They decided to find Lumic's base of operations, the Battersea Power Station, I went along with it. We split up, trying to distract the rudy thing and I went with the Doctor. He was my ride home, I wasn't letting him get out of my sight.
We eventually met up again to find out that the doppelganger of Mickey, Ricky, had been offed by the Cybermen. I ignored the angsty attitudes of the humans, in war you lose men it wasn't anything new. We ended up in the waste ground, opposite to the Battersea Power Station.
I saw the Doctor with his two humans talking but decided to ignore the conversation, mostly because my head was killing me and I needed some quiet. I winced and touched my forehead, mentally telling Rina to shut up. I really didn't need her continuing on about how cool this was, which in turn made Nari ramble about the Doctor and his idiotic plans. Never mind the fact I also had most of time and space in my head, my brain was getting way too crowded and I needed the zero room quickly.
A few minutes later the human that had driven the van joined them using her laptop. The distraction maybe her head quiet down for a bit.
"That's a schematic of the old factory. Look." The human said, pointing at the screen. "Cooling tunnels underneath the plant. Big enough to walk through."
"We go under there and up into the control center?" The doctor said, guessing her plan. The woman hummed in agreement.
"There's another way in. Through the front door. If they've taken Jackie for upgrading, that's how she'll get in." Pete said, obviously a completely stupid plan. Then again, what can you expect from apes? At least the human woman had some usable brain cells.
"We can't just go strolling up." The other human said, whose name was apparently Jake. I had figured that when he went all emotional for losing Rickey.
"Or we could, with these. Fake ear pods. Dead. No signal. But put them on, the Cybermen would mistake you for one of the crowd." The smart human said, again proving that the females of the human species had some redeemable qualities. If It had been a human male in this body instead of Rina I would have lost at least half of my brain functions.
"Then that's my job." Pete declared, once again proving my point.
"You'd have to show no emotion. None at all. Any sign of emotion would give you away." The doctor explained, and I was perplexed about why he was ok with this stupid plan.
Rose asked how many sets the other human had, and when she said two the blonde human volunteered as tribute. "Okay. If that's the best way of finding Jackie, then I'm coming with you."
Here I was wondering about the intelligence of the female human species and the girl had to go ahead and throw my hypothesis out of the window. Maybe it's genetic or possibly environmental. I would need to observe other test subjects.
"Why does she matter to you?" Pete asked.
"We haven't got time. Doctor, I'm going with him, and that's that." Rose said, turning to the Doctor.
"No stopping you, is there?" The Doctor replied, resigned. Rose replied with a simple no, and the Doctor just nodded before coming up with a plan. The plan was for the human Jake to destroy the transmitting signal on the zeppelin parked on top of the power station and for the smart female to accompany him into the tunnels- forming three offenses from the top, the middle and from below. Mickey decided to go with Jake and the Doctor finally turned to me.
"You're with me." He said, with a serious expression for once. "Wouldn't want you to somehow team up with the Cybermen against me."
I rolled my eyes, annoyed at his opinion of me. "You really think I would 'team up' with a species such as the Cybermen? It would be more likely for me to team up with bloody Daleks."
He winced at the mention of Daleks but nodded, we were both on the same page. As if I would team with the Cybermen, they only differed from the Daleks on the fact that they wanted to convert instead of exterminating. But other than that, they were both creatures I would enjoy seeing die.
We each took to our paths, I followed the Doctor and the woman into the cooling tunnels.
The doctor made conversation with the human to cover up the silence, while I followed behind him. The smart human was apparently called Angela Price, and I committed it to memory as the first human female I had met with a working brain.
"Doctor, did that one just move?" Angela asked. I turned towards it to inspect it, I'm pretty sure it was awakening.
" It's just the torchlight. Keep going, come on." The Doctor replied with a shrug until we noticed a Cyberman moving near them.
"Oh yeah, a torchlight for sure." I mumbled, glaring at the Doctor.
"Not the time for sarcasm Rani." He replied quickly. "They're waking up. Run!"
They start running away from the rudy archaic pieces of mental until they reach a ladder at the end of the tunnel. The Doctor climbs up first. I turned my back at him and look at the Cybermen reaching towards us.
"Hurry the hell up would you!" I declared, putting myself in front of the human with my sonic ring up and ready to attack. "I can blow up a few but there's a 60-second recharge between each pulse and this body is too pretty to die, I haven't even taken it up for a spin yet."
"Get up! Quick!" Angela says to the doctor. "They're coming! Open it! Open it!"
The Doctor finally opens the trapdoor and climbs up, the human starts to move up when the Cybermen are about to reach me. When I feel the human climb out I activate a pulse and run up the ladder, the Doctor grabs my hand and pulls me up just when another wave of Cybermen reach us. We close the trapdoor again and the Doctor seals it with the screwdriver.
