Rise of the Cybermen
Disclaimer: See Chapter 1.
Notes: For you Doctor Who fans, I'm skipping "The Girl in the Fireplace" I don't really care for the episode and I don't think there would be much for Teddy.
It was a couple of days after I first joined my Uncle and his companions Rose and Mickey on board the TARDIS. I walked into the control room and saw my Uncle and Rose sitting on the captain's chair next to the console while Mickey was standing next to the console pressing a button. The Doctor and Rose were telling him about one of their previous adventures. I wasn't really paying attention to the story. I was walking around the console checking everything, making sure the TARDIS was running properly. One of my favorite subjects at the Academy had to do with TARDISes. They were truly remarkable. They were living machines. Each one was grown not built. It was sad to know that this was the last one. But, like The Doctor and me, it couldn't have a better representation for its form of life.
"And that weird munchkin lady with the big eyes?" The Doctor laughed as he looked at Rose, "Do you remember? The way she looked at you! And then she opens her mouth and fire comes out!"
Rose shrieked with laughter, "I thought I was gonna get frazzled!"
"Yeah! One minute she's standing there, and the next minute…rawwwh!"
He and Rose mimicked fire coming out of their mouths before falling over laughing. Mickey smiled and nodded, not really following along. Mickey just nodded and smiled, "Yeah... where- where was that, then? What happened?" he asked.
"Oh, it was on this um... uh, this uh... planet thing, asteroid," said The Doctor, "It's a long story, you had to be there."
I shook my head and looked at Mickey and asked, "Mickey, are you just standing there holding that button down?"
"'Cos he told me to... " he said as he gestured toward The Doctor.
The Doctor blinked, "When was that...?"
"About half an hour ago…"
"Um. You can let go now. "
Mickey let go of the button and Rose started to snicker, "Well, how long's it been since I could've stopped?" he asked.
"Ten minutes? Twenty? ... Twenty-nine?"
"Uncle…" I shook my head
"You just forgot me!" shouted Mickey.
"No, no, no! I was just- I was just... I was calibrating," said The Doctor, "I was just... no, I know exactly what I'm doing."
At that moment the console exploded in sparks and flames., whole ship started to shake and knocked us all down. We all got to our knees and Rose asked, "What's happened?" asked Rose
"The time vortex is gone!" said The Doctor as he tried to operate the console.
"That's impossible!" I said. As I desperately tried to save the TARDIS.
"It's just gone," Said The Doctor, "Brace yourself! We're going to crash!" We all laid on the floor and then we landed with a violent crash. Then, oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling. The brilliant green that glowed from the time rotor was gone. The only lights in the control room was the emergency lights that surround the now smoking console.
"Everyone all right?" asked The Doctor, "Rose? Teddy? Mickey?"
"I'm fine," said Mickey, "I'm okay. Sorry. Yeah."
"Yeah," I said as I got to my feet, "I'm good…"
"She's dead," said The Doctor as we walked around the console. He pressed a couple of buttons but there was no response, "The TARDIS is dead."
"You two can fix it?" asked Rose.
"There's nothing to fix," I said, "She's perished. The last TARDIS in the universe. Extinct." I was doing my best to hold back the tears. But, it was getting hard. Besides my uncle the last connection I had to our home world was the TARDIS. I took a deep breath,
The Doctor could tell how I was feeling, he wrapped his arm around me, "You OK, Teddy?"
"Yeah… I'll be fine…"
"We can get help, yeah?" asked Rose.
"Where from?" asked The Doctor.
"Well, we've landed. We've got to be somewhere."
I shook my head and said , "We fell out of the vortex, through the void, into nothingness."
"We're in some sort of no place," said The Doctor, "The silent realm. The lost dimension."
Mickey walked over to the door and opened it, "Otherwise known as London." he said.
We walked over to the door and walked out of the door. Instead of nothingness we were across the River Thames from Parliament. The TARDIS landed on a strip of grass a couple of feet above a walkway that ran along the banks of the river. The Doctor and I looked around while Mickey talked, "London, England, Earth. Hold on." Mickey picked up a discarded newspaper. "First of February this year not exactly far flung, is it?"
"So this is London." I said.
"Yep."
"Your city," said The Doctor.
