Doomsday Part 1
The Doctor led against one of the white walls, Jackie practically tearing her hair out with worry. The Doctor was worried too, but he understood the importance of keeping a level head. On the inside, he was contemplating going to Rose's rescue, bursting through the doors and taking down anything that stood in his way. But in reality, he knew he had to stay put... for now. "What's down there?" Jackie questioned, the Cybermen keeping a close eye on her as she paced around the room worriedly. "She was in that room with the sphere. What's happened to Rose?" she asked again to the Doctor, who was staring at a spot on the ground.
"I don't know," he told her calmly. Jackie looked at him, tears welling up in her eyes. He knew exactly how she felt. Not because the woman he loved was stuck in a room full of creatures they knew nothing about, but because he once had children as well. He knew the worry of wondering what would happen to his offspring and the pain they felt when they were hurt or injured. It was practically the job of a parent. Jackie let out a sob, the Doctor quickly, lowly comforting her. "I'll find her," he promised the woman, placing a single hand on her shoulder. "I brought you here, I'll get you both out. You and your daughter. Jackie, look at me. Look at me," he requested. Slowly, she raised her head, looking at him with blood shot eyes. It was then that the Doctor realy realised how much Rose looked like her mother as he gave her a squeeze of the shoulder. "I promise you. I give you my word," he said sincerely.
One of the Cybermen walked into Yvonne's office and began broadcasting itself to the people of Earth, the Doctor putting on his 3D glasses and watching it. "This broadcast is for human kind," it said, facing one of the cameras that were pointing at it. "Cybermen now occupy every land mass on this planet. But you need not fear. Cybermen will remove fear. Cybermen will remove sex and class and colour and creed. You will become identical. You will become like us." The Cyberman moved away from the camera and toward the glass window, the Doctor, Jackie and Yvonne following it as they looked down at the chaos below them. "I ordered surrender."
"They're not taking instructions. Don't you understand?" the Doctor asked angrily. "You're on every street, you're in their homes. You've got their children. Of course they're gonna fight!" The Cyberman ignored the Doctor as it watched the gunfire and the civil war below them.
A few minutes later, the Doctor, Jackie and Yvonne were watching a live film from a security camera, the sound of metal feet thundering through the corridor as they went to investigate the unknown activities of the unknown origin inside the unknown sphere. The Doctor stared as the security camera turned, the figure of a... Dalek standing in the doorway? The Doctor moved foreword, hoping he'd seen wrong. It was an actual Dalek standing in the doorway facing the two Cybermen.
"Identify yourselves," the Dalek ordered, the two lights on the top of its round head flashing as it spoke.
"You will identify first," one of the Cybermen told them, stopping not too far away from the metal dustbin.
"Identify!" the Dalek screamed, the Doctor looking at it as if his worst nightmares were coming true. Well, in a way, they were.
"Illogical, you will modify," the Cybermen said simply.
"Daleks do not take orders," the Dalek told them fiercely. "Outline resembles the inferior species known as 'Cybermen'."
The Doctor continued looking at the screen as the scene unfolded, Jackie turning to him. "Rose said about the Daleks. She was terrified of them," Jackie said to him, her voice wavering. "What have they done to her, Doctor? Is she dead?" she asked quietly. He gave her a look of the Oncoming Storm, thrusting his hand foreword, his own worry for his human growing stronger. "Phone," he said through gritted teeth. She handed him the small mobile, the Doctor pushing in Rose's number, holding it to his ear, frantic worry etched across his features. There was a long silence between them besides the robotic argument in the background, the Doctor sighing in relief as he heard the Dalek's voice through the phone. "She's answered, she's alive," he told Jackie. "Why haven't they killed her?" he mumbled quietly, thoughtfully as Jackie gave him a look. "Well, don't complain!" she chastised.
"They must need her for something," the Doctor replied his meaning, listening through the phone.
"We must protect the Genesis Ark!" the Dalek on the phone exclaimed to the other Daleks.
"The Genesis Ark?" the Doctor said in wonder as he wiped out the 3D glasses again, looking back at the laptop. "Our species our similar, though your design is inelegant," the Cybermen told the single Dalek.
"Daleks have no concept of elegance," the Dalek told them.
"This is obvious," the Cybermen replied sarcastically. "But consider - our technologies are compatible. Cybermen plus Daleks - together, we could upgrade the universe."
