Rise of the Cybermen
Basted on the episode of the same name by Tom McCrae

Notes: For you Doctor Who fans, I'm skipping "The Girl in the Fireplace" I don't really care for the episode.

It was a couple of days after Diggie joined Liv, Maddie and The Doctor on board the TARDIS. Maddie walked into the control room as The Doctor and Liv were sitting in the jump seat, telling Diggie a story. While Diggie was standing next to the console pressing a button.

"And that weird munchkin lady with the big eyes?" The Doctor laughed as he looked at Liv, "Do you remember? The way she looked at you! And then she opens her mouth and fire comes out!"

Liv shrieked with laughter, "I thought I was going to get fried!"

Maddie walked over and laughed, "Yeah! One minute she's standing there, and the next minute…rawwwh!"

The three of them mimicked fire coming out of their mouths before falling over laughing. Diggie smiled and nodded, not really following along. Diggie just nodded and smiled, "Yeah... where- where was that? 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."

Maddie looked at Diggie and asked, "Diggie, why are you just standing there holding that button down?"

"Because 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. "

Diggie let go of the button, "When could I have let go?" he asked.

"Ten minutes ago? Twenty? ... Twenty-nine?"

"Doctor…" Maddie shook her head.

"You just forgot me!" shouted Diggie.

"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 them all down. We all got to our knees and Liv asked, "What happened?"

"The time vortex is gone!" said The Doctor as he tried to operate the console, "That's impossible - it's just gone!" The Doctor looked at the monitor, "Brace yourself! We're gonna crash!" They hit hard and everyone was thrown backwards to the floor. Then, oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling. The only lights in the control room were the emergency lights that surround the now smoking console, "Everyone all right? Liv? Maddie? Diggie?"

"I'm fine," said Diggie.

They all stood up slowly. The Doctor looked up at the rotor and the console, "She's dead." There was a clicking as the engines cool down and smoke rose from the console, "The TARDIS is dead. " then he walked slowly around the console.

"But, you can fix it, right?" asked Liv.

"There's nothing to fix. She's perished," said the Doctor as he pushed a lever back and forth, "The last TARDIS in the universe... Extinct."

"But, we can get help?" asked Maddie.

"Where from?"

"Well, we've landed… We've got to be somewhere."

"We fell out of the vortex, through the void, into nothingness. We're in some sort of no-place... the silent realm... the lost dimension... "

Diggie was over by the door and opened it, "Otherwise known as London!" He laughed and stepped outside. Sure enough they were in nothingness they 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, Liv and Maddie followed him out of the TARDIS, "London, England, Earth. Hold on…" Diggie jumped down onto the walkway and picked up a newspaper out of a garbage can, "February 1st of this year not to far in future, is it?"

Liv and Maddie jumped down and look at the paper he was holding. The Doctor jumped down and looked around, "So, this is London."

"Yep," said Diggie

"The capital of the United Kingdom."

"That's the one. "

"Just as we left it,"

"You got it."

"And that includes the zeppelins?"

Diggie and the twins looked at The Doctor and then up in the sky and saw a number of zeppelins in the sky. "What the?"

"That's beautiful," said Liv.

"Okay. So, it's London with a big international zeppelin festival," said Diggie.

"This is not your world," said The Doctor.

"But if the date's the same... This must be a parallel universe…"

"Must be."

"So, a parallel world where my dad is famous?" said Maddie as she walked up an advertisement next to the river for something called Vitex Lite in new cherry flavor. Pete Rooney was on the poster wearing a business suit, holding the bottle in one hand and giving thumbs up with the other. On the bottom of the poster it read, "Trust Me On This." and it was signed Pete Rooney.

"Well," said Liv, "Mom said that while he was in college, Dad had some crazy get rich quick schemes I think one of them was for some kind of heath drink."

Maddie went to touch the poster at it came to life for a moment. "Trust me on this," said Pete on the poster. Then he winked and gave the thumbs up.

"That's weird," said Maddie.

The Doctor stepped up to the girls, "Now I don't want you getting any ideas about seeing your family. That is not your Pete. That is A Pete. For all we know, he's got his own Karen - his own Liv & Maddie. His own daughters are someone else, but not you two. You can't see him. Not ever."