"That's the one." Said Mickey
"Just as we left it,"
"Bang on."
"And that includes the Zeppelins?" I asked.
We all looked up and saw the giant Zeppelin fly over head.
"What the hell?" said Mickey.
"That's beautiful." said Rose.
"Okay, so it's London with a big international Zeppelin festival."
"This is not your world," said The Doctor.
"But if the date's the same, it's parallel, right?" asked Mickey, "Am I right? Like a parallel Earth where they've got Zeppelins. Am I right? I'm right, aren't I?"
"Must be," I said.
"So, a parallel world where…" said Rose.
But before Rose could complete her sentence Mickey jumped in, "Oh, come on. 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," said Rose. I turned to see what she was talking about. There was an advertisement next to the river for something called Vitex Lite in new cherry flavor. There was a business man on the poster. He was holding the bottle in one hand and giving thumbs up in the other. On the bottom of the poster it read, "Trust Me On This." and it was signed Pete Tyler.
The night before, Rose told me about the time that my uncle in his previous incarnation took her to see her dad on the day he was killed. He was killed in a hit-and-run accident on the way to a friend's wedding. Rose wanted to be there when he died because her mother told her that he died alone, and she wanted to comfort him as he past away. The Doctor agree but when the time came she couldn't move. So, she asked The Doctor if they could do it again. He reluctantly agreed but this time she prevented her father's death and as a result it created a paradox that nearly destroyed Earth. Eventually, Rose's father realized that he had to sacrifice himself in order to save his wife and daughter.
Rose started to walk toward the poster and said, "A parallel world and my dad's still alive."
"Don't look at it, Rose. Don't even think about it," said The Doctor, "This is not your world."
"But he's my dad and" Rose reached forward to tough the poster and it came to life for a moment.
It said, "Trust me on this." Then he winked and gave the thumbs up.
"Well, that's weird." said Rose, "But he's real."
"Trust me on this," said the ad again.
"He's a success," she said with a big smile on her face, "He was always planning these daft little schemes. Health food, drinks and stuff. Everyone said they were useless. But he did it."
The Doctor put his hand on her shoulders and turned her so she could look him in he eyes "Rose, if you've ever trusted me, then listen to me now," She looked back over at the poster and he said, "Stop looking at it." Then she turned to look back at him. "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."
The Doctor and I went back to the TARDIS to see if there was anything we could do to get us all home. The Doctor told Mickey to keep on eye on Rose to make sure she didn't to anything foolish. By the time we got back inside there was very little light inside the control room. As I looked around the broken husk of the once great machine. I couldn't help but think of my family back on Gallifrey and then I thought of my family in Denver. What would they have been like in this world? Would P.J or Gabe or Toby or Charlie even exist? Would my mom and dad be married? Then, it really hit me. Even if there was some way I could get to Denver. There was a very good chance that they wouldn't even now me at all. Finally I couldn't take it anymore, I sat down on the captain's seat and I started to cry. The Doctor sat down wrapped his arms around me to comfort me. "Shh…" he said, "It'll be all right, Theodora…"
"I know, Uncle Theta…" I said. I used his Gaillifreain name because we were alone. People from other worlds were not allowed to know our real names once we went through the Naming Ceremony, when we reached the age of 200. "It's hard knowing that I might not be able to see any of my family in Denver again… They've been such an important part of my life the last 18 years."
"I promise that if we get out of here. I'll take you to see them. I take Rose home every once and awhile. Mainly because I don't want to make her mum mad… Believe you me… that woman has a slap like you won't believe…"
My uncle rubbed his cheek and I laughed, "Well, from what I've seen the past few days you need someone to keep your rudeness in check…"
"Hey…" he said. I laughed and then Mickey came in. The Doctor turned and saw Mickey. He got up, walked over to him, and said, "I told you to keep an eye on her!"
"She's all right," said Mickey.
"She goes wandering off… Parallel world, it's like a gingerbread house! All those temptations calling out."
"Oh, so it's just Rose, then? Nothing out there to tempt me?"
"Well, I don't know, I can't worry about everything." said The Doctor. I rolled my eyes. The Doctor walked up to the console, "If I could just get this thing to…" Then he kicked it.
"Did that help?" asked Mickey.
"Yes," said The Doctor.
"No," I said.