"Request denied," the Dalek said, the Cybermen thrusting their arms out, the small laser guns on the side of their wrists popping out. "Hostile elements will be deleted," the Cybermen cried, walking toward the Dalek and shooting, the lasers bouncing off the Dalek's armour.
"Exterminate!" the Dalek screamed, making the Doctor shudder at the familiar battle-cry. The Dalek shot both the Cybermen, the pair of them collapsing to the ground in a heap.
The Cyberman in the Rift Chamber with the Doctor and Jackie walked toward the wall. "Open visual link," it said, a screen coming into sight on the white wall. "Daleks, be warned: you have declared war upon the Cybermen."
"This is not war. This is pest control," the Dalek replied, the Doctor pacing around the room, not looking at the screen.
"We have five million Cybermen," the metal man told them, nearly scoffing if it were still human. "How many are you?"
"Four," the Dalek replied confidently.
"You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?" the Cyberman asked, practically laughing on the inside.
"We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek," the dustbin claimed. "You are superior in only one respect - You are better at dying. Raise communications barrier!" The screen on the wall decreased into nothing, the Doctor still pacing around the room. There was a loud buzzing coming from the phone, the Doctor looking down at the pone in worry. "Lost her," he mumbled to himself, clicking the phone off. The main Cyberman turned toward the other rows of metal men, ordering, "Quarantine the Sphere Chamber. Start emergency upgrading. Begin with these personnel," he gestured to the three in front of the laptop. The first Cyberman walked toward Yvonne, taking her by the arm strongly.
"No, you can't do this!" Yvonne yelled as it began to drag her away. "We surrendered! We surrendered!" As Yvonne was dragged around the corner, another two stepped toward the Doctor and Jackie, the main Cyberman stopping them. "This one's increased adrenaline suggests he has vital Dalek information," it said, gesturing the Doctor. The two Cybermen both grabbed an arm of Jackie Tyler, walking her away from the room with each while she shouted, "You promised me! You gave me your word!"
The Doctor watched hopelessly as she was dragged away from him and out of sight. "I'll think of something!" he promised when he could no longer see her.
Guilt washed over him as he heard Jackie give a sob as the Cyberman dragged her away. Now he'd broken his promise to them both, Rose and her mother. He was breaking a record. He gave a worried sigh as he sat down at the window, looking out. He wondered if Rose was okay, if she was alive. Slowly, the words he'd spoke at the 2012 Olympics ran through his mind as he watched the chaos on the streets below him. "There's a storm coming…" Another ugly phrase he winced at what 'You will die in battle very soon." He was beginning to wonder strongly if this is what the Beast had meant, but then shook his head in utter denial when he remembered the wise words of Eliza. She wouldn't let anything happen to Rose. Nothing. They were practically sisters. She was probably with Jackie right now, or so he hoped.
The Doctor watched in silence at the battle below him, vaguely aware of a Cyberman approaching him loudly. "You are proof," it stated. "You are proof that emotions destroy you."
The Doctor gave a stiff smile, then looked back out the window. "Yeah, I am," he nodded slowly. He looked to the side of the Cyberman so he was looking behind it, a large glowing white space sitting in the middle of the room, a sucking sound bellowing from it. "Mind you, I quite like hope," the Doctor continued, looking at the white glow as it got stronger, himself frowning. "Hope's a good emotion. And here it comes."
The Cyberman followed his gaze toward the white glow, a group of people dressed, wearing helmets and carrying guns appeared out of thin air. One of them shouted to the others, all of them beginning to shoot at a row of Cybermen, immediately destroying them. The Doctor quickly rolled out of the way and crouched in a corner of Yvonne's office as the last Cyberman had his head blown off by that main man. He looked around the room, noticing the Doctor with a smile in his voice. "Doctor - good to see you again," he greeted, taking off his helmet to reveal a familiar head of dirty blonde hair. The Doctor's eyes widen as he looked at the man, a man that shouldn't of been there "Jake?" he exclaimed, remembering the young man from the Parallel Universe.
Jake nodded. "The Cybermen came through from one world to another - and so did we," Jackie replied, smiling. The Doctor stared at him, looking more angry and concerned than pleased. Jake turned around to his group, barking orders at them. "Defend this room. Chrissie, monitor communications," the Doctor slipped on his 3D specs, quickly taking them down again. "Kill one Cyber Leader and they just download into another. Move!" They hurried from the room to do as they were told, leaving the Doctor alone with Jake.
"You can't just- just-" the Doctor stuttered. "Just hop from one world to another. You can't."
