Chapter 18

Without the TARDIS/Rise of the Cyberman

By: Izzy

"What's happened?" Rose asked as they fell.

"The time vortex is gone." the Doctor said as he franticly tried to stop them but to know avail. "That's impossible. It's just gone. Brace yourself! We're going to crash!"

"Everyone all right?" he asked. "Rhee? Rose? Mickey?"

"I'm fine. I'm okay." Mickey responded. "Sorry. Yeah."

"But Rhee is unconscious," Rose said as she ran to Rhee's side.

"What?!" the Doctor said with fear in his voice. He ran to Rhee's side too. "Rhee?" She didn't respond, fear crushed his hearts. He looked at the TARDIS console and realized something. "When did she faint?"

"I don't know," Rose said. "I think I was right when the Vortex disappeared." His breath got caught in his throat did the TARDIS take Rhee with it? No the TARDIS wouldn't do that to him. He checked Rhee's pulse, it was going haywire. 110 beats per minute, and she felt cold. She was alive but in distress. Suddenly she gasped and screamed. Everyone had to cover their ears from her scream. The Doctor scanned her with his Sonic, trying to figure out what could be causing her distress. He noticed that their was extra tissue in her chest and figured that was causing her pain. Maybe the TARDIS was keeping the pain in check and knew what the extra tissue was. But that raised a whole new set of questions.

He ran to the Med Bay and grabbed a heavy pain killer and brought it back. He injected her with it hoping it would help her. She stopped screaming and coughed. "Thanks," she said weakly. "What happened to the lights?" She got up slowly with his help.

"Are you sure you're alright?" he asked as she was finally up right.

"I'll live," she said as she wobbled a bit. "Now back to the lights?" Trying to get his mind back on the TARDIS and off her.

"She's dead. The TARDIS is dead." he said sadly with fear still present. She knew he was still going to worry about her

"You can fix it?" Rose asked.

"There's nothing to fix." he said sadly. "She's perished. The last TARDIS in the universe. Extinct." Rhee started to cry as as she stroked the console lovingly.

"We can get help, yeah?" Rose offered.

"Where from?" he asked.

"Well, we've landed. We've got to be somewhere." Rose said. Rhee gripped her chest, it was hurting to breath. Even with the pain killer he had given her, she was still in pain. Just luckily not as much as she was in before. Goddess, it felt like her lungs were on fire, and like something had been physically ripped from her brain. Plus she could hear the thoughts of Mickey and Rose. Well Rose was voicing her thoughts but Mickey was thinking along the same lines as her but he was also feeling slightly jealous of the Doctor and Rhee's relationship with Rose. Rhee tried to focus on blocking out everyone else's thoughts, so she could her her own. She sighed.

"We fell out of the vortex, through the void, into nothingness." the Doctor said sounding and feeling hopeless. "We're in some sort of no place. The silent realm. The lost dimension." Mickey walked to and open the front door.

"Otherwise known as London." he said as he stepped out. Everyone followed him shortly there after. "London, England, Earth. Hold on." He saw a newspaper and read the date aloud. "First of February this year not exactly far flung, is it?"

"So this is London." Rhee asked trying not to sound as weak as she felt.

"Yep." he said proudly.

"Your city?" the Doctor asked.

"That's the one." Mickey said.

"Just as we left it?" Rhee asked.

"Bang on." Mickey said.

"And that includes the Zeppelins?" the Doctor asked.

"What the hell?" Mickey asked as he looked up to see the Zeppelins.

"That's beautiful." Rose said. Rhee got dizzy again and sat down. She never really knew how much the TARDIS did for her until now. She needed to talk to the Doctor but at the same time she knew they were about to be really busy with Cyberman. She sighed.

"Okay, so it's London with a big international Zeppelin festival." Mickey said.

"This is not your world." the Doctor said as he got an odd feeling.

"But if the date's the same, it's parallel, right?" Mickey asked with excitement. " Like Rhee's world, am I right? Like a parallel Earth where they've got Zeppelins. Am I right? Wait, Rhee did we leave your world? Does your London have Zeppelins?"

"Nah, this is a whole 'nother world," Rhee said glad that their eyes never left the Zeppelins. Then Rose noticed the ad.

"So, a parallel world where-" Rose started. Rhee stood up to go to Rose's side.

"Oh, come on." Mickey said. "You've seen it on films. Like an alternative to our world where everything 's the same but a little bit different, like, I don't know, traffic lights are blue, Tony Blair never got elected."

