AN: OH MY GOSH DID I NOT POST LAST WEEK?! I'M SO SORRY! I THOUGHT I HAD! I EVEN UPLOADED THE CHAPTER AND EVERYTHING! PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGY!
Bill heaved open the metal door. It made a terrible screech and rust dust drifted to the ground. "Guess this door hadn't been used in a while," he grunted.
The group entered into a huge room that fit Bill and Rachel's description. Hundreds of Cybermen working at conveyor belts looked up in unison.
"Okay, that was creepy," commented Kat.
One Cyberman left its post and came towards them. "You will come with me." It announced. Dr. Rosen looked Bill, then the Doctor, who, along with Clara, had started going with the Cyberman.
"No, I won't." Dr. Rosen said defiantly. I can reason with these things. They have human brains, He thought.
The Cyberman raised one hand and put the other to its chest. "You will be deleted if you do not comply."
The Doctor raised his eyebrows. A Cyberman that warned its enemy before it killed? What did someone do to these Cybermen? "Doctor Rosen, I would really recommend that you do what it says," the Doctor said. Dr. Rosen hesitated, then complied. Rachel made sure Gary came too.
The Cyberman led them through the maze of conveyor belts and stopped at a metal flight of stairs. It stood back against the wall and didn't move.
"I take it we're supposed to go up these stairs?" The Doctor asked the Cyberman, not really expecting a response. He didn't get one.
"Bill, what are we gonna do, Bill? The Cyberman didn't give is any more instructions!" Gary whispered loudly.
"Well, Gary, I'm pretty sure it wants us to go up these stairs here." Bill replied. Gary nodded and walked up the stairs.
"Gary, wait!" Rachel cried, but he had already reached the top.
"What?" Gary asked, turning around.
"Behind you!" Clara cried. A tall man with black hair that reached his ears came up behind Gary. He had a scar that led all the way down his arm that looked like a bolt of lightning. Not the Harry Potter lightning scar, one that actually looked like lightning.
Bill whipped out his gun. "Don't move, Hector!" He yelled.
"So this is the famous Hector Dearborne!" The Doctor whispered to Clara. Clara nodded.
"Hello, Rosen," Hector snarled. Suddenly his hands started sparking and they glowed blue. He pressed them to Gary's temples and Gary collapsed.
Bill cocked his gun and took a shot. Hector's entire body glowed blue and the bullet visibly melted. Hector laughed maniacally. The blue glow dissipated.
"Did you really think that would stop me?" He said. Hector grabbed Gary under the arms and pulled him out of the group's view.
Clara tugged on the Doctor's tweed covered arm. "Did he really just do that?!" She asked excitedly.
"He really just did that!" The Doctor replied, also in awe. They had experienced some Alpha abilities before, but none that had put on such a show. The Doctor grew grim. "But he took Gary,"
"Do we follow him?" Clara asked Bill, who was glowering at the stairs.
"That's what they want us to do, but no, we don't follow him. We're going to find him and Hicks and Nina on our own." Bill said grimly.
"We are?" Kat said, startled. "Oh, yeah, duh, of course we are! Hang on a minute though..." She took out her iPhone and snapped a picture of the Cyberman. "This is so going in my scrapbook,"
"What scrapbook?" Rachel asked.
"The one I'm going to make of all of our alien adventures!" Kat replied happily.
"Come on, Kat!" Bill called. He and Dr. Rosen had gone up the stairs. Kat, Clara, Rachel, and the Doctor hurried up the stairs.
The rusted metal floor stretched to the windows on the far wall in front of them, all of which were cracked. There was a rusty handrail that stretched as far as the floor did. A long hallway stretched to the group's right.
Kat squinted at the hallway, trying to see where it ended. "It looks like it goes on forever!"
"Let me look," said Rachel. A far-away look appeared in her eyes. She was using her hyper senses to look down the hallway. After a couple moments, she frowned. "It doesn't go on forever, but it does go farther than possible. The wall of the warehouse should stop right where the hallway starts."
"How did he do that? There isn't an Alpha that could make something like that. That would be creating a...a..." Dr. Rosen was at a loss for words.