"We just did," Jake said with a shrugged, taking something from his pocket. "With these," he threw the contents of his pocket to the Doctor, himself catching it quickly. In his hand was a large yellow button with a silver outline, the same object Jake was wearing around his neck. "But that's impossible," the Doctor told his young friend. "You can't have this sort of technology."
"We've got our own version of Torchwood," Jake informed. "They developed it. Do you wanna come and see?" he asked, smiling widely. Jake slammed his fist against the yellow button around his neck, the Doctor shouting, "No!"
There was a sucking feeling, the Doctor noted as he hopped through the Breach into the Parallel Universe. His legs tingled as he felt the ground underneath them again, looking at Jake with a glare. They were in the same room, except it was considerably darker, as though there was a struggle recently. There were wires coming from the ceiling and there was equipment strewn all over the floor. "Parallel Earth - parallel Torchwood," Jake said, looking around. "Except we found out what the institute was doing and the people's republic took control."
The Doctor shook his head, looking back at Jake. "I've gotta get back. Rose is in danger," he said urgently. "And her mother."
There were footprints coming from the hallways, three men walking in. "That'd be Jackie," said the man in lead, wearing a suit and a tie, the two men behind him following with guns in their arms. The Doctor looked up in surprise at the man, realising this was Pete Tyler. "My wife in a Parallel Universe," Pete continued. "And as for you, Doctor, at least this time I know who you are," he ended, smiling slightly.
The Doctor rushed to him and started talking immediately. "Right, yes, fine, hooray. But I've gotta get back. Right now," he said quickly.
Pete remained calm, watching the Doctor closely. "No, you're not in charge here," Pete told him sternly. "This is our world, not yours. And you're gonna listen for once." The Doctor looked at Pete darkly as silence fell on all five of them, the Doctor trying to calm himself down and be patient.
The Doctor and Pete walked toward the glass window, down at a city that looked very different to the one he just came from. "When you left this world, you warned us there'd be more Cybermen. So we sealed them inside the factories," Pete explained.
"Except people argued," Jake said from behind them as he walked foreword. "Said they were living. We should help them."
"And the debate went on," Pete nodded. "But all that time, the Cybermen made plans. Infiltrated this version of Torchwood, mapped themselves onto your world, and then vanished. This was about three years ago now.
"It's taken them three years to cross the void, but we can pop to and from in a second," the Doctor said thoughtfully. "Must be the sheer mass of five million Cybermen crossing all at once."
"Yeah, Mickey said you'd rattle off that sort of stuff," Pete laughed softly.
"Oh, where is the Mickey-boy?" the Doctor asked, looking around. The last time he saw Mickey he was with Jake.
"He went ahead first. Any chance to go and find Miss Rose Tyler," Pete told him, the Doctor trying to keep the jealous tone out of his voice when he said his next sentence. One thing he had to explain to Mickey when they got back was that Rose was no longer his, she belonged to someone else now and she was happy with the way things were. "She's your daughter," the Doctor reminded him. "You do know that? Did Mickey explain?"
"She's not mine," Pete scoffed. "She's the child of a dead man." Pete looked out of the window to the peaceful scene below, a zeppelin or two cruising through the sky lazily. "Look at it. A world of peace. They're calling this 'The Golden Age'."
The Doctor winced as he recognised the name, asking hesitantly, "Who's the President now?"
"A woman called Harriet Jones."
The Doctor gave an involuntary glare, scoffing himself at the name. "I'd keep an eye on her," he said darkly.
"But it's a lie," Pete went on. "Temperatures have risen by two degrees in the past six months. The ice caps are melting. They're saying all this is gonna be flooded. That's not just global warming, is it? It's the Breach."
"I've been trying to tell you - travel between parallel worlds is impossible," the Doctor said in a 'I told you so' way. "Then the Daleks break down the walls with the sphere, then the Cybermen travelled across, then you lot - those disks - every time you jump from one reality to another, you rip a hole in the Universe. This planet is starting to boil. Keep going and both worlds will fall into the Void."
"But you can stop it," Pete said hopefully. "The famous Doctor? You can seal the breach?"
"Leaving five million Cybermen stranded on my Earth," the Doctor reminded him.
"That's your problem," Pete told him. "I'm protecting this world, and this world only."
The Doctor chuckled slightly, looking the man up and down. "Pete Tyler... I knew you when you were dead. Now here you are, fighting the fight... alone..." he walked closer to Pete murmuring into his ear, "There is a chance... back on my world... Jackie Tyler might still be alive."