"Did that hurt?" asked Mickey.
"Yes," said The Doctor as he sat back down on the captain's chair next to me. He picked up his foot and started to rub it, "Ow."
I smiled and patted his shoulder. I looked up at the console and Time Rotor that stood before us, "We're not meant to be here. The TARDIS draws it's power from the universe, but it's the wrong universe. It's like diesel in a gasoline engine."
"But I've seen it in comics," said Mickey, "People go hopping from one alternative world to another. It's easy."
"Not in the real world," I said sadly.
"It used to be easy," said The Doctor, "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?"
"I don't know. Accident? Should've been impossible. Now we're trapped. What's that?"
I looked in the direction my uncle was looking and saw a small green light coming from under the grating that surrounded the console. I smiled.
"What?" Mickey looked
"That, there," said the Doctor as he pointed, "Is that a reflection?" He looked up and the three got up and moved over to where they light appeared to be. We crouched down and looked through the grate, "It's a light! Is it? Is that a light? I think that's a light. That's all we need."
The Doctor and I pulled up the grate, "We've got power! Teddy, Mickey, we've got power! Ha!" The Doctor climbed in the hole and started pulling out pulling out various hoses, wires, and circuit panels from under the console. I shook my head, because I knew the TARDIS wouldn't be very happy with me for letting him do that to her, even if it meant bringing her back to life. "It's alive!" he cried as he reached the light.
"What is it?" Mickey asked.
"It's nothing. It's tiny," I said, "One of those insignificant little power cells that no one ever bothers about, and it's clinging onto life. But with one little ounce of reality tucked away inside!"
"Enough to get us home?"
"Not yet," replied The Doctor as he pulled himself out of the hole and sat beside, holding the cell carefully in his hands, "I need to charge it up."
"We could go outside and latch it up to the National Grid!"
"Wrong sort of energy," I said, "It's gotta come from our Universe."
"But we don't have anything…" said Mickey
"There's us..." the Doctor replied as he looked at me. I had an idea what he wanted us to do so I got in the hole next to him. "Ready?" I nodded. He held the power cell between us. We each took a deep breath and blew gently on the cell as it glowed brightly. We both grinned from ear to ear. "We each just gave away five years of our lives," he told Mickey.
"Worth every second…" I said.
"It's going out. Is that okay?" asked Mickey.
"It's on a recharging cycle," I said, the cell it started to grow brighter again, then dimming, basically pulsing.
"It'll loop round," the Doctor added, "Power back up and be ready to take us home in… 24 hours?"
I nodded, "Sounds about right…" The Doctor kissed the power cell and I laughed a little.
"So, that gives us 24 hours on a parallel world?" asked Mickey.
"Shore leave!" the Doctor smiled, "As long as we keep our heads down. Easy. No problem!" He tossed me the power cell and I caught it, "Let's go and tell her."
We left the TARIDS to find Rose. We found her sitting on a bench, she looked kind of sad. "There you are. You all right?" said the Doctor, "No applause. We fixed it. Twenty four hours, then we're flying back to reality."
We sat down on the bench, I took the power cell out of my jacket pocket, to show her. She didn't even glance at it, lost in her own thoughts. She was looking at her cell phone and something on it was troubling her, "What is it?" I asked.
" My phone connected," she replied, "There's this… Cybus Network. It finds your phone. It gave me Internet access."
"Rose… whatever it says… this is the wrong world…"
"I don't exist."
"What do you mean?" asked The Doctor.
"There's no Rose Tyler. I was never born. There's Pete, my dad, and Jackie. He still married mum but they never had kids."
"Give me that phone," said The Doctor as he tried to take it from her. But Rose was faster.
"They're rich. They've got a house and cars, and everything they want… But they haven't got me. " She sounded like she was about to cry. She stood up and started to walk away from the bench Then she turned to face us, "I've got to see him."
"You can't," said my uncle.
"I just want to see him."
"I can't let you!"
"You just said twenty four hours!"
"You can't become their daughter," I said, "that's not the way it works. Mickey, tell her."
Mickey stood up, "Twenty four hours, yeah?"
"Where're you going?!" said The Doctor.
"Well, I can do what I want." he said.
Rose started walking backwards away from us, "I've got the address and everything."