"Oh, good team, Mrs. Moore." He said smiling at the human before turning to me with a cheeky grin. "Really? Too pretty to die? Oh, this you has a larger ego than before. I thought that was impossible."
"I was just stating the obvious." I replied with a shrug. Rina had quite the ego so that plus Rani equals an even bigger ego so he wasn't that wrong.
He looked amused at my response and the three of us carried on through the tunnels.
At least until we were interrupted by yet another Cybertrash. "You are not upgraded."
"Yeah?" Angela said defiantly. "Well, upgrade this." She threw a small rod with copper wire wrapped around it at the Cyberman which stuck to its metal causing it to spark up and collapse on the ground.
"What the hell was that thing?" The Doctor asks in shock.
"From the effects, I would say an archaic electromagnetic bomb." I replied, taking a look at the metallic rod.
"Yes." Angela agreed. "Although that's top of the line technology, not archaic. Takes out computers, I figured it might stop the cyber-suit."
"You figured right." The Doctor said. "Now, let's have a look. Know your enemy. A logo on the front. Lumic's turned them into a brand. Heart of steel, but look." He took out the logo on the chest of the Cybermen, we could see a mix of electronics and human flesh inside.
"Is that flesh?" The human asks shocked.
"Hmmm." The doctor hummed in agreement. "Central nervous system. Artificially grown then threaded throughout the suit so it responds like a living thing. Well, it is a living thing. Oh, but look. Emotional inhibitor. Stops them feeling anything."
"The emotional inhibitor suppresses certain chemicals in their brains, such as the chemicals that a human produces when feeling joy or fear. It's how I could code the magnetic pulse to target their brains." I added, studying the interiors of the machine.
"But why?" Angela asked. "Why stop the feelings? What's the point."
"It's still got a human brain." The Doctor explained. "Imagine its reaction if it could see itself, realize itself inside this thing. They'd go insane."
"So they cut out the one thing that makes them human? " The human asked shocked.
"Many other species have emotions, it's not a human thing." I mumbled rolling my eyes, humans often forgot that the animals they ate also felt emotions. The Doctor glanced at me, obviously earing me before he glanced at the human. He probably thought this wasn't the time and place to have a discussion about our divergent points of view and he would be correct.
"Because they have to." The Doctor replied until the machine spoke.
"Why am I cold?" The Cyberman asked, with fear in its voice.
"Oh, my God. It's alive. It can feel." Yes Angela, thank you for stating the obvious.
"We broke the inhibitor." The Doctor explained. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."
"The chemicals in its brain must be fighting each other for dominance, it seems fear is the obvious winner. I wonder if the brains if functional enough to access it's memory banks, this is fascinating." I said to myself, observing the specimen.
"Why so cold?" It repeated once more.
"It's not the time for science experiments Rani, it's not a lab rat." The Doctor said, glaring at me to shut me up. "Can you remember your name?"
"Sally." The Cybermen replied. "Sally Phelan."
"You're a woman." Angela said astonished. I rolled my eyes, what's it humans and the sex of things? Rina didn't seem to care and she was human.
"Where's Gareth?" Sally the Cybermen asked.
"Who's Gareth?" The human asked.
"He can't see me. It's unlucky the night before." The Cyberman said, and with my earth knowledge that came from Rina, I understood.
"You're getting married." Angela said, obviously pitying the thing.
"I'm cold. I'm so cold." Sally said.
"It's all right. You sleep now, Sally. Just go to sleep." The Doctor said, as he put the sonic screwdriver inside the chest cavity of the Cybermen and switched her off, putting her out of her misery.
Sally Phelan didn't die for nothing, because that's the key." The Doctor said. "The emotional inhibitor. If we could find the code behind it, the cancellation code, then feed it throughout the system into every Cyberman's head, they'd realize what they are."
"The perfect anti-virus, would you look at that." I said with a small chuckle. I didn't need to look at him to see that he was looking at me with an arching brow, studying what I had just said.
"And what happens then?" Angela asked.
" I think it would kill them." The Doctor said, not sure if he should. "Could we do that?"
"We've got to. Before they kill everyone else. There's no choice, Doctor. It's got to be done." Angela declares, before standing up. All of a sudden a Cyberman appears behind her and grabs her shoulder, quickly killing her via electrocution.
"No! No, you didn't have to kill her!" The Doctor rages, oncoming storm coming right up. I remain silent observing the machine.
"Sensors detect two binary vascular system. You are unknown upgrades. You will be taken for analysis." The Cyberman said grabbing both of us by the arms with strength.
"Should I?" I murmured to the Doctor, before glancing at my finger.
He silently shook his head and I nodded in understanding, this thing was taking us right where we wanted to be we might as well take a free ride.
To the central control room, we go.
To be continued ...