same. I'm the Doctor, by the way, if anyone's interested." He said with a grin.
"With the human memory capacity, they'll forget your name in an hour." I said, rolling my eyes at his antics.
"And I'm Rose." Rose said, throwing me another look.
The human really didn't like me, too bad I didn't particularly care. Nari didn't like humans period, and Rina just didn't like Rose. Apparently, of all the companions of the Doctor, Rose was the last on her favorite list. According to her, Donna was the best with Amy Pond as a close second. I personally just thought Rina had a thing for gingers.
"Even better. That's the name of my dog." Pete said. "Still, at least I've got the catering staff on my side."
"I knew you weren't a traitor." The yellow and pink human said.
"Why is that, then?" The doppelganger of Rose's father asked confused.
"I just did." Rose said. I was dying inside, this conversation was a torment. I would have better company within my head with both Nari and Rina.
"They took my wife." The man looked at his hands with a lost expression on his face.
"She might still be alive." Rose said, trying to keep the hope alight.
"That's even worse." Pete exclaimed. "Because that's what Lumic does. He takes the living and he turns them into those machines. "
"Yeah, she's dead." I informed with a neutral tone, they really couldn't say I didn't warn them. The others gave me a look but remained quiet, they agreed that Jackie Tyler was better off dead than a Cybermen.
"Cybermen. They're called Cybermen." The doctor informed while zapping the earpods with his sonic. "And I'd take those ear pods off if I were you. You never know. Lumic could be listening."
"They're Cybertrash." I said looking at the doctor in action, also giving him a slight hint on how to deal with this. The idiot probably wouldn't get it tho. "A computer virus with legs, you just need to find the right antivirus."
The doctor glanced at me surprised as I was adding to the conversation with humans, even if it was to diss a so-called inferior race.
"But he's overreached himself. He's still just a businessman." The doctor continued. "He's assassinated the President. All we need to do is get to the city and inform the authorities. Because I promise you, this ends tonight."
"That was a great speech, you still got it my LordDoctor." I said, tilting my head to the right with a not bad expression on my face.
They were on the street when they noticed that the people around them seemed to be walking around like zombies.
"What the hell?" One of the humans said loudly.
"What's going on?" Rose asked, glancing at the people.
"It's the ear-pods. Lumic's taken control." The doctor explained, analyzing the ear-pods.
"Great, zombies." I said amused. "What is it that the humans say? Ahh, yes - kill it with fire. Or in this case, might be a good idea to shot them in the head."
"Not the time for your comedy Rani." The Doctor said, giving her a dark look. I gave him a grin as if saying that I wasn't' joking. He pointedly ignored me, knowing that I had been serious.
"Can't we just, I don't know, take them off?" Rose asked the Doctor.
"Don't!" He said. "Cause a brainstorm. Human race. For such an intelligent lot, you aren't half susceptible. Give anyone a chance to take control and you submit. Sometimes I think you like it. Easy life."
"That's because it's easier to be a sheep than a shepherd." I said, before walking away towards the squad of Cybermen.
To be continued...