"My wife died," Pete said in denial.
"Her husband died," the Doctor shrugged. "Good match."
"There's more important things at stake," Pete said in a pleading tone. "Doctor... help us."
The Doctor backed away, looking around idly. "What? Close the breach? Stop the Cybermen? Defeat the Daleks? Do you believe I can do that?" he asked.
Pete nodded, replying confidently, "Yes."
The Doctor looked back up at Pete, smiling to himself. "Maybe that's all I need," he said thoughtfully. He let out a grin. "Off we go, then!" he exclaimed. Two seconds later, he, Jake and Pete were back in the white Rift Chamber, the Doctor rushing to the phone. "First of all, I need to make a phone call. You don't mind?" he asked, Pete shaking his head as the Doctor dialled the number. There was a long, long silence, it finally broken with hurried breathes and pleads. "Help me! Oh, my God, help me," came the sound Jackie's voice, sounding as if she'd just been out for a jog.
"Jackie, you're alive!" the Doctor exclaimed happily. "Listen-" he was cut off by the woman herself. "They tried to download me, but I ran away!" she called down the phone as he shushed her continuously.
"Listen, tell me - where are you?" the Doctor asked.
"I don't know!" Jackie replied back, the blonde side of her coming out in major now. "Staircase," she said ditsily.
"Yeah, which one?" the Doctor asked, his patience running on an all time low. "Is there any- any sort of sign? Anything to identify it?"
"Yes!" Jackie called back, a spark of hope firing in the Doctor as he exhaled. "A fire extinguisher!" she added, hypothetically throwing a jug of water over said spark in the Doctor's stomach.
"Yeah, that helps," the Doctor replied sarcastically.
"Oh, wait a minute…" Jackie said, her voice going lower. "It says 'N3'."
"North corner, staircase 3," the Doctor said quickly. "Just keep low, we're trying our best. I've gotta go, I'm sorry," he said in finality as he put the phone down and turned to Pete. "Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Tyler."
"She's not my wife," Pete said, not recognising the full name.
"I was at the wedding," the Doctor said, smiling at the comical memory. "You got her name wrong," he added accusingly. He walked back to Jake, who had acquired a huge gun from the Parallel Universe. "Now then, Jake-y boy, if I can open up the bonding chamber on this thing, it could work on polycarbide," he explained.
"What's polycarbide?" Jake asked.
"Skin of a Dalek," the Doctor answered as he fiddled with the gun.
A white sheet of A4 paper attached to stick to make a flag popped around the corner, waving back and forth, the Doctor peeking his head out of he corner of the corridor a few seconds later. "Sorry," he said apologetically as the Cybermen turned to look at him. "No white flag. I only had a sheet of A4. Same difference," he said, shrugging as he strode down the corridor toward them.
"Do you surrender?" the Cyberman asked as it thrust its arm foreword, ready to shoot.
"I surrender," the Doctor nodded. "Unto you," he added, the two of them coming face to face in the middle of the corridor. "A very good idea," he continued with a wide smile.
A few minutes later, the Doctor was slowly, quietly turning a corner, into a new room, listening to the blissful sound of Rose's voice explain to the Dalek's how she killed the Dalek Emperor. He smiled mentally at her, proud that she was one of his companions. No… no, Rose Tyler was never just a companion.
"You will be exterminated!" the main Dalek shouted at Rose. The Doctor took his cue to waltz into the room, calling "Oh now, hold on, wait a minute." He looked to Rose and smiled, noticing Mickey was with her as he looked around with his 3D glasses.
"Sensors report he is unarmed," one of the four Dalek's said.
"That's me," the Doctor nodded lightly. "Always."
"Then you are powerless," another Dalek said.
"Oh, not me," the Doctor denied, taking off his glasses. "Never," he said, walking to Rose happily to see she was safe and sound, not a scratch on her. "How are you?"
"Oh, same old, you know," Rose chuckled, giving the Doctor a giggle as she smiled happily.
"Good!" he said, turning his attention to Mickey, who was grinning at him as well. "And Mickity-McMickey!" they bach fists in greeting. "Nice to see ya!"
"And you, boss," Mickey replied with mirth.
"Social interaction will cease!" the main Dalek ordered. There was a long silence between all seven of them, the main Dalek breaking it. "How did you survive the Time War?"
