-THE DREAM-
It was a crack, a tiny crack in the universe that finally decided history. This crack would be what showed Mickey Smith all that he could be, what would kill his counterpart, Ricky, what would create the Army of Ghosts, and, ultimately, what would split the Doctor and Rose up.
Because this crack let through a dream. A small dream, a shadow, a ghost of another world.
And it gave him the idea of CYBERMEN.
He was 23 when he first started planning. He drew the cybermen, he created codes, wrote programs, perfected his design. Then he worked on getting himself to the top. His qualifications meant that every university he contacted was happy to have him, and he was accepted quickly. At 24, he paid a visit to his dad. He was the last person to see him. The police never suspected him - why would they? The geeky quiet boy who didn't even like to be late for class.
He went out with the lads once a week to get drunk and forget, and used the girls he met to escape.
He got a job, worked his way up the ranks. Got a firm of his own. Now he knew how to create immortality he was not afraid of life - just people. So he sought to control them, until John Lumic was a name known all over the world.
And when he was rich and influential enough, he sought to recreate people to his own design. He gave them compassion enough to want to ease the pain of others, but any other emotion was hidden by the emotional inhibitor. It was better that way. Free will caused regret, pain, hurt.
Suffering. And he knew how to stop it.
And then the Doctor came, and destroyed it all.
-THE DREAM-
I'm sure you know who it is now.
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