"This is a doorway to another dimension, like the TARDIS. I don't know how they managed to make one here... This is Time Lord technology, being bigger on the inside. Although in this situation, I'd say it's longer on the inside." The Doctor announced.
"Doctor, where would they have gotten Time Lord technology? The Time War is Time Locked. You can't just go in and go out whenever you want to. The only being to do that successfully was Dalek Caan, and he lost his mind!" Clara said, alarmed.
"Yeah... I don't know. The Daleks had that Time Lord jail cell used to hold millions of Daleks, but that stopped working as an infinite amount of space once the last imprisoned Dalek left. It wouldn't be able to used again, and even if it could, you couldn't manipulate it to do what you wanted. That's not how it works... Unless..." The Doctor had an idea. He walked up to the hallway and stuck his hand out. It hit a force field that glowed blue.
Rachel gasped. "What is that? It looks like-"
"An isomorphic force field that can only be passed through if you have the correct DNA or an implant chip? Yes, I thought so too." The Doctor chirped.
"Actually, I was going to say that it looked like a giant lizard or something dragging Gary! I could see it through the force field!" Rachel cried.
Bill drew his gun and tried to enter the hallway. He hit the force field hard, and the whole thing glowed blue for a moment. Bill winced. "Augh."
"I said you could only pass through if you have the correct DNA or a chip! Weren't you listening, Mr. Thick-head?" The Doctor said. He tapped Bill on the head with his knuckles.
"Well, how do you suggest we get through?" Bill asked, annoyed at the Doctor.
"With this!" The Doctor held up his sonic screwdriver. "Because this force field is a sort of door, and if there's one thing a screwdriver is good at..." He buzzed the sonic at the hallway. "...it's opening doors!"
The Doctor stepped into the hallway, where the force field had been moments before. "Ta-da!" He said proudly.
"How did that screwdriver do that?" Dr. Rosen asked.
"Oh, it's very simple. See, since it's sonic, the sound waves caused the isomorphic frequency to become unstable. It recognizes all DNA types now, even my complicated Time Lord DNA." The Doctor paused for breath.
Dr. Rosen nodded, slowly comprehending what the Doctor was saying. "And what was all that stuff about a war? And dahlicks? What are dahlicks?"
"Da-LECKS," the Doctor corrected. "Are another species of alien. They were created by Davros, and they are very hard to kill. We were at war with them, the Time Lords. It was called the Time War... But no need to go into that now! Geronimo!" The Doctor's voice went from somber to energetic. He motioned for the rest of the group to join him inside the hallway. Clara went up next to him.
"Doctor. How is it that the Cybermen are here? And Rachel just said that she thought she saw a giant lizard! I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that's another type of alien. The Cybermen don't ally with others and if they do, it's to somehow trick them." Clara spoke in hushed tones.
"I'll tell you in a moment," the Doctor whispered to her. Louder, he spoke again. "Shall we go? I suggest we walk down the hallway until we see a window. This may in fact, be a portal into a spaceship, not another dimension as previously stated."
"Previously stated? What are you, some kind of geek?" Kat asked.
"Yes." Clara and the Doctor said in unison.
"Well, I'd say more of a genius really, but geek works too." The Doctor added as an afterthought.
As the group wandered down the hall, the Doctor and Clara resumed their conversation. "As you were saying, the Cybermen are here. I haven't worked out how they came to be here yet, but they seem to be some sort of mutation. Well, not exactly mutation. Someone changed their Cybersuit juuuuuust a bit. I'd be willing to bet it was these aliens whose ship we're on."
Kat ran up to the Doctor. "Hang on, Doctor. If we're on a spaceship...does that mean we're in outer space?"
The Doctor grinned. "Yup! An alien spaceship! In outer space!"
Kat smiled, a little dazed. It was a lot to take in! She'd never been outside of the United States, let alone the Earth! At least, as far as she knew.
AN: SPACE, space, space, space, space... The final frontier! How exciting! Although I feel like I didn't really portray Gary correctly. Would he have actually gone up the stairs like that? I don't know. And I also think that I didn't make the Alphas as upset as they should have been about Gary's kidnapping. Oh well.