They both nodded, "Of course." said Liv.

"Makes sense," said Maddie.

"Good," said The Doctor, "You guys stay out here for a bit. I'm going to go inside and see if maybe there is anyway I can revive the TARDIS and get us home…"

A little while later, Diggie walked into the pitch black TARDIS. She saw The silhouette of The Doctor by the console "How's it going?" she asked as she walked up to him.

"Not good…" said The Doctor, "Where are Liv and Maddie?"

"They went for a walk down the riverbank. They promised not to go too far."

"Good… Good…"

"Anything I can do to help?"

"No… Not really," he said with a sigh, "If I could I could just get this thing to…" then he kicked the console hard in frustration. Then he walked over to the jump seat, scowling.

Diggie walked up him, "Did that help? "

"Yes."

"Did that hurt?"

"Yes," said The Doctor as he sat down and rubbed his foot, "Ow. "

Diggie rolled his eyes and shook his head as he sat next to him.

Meanwhile, Liv and Maddie were walking down the bank of the Thames. Maddie looked up at the zeppelins in the sky. "That is just so cool."

They sat down on a bench and looked up when they saw a huge zeppelin fly over there head. Just then, Liv's phone started to beep. "What the…" she said as she took it out of her pants. She looked at it and the message on the screen read "Welcome! Free Trial Period."

Liv pressed the continue button on the screen and a male newsreader wearing strange round earpieces in each ear, "... And it's good news for Great Britain as John Lumic returns to the country of his birth," said the newsreader, "Mr. Lumic, the inventor of high-content metal, has denied allegations of ill health."

Then an older man, John Lumic "We're all flesh and blood, but the brain is what makes us human. And my mind is more creative than ever."

"With shares in Cybus Industries doubling in price, Mr Lumic…"

The twins looked up at the zeppelin over head and saw a Cybus Industries logo on the bottom of it. Liv then turned off the news report.

Back in the TARDIS, The Doctor looked at Diggie, "We're not meant to be here. The TARDIS draws its power off the universe, but it's the wrong universe. It's like diesel in a petrol engine."

"But... I've seen it in comics and movies and TV shows," said Diggie, "People are jumping from one alternative world to another - it's easy."

"Not in the real world… 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, 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 dunno. Accident? Should've been impossible - now we're trapped…" The Doctor then saw a tiny green light glowing under the console, "What's that?"

"What?" asked Diggie, as he looked in the in the same direction The Doctor was.

"That there," said The Doctor as he pointed, "Is that a reflection?" They got up and walked over to the light was. They 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!" They pulled up the grate, "We've got power! Diggie, we've got power! Ha!" The Doctor climbed in the hole and started to pull out various hoses, wires and circuit panels from under the console, "It's alive!" He said

"What is it?" asked Diggie.

"It's nothing. It's tiny. 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," said The Doctor as he pulled himself out of the hole and sat beside it. The power cell wasn't very big but it was glowing green, "I need to charge it up. " He carefully held it in both hands.

"We could go outside and hook it up to the power grid!"

"Wrong sort of energy. It's gotta come from our universe. "

"But we don't have anything."

"There's me…" The Doctor blew gently on the power cell and it started to glow brightly. The Doctor smiled, "I just gave away ten years of my life. Worth every second!" The Doctor laughed.

The light on the cell started to fade, "It's going out - is that okay?"

"It's on a recharging cycle," said The Doctor. The cell started to glow brighter again and then dimmer and so on, "It'll loop round, power back up and be ready to take us home in - oh - twenty-four hours?" Then he kissed the power cell.

"So, that gives us twenty-four hours on a parallel world?"

"Surely! As long as we keep our heads down. Easy. No problem," He tossed the power cell in the air and caught it, "Let's go and tell them."

The Doctor and Diggie found Liv and Maddie sitting on a bench, over looking at the river.

"There you two are!" said The Doctor, "You all right? No applause, I fixed it!" he showed them the power cell, "Twenty-four hours, then we're flying back to reality." He sat next to Liv and held up the power cell. They didn't even look up. The Doctor looked down and saw that Liv had her phone out, "What is it?"

