'What? Tell me Amy!'
'There was a diagram…'
'A diagram?'
'Yeah,' she said
'A diagram of some weird round thing with a person in it.'
'Ha-ha!' the Doctor cheered. 'That's this thing, these things we're trapped in. Oh I'm good aren't I?' he exclaimed. 'Go on!'
'It had some dashes following the scribble…'
'Scribble?'queried the Doctor,he hissed back at her.
'You know what she means, Doctor,' Rory groaned.
'The dashes led to a handle on an arm.'
'A-ha!' the Doctor raved. 'Found it. But my hands are locked in this thing too. Anything else?' he asked Amy.
'Well if you'd let me finish!' she told him. 'There was a crap drawing of a leg, with a button below the right foot.'
'Crap drawing?! Did I not tell you when…'
'Doctor!' Rory muttered. 'Get on with it!'
'Oh yes, excuse my rambling nature, and…' there was a pause, as the Doctor located the button. 'GERONIMO!' The pod hissed and unlocked, as did Amy's and Rory's.
'I was a clever old clogs. What the Cybermen fail to grasp is that I don't give up easily!'
They stuck together, making their way through a dark corridor and entered a room, in which Amy suddenly gasped aloud at the sight above them of platforms connected to caskets and in which humans were in suspended animation.
'Doctor, we've got to help them!' whispered Amy.
'Yes ,I know,' the Doctor replied. 'They may be lost, but the lost are never always lost.' he said, looking around them, thinking all the time about ways to resolve the situation they were in. 'We need to do something or they'll be converted in to Cybermen and then the lost will be lost for ever.'
'Where are we?' some of them asked.
The trio hurried up a set of steps, staring in at the prisoners. All had their eyes shut, their mouths closed, but were breathing in and out. The Doctor unlocked one pod, and the human inside opened its eyes for the first time in a long while. Amy and Rory were opening every pod as quickly as they could, humans stepping out from their pods as though born again; fresh and wide eyed, with mad expressions to accompany them.
The Doctor had the answer to all of their questions but time was of the essence and he briefly explained: 'On an alien world, where the aliens who've trapped you in these terrible pods, are in the next room beyond this one. We've got to be very quiet, and get you all out, before they realise you've gone missing.'
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory led the one hundred or so humans through a set of doors, and out towards the main entrance to the dome. As the Doctor recalled, it had before been heavily guarded.
'Any soldiers amongst you?' he asked. 'From the twenty first century?' he added, after having spot all but old soldiers in the group of humans. Six put their hands up, and the Doctor saw to it that they were armed with the weapons they had been caught with. He nodded to Rory who passed them back to their owners.
'Now,' he said, quietly, 'The entrance is guarded, by two Cybermen on either side of the doors. We need a way to escape, and I can tell from your loaded pockets your armed. We need two explosions, giving us enough time to get out before the Cybermen inside come down on us.'
Two of the six soldiers informed the Doctor of their grenades, and it was agreed that these would give the Doctor and his secret army enough time to make their escape. The doors were shut, and would be blasted open by two satchel charges, before the grenades would be thrown in at the last minuet to destroy the Cybermen.
The soldiers backed from the doors after their devices had been placed, and detonated. They heard the heavy footsteps of the Cybermen approach, and they threw their grenades in at exactly the same moment the Cybermen chose to enter though the smoking entrance. They were instantly destroyed.
The Doctor congratulated the work of the soldiers, patting them on the back, and telling them he'd return them all home now. 'Very well done! Can I borrow a spare, for afterwards?' said the Doctor grinning at the end result.
'Doctor, come on!' snapped Amy bringing the Doctor's sudden jubilent celebration to a halt.
'Come on! Quickly, the TARDIS!' he said.
In the dome, the alarm resounded around the Cybermen who continued with their routine operations at the console units before them. A Cyberman had acknowledged the alarm and informed the Cyber Leader that the Doctor had escaped along with the human prisoners.
'The Doctor will be heading for his time capsule. Find the Doctor's TARDIS, and bring it to me at once.Summon every available Cyber unit and send them after the humans. Bring those you capture back to base!'
The Cyber Leader watched from the main chamber, as the Cybermen marched from the dome, chasing after the weak humans who were unable to keep up with those fit enough to make it back across the terrain to the TARDIS.
Those that did make it, entered the blue wooden box, packed inside, and dematerialised.
The Doctor directed his unexpected guests towards the rooms beyond that of the console room, and turned to Amy and Rory. 'Take care of them,' he said. 'See to it that they touch nothing. I've got to return to the dome, destroy the machinery, otherwise the Cyber Leader will only go after those who escaped here today. He will do anything to survive, anything to keep the Cyber race going.' He rushed around the console activating levers.
The Cyber Leader turned from his console to find the Doctor leaning on the TARDIS in his main chamber. 'Doctor.'
'Cyber Leader,' the Doctor replied, coolly. 'It's all over. Your stock is depleted. You've lost. I've only returned to wipe any record of you ever having retrieved the whereabouts of the humans you had brought here. You must never be able to stand mighty among the Cybermen, as a hero for your efforts.'