"Stay where you are, both of you," said The Doctor, "Rose, come back here! Mickey, come back here right now!"
"I just want to see him."
"Yeah, I've got things to see and all," said Mickey.
"Like WHAT?" asked The Doctor.
"Well, you don't know anything about me, do you? It's always about Rose. I'm just a spare part."
"I'm sorry. I've got to go," said Rose, as she started to walk away.
The Doctor and I started to look back and forth at the two. "What do you think?" the Doctor asked me.
I looked a between the two. I looked at Mickey, "Tell me… Where are you going?" I asked him.
"My Gran passed about five years ago," He said, "Rose's Dad's alive… maybe there's a chance she is too…" I nodded. If his Grandmother was alive he would want to spend this time her alone.
"I understand," I looked back at my uncle, "Come on… Let's go…" I started to chase after Rose.
"Back here, twenty four hours!" he said to Mickey as he followed me.
Once we caught up with Rose she started to explain to us the situation with Mickey's family. "Mickey's mum just couldn't cope. His dad hung around for a while, but then he just sort of wandered off. He was brought up by his gran." She smiled, "She was such a great woman. God, she used to slap him!" Then the smile went way, "And then she died. She tripped and fell down the stairs. It's about five years ago now. I was still in school."
"I never knew," said The Doctor.
"Well, you never asked."
"You never said."
"That's Mickey. I suppose I, we just… take him for granted. Do you think she's still alive, his gran?"
"Could be. Like I said, parallel world, gingerbread house. We need to get out of here as fast as we can."
Just then there was a beeping sound and everyone around us just stopped.
"What're they all doing?" asked Rose.
"They've stopped," said the Doctor.
I rolled my eyes, "We can see that…" I looked at everyone and everyone of them had earpieces in both ears. The earpieces flashed and beep quietly, "It's the earpieces. Like Bluetooth attachments, but everyone's connected together."
Just then, there was another beeping. This time it was coming from Rose's jacket pocket. She took out her phone and said, "It's on my phone. It's automatic, look. It's downloading. Is this what they're all getting?" We looked over Rose's shoulder and The Doctor put on his reading glasses. While Rose scrolled through the Daily Downloads, "News… International news… Sports… Weather…."
"They get it direct. Downloaded right into their heads," I said.
Rose continued to scroll, "TV schedules… lottery numbers…"
"Everyone shares the same information," said The Doctor. He took the phone, "A daily download published by Cybus Industries." Then the word 'Joke' appeared on the screen and everyone around us laughed and then they continued as before as if nothing happened, "You lot, you're obsessed. You'd do anything for the latest upgrade."
"Oi, not my lot. Different world, remember."
"It's not so far off your world. This place is only parallel," The Doctor pressed a few buttons, "Oh, look at that. Cybus Industries, owners of just about every company in Britain, including Vitex. Mister Pete Tyler's very well connected." Rose didn't reply. She just hung off his arm smiling innocently and gave him puppy-dog-eyes. He sighed, "Oh, okay. I give up." He tossed her the phone, "Let's go and see him." I laughed at how Rose had my uncle wrapped around her finger.
It was nighttime by the time we got to the Tyler Mansion. We hid in the bushes near the house and watched as a stretched limo drove past us.
"They've got visitors," I said.
"February the first. Mum's birthday," said Rose, "Even in a parallel universe, she still loves a party."
"Well, given Pete Tyler's guest list, I wouldn't mind a look," said The Doctor, "And there is one guaranteed way of getting inside." He took his wallet out of his pocket and waved it around.
"Psychic paper," said Rose, happily.
"Who do you want to be?"
A short time later, we found ourselves inside the Tyler Mansion…. As servers… The Doctor walked out of the kitchen carrying a tray of champagne. Rose and I were each carrying a tray of hors d'oeuvres. Needless to say neither Rose or I were too happy with my uncle at that point. "We could have been anyone," said Rose under her breath.
"Got us in, didn't it?"
"You're in charge of the psychic paper," I said. "We could've been guests. Celebrities. Sir Doctor, Dame Rose. Lady Theodora. We end up serving."
"I had enough of this back home. ," added Rose.
We smiled politely as people helped themselves to the items on our trays, "If you want to know what's going on, work in the kitchens." said The Doctor. We moved off to the side to watch what was going on. "According to Lucy, that man over there…"
"Who's Lucy?" interrupted Rose.
