So, CyberCloud over London...Some help is called in. I hope you're enjoying this - please review because I'd love to hear your opinions! Thanks :)


"Alec!" Claire cried, parked her bike in the middle of the street as she rushed to Alec.

The two of them hugged on the street outside the BT Tower. Around them, the odd person spilled out into the street – hysterical and terrified.

"Where's Sasha? How do we stop this?" Claire asked, quickly pulling out of the hug.

"They're trapped on the top floor with Miss Rubens. The whole floor is guarded by these puppets."

Suddenly, the sky went dark! There was a rattling of metal from above the. Alec and Claire looked up, a large frown growing across their faces.

Above them – a giant ship, blocking out the sky.

Behind Alec and Claire, the terrified people on the streets screamed, falling to the floor and crying, before running out of the ship's shadow.

"We have to stop this," Claire stuttered, in awe of the ship above her. "Is that thing safe? How can we be sure it isn't just going to fall out of the sky?"

"Well, it's not moving at the moment," Alec thought. "Wait! Hold on! You have CyberSocial, how come you've been turned into one of these Cyberpuppets?"

Claire looked to Alec. "Great question."

"Give me your phone."

"I don't have it. The Doctor took it to make the virus."

"Oh, right, yeah! The Doctor gave it to me," Alec remember, taking a phone out of his pocket. After opening CyberSocial, the screen of Claire's phone turned black, and filled with strings of code, flashing across.

"What's all that?" Claire inquired.

"It's . . . I think it's the virus the Doctor made. I mean, if he used you're phone to design it!"

"Can we use it? If that stops CyberSocial, could we somehow use it on everyone?"

"I don't know!" Alec panicked. "Think!"

"Ok, what do we know?" Claire considered logically. "CyberSocial! It's a social networking device. It allows the Cybermen to take control of everyone with a functioning account. It uploads souls! We can use this virus against it!"

"'Everyone with a functioning account,' you said!" Alec realised. "So we stop the accounts working. To do that we need to transmit this message to everyone-"

"THE TV!" Claire suddenly screamed. "Everyone is just staring at the TVs, waiting for instructions. What if we transmit the virus to everyone via the TV!"

"We did. But when we tried to broadcast the signal, they just upgraded themselves."

"Ergh! No. WAIT!" Claire jumped. "But they're physically watching the TV. If they could see the virus, every single person, then that virus will be received by everyone. And if all this information is kept by the Cybermen in on specific place, then that place will be overrun by one single piece of code. BY EVERYONE!"

Alec gasped. "That is genius! Their big mistake! Their souls are uploaded too. Their vison and hearing uploaded. The virus will be swimming in every single mind. I'm telling you, this will work!"

"Yes!" Claire smiled. "But that means we need to get in this phone in front of the camera. How can we do that?"

The phone rang!

"Wait, that's not my phone!" Claire said, raising her eyebrow.

"No, it's my phone," Alec replied in surprise, taking out his phone. He accepted the called and answered, "Hello?"

"Hello, Alec," the voice on the other end replied.

"Yes. Who's this?"

"Kate Stewart. UNIT. We know you're at the BT Tower. We're on our way."

"It's the Cybermen, Kate. They've taken control using CyberSocial."

"Good. Well we're sending as many forces over as possible."

"Yeah, sure. But we need a helicopter!"

"A helicopter?"

"Don't ask, just bring one!"


Kate Stewart turned to Osgood. "He's gotten ruder."

Osgood nodded. "Blame the Doctor."

"Ok!" Kate called, addressing her team in UNIT HQ, "We're going to need a helicopter and an armed UNIT ready in the next two minutes. And someone contact our special weapons unit; we may need additional assistance."


"Come on! We need to get to a roof."

"Which one?" Claire asked Alec as he hurried down the street.

"Any one!" Alec called as Claire caught up with him. "This one!" Alec decided throwing open the door to what appeared to be an office block.


The Doctor and Sasha were pushed to their knees by the Cyberpuppets.

"So where now?" the Doctor snarled at the Miss Rubens Cyberman. "You've converted everyone with CyberSocial, so what do you do now?"

"You can't exactly take over the world with one Cyberman and some zombies," Sasha pointed out.

"Cybermen awaiting current co-ordinates. They will descend," the Cyberman replied.

"There's more to come?" Sasha clarified.

"Yes. Yes," the Doctor stuttered, understanding. "Miss Rubens, she's the only Cyberman. She arrived here first, made CyberSocial and all that. Now that a chunk of the population is zombified, she calls in the rest. That way, the Cyberman have thousands of volunteers at least to walk into Cyber conversion units, no questions asked, mindlessly."

"And by conversion units, you mean the humans will be converted in Cybermen."


Kate and Osgood were pulled up into the helicopter as it's propellers exploded into life – the UNIT aircraft ascending from the grounds of the Tower.


Alec and Claire climbed into the lift. They selected the top floor and were catapulted upwards.