"And he's still alive." Rose said as Rhee reached Rose. Rhee put her hand on the younger woman in sympathy. "A parallel world and my dad's still alive."

"Don't look at it, Rose." the Doctor tried. "Don't even think about it. This is not your world." He didn't want Rose to get hurt. And meeting someone from a parallel world would be a great deal of trouble.

"But he's my dad and-" she said as she reached out to touch the ad. It started to play its short looped film.

"Trust me on this." it said in Pete's voice.

"Well, that's weird. But he's real." Rose said.

"Trust me on this." it repeated.

"He's a success." Rose said in awe. "He was always planning these daft little schemes. Health food, drinks and stuff. Everyone said they were useless. But he did it." Rhee knew a small bit of how she felt. In the Doctor's world there was a Rita Jane with her daughter Jessica Dawn but they weren't Rhee's family.

"Rose, you've got to trust me when I say-" Rhee started but Rose looked away from Rhee and to the ad. "You need to stop looking at it." Rhee stood in between her and the ad. "Your father's dead. He died when you were six months old. That is not your Pete. That is a Pete. For all we know, he's got his own Jackie, his own Rose. His own daughter who is someone else, but not you. You can't see him. Not ever."

"But-" Rose started.

"Sweetie," Rhee interrupted. "I understand how you feel when I first got to your world the TARDIS help me search her database for my family. I found my mother and sister but they weren't my family." Rose sighed and nodded in understanding. The Doctor's eyes went wide, because he didn't know.

"Trust me on this." it said one last time as the Doctor went into the TARDIS to try and figure something out. Rhee did her best to move Rose away from the ad.

"Mickey," Rhee said once she was happy with the distance between Rose and the ad. "I need to talk to the Doctor. Watch after Rose for a bit."

"Sure," Mickey said as he took Rose from Rhee and guided her to a bench. Rhee walked back into the TARDIS.

"Love?" Rhee asked.

"Are you alright?" the Doctor asked with panic thick in his voice.

"I need to talk to you about some things." she said as she moved to the jump seat and sat down. He moved to stand in front of her. "I've been noticing some weird things going on with me."

"I have too," he said sadly.

"My temp has been quickly decreasing," she said. "I didn't age while with Reinette. And now I feel like I could die." He winced at the way she worded it. "My chest hurts, and even though you gave me the pain killers, my body feels like its dieing from the inside out." She sighed and he hugged her.

"I'm sorry," he said as she started to cry. "I don't know what to do." She shook as she cried and he held her as if she were going to leave him. "I swear to you Love, I will find out what is happening to you! And I will fix it!" Mickey leisurely walked in.

"I told you to keep an eye on her." she said as the Doctor let go.

"She's all right." he said.

"She goes wandering off." the Doctor said. "Parallel world, it's like a gingerbread house. All those temptations calling out." He moved from her and around the console.

"Oh, so it's just Rose, then?" Mickey said with anger heavy in this voice. "Nothing out there to tempt me?" She sighed knowing that he was jealous of his own girlfriend. But Rhee also knew him finding his Grandma was important.

"Well, I don't know," the Doctor said in anger. But she knew he was angry at himself for a whole lot and if she had felt better she would have comforted him. "I can't worry about everything. If I could just get this thing to-" He kicked the console and sat down beside her.

"Did that help?" Mickey asked.

"Yes." the Doctor said.

"Did that hurt?" Rhee teased knowing it hurt. Despite the pain she was trying to act like herself.

"Yes. Ow." he said. "We're not meant to be here. The TARDIS draws it's power from the universe, but it's the wrong universe." Mickey gave him a confused look.

"It's like diesel in a petrol engine." Rhee added.

"But I've seen it in comics." Mickey said. "People go hopping from one alternative world to another. It's easy."

"Not in the real world." the Doctor said. "It used to be easy. When the Time Lords kept their eye on everything, you could hop between realities, home in time for tea. Then they died, and took it all with them. The walls of reality closed, the worlds were sealed. Everything became that bit less kind."

"Then how did we get here?" Mickey asked. "How did we get to Rhee's world?"

"I don't know." the Doctor said. "Accident? Should 've been impossible."

"My world was the TARDIS' doing she pulled us through a Rift that leads to my world however it took a lot out of our old girl so she was tired." she explained. "So she fell through the crack in space and time to this world. Before we fell she told me what was going on."

"Now we're trapped." he said. "What's that?" He pointed to a small green light on the floor.

"What?" Mickey said.