"By fighting," the Doctor replied sternly. "On the front line." Mickey turned to look at the Doctor, as if this was the first time he'd ever heard of that. "I was there at the fall of Arcadia. Someday I might even come to terms with that. But you lot - ran away!" he said accusingly, taunting at the Dalek's. "The last four Daleks in existence. So what's so special about you?"
Rose tugged on the Doctor jacket in an attempt to get his attention. "Doctor, they've got names. And Daleks don't have names, do they? One of them said they-" she was cut of by the four Daleks themselves, introducing each of them.
"I am Dalek Thay," said the main Dalek.
"Dalek Sek," said another, the Doctor smiling softly to himself as he recognised them.
"Dalek Jast."
"Dalek Caan."
Even though he was facing the last four of the race that caused his people to burn, the Doctor seemed delighted. He smiled at them, exclaiming, "So that's it! At last- the Cult of Skaro. I thought you were just a legend."
"Who are they?" Rose asked lowly.
"A secret order. Above and beyond the Emperor himself," the Doctor answered, strolling around the four dustbins. "Their job was to imagine. Think as the enemy thinks. Even dared to have names," he added distastefully. "All to find new ways of killing."
Mickey cleared his throat and gestured to the Ark. "But that thing, they said it was yours. I mean, Time Lords. They built it. What does it do?"
"I don't know," the Doctor admitted with a shrug. "Never seen it before."
"But it's... Time Lord," Rose said.
"Both sides had secrets," he told her darkly. He turned toward Dalek Thay. "What is it? What have you done?"
"Time Lord science will restore Dalek supremacy," the Thay replied.
"What does that mean? What sort of Time Lord science?" the Doctor questioned. There was a lot of Time Lord science, each one less likely to be used by the Daleks. "What do you mean?"
"They said one touch from a time traveller will wake it up," Rose supplied helpfully.
"Technology using the one thing a Dalek can't do," the Doctor said in pity. "Touch. Sealed inside your casing. Not feeling anything... ever... from birth to death, locked inside a cold metal cage. Completely alone. And that explains your voice. No wonder you scream." The Doctor said to the Daleks eye piece.
"The Doctor will open the Ark!" Dalek Sek shouted. The Doctor let out a contemptuous laugh, walking away from the Dalek. "The Doctor will not."
"You have no way of resisting," the Dalek said triumphantly.
"Well... you got me there," the Doctor sighed dramatically. "Although... there is always this," he held up his Sonic Screwdriver for all four of them to see.
"A sonic probe?" Dalek Jast asked.
"That's 'screwdriver'," the Doctor corrected.
"It is harmless," Dalek Sek claimed scornfully.
"Oh yes," the Doctor nodded in agreement. "Harmless is just the word. That's why I like it. Doesn't kill, doesn't wound, doesn't maim. But I'll tell you what it does do - it is very good at opening doors." He pressed the button on the Sonic, the doors on either side of the room exploding immediately. Through the new door, Jake and his group flood the room, along with the Cybermen, all weapons firing at the Daleks.
"Delete! Delete!" the Cybermen chanted as they fired at the Daleks.
"Alert! Casing impact, casing impact!" Dalek Sek announced. While the battle continued, the Doctor threw himself and Rose to the ground, trying desperately to avoid the bullets and lasers from all weapons. "Rose, get out!" he told her. She gave him a helpless look, then ran toward the door. She stumbled slightly, Pete helping her regain her balance. She looked at him in surprise, then realised this wasn't the best time for explanations as a laser shot passed her head. The Doctor quickly made his way to them, waiting for Mickey as Rose called for him.
Jake soon managed to reach the door, Mickey loosing his footing and stumbled back, burning his hand right on the Genesis Ark, jumping away quickly. He looked down at his hand, then back at the Ark, running to the door soon after, Jake's group sealing it shut, leaving the Daleks and Cybermen inside.
"Jake, check the stairwell," the Doctor barked. "The rest of you, come on!" The Doctor, Rose, Mickey and Pete ran down the corridor, Rose staying close to the Doctor, Mickey apologising all the way. "I just fell, I didn't mean it!" he exclaimed, looking down at his hand as he was sure the Doctor thought he was still 'Mickey the Idiot', which he was desperate to prove he wasn't, not anymore. He was longer the Tin Dog, and he was going to prove it.
"Mickey, without us, they'd have opened it by force. To do that, they'd have blown up the sun. You've done us a favour!" the Doctor said, grabbing Mickey and kissing him on the head. "Now, run!"