Kate watched London fly past beneath her – London shrunk to a carpet. The UNIT helicopter cut through the sky, it's propellers whirring into cacophony. Destination: the BT Tower, growing closer and closer. Faster and faster.

"There!" Kate declared, pointing to the roof of a building not far from the BT Tower. "Prepare a drop squad!"

The helicopter, descended on the building's roof. On its surface, Alec and Claire, waving their arms to signal the helicopter. It landed, the propellers rippling the air around it.

"Alec! Claire! Great to see you, but no time for pleasantries," Kate smiled – still formal and to the point – stepping off the helicopter with assistance from the drop squad. "Why did you need a helicopter? I know you're used to danger but this is UNIT territory."

"We need to get to that top floor of the BT Tower," Alec informed Kate.

"Why?"

"The Doctor and Sasha are up there with Miss Rubens. She's a Cyberman thing."

"Just one Cyberman?"

"Yes."

"Easy."

"But, no, we don't need to take her out. We just need to broadcast this," Alec said, showing Kate the virus on his phone.

"Ok. Sure. We can drop you on the roof with the drop squad to assist you."

"No. We don't need that. Just get us close to the Tower and lower me in on a wire," Alec pleaded.

Kate looked uneasy – the plan, for once, out of her control. "Fine. Yes. Get on. Prepare to leave!"

Alec, Claire and Kate ran back to the helicopter and were pulled on by UNIT soldiers as it ascended back into the sky.


"Alert! Alert!" the Cyberman cried, turning away from the Doctor and Sasha, facing out across the London skyline.

"Alert of what?" the Doctor asked.

"Aircraft approaching."

"From where?" Sasha asked, looking out at the city. Just the city and the CyberCloud. Nothing approaching -

SMASH!

The glass wall shattered! Wind whipped into the building!

It was Alec! Alec – dangling from a wire above – was flung onto the top floor, smashing through the glass, knocking the Cyberman to the floor with a thud as he swung into the building. Above him, the helicopter jolted.

Alec landed on the floor, glass raining down around him. Immediately, he removed Claire's phone from his pocket and held it up to the camera.

"Alec!" Sasha gasped.

The Cyberpuppets regained their balance, and advanced on the Doctor and Sasha.

"Whatever you're going to do, do it quickly!" Sasha pleaded.

"Just wait!" Alec barked, still holding the phone to the camera.

"Alec!"

THEY STOPPED!

The Cyberpuppets froze. Then their heads sank. Then they looked back up. Their eyes were human again, with emotion and fear. Alec looked around them – a smile growing on his face.

"What's going on?" the camera man asked.

"Why am I here?" from one of the producers.

"HA!" Alec laughed.

"What happened?" Sasha asked, staggering onto her feet, looking around in a state of surprise.

"It's the virus!" Alec grinned. "Every single person at the moment is watching their TV screens, now they're staring straight at the anti-Cyber virus. The virus being uploaded by them into CyberSocial. They're switching themselves off!"


A family at Christmas. Silence. Watching codes flash across their TV screens. Their chins sinking to their chests as their heads dropped. And they looked up. All was normal. Laughing. Exchanging presents.


A young couple – first Christmas in their new flat. Watching codes flash across their TV screens. Their chins sinking to their chests as their heads dropped. And they looked up. Coffee and pancakes covered stairs. What had happened?


A group of elderly friends, madly trying to wake their friends who had stopped – just sat there, staring. Watching codes flash across their TV screens. Their chins sinking to their chests as their heads dropped. And they looked up. And continued playing cards as if nothing had happened, to their friends' confusion.


A hospital. Busy. Packed. Over half of the hospital's population simply stopped. Panic ensued – doctors clueless, families crying. Watching codes flash across their TV screens. Their chins sinking to their chests as their heads dropped. And they looked up. And simply continued about their business.


The Mbatha's - watching codes flash across their TV screens. Their chins sinking to their chests as their heads dropped. And they looked up.

"Quick! 'Erman!" Grandma Mbatha cried. "They've stopped it!"

"What are you shouting for mother?"

"Bless! Thank God!" Grandma Mbatha smiled, hugging her daughter and grandchildren.


"YES!" Sasha cried in happiness, jumping into Alec's arms, throwing him around in a large hug. "You did it!"

The Doctor staggered to his feet, a smile on his face. "Well, it has to be said," the Doctor said to Alec, "you certainly have way of doing things. Jumping from a wire – I might have to try that some time."

"Blimey, it must be Christmas. You're giving compliments," Alec joked.

Amongst the joking and relief, the Cyberman staggering to it's feet, it's body unscathed – still shining!

"LOOK OUT!" Alec screamed.

BULLET SPEED. The Cyberman ran, time seeming to slow around it like a blurred image – the Doctor, Sasha and Alec all suspended in a state of shock. It grabbed Sasha around the waist!

And jumped . . . Jumped out of the window and fell!

Taking Sasha with it . . .


Yep, Sasha's been chucked out of a window! Good luck with that...