"My phone connected to this Cybus Network and it gave me Internet access," said Liv.

"Liv, whatever it says, this is the wrong world."

"We don't exist," said Maddie.

"What do you mean?" asked The Doctor.

"There are no Liv & Maddie Rooney. We were never born," said Maddie, "Nether were Joey or Parker. Dad married Mom... but they never had kids."

"They don't even live in Stevens Point," said Liv, "They have a house near London."

"Let me see that," said The Doctor as he took Liv's phone.

"How can there be a parallel world without us?" asked Liv.

"That's very possible. Every choice we make makes another parallel universe. You know there might even be a world where I'm not even an alien. I could be a police officer in a small town on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset."

"Well, the sooner we get out of here the better," said Liv.

"So, we've got twenty-four hours," said Maddie, "What should we do?"

"How about we spilt up and go exploring?" said Diggie, "Me and Maddie could go one way and The Doctor and Liv could go the other."

"I don't know…" said The Doctor.

"Come on, Doctor… What could possibly go wrong?"

"Now that you've said that… Anything…" said The Doctor. Diggie rolled his eyes, and The Doctor continued, "But, you're right we just can't sitting her waiting for the power cell to charge. Let's go see what's out there…"

The Doctor and Liv headed in one direction while Diggie and Maddie went off in another. The Doctor and Liv were walking down a street when all of a sudden there was a series of beeps and ever one them stopped. The Doctor and Liv looked around at them, "What are they doing?"

"They've stopped…" said The Doctor. They looked at everyone and everyone was wearing the same earpieces that Liv saw the newsreader wearing in the video she saw earlier. The Doctor looked at a man on the street and saw the lights on his earpieces flashing and quietly beeping, "It's the earpieces... like Bluetooth attachments, but everyone's connected together."

Liv's phone started to beep. She took it out of her pocket and looked at it, "Something is downloading onto my phone. Is this what they're getting?" The Doctor looked over her shoulder and put his glasses on, as Liv read off the categories as they downloaded, "News... international news... sports... weather…"

"They get it direct," said The Doctor, "Downloaded right into their heads."

Liv continued to read, "TV schedules, lottery numbers…"

"Everyone shares the same information," he took the phone from Liv and started to read, "Daily download published by Cybus Industries." 'Joke' appeared on the screen. Everyone around them chuckles, and then everything came back to life, as if nothing happened. The Doctor and Liv stood there, completely confused at what had just happened. "You lot, you're obsessed. You'd do anything for the latest upgrade."

"Hey... not my lot," said Liv, "This is a different world, remember…"

"It's not SO far off your world," said The Doctor, "This place is only parallel." The Doctor did some searching, "Oh, look at that. Cybus Industries owns just about every company in Britain, including Vitex. Mr Pete Rooney's VERY well connected in this world… perhaps we should go pay him a visit…"

"Why?"

"This Cybus Industries…" said The Doctor, "Something about it… Just doesn't feel right…"

Meanwhile, as Diggie and Maddie were walking through the streets of London. Just then a van pulled up next to them. A blond hared guy jumped out, "I've been looking for you everywhere!" He pushed Diggie and Maddie into the van. Then he got in and the older

woman behind the wheel drove off, "I saw them. I taped them! They went round Black Friars gathering up the homeless like a child-catcher. They must've took four dozen."

"The vans were hired out to a company called 'International Electromatics'," said the female driver, "But I did a protocol search... turns out that's a dummy company established by guess who?"

"I don't know, who?" asked Diggie.

"Cybus Industries!"

"And now we've got evidence!" said the blond guy.

"Bad news is, they've arrested Thin Jimmy. So that just leaves you," said the driver to Diggie.

"Leaves me to what?"

"The Number One," said the guy with a smile, "Top of the list. London's Most Wanted."

"What?" asked Maddie.

"Who's this?" asked the guy as he just seemed to notice Maddie "New recruit?"

"Um yeah…" said Diggie, "This is Maddie."

