Chapter 4
The Doctor and Zeke entered a stairwell and went up two more floors and the two went out into a storage level. The Doctor didn't say anything on the way up and Zeke had calmed down. Zeke opened a door and walked inside. The Doctor followed him in and Zeke shut the door. The Doctor didn't wait for Zeke to tell him to have a seat. The Doctor just took a seat and smiled at the young man. Zeke sat in the chair behind the desk.
"So I take it this is your office," said the Doctor.
"How did you know that?" asked Zeke.
"You seem comfortable and happy here compared to when I ran into you two levels down. You aren't twitchy anymore. Also, I am an expert at reading people. It's a gift of this incarnation," explained the Doctor.
"Incarnation?"
"Nothing," the Doctor said, "So what's on this floor?"
"More Cybermen," said Zeke. This time he was calm and not shaking out of his skin.
"What!" boomed the Doctor.
That made Zeke jump.
"Why do you have Cybermen here?"
"These are loyal," said Zeke, "I wrote a program for these new Cybermen to defend humanity when the robot revolution happened. They are program to help us."
"Wait a minute," said the Doctor, "You made these Cybermen capable of listening to humans?"
"Of course," answered Zeke, "I've had this planned out since summer last year. I couldn't put it into motion until this place hired me back in January. They told me one of their other leads, Dr. Howard, went off the deep end and was killed."
"Wait a minute," said the Doctor, "Dr. Tesla Howard? I know what happened to him. He was a Great Vampire and I ended up having a confrontation on the roof back on Christmas Eve. I ended up killing Tesla with my own blood."
"What?" asked Zeke. His eyes were incredibly wide and he was getting his fear back.
"I used my blood to kill the Vampire. My species's blood is lethal to Vampires unlike human blood," said the Doctor.
"That's enough, Man!" yelled Zeke, "Are you saying you're not human?"
"Yeah about that," said the Doctor, "You're right. I'm not human. I come from a race of beings called Time Lords, a species as ancient as the universe itself."
"But you look human," said Zeke.
The Doctor rolled his eyes and sighed.
"What?" asked Zeke, "Oh! You said your race was as old as the universe itself which would mean you don't look human. Us humans look like your people! Oh my God! I thought we were the only one's who had this appearance."
"Wow," said the Doctor, "I am impressed. You are the only one who has figured out that you look Time Lord, and about this form, it is actually quite common because of Rassilon."
"Rassilon?" asked Zeke.
"The founder of Time Lord society."
"Was he an awesome science guy?" asked Zeke excitedly.
"He was a scientist who overthrew a monstrous woman called the Pythia. Eventually several years into his reign, he became a raging psychopath. His best friend Omega had vanished by that time. Then there was the Other. No one knows about him. His name was lost in history and forgotten."
Zeke listened intently and noticed the Doctor started to cry when he talked about the Other. "Doctor, who's the Other?"
"I told you," said the Doctor, "I don't know."
"When you started talking about him, you started crying," said Zeke.
"What?" asked the Doctor. He rubbed his cheeks and sniffled. "Why am I crying? I don't even the Other is. I need to go. I need to be alone right now." The Doctor left the room and looked out into the blackness of the Cybermen storage level. Zeke watched from his office and wondered why the Doctor was crying.
After several minutes, the Doctor came back in. He had held back his tears and was ready to get this Cybermen problem taken care of. "Okay, Zekey," said the Doctor, "We need to activate these Cybermen so they can fight the other Cybermen in the building."
"I've tried to activate them, but the tower's in lockdown and the activation systems are offline. I can't get them to turn on," said Zeke, "Do you have an alien way to turn them on? Before you answer that, how do you understand me?"
The Doctor smiled and answered Zeke, "I can understand every language. It's a gift of my people. Plus the TARDIS has a translation circuit in it."
"TARDIS?" asked Zeke.
"It's my spaceship. It's also a time machine," replied the Doctor.
"Time machine? You are a time traveling alien? That's awesome!" praised Zeke.
"Why do you think my people were called Time Lords? Because they were excellent at watch making?" the Doctor mocked.
"You never know," said Zeke, "They could've."
"Actually they were now that I think of it," said the Doctor in realization.
Zeke smiled a toothy smile.
