Amy took a step back, the Doctor watching her through a narrowed gaze, his dark green eyes cold as he took a step forward. The Cybermen that were around them clicked as their tendons snapped with new movement after being shut down for so long. Jack blinked, a hand was firmly wrapped around his gun as he prepared himself to shoot but his hand shook, he couldn't just shoot the Doctor.
"You're not the Doctor." Amy said curtly, eyes narrowed coldly as she watched the Time Lord, who was being controlled by cyber technology. "You can't be."
His eye lightened playfully as he chuckled, shaking his head in the process. "No, of course not. Well, I was the Doctor once but that's a completely different time and you were already dead. Would you like me to return you to a grave?"
Martha raised an eyebrow but Amy just growled "No, you shut up and tell me who you are. The Doctor would never work with Cybermen!"
The Cyber Doctor took a step forward until he was mere inches from the trio. He gave Amy's nose a slight tap just like the Doctor always used to do as he said "Oh yes, I'm blowing through the questions with no real answer aren't I? I guess this is what happens when you share a head with the Doctor for twelve hours, thirty-four minutes and forty-four seconds. I'm the Cyber Planner, Mr. Clever if you please."
Amy blinked, Mr. Clever, exactly the type of name the Doctor would make up as a joke but never go by. Martha rolled her eyes but Jack piped up and said "So you're not the Doctor, just a free form consciousness who somehow got a hold of a body?"
Mr. Clever shook his head, a smirk on his face as he walked over to Jack, he slunk around the three of them in an almost predatory motion. "No, full Time Lord body, no consciousness so I just took over. No fight, how fun. Fancy chess anyone-no sorry, I've already said that haven't I?"
Martha whispered to the others quietly "Is he okay?"
Jack shook his head, a Time Lord's memories could never sum up to a mere Cyber Planner. "No, something allowed Mr. Clever a freeform body, that can't happen. He has no memories to go on so he's processing on old information from previous encounters. I think the Doctor was his only encounter with anything non-cyber. This won't end well."
"Why?" Amy asked, eyes watching the Cyber Planner as he rambled off sayings like 'Fantastic!' and 'Allons-y!'. She shook her head, being she had no idea what he was talking about. "What is happening?"
"He'll go crazy," Jack said with a sigh "there are thousands of years in that head of his but the processing unit can only handle up to three hundred. The Time Lord body won't burn out like a human's so naturally, he'll be talking to things that aren't really there."
Martha blinked "So the Doctor's previous selves?"
"Exactly." Jack replied, he was debating to shoot Mr. Clever to put him out of his misery but if he did, how would the reactivated Cybermen react? "We just have to stay calm so he doesn't order the Cybermen to kill us."
The Cyber Planner went still suddenly, nails tearing into his palm in such a way that crimson blood dripped onto the floor. Amy blinked but then he straightened, a sappy almost Doctor-like smile on his face as he straightened his bow tie. "Sorry about that, someone of the other natives won't shut their mouths."
Amy blinked but he only continued. "Anyway, there are many other life signs here but most of them fade in and out. Quite funny don't you think, I have the records of all the Doctor's companions so I know each and every pressure point. For example..." His cold gaze landed on Amy.
She stopped and glared at him as he said with a smirk "Rory. I can't sense his life sign. Sadly, he was quite the guy from the records. Acclaimed doctor, seventeen separate awards, adoptive father, saved dozens of lives. But sadly, no one saved his. Figures."
Jack flinched as Amy slapped him, hard. Mr. Clever placed a hand on his cheek, which was now a stinging red. Amy yelled "You shut your mouth!"
He smirked and the Cybermen moved forward, their metal hands enclosing around Amy's arms, restricting her movement. Jack tried to do something but a Cybermen grabbed his throat, sending thousands of volts through his body causing his heart to stop. Jack hit the floor with a hollow thud, eyes glassy and staring forward endlessly. Amy screamed partially in agony and the other half in horror. The Cybermen that had grabbed her and Martha held them still as Mr. Clever recovered from the slap.
"Scottish, that's all I'm saying." He growled. Now that was something the Doctor would say. "Plus, she's a woman." Now that was an exact quote and it was beginning to scare them.
Amy watched Jack's lifeless form be kicked away by the metal men as the Cyber Planner rambled on about codes, gold, and random facts about Scotland no one really cared about. Amy straightened up suddenly, footsteps echoed through the halls and when Martha managed to twist her neck around to see the three people running around the corner.
"Oh Rassilon," The Doctor said with a snarl, voice icy and lethal "figures it would be you."
Mr. Clever smirked while Martha watched Donna sneak up behind the Cyberman, her hand aiming for the sensor behind its head and at the base of the brain stem that would be used to stun it. Amy growled out a curse in Italian, she had learned the language in New York. Suddenly she fell forward, the grasp being cut short as Rory slammed his sword through the metal man's head. Amy hit the floor on her hands and knees and looked up at the smiling form of Rory.
Martha laughed and hugged Donna as she dismantled the Cyberman in front of her. Jack sat up with a gasp, causing Amy to jump back in horror. Martha flashed a smile that said 'I'll explain later'. Amy nodded but then she shivered, the Doctor was actually threatening the Cyber Planner.