"Glad to have ya," said the guy, "I'm Jake. The one behind the wheel is Mrs. Moore."

A short time later, they arrived at a house. Jake hopped out of the van first, "There's a light on. There's someone inside the base." Diggie and Maddie followed. Then, Jake called back into the van, "Mrs. Moore - we've got visitors."

The four of them snuck around the side of the house. Mrs. Moore and Jake each pulled out their guns, then Jack said, "One... two... three... Go!" They ran into the house and on the other side of the room was Diggie!

But this Diggie was dressed all in black, "What the hell are you doing?" asked other Diggie.

Mrs. Moore and Jack look back and forth between the two Diggies, completely bewildered, What're you doing there?!" asked Jake.

Other Diggie stepped forward, "What am I doing HERE?" He stared at Diggie with his brow furrowed, "What am I doing THERE?" he said as he pointed a finger at Diggie. Jake and Mrs. Moore immediately spun around at turn their guns on Diggie and Maddie. They both quickly raises their hands.

Meanwhile, The Doctor and Liv had made their way to the Rooney Mansion just outside London. They were crouched in some nearby bushes watching as limos pulled up, "They've got visitors. "

"February 1st is Mom's birthday," said Liv, "Even in a parallel universe, she still loves a party."

"Well, given Pete Rooney's guest list, I wouldn't mind a look. And there is one guaranteed way of getting inside." said The Doctor, as he waved around the psychic paper.

"Psychic paper!" said Liv excitedly.

"Who do you wanna be?"

A short time later, The Doctor and Liv were in the Rooney Mansion. But not as guests. They walked out of the kitchen dressed as a watier and waitress each holding a tray of refeshments. A woman walked up to Liv, took some food off her tray and walked away, "We could've been anyone," said Liv under her breath.

"Got us in, didn't it?" said The Doctor.

"You're in charge of the psychic paper. We could've been guests. Celebrities. Sir Doctor, Dame Olivia. But no… we have to be servers."

"If you wanna know what's going on, work in the kitchens," said The Doctor. They moved to the side of the room so could watch what was going on, "According to Lucy, that man over there-" he said nodding to a black gentleman.

"Who's Lucy?" asked Liv.

"She's carrying the salmon pinwheels." he nodded at a young waitress on the other side of the room, "Anyway… Lucy says, that is the President of Great Britain." he said as he pointed to a distinguished looking black man on the other side of the room

"There's a President, not a Prime Minister?"

"Seems so. "

Just then they heard Liv's dad Pete's voice, "Excuse me! Thank you very much. Thank you - if I could just have your attention, please?"

"Pete! Go on, Pete!" said a man in the crowd.

"Thank you very much!" said Pete.

"It's about time you did some work. I thought you liked them young!"

The Doctor and Liv found Pete standing halfway up a large staircase., "I'd just like to say, thank you to you all, for coming on this very special occasion. My wife's... thirty-ninth birthday," The crowd laughed lightly. Then he gave the thumbs up, "Trust me on this…" The crowd laughed again, "So, without any further ado - here she is. The birthday girl... my lovely wife... Karen Rooney!"

Karen smiled and waved at the crowd as she walked down the stairs. The crowd applauded, cheered and took photos. Karen stood next to Pete and said, "Now, I'm not giving a speech - that's what my parties are famous for, no work, no politics, just a few friends and plenty of black-market whisky." The crowd laughs again. "Pardon me, Mr President!" she said with a laugh. The President smiled, "But enough talk," said Karen, "Thank you all for coming and enjoy yourselves." The crowd cheered and applauded Pete took Karen's hand and they walked down the stairs to mingle with the crowd.

Liv just stared at Karen and Pete. The Doctor looked at Liv, "A penny for your thoughts…"

"They are so different… Those people might look like my mom and dad… But they aren't my mom and dad…"

Just then Karen called out, "Liv! Maddie!" then there was some barking and yelping and a couple of Yorkshire Terriers appeared and ran down the steps, "There are my girls!" She picked them up, "You are good girls, aren't you?"

Liv's jaw dropped and The Doctor started to laughed. But, the second he started to laugh Liv turned around and gave him a look that could have killed him and forced him to regenerate right there, "Sorry."