The Cyber leader marched forward, arrogantly, and brushed him aside.'You, Doctor, are a menace, who will not live long enough to see the ultimate victory of the Cybermen. I see you destroyed!'
The Doctor fell backwards, beside a control, and quickly turned to pull it. The system around him suddenly began to collapse as it crashed, and exploded. There were sparks which flew from the technology, resulting the Cybermen been hurtled backwards away from their consoles. The Cyber Leader was sent hurtling through the air, crashing into a wall of machinery, an arm being sent through a monitor screen sending the creature an instant shock. Following his electrocution, the body of the Cyber Leader collapsed to the ground, and all that was left for the Doctor to take care of was the final destruction of the dome.
He fetched from his pocket the bomb that one of the soldiers had left him with, and wired it into the control mechanisms of the dome. Booby trapped, so that if any Cybermen unfortunate enough to try and pick up from where their leader left off, would trigger a terrible explosion.
Boarding the TARDIS once more, there was an almighty cheer from his friends and those he had saved moments before, who had all watched his efforts on the TARDIS monitor.
'Very well done, Doctor,' Rory huffed.
Amy gave him a huge hug, as the Doctor quickly dematerialised the TARDIS within seconds of a Cyber scout entering the main chamber, adjusting the controls and an explosion so big that the force of it hit the TARDIS as it dematerialised. The occupants hung on to what they could as others fell to the floor bracing themselves as the shockwave hit.
Once it was over the Doctor clapped his hands together and spun on the spot where he stood.
'Now then, time to return you all to your time zones,' he said, looking at his one hundred or so humans packed into the console room.
'Doctor, what about your future self?' asked Amy, 'You were there, in the control room ready for turning into one of those creatures.'
'Well, I'm no longer there. We've managed to alter my time line so it appears I was never there in the first place.' He smiled and continued to operate the switches and levers moving around the console as he did so before finding himself back where he started in front of Amy. She stood with an even more puzzled look on her face. He whispered in her ear and she nodded, smiled and headed up the stairs from the console room.
'It's going to take forever,' sighed Rory.
Ah yes, I know,' the Doctor replied. 'Well, for you anyway. You're doing the asking, and I'm doing the dropping off.' he smiled.
'And what about Amy?' asked Rory.
'Taking a swim in the pool, shirking responsibility,' the Doctor chirped. 'Can't blame her, Rory,' he went on. 'It is, as you say, going to take forever!'
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'There was a diagram…'
'A diagram?'
'Yeah,' she said
'A diagram of some weird round thing with a person in it.'
'Ha-ha!' the Doctor cheered. 'That's this thing, these things we're trapped in. Oh I'm good aren't I?' he exclaimed. 'Go on!'
'It had some dashes following the scribble…'
'Scribble?'queried the Doctor,he hissed back at her.
'You know what she means, Doctor,' Rory groaned.
'The dashes led to a handle on an arm.'
'A-ha!' the Doctor raved. 'Found it. But my hands are locked in this thing too. Anything else?' he asked Amy.
'Well if you'd let me finish!' she told him. 'There was a crap drawing of a leg, with a button below the right foot.'
'Crap drawing?! Did I not tell you when…'
'Doctor!' Rory muttered. 'Get on with it!'
'Oh yes, excuse my rambling nature, and…' there was a pause, as the Doctor located the button. 'GERONIMO!' The pod hissed and unlocked, as did Amy's and Rory's.
'I was a clever old clogs. What the Cybermen fail to grasp is that I don't give up easily!'
They stuck together, making their way through a dark corridor and entered a room, in which Amy suddenly gasped aloud at the sight above them of platforms connected to caskets and in which humans were in suspended animation.
'Doctor, we've got to help them!' whispered Amy.
'Yes ,I know,' the Doctor replied. 'They may be lost, but the lost are never always lost.' he said, looking around them, thinking all the time about ways to resolve the situation they were in. 'We need to do something or they'll be converted in to Cybermen and then the lost will be lost for ever.'
'Where are we?' some of them asked.
The trio hurried up a set of steps, staring in at the prisoners. All had their eyes shut, their mouths closed, but were breathing in and out. The Doctor unlocked one pod, and the human inside opened its eyes for the first time in a long while. Amy and Rory were opening every pod as quickly as they could, humans stepping out from their pods as though born again; fresh and wide eyed, with mad expressions to accompany them.
The Doctor had the answer to all of their questions but time was of the essence and he briefly explained: 'On an alien world, where the aliens who've trapped you in these terrible pods, are in the next room beyond this one. We've got to be very quiet, and get you all out, before they realise you've gone missing.'
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory led the one hundred or so humans through a set of doors, and out towards the main entrance to the dome. As the Doctor recalled, it had before been heavily guarded.
'Any soldiers amongst you?' he asked. 'From the twenty first century?' he added, after having spot all but old soldiers in the group of humans. Six put their hands up, and the Doctor saw to it that they were armed with the weapons they had been caught with. He nodded to Rory who passed them back to their owners.