"She's carrying the salmon pinwheels."
"Oh, that's Lucy, is it?"
"Yeah. Lucy says, that is the President of Great Britain."
"What, there's a President, not a Prime Minister?"
"Seems so."
"Or maybe Lucy's just a bit thick."
I laughed a little. In the short time that I had spent with my Uncle and Rose. I could tell that they both carried for each other a lot. Perhaps it was getting to be more that just friendship. We heard a voice from the other room that sounded like the voice from the poster earlier. I followed Rose and my uncle to the staircase where Pete Tyler was addressing his guests. "Excuse me! Thank you very much. Thank you if I could just have your attention, please?" I stood next to Rose as she looked up at Pete.
"Pete! Go on, Pete!" called a man from the crowd.
"Thank you very much!" said Pete.
"It's about time you did some work."
"I thought you liked them young," said another man.
"Um, I'd just like to say thank you to you all, for coming on this, this very special occasion. My wife's thirty ninth…" the crowd chortled. Pete gave a thumbs up and said, "Trust me on this." The crowd laughed at Pete's little joke. Then he continued, "And so, without any further ado, here she is, the birthday girl. My lovely wife, Jackie Tyler."
The crowed applauded and cheered as Jackie walked down the stairs to meet her husband. Rose just stared at her. "Now, I'm not giving a speech," said Jackie, "That's what my parties are famous for. No work, no politics, just a few good mates and plenty of black market whisky." The crowd laughed and Jackie looked down and saw the President. She laughed and said, "Pardon me, Mr. President." The President smiled at her and Jackie continued, "So, yeah, get on with it. Enjoy, enjoy." The crowd cheered again. Then she and Pete walked down the stairs hand in hand to mingle with their guests.
Rose just looked at two of them as they walked past us, I quietly said to Rose, "You can't stay. Even if there was some way of telling them."
"Course I can't. I've still got Mum at home. My real mum. I couldn't just leave her, could I. It's just, they've got each other. Mum's got no one."
"She's got you. Those two haven't," I sighed, "All these different worlds, not one of them gets it right."
We were a bit surprised to hear Jackie call out, "Rose!" Then we heard a series of barks and yelps. "There's my little girl! Come to mummy, come to mummy!" We looked and saw a small dog walk over to Jackie, she picked the dog up and said, "Yes, good girl! Good girl, aren't you?"
I could by the look on her face that Rose was crushed to find out that Rose Tyler in this world was a dog. My uncle, on other hand, looked at Rose's face and laughed but stopped when he saw the icy look she gave him, "Sorry." he said sheepishly.
I hit him on the shoulder, and Rose gave me a sad smile. A short time later, The Doctor and I slipped away from the crowds in the mansion, walked down a corridor, past a darkened room where the door was open slightly. I stepped back, seeing a laptop open on the desk inside, with a Cybus Industries logo on the screen. My uncle turned around when he noticed I wasn't with him. He came back to see what I was looking at. He saw the open laptop and we looked around to make sure no one was watching us. Then we snuck into the room, closing the door behind us. He pulled on his glasses and got to work. "What are you looking for?" I asked him.
"I don't know," he said, "But, something is going on… I can just feeling it…"
He found a presentation from a man name John Lumic, the owner of Cybus Industries, "The most precious thing on this Earth is the human brain, and yet we allow it to die. But now Cybus Industries has perfected a way of sustaining the brain indefinitely within a cradle of copyrighted chemicals. And the latest advances in synapse research allows cyber-kinetic impulses to be bonded onto a metal exoskeleton. This is the ultimate upgrade. Our greatest step into cyberspace."
The Doctor and I looked at each other. We both knew what was going on. Him from first hand experience, me from learning about them at the Academy. Then, we rushed out the door to find Rose. We saw Rose and we saw her. She was walking over to a window, we followed her and saw some very bright lights coming from outside. We looked out the window and saw metal people marching toward the house and The Doctor said, "It's happening again."
"What do you mean?" asked Rose.
"I've seem them before."
"What are they?"
"Cybermen," said The Doctor and I together.