Back at the house, Jake, Other Diggie and Mrs. Morre tied Diggie and Maddie to chairs. Jake used a scanner and scanned Diggie's body, Jake looked at Other Diggie, "He's clean. No bugs."

Other Diggie looked at Diggie, "But this is unbelievable. He's flesh and blood - how did this happen?"

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

Other Diggie glared at Diggie and walked around him, "Your name is Diggie, not Ricky?

"Yes," said Diggie, "I was born and raised in Stevens Point, Wisconsin."

"So, was I," said Other Diggie, who's name was Ricky apparently, "But I don't remember having a twin, when I moved to London a couple of years ago." Ricky bent over to get a closer look at Diggie.

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

"I don't know. But he doesn't just look like me, he is exactly the same. There's something else going on here, Jake. "

"So, who are you all?" asked Maddie.

Ricky stood up and looked at her "We - we are the Preachers. As in Gospel Truth. You see?" he pointed at his ears, "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?"

Jake smiled, "Have you got a problem with that?" asked Ricky.

"No, it's a nice kitchen."

Just then there was a bleep from the laptop Mrs. Morre was working on, It's an upload from Gemini."

"Who is Gemini?" asked Diggie.

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

"And we are right behind him," said Mickey, "Pack it up, we're leaving."

Meanwhile back at the party, The Doctor snuck away from the crowd and tried to find out what Cybus Industries was doing. Meanwhile, Liv was watching as Karen was talking and laughing with the President of Great Britain when Pete walked up to her, "I remember her twenty-first birthday. We had a drink at this little bar in Stevens Point."

"Champagne?" asked Liv.

"Oh, might as well. I'm paying for it!" said Pete, as he took a glass.

The two of them laughed and he took a sip then Liv said, "It's a big night for you…"

"Well, for her... still, she's happy."

"Yeah, she should be. It's a great party."

"Do you think so?"

Liv gave him a thumbs up, "You can trust me...!"

"You can trust me on THIS," corrected Pete.

"That's it, sorry" the two of them laughed then Liv continued, "So, um - how long have you two been married?"

"Twenty years," said Pete.

"And no kids?"

"We kept putting it off. She said she didn't want to ruin her figure."

"It's not too late. She's only forty."

"Thirty-nine."

"Oh, right, thirty-nine!"

They laughed and then Pete said, "It's still too late... I moved out last month. We're going to keep it quiet, you know - it's bad for business." Liv couldn't believe it. Even though she knew this Pete wasn't her father she couldn't belive she was hearing him talking about divorcing her mother, "Why am I telling YOU all this?" Pete asked her, "We haven't met before, have we?" Liv just stared at him, "I don't know, you just seem sort of-"

"What?" asked Liv.

Pete just looked at her, "I don't know, just sort of... Right…." Pete looked like he was starting to get uncomfortable with talking to Liv. So, he walked away, "Steveie - how are things going at Torchwood?"

Outside the Rooney Mansion, Ricky and Jake were crouched behind some bushes, watching some men in white getting out of the back of a truck, "I don't know what they're doing, but they seem to be the target," said Ricky, "Big house, a lot of money... now we've got to find a way to get in."

In the van, Mrs. Morre was looking at her laptop. Diggie was holding a walkie talkie, "I've identified the address. It belongs to Peter Rooney. The Vitex millionaire."

"Pete Rooney?" said Maddie.

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

"We've got to get in there," said Diggie.

"That's what I just said," replied Ricky, "Now, shut up duplicate." They watched as ramp was lower from the back of the truck, "What are they doing?" They watched as humanoid robots marched out of the back of the truck, "What the hell are they?" Rick and Jake looked at each other and then rushed back to their van

After talking with Pete, Liv decided to see what Karen was like in this world. She found her alone outside sitting on a bench. "Mrs. Rooney, is there anything I can get you?"

"The last twenty years back," said Karen. Then, she laughed.

Liv smiled, "I can manage a glass of champagne... or a nice cup of tea?"

"Oh, that sounds good to me!" said Karen.