'Now,' he said, quietly, 'The entrance is guarded, by two Cybermen on either side of the doors. We need a way to escape, and I can tell from your loaded pockets your armed. We need two explosions, giving us enough time to get out before the Cybermen inside come down on us.'
Two of the six soldiers informed the Doctor of their grenades, and it was agreed that these would give the Doctor and his secret army enough time to make their escape. The doors were shut, and would be blasted open by two satchel charges, before the grenades would be thrown in at the last minuet to destroy the Cybermen.
The soldiers backed from the doors after their devices had been placed, and detonated. They heard the heavy footsteps of the Cybermen approach, and they threw their grenades in at exactly the same moment the Cybermen chose to enter though the smoking entrance. They were instantly destroyed.
The Doctor congratulated the work of the soldiers, patting them on the back, and telling them he'd return them all home now. 'Very well done! Can I borrow a spare, for afterwards?' said the Doctor grinning at the end result.
'Doctor, come on!' snapped Amy bringing the Doctor's sudden jubilent celebration to a halt.
'Come on! Quickly, the TARDIS!' he said.
In the dome, the alarm resounded around the Cybermen who continued with their routine operations at the console units before them. A Cyberman had acknowledged the alarm and informed the Cyber Leader that the Doctor had escaped along with the human prisoners.
'The Doctor will be heading for his time capsule. Find the Doctor's TARDIS, and bring it to me at once.Summon every available Cyber unit and send them after the humans. Bring those you capture back to base!'
The Cyber Leader watched from the main chamber, as the Cybermen marched from the dome, chasing after the weak humans who were unable to keep up with those fit enough to make it back across the terrain to the TARDIS.
Those that did make it, entered the blue wooden box, packed inside, and dematerialised.
The Doctor directed his unexpected guests towards the rooms beyond that of the console room, and turned to Amy and Rory. 'Take care of them,' he said. 'See to it that they touch nothing. I've got to return to the dome, destroy the machinery, otherwise the Cyber Leader will only go after those who escaped here today. He will do anything to survive, anything to keep the Cyber race going.' He rushed around the console activating levers.
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The Cyber Leader turned from his console to find the Doctor leaning on the TARDIS in his main chamber. 'Doctor.'
'Cyber Leader,' the Doctor replied, coolly. 'It's all over. Your stock is depleted. You've lost. I've only returned to wipe any record of you ever having retrieved the whereabouts of the humans you had brought here. You must never be able to stand mighty among the Cybermen, as a hero for your efforts.'
The Cyber leader marched forward, arrogantly, and brushed him aside.'You, Doctor, are a menace, who will not live long enough to see the ultimate victory of the Cybermen. I see you destroyed!'
The Doctor fell backwards, beside a control, and quickly turned to pull it. The system around him suddenly began to collapse as it crashed, and exploded. There were sparks which flew from the technology, resulting the Cybermen been hurtled backwards away from their consoles. The Cyber Leader was sent hurtling through the air, crashing into a wall of machinery, an arm being sent through a monitor screen sending the creature an instant shock. Following his electrocution, the body of the Cyber Leader collapsed to the ground, and all that was left for the Doctor to take care of was the final destruction of the dome.
He fetched from his pocket the bomb that one of the soldiers had left him with, and wired it into the control mechanisms of the dome. Booby trapped, so that if any Cybermen unfortunate enough to try and pick up from where their leader left off, would trigger a terrible explosion.
Boarding the TARDIS once more, there was an almighty cheer from his friends and those he had saved moments before, who had all watched his efforts on the TARDIS monitor.
'Very well done, Doctor,' Rory huffed.
Amy gave him a huge hug, as the Doctor quickly dematerialised the TARDIS within seconds of a Cyber scout entering the main chamber, adjusting the controls and an explosion so big that the force of it hit the TARDIS as it dematerialised. The occupants hung on to what they could as others fell to the floor bracing themselves as the shockwave hit.
Once it was over the Doctor clapped his hands together and spun on the spot where he stood.
'Now then, time to return you all to your time zones,' he said, looking at his one hundred or so humans packed into the console room.
'Doctor, what about your future self?' asked Amy, 'You were there, in the control room ready for turning into one of those creatures.'
'Well, I'm no longer there. We've managed to alter my time line so it appears I was never there in the first place.' He smiled and continued to operate the switches and levers moving around the console as he did so before finding himself back where he started in front of Amy. She stood with an even more puzzled look on her face. He whispered in her ear and she nodded, smiled and headed up the stairs from the console room.
'It's going to take forever,' sighed Rory.
Ah yes, I know,' the Doctor replied. 'Well, for you anyway. You're doing the asking, and I'm doing the dropping off.' he smiled.
'And what about Amy?' asked Rory.
'Taking a swim in the pool, shirking responsibility,' the Doctor chirped. 'Can't blame her, Rory,' he went on. 'It is, as you say, going to take forever!'
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