We then heard the sounds of breaking glass a people screaming as Cybermen came thorough the large plate glass windows of the house. Soon, we were all surrounded with no way out. The President's phone started to ring, "Mr. Lumic." he said
"Mister President," replied Lumic, "I suppose a remark about crashing the party would be appropriate at this point.
"I forbade this."
"These are my children, sir. Would you deny my family?"
"What are they? Robots?" asked Rose, under her breath.
"Worse than that," I said.
"Who were these people?" asked The President.
"Doesn't matter," replied Lumic.
"They're people?" asked Rose.
"They were," said the Doctor, "Until they had all their humanity taken away. It's a living brain jammed inside a cybernetic body, with a heart of steel. All emotions removed."
"Why no emotions?"
"Because it hurts."
"I demand to know, Lumic," said The President, "These people, who were they?"
"They were homeless," said Lumic, "And wretched and useless. Until I saved them, and elevated them, and gave them life eternal. And now I leave you in their capable hands. Goodnight, sir. Goodnight, Mr. President."
One of the Cybermen stood in front of The President and said in a mechanical voice, "We have been upgraded."
"Into what?" asked The Doctor.
"The next level of mankind. We are Human point two. Every citizen will receive a free upgrade. You will become like us."
"I'm sorry," said The President, "I'm so sorry for what's been done to you. But listen to me. This experiment ends. Tonight.
"Upgrading is compulsory," said the Cyberman.
"And if I refuse?" asked the President.
"Don't," said The Doctor.
"What if I refuse?"
"I'm telling you, don't."
"What happens if I refuse?"
"Then you are not compatible," said the Cyberman.
"What happens then?" asked the President.
"You will be deleted." The Cyberman grasped The President by neck and then was engulfed by electric-blue light as the Cyberman killed him The crowd screamed and start to run. The Doctor grabbed Rose and we started to run
The three of us ran for one of the broken widows. We jumped through one of the broken windows. "There's nothing we can do," said The Doctor.
Rose pulled away from The Doctor and tried to go back inside, "My mum's in there!"
"She is not your mother! Come on!" He took a hold of her hand and started to pull her away again.
We didn't get to far because we rain into a row of Cybermen marching across the lawn. We changed direction and ran to the side of the house just as Pete climbed out of the same window we did. Rose spotted him and called him over to us. "Quick! Quick!"
We reached the front of the house and my uncle asked, "Pete, is there a way out?"
"The side gates," he responded and we started to run across the front of the house, "Who are you? How do you know so much?"
"You wouldn't believe it in a million years," I said. We didn't get very far before running into another row of Cybermen. We changed directions and saw two figures running towards us with guns.
"Who's that?" asked Rose.
"Get behind me!" called out one of the figures. It sounded like Mickey. We got behind them and they started to fire at the Cybermen but the bullets just bounced off of them. But, the Cybermen stopped marching. We looked at the men with the guns and one of them looked like Mickey but there was something different about him.
Rose went up to him and fussed with his coat, "Oh my God, look at you…" She hugged him and said, "I thought I'd never see you again!"
The guy who looked like Mickey, pulled away from her and said, "Yeah. No offence, sweetheart, but who the hell are you?"
Just then Mickey ran towards us, "Rose!" He called out, "That's not me. That's like… the other one.:
"Oh, as if things weren't bad enough… there's two Mickey's!" I hit my uncle on the shoulder, "You can stop doing that…"
"The second you stop being rude, I'll stop hitting you," I said.
"And I'm Ricky," said the other Mickey.
"But there's more of them," said our Mickey. We looked around and saw more Cybermen coming toward us.
"We're surrounded." said Rose.
Ricky raised his gun but The Doctor said, "Put the guns down. Bullets won't stop them." The other guy ignored my uncle and just started shooing. The Doctor pushed the gun way from him "No! Stop shooting, now." The Doctor stood up and addressed the surrounding Cybermen, "We surrender! Hands up…" We all put our hands up, and The Doctor continued, "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," said one of the Cybermen.
"But we surrender."
"You are incompatible."
"But this is a surrender!"
"You will be deleted."
"But we're surrendering! Listen to me, we surrender!"
"You are inferior. Man will be reborn as Cybermen, but you will perish under maximum deletion." The Cyberman raised it's arm and reached towards the Doctor. "Delete. Delete. Delete!"
To Be Continued….