"Is that a reflection?" she asked as Mickey and the Doctor got closer.

"It's a light!" he exclaimed. "Is it? Is that a light? I think that's a light. That's all we need. We've got power! Love, Mickey, we've got power! Ha!" He crawled under the grating and pulled out the power cell. "It's alive!"

"What is it?" Mickey asked.

"It's nothing." the Doctor laughed as he held the power cell. "It's tiny. One of those insignificant little power cells that no one ever bothers about, and it's clinging onto life, with one little ounce of reality tucked away inside."

"Enough to get us home?" Mickey asked.

"Not yet." the Doctor said. "I need to charge it up."

"We could go outside and lash it up to the National Grid." Mickey suggested.

"Wrong sort of energy." the Doctor said. "It's got to come from our universe."

"But we don't have anything." Mickey said sounding defeated.

"There's me." the Doctor said happily as he blew on it. It grew bright. "I just gave away ten years of my life. Worth every second." She frowned as the light went dim then out.

"It's going out. Is that okay?" Mickey said worried.

"It's on a recharging cycle." the Doctor said happily. "It'll loop round, power back up and be ready to take us home in, oo, twenty four hours?"

"So that gives us twenty four hours on a parallel world?" Mickey asked as Rhee got up and walked down the hall.

"Shore leave." she heard the Doctor say as she continued to the Med Bay. "As long as we keep our heads down. Easy. No problem. Let's go and tell Rose. Rhee?" Rhee was in the Med Bay looking for pain killers because she had already decide who she was going with when Rose and Mickey went separate ways. "What are you doing back here?"

"Looking for good pain killers," she said.

"I have them with me," he said.

"Then fork them over," she teased.

"Are you planning on leaving me?" he asked sounding hurt.

"No," she said. "It's just if we get separated because of accident or design, I'll have them."

"Sounds like you know what's going to happen," he said.

"Doesn't it always happen?" she asked.

"I guess you have a point," he shrugged as he handed over three shots full of the pain killers he gave her earlier. "Just no more stunts like with Reinette alright?"

"Don't worry I won't be going through any magic doors." she teased.

"Good," he said. "Let's go find Rose." They walked out of the Med Bay and met Mickey in the console room. Then the three of them went to find Rose outside. "There you are. You all right? No applause. I fixed it. Twenty four hours, then we're flying back to reality. What is it?"

"My phone connected." Rose said. "There's this Cybus Network. It finds your phone."

"Not creepy at all," Rhee said.

"It gave me Internet access." Rose continued.

"Rose, whatever it says, this is the wrong world." the Doctor said.

"I don't exist." she said. Rhee's phone beeped and her curiosity got the better of her she looked for her under every name she's ever had.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"There's no Rose Tyler." Rose said. "I was never born. There's Pete, my dad, and Jackie. He still married mum but they never had kids."

"Give me that phone." he demanded and reached for the phone. She moved it so he couldn't take it. Rhee found no sign of her, Rita, or Jessica. Rhee sighed and put her phone in her pocket.

"They're rich." Rose continued. "They've got a house and cars, and everything they want. But they haven't got me." She got up and walked away from him. "I've got to see him."

"You can't." he protested.

"I just want to see him." she stressed.

"I can't let you." he told her.

"You just said twenty four hours!" she exclaimed.

"You can't become their daughter, that's not the way it works. Mickey, Rhee, tell her." he said as he looked behind him.

"Twenty four hours, yeah?" Mickey asked as he walked in the opposite direction of Rose. Rhee sighed.

"Where're you going?" the Doctor asked.

"Well, I can do what I want." Mickey said.

"I've got the address and everything." Rose stated.

"Stay where you are, both of you. Rose, come back here!" the Doctor tried. "Mickey, come back here right now!"

"I just want to see him." Rose said.

"Yeah, I've got things to see and all." Mickey told them.

"Like what?" the Doctor asked panicked. He knew he was losing them and it scared him.

"Well, you don't know anything about me, do you?" Mickey said. "It's always about Rose or Rhee. I'm just a spare part."

"I'm sorry. I've got to go." Rose said.

"Go on, then." Mickey said as he nodded to Rose. "There's no choice, is there? You can only chase after one of us. It's never going to be me, is it?"

"But Mickey I can go with you," Rhee said softly with a light sadly pain filled smile. She looked back to him and noticed that he was worried about her. "We'll be back in twenty four, Love. Try not to worry."

"Back here, twenty four hours!" the Doctor shouted as she ran after Rose.