"Now," The Doctor snarled viciously "if you don't let us go, I'll be sure to dismantle you right here and now."
Mr. Clever laughed and straightened his bow tie "Nice try Doctor, you're not that scary as I imagined when you don't have the whole Cyberiad at your grasp. I can tell you've sensed it. So why don't you tell your companions what they're up against?"
Donna narrowed her eyes at the two, Jack smirked, oh the ideas going through his head while finally Amy, Rory, and Martha were just watching in wait for something to happen. The Doctor shook his head with a sigh and said "You may have a replica of my mind and body but you do not order me. So tell me then, you're the Cyberiad, what upgrades have you made these days?"
The Cyber Planner chuckled, Amy blinked, he almost looked like the Doctor but there was just a coldness that shouldn't be there. Mr. Clever said "Plenty, we've used what memories we scrounged up from you to our own advantage. Funny how well these things can work."
Martha saw him shiver at the words, was there something the Doctor wasn't telling them? The Time Lord narrowed his eyes "Like what? I gave you nothing worth of importance. You are greatly mistaken if you think I have."
Suddenly Mr. Clever's arm lashed out and grabbed the Doctor's wrist, for the first time they noticed that metal had traveled down his arms and had clasped over his hands like bones. He grinned while the Doctor looked up in horror. The Cyber Planner shook his head with a sigh "I have enough volts to stop your hearts. Want me to try?"
"No not really." The Doctor said, he grit his teeth knowing he had a few more seconds before he died. This was his chance.
The Time Lord kicked his foot against Clever's ankles, sending the Cyber Planner sprawling. Clever never let go of the Doctor's wrist so they both went down in a heap of limbs. Jack growled, hand tightening on the gun as the Cybermen began to siege forward, arms spread outward as they grabbed at the companions. Jack fired and one of the Cybermen went down, smoking between where the eyes should have been.
Clever growled as he tried to get a grip on the Doctor's other wrist but the Doctor had the upper hand, after all he had been a sparring partner with Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan. The Doctor grabbed Mr. Clever's throat but the Cyber Planner lashed out and the metal that had began to trace across his hand caught the Time Lord's throat, The Doctor paused as electricity surged through his veins but even as he fought to stay conscious, his hand wretched the Cyber Planner's hand free and placed it against his face. Mr Clever screamed, actually screamed.
The Cybermen stopped as electricity flowed through their own sensors, they Cyber Planner and his own minions were connected so they felt the same pain. Jack took and Martha took their chances, the Immortal man kicked a Cyberman while Martha dragged the others back to a safer distance. The Doctor jumped up, and straightened his bow tie, Mr. Clever was lying on the ground, unresponsive and his fingers twitched slightly.
"Is he dead?" Donna called over.
The Doctor nodded "Yeah, well mostly. It's hard to short-circuit a Time Lord's body but being he can't regenerate...we should be fine."
Suddenly The Cyber Planner went still, green eyes glassy as they stared sightlessly at the sky. The Doctor glanced down but then he began to disappear in what appeared to be regeneration energy. The Cybermen followed while the other companions just stared at the metal men. The Cyber Planner's head piece clattered to the ground, the only hint he had been there. Rory had a protective arm around Amy while the Time Lord picked up the head piece and pocketed it, something to add to his collection.
"What now?" Jack asked. "He's gone so what do we do now?"
"No clue." The Doctor replied but then the ground began to shake violently, walls beginning to separate the other companions from the Doctor. It took a moment to process that he was alone but he whipped around to see a girl sitting on a broken piece of the maze floor. He smirked, instantly recognizing the child "Been a very long while, Time."
Clara struggled, trying to free herself from the creature's grasp but the creature wouldn't let go. Rose fired, eyes narrowed as it hit the creature's arm, but it acted like if nothing happened. The Impossible Girl growled as she latched her teeth firmly into the creature's wrist, or what appeared to be one. It gave a screeching cry as it let her fall to the floor a few feet below. Clara looked up as Rose fired again, this time hitting the creature between the eyes causing it to fall to the floor with a sickening crunch.
"What is that thing?!" Clara said as she jumped up, her own weapon clasped firmly in her right hand. "Why can't we remember it?!"
"It's a Silent." Rose said firmly, she was looking around the room for any more of them. "They work for the Silence, The Doctor from my universe said they were an entire religion set on making sure he never said his name."
"Okay then." Clara said with a shake of her head, not wanting to believe that these things wanted to kill the Doctor so he wouldn't say his name. "What's so dangerous about his name anyway?"
"No idea." She answered. "But all I know is that you don't want to know it."
Clara suddenly knocked Rose off of her feet as she fired her own weapon, a Silent screamed and collapsed to the floor in a twitching heap. Rose looked up at Clara while the Impossible Girl just glanced down, a suddenly calm look on her face. The screen switched to two as she stood up. "Sorry, what was that for again?"
"No clue," Rose said as she stood up next to Clara "but I feel we should get out of here."
"Agreed." Clara said with a nod as she walked away with Rose, something was telling her that if they hadn't...the duo would be dead or possibly worse. Suddenly the ground shook violently, a wall in front of them collapsed in a heap of rubble while a few more people stood on the other side.
"Jack?" Rose said suddenly, her eyes wide in disbelief.