The Doctor crinkled his eyebrows and asked, "What's with the smile, Beaky?"
"I just realized that I am talking to an alien, an actual alien from space," said Zeke.
"Where have you been for the last half hour?" asked the Doctor waving his hands around, "Well anyway that doesn't matter."
"Why doesn't it matter?" asked Zeke.
"Because I have this my twitchy friend," said the Doctor. He took out his sonic screwdriver.
"What's that?" asked Zeke, "Some kind of cool alien tool?"
"That's exactly what it is. Its real name is a sonic screwdriver. It can do tons of stuff that I am not going to talk to you about because we really don't have time. I can use this to activate the Loyal Cybermen and use them to help us in defeating the defectors."
"That thing can do all that?" asked Zeke.
"Zeke, I'm a Time Lord. This thing in my hand is child's play compared to what my civilization was capable of. We had conquered time and space by the time you had started the Neolithic Revolution and that's actually being generous. Anyway back on subject. Where do I use this thing to activate these units?"
Zeke got up and said, "Follow me my alien friend!"
"Please don't say that! It's Doctor. Just Doctor," said the Doctor.
"Okay follow me, Doctor," replied Zeke. Zeke walked to a circuit breaker and turned on all the lights to the storage level. The lights shot on and the sight was amazing. There was at least one hundred Cybermen units on floor 72.
"That is quite a sight, Beaky," said the Doctor. He patted Zeke on the back and leaned on the railing, "Okay, where is the activation console at?"
"This way," said Zeke. Zeke ran down the stairs into the storage room. The Doctor followed his twitchy friend down the stairs and they walked to the other side of the Cybermen storage level.
"Hey, Beaky, why is the activation console on the complete opposite end of the floor?" asked the Doctor.
"I have no idea. It was designed that way when I got this office, Doc," said Zeke.
"Doctor! It's Doctor. Not Doc, Docky, or My Alien Friend. It's DOCTOR!" boomed the Doctor waving his arms around again.
"Sorry, Doctor," replied Zeke.
"Thank you," said the Doctor.
"You're welcome," said Zeke.
The two walked the rest of the way in silence and when they got to the console, the Doctor held out his screwdriver and pressed the button. The yellow light shined on the computer screen and all the Cybermen turned on and one unit walked over to Zeke and the Doctor.
"This is LC-1," said the Cyberman.
"What?" asked the Doctor.
"Loyal Cyberman 1," replied Zeke, "It was an idea I had. How do you like it?"
"It makes them distinctive from the rest of the Cybermen," said the Doctor, "I'm fine with it."
"What are your orders, Zeke Beakerman?" asked LC-1.
"You will obey the Doctor as if he was me," said Zeke, "Do you understand?"
LC-1 looked at the Doctor and replied, "Understood."
"What are your orders, Doctor?" asked LC-1.
"Uhm, hold on a minute okay," said the Doctor. He pulled Zeke aside and asked, "Beaky, they're active. Do you want to release on the other Cyber units upstairs?"
"That's a bit rushed, isn't it?" asked Zeke.
"Uh, no," said the Doctor, "There are innocent people being converted to Cybermen. That has to stop now!"
"Okay," said Zeke, "But we need to get to the top floor."
"Why?" asked the Doctor.
"I have another program that is installed in all the Cybermen, loyal and hostile," said Zeke, "But it can only be activated from the top floor in Montana's office."
"What is it?" asked the Doctor.
"A kill command. All Cybermen will explode and be destroyed," said Zeke, "I created it when I got hired just in case these were the machines that rebel in Robot Revolution."
"Wait a minute, you have a program that can end all of this?" asked the Doctor.
"Yes," said Zeke.
"I could kiss you right now!" cheered the Doctor.
"Please don't," said Zeke nervously.
"Okay, I won't," replied the Doctor, "Back on subject. I will use these Cybermen to create a distraction to get to the top of tower and activate that code. Actually, Zeke, you activate that code and I will try to stop the upgrading process. How's that plan?"
"That's a great plan," said Zeke.
"Okay, we need to get going as soon as possible," said the Doctor, "LC-1, I have a plan to discuss with you." The Doctor stood there with a mischievous smile and Zeke stood there next to looking nervous.