"I figured you would go with him," Mickey said as they walked away.

"Why's that?" Rhee asked.

"I didn't think you liked me," he said.

"Well Mickey-sama," she started. "It's not that I don't like you." Rhee sighed. "It's complicated."

"Complicated?" he almost yelled. "You've been teasing me since we met and your telling me the reason why is complicated?"

"Yes," she said as she stopped him and looked him in the eye. "Mickey look I'm not the Doctor. I don't see time lines and know everything about everyone's future but I know things I shouldn't and I know you can be better than you are." He was surprised by that. "Mostly because you remind me of when I was young. When I was in high school I was the girl that did anything and everything to try and be accepted by my classmates."

"You think I do that?" he asked.

"Kind of but it's more that you lack the confidence to just be yourself," Rhee said. "It took me a long time to get the confidence to just be me and when I did it was like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders."

"You think?" he asked.

"I know," she said. "Now I look at things like this. If you don't like me then fuck off." She sighed. "But one thing about me hasn't changed."

"What's that?" he asked.

"I try and fix everyone," she said as they came on a roadblock.

"Are we all right to get past?" he asked the officer.

"Yeah. No bother." the officer said. "Curfew doesn't start till ten."

"There's a curfew?" Mickey asked.

"Course there is. Where you been living, mate? Up there with the toffs?" the officer said nodding to the Zeppelins.

"I wish. See you." Mickey said. They continued their walk.

"So who are we going to see?" Rhee asked. She knew but she wanted to talk, to keep her mind off the pain that was getting worse as they walked. She knew this was going to be 24 hours of hell.

"My Gran, Rita Anne." he responded. "She died in our world. Well my world."

"It's OK," she said with another pain filled smile. "I don't think of where I was born as my world anymore. The TARDIS is my world." They dropped it and walked the remaining blocks in silence. He walked to the door and knocked. A large older blind lady answered the door.

"Who's that there?" she said. "Who is it? I know you're there. Shame on you, tricking an old lady. I've got nothing worth stealing. And don't think I'm going to disappear! You're not going to take me." Rhee sat down on the steps.

"Hi." he said.

"Is that you?" Rita Anne asked hope thick in her voice.

"It's me. I came home." he said almost ready to cry.

"Ricky?" she asked.

"It's Mickey." he said.

"I know my own grandson's name. It's Ricky. Now, come here." she said in a bit of a huff. She hugged him hard, the whole seen made Rhee smile.

"Okay, I'm Ricky. Of course I am. Ricky, that's me." he said in a bit of a hurry. Rita Anne slapped him. "Ow!"

"You stupid boy. Where have you been?" she said. Rhee laughed lightly remembering her visit with her mother.

"Ow! Stop hitting me!" he whined.

"It's been days and days!" Rita Anne exclaimed. "I keep hearing all these stories. People disappearing off the streets. There's nothing official on the download but there 're all these rumors, and, and whispers. I thought that God had disappeared you!" Then he noticed the carpet on the stairs.

"That carpet on the stairs, I told you to get it fixed." he said. "You're going to fall and break your neck."

"Well, you get it fixed for me." she said. Rhee started to feel the pain come back in full force so she injected herself with another shot hoping she wasn't going to overdose on this stuff.

"I should have done way back." he said. "I guess I'm just kind of useless."

"Now, I never said that." Rita Anne said.

"I am, though." he said. "And I'm sorry, Gran. I'm so sorry."

"Don't talk like that." she said. "Do you know what you need? A nice sit down and a cup of tea. You got time?"

"For you, I've got all the time in the world." he said.

"Oh, you say that, but it's all talk." she said. "It's those new friends of yours. I don't trust them."

"What friends are they?" he asked.

"Don't pretend you don't know." she said. "You've been seeing them. Missus Chan told me. Driving about all helter skelter in that van."

"What van's that, then?" he asked.

"You know full well! Don't play games with me," she said as a van pulled up behind them. "Get inside." Jake grabbed Mickey and Rhee pulling them into the van.
I've been looking for you everywhere!" Jake said then looked at Rhee. "Is this the new operative?"

"Ricky! Ricky!" they could hear Rita Anne shout as they drove away.

"Ricky, you were the one who told us you don't contact your family because it puts them in danger." Jake said.

"Yeah. Ricky said that." Mickey said. Rhee rolled her eyes at how lame that sounded. "Course I did, just testing."

"I saw them." Jake said. "I taped them. They went round Blackfriars gathering up the homeless like the child catcher. They must've took four dozen."

"The vans were hired out to a company called International Electromatics." Mrs. Moore said. "But I did a protocol search. Turns out that's a dummy company established by guess who?"

"Cybus Industries." Rhee said. Mickey looked at her confused.

"Well, now we've got evidence." Jake said.

"Bad news is, they've arrested Thin Jimmy. So that just leaves you." Mrs. Moore said.

"Leaves me what?" Mickey asked.

"The Number One." Jake replied. "Top of the list. London's Most Wanted."

"Okay, cool." Mickey said "Say that again?" When they got to the secret base of the Preachers it was night. Rhee sighed when they arrived. "Something wrong?"

"There's a light on." Jake said. "There's someone inside the base. Mrs. Moore, we've got visitors." Jake and Mrs. Moore drew a gun. "One, two, three, go!" When they busted through the door only to see Ricky, which surprised Mickey. Because Ricky looked just like Mickey.

"What the hell are you doing?" Ricky asked his question directed at Mickey.

"What're you doing there?" Jake asked.

"What am I doing here?" Ricky asked as he pointed to Mickey. "What am I doing there?" They turned their guns to Rhee and Mickey. Putting both into a chair and tyeing them up.

"You didn't fight them," Mickey said low.

"No need," Rhee said. "They're good people." Jake scanned them. Rhee started to hurt again, so bad she wanted to cry. She concentrated on her breathing. Without the TARDIS blocking all this pain she was worried that she was going to be useless to the Doctor, Mickey and Rose.

"He's clean. No bugs." Jake proclaimed loudly as he finished the scan. This pulled Rhee out of her musings.

"But this is off the scale. He's flesh and blood. How did that happen?" Ricky asked.

"Well, it could be that Cybus Industries have perfected the science of human cloning, or your father had a bike." Mrs. Moore said.

"And your name is Mickey, not Ricky." Ricky said trying to understand.

"Mickey." Mickey confirmed. "Dad was Jackson Smith. Used to work at the key cutters in Clifton's Parade. Went to Spain, never came back." Rhee wanted to smack Mickey for telling them that. She sighed again and winced at the pain the sigh caused.

"But that's my dad. So, we're brothers?" Ricky asked still trying to understand.

"Be fair. What else could it be?" Jake said.

"He's from a parallel world," came a familiar American voice, well familiar to Rhee. She looked up and saw the owner of the voice and about died right there. It was Matt. Not her Matt, but a Matt. He stood the same six foot four, with the same hair style, but different style of clothing.

"Matt?" she said as a whisper.

"A parallel world where I know this woman obviously." Matt said.

"You can't be serious, Boss." Ricky said. "Do you really believe in that nonsense?"

"I do," Matt said. "What's your name Ma'am?"

"Rhiannon Riwitis," Rhee said as Matt untied her. "But my friends call me Rhee."

"I'm Matthew Allen Hayden," he said as he helped her up. "But I'm sure you know that."

"Well my Matt's middle name was different," she said.

"I can tell seeing me causes you pain," Matt said sadly.

"Wait," Mickey said. "Hayden I've heard that name before." He thought for a minute. "Hayden's the name you used when you were teaching. So this is the parallel version of your former husband." Matt looked at Rhee and saw it.

"I am, aren't I?" Matt asked. Rhee felt that her voice would betray her so she nodded instead. "I'm sorry."

"Not your fault," she said as she turned to Mickey and released him.

"So, who are you lot?" Mickey asked once he was free.

"We're the Preachers." Matt said. Mickey looked confused.

"As in Gospel Truth. You see?" Ricky said pointing at his ears to show there was no plugs. "No ear plugs. While the rest of the world downloads from Cybus Industries, we, we have got freedom. You're talking to London's Most Wanted, but target Number One is Lumic, and we are going to bring him down."

"From your kitchen?" Mickey asked and she elbowed him.

"Have you got a problem with that?" Matt asked towering over Mickey.

"No, it's a good kitchen." Mickey said sounding like he was going to wet himself. The computer beeped.

"It's an upload from Gemini." Mrs. Moore said.

"Who's Gemini?" Mickey asked.

"Their contact on the inside of Cybus." Rhee said and Matt looked at her in surprised.

"That's clever," he said with a flirty smile.

"Thanks," she said blushing. She felt like she always did when she was around her Matt. But she knew this Matt wasn't hers plus she was the Doctor's woman now. She looked down at her engagement ring sadly.

"The vans are back." Mrs. Moore said. "They're moving out of Battersea. Looks like Gemini was right. Lumic's finally making a move."

"And we are right behind him." Matt commanded. "Pack up, we're leaving." They all piled into the van. Matt checks his swords, Ricky and Mrs. Moore check the guns.

"Boss," Ricky said. "I don't mean to question you, but are you sure about letting them go free." Rhee caught a glimpse of one of his swords.

"Japanese steel," Rhee said. "That's a Hittori original. I recognize the logo."

"Because she's clever," he said. "And we can use clever." He smiled at her. Ricky huffed and went to the driver seat. "Don't mind him." She smiled at Matt.

"Don't worry I won't," she said.

"Do you know how to work a fire arm?" he asked.

"Yeah," she said. "But I don't really like guns."

"Yeah," he said. "Me neither." They laughed as Ricky started the van. "You know I just met you but-I don't know. I feel drawn to you."

"I'm sorry," she said sadly. "I'm engaged." She showed him her ring and he frowned.

"I'm sorry," he said. "I didn't know, I wouldn't have-"

"I know it's OK," she said.

Once at the estate, Matt went full commander. He commanded Mrs. Moore, Rhee and Mickey to stay in the car. While Matt, Ricky and Jake went to hide in the bushes. "I don't know what they're doing, but this seems to be the target." Ricky reported to Mrs. Moore over the walkie-talkie. "Big house, fair bit of money."

"We need to find a way in." Matt commanded.

"I've identified the address. It belongs to Peter Tyler, the Vitex millionaire." Mrs. Moore said.

"Pete Tyler?" Mickey asked in a bit of a panic.

"He's listed as one of Lumic's henchmen. A traitor to the state." she informed him.

"But we've got to get in there!" he exclaimed.

"Now, shut it, duplicate!" Ricky said. "That's what the Boss just said." There was a large thud and then loud footsteps could be heard both over the walkie-talkie and in the distance. Rhee shallowed knowing that it was Cyberman.

"What's going on?" Rhee asked. "What are you seeing?"

"What the hell are they?" Matt asked not answering her questions. Rhee ran out to join the guys. She got to them as they ran to meet Rose and the Doctor.

"Who's that?" Rose asked.

"Get behind me!" Matt shouted. The three of them opened fire on the Cyberman. For a second the Cyberman stayed away.

"Oh my God, look at you." Rose said as she hugged Ricky. "I thought I'd never see you again!" He pulled away.

"Yeah." he said. "No offense, sweetheart, but who the hell are you?"

"Rhee!" the Doctor shouted as he ran up to Rhee. He hugged her and she hugged him back. "How's your pain."

"Excruciating," Rhee said. "I'm running on years of pain tolerance and adrenaline."

"As soon as I have the TARDIS working again I want you in the Med Bay," he said as he pulled away too look in her eyes.

"Rose!" Mickey said breathlessly "That's not me. That's like the other one."

"Oh, as if things weren't bad enough, there's two Mickey's." the Doctor teased.

"Tell me 'bout it," Rhee teased hiding her pain.

"It's Ricky." Ricky protested.

"But there's more of them." Mickey said as the Cyberman surrounded them.

"We're surrounded." Rose said.

"Put the guns down!" the Doctor shouted at them.

"Bullets won't stop them!" Rhee exclaimed.

"Do it!" Matt commanded.

"We surrender!" the Doctor shouted. "Hands up." Everyone did as was requested. "There's no need to damage us. We're good stock. We volunteer for the upgrade program. Take us to be processed."

"You are rogue elements." the Cyberman said.

"But we surrender." he said.

"You are incompatible." it said.

"But this is a surrender." he stressed.

"You will be deleted." it said as Matt drew his sword waiting for it to make a move.

"But we're surrendering!" the Doctor shouted. "Listen to me, we surrender!"

"You are inferior." it said. "Man will be reborn as Cyberman, but you will perish under maximum deletion." It raised it arm and came after Matt as she swung his sword. "Delete. Delete. Delete!" Rhee ran between the Cyberman and Matt as it got close enough to kill him. He stopped mid swing as the Cyberman grabbed and electrocuted her. She cried out in pain.

"RHEE!" the Doctor and Matt screamed as her body fell to the ground lifeless.

Notes: A cliff hanger! Sorry it's short again but fitting both eps on one would have made for a very long chapter. But I will try not to leave you hanging too long but idk how long that's gonna be. Good news my baby is no longer sick! Just teething. Oh joy. Anyway Thanks again all Readers and Reviewers!