The two of them laughed and Liv sat down next to Karen, "At the end of a long day, My mom loves one last cup before bed."

"Me too… Pete always says," Karen started but then she stopped and shook her head, "never mind what he says…"

"I was talking to him earlier," said Liv, "He's a nice man. A bit full of himself, but he seams like a good guy. I would say he's worth a second chance."

Karen look right at Liv, "Are you commenting on my marriage?"

"No, I was just-"

"Who the hell do you think you are? You're nothing but a serving girl, for God's sake. And you are certainly not getting paid. Don't you dare talk to me." Karen stood and marched back inside.

Liv sighed and stood up. Just then, a floodlight turned on making Liv squint. She heard something and saw something coming toward the house but she couldn't make out what was coming because of the lights. All she could heard was an ominous 'boom, boom, boom, boom'. Liv watched the figures get closer then she turned on her heels and ran back inside.

She met up with The Doctor in the drawing room and they both went to the window and looked at the figures outside. "It's happening again." said The Doctor.

"What do you mean?" asked Liv.

"I've seem them before." said The Doctor.

Liv could see what they were they were large metal humanoid robots, "What are they?" she asked.

"Cybermen."

Then, the Cybermen smashed their way through the windows. Everyone else in the room screamed as they were all surrounded by Cybermen. Then, the Presidents phone started to ring. He answered it and said distastefully, "Mr. Lumic."

"Mr. President," said the voice of Mr. Lumic, "I suppose a remark about crashing the party would be appropriate at this point." then he started to laugh.

"I forbade this."

"These are my children, sir. Would you deny my family?"

"Are they robots?" asked Liv.

"Worse than that.," said The Doctor.

"Who were these people?" asked the President.

"Doesn't matter," answered Lumic.

"They're people?" asked Liv.

"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 as his voice got louder, "these people - who were they?"

"They were homeless, 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." Then he hung up.

Once of the Cybermen stood in front of the crowd, "We have been upgraded." it said in a computerized voice

"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 as he walked up to the Cyberman, "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?"

"Don't," said The Doctor quickly.

"What if I refuse?" asked the President.

The Doctor stepped forward, "I'm telling you, don't.

"What happens if I refuse?"

"Then you are not compatible," answered the Cyberman.

"What happens then?" asked the President.

"You will be deleted." He grabbed the President by the neck and gave him an electric shock that killed him almost instantly The people in the crowd screamed and started to run. Some of the people were caught and killed by the Cybermen.

The Doctor grabbed Liv's and they ran outside through one of the broken windows. They didn't get to far because they ran into a row of Cybermen marching across the lawn. They changed direction and ran to the side of the house just as Pete climbed out of the same window they did. Liv spotted him and called him over to herself and The Doctor, "Over here!" Pete ran over to them and the three of them ran to the front of the house.

The Doctor looked around "Pete, there's no way out!"

"The side gates!" They started to run 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…" said The Doctor. They skidded to a halt as another row of Cybermen appeared in front of them.

Just then they saw two people with guns coming toward them, "Who's that?" asked Liv.

It was Ricky and Jake, "Get behind me!" said Ricky. The Doctor, Liv and Pete got behind them and they opened fire on the Cybermen.

"Diggie?" asked Liv, "What are you doing with that gun?"

"I'm not Diggie…" said Ricky.

"Liv!" Shouted Maddie as she and Diggie ran down the hill, "That's not Diggie. That's like... the other one."

The twins shared a quick hug.

"Oh, as if things weren't bad enough - there's two Diggie's!" said The Doctor.

"My name's Ricky," said the other Diggie.

"But there's more of them…" said Diggie as he pointed at the Cybermen that had them surrounded.

"We're surrounded…" said Maddie.

Ricky raised his gun, and The Doctor said, "Put the guns down. Bullets won't stop them." Jake ignored him and opened fire on the Cybermen. The Doctor pushed his gun aside angrily, "No! Stop shooting, now!" Then, The Doctor looked at the Cybermen that had them surrounded, "We surrender! Hands up…" everyone in the group put their 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 a Cyberman standing right in front of The Doctor.

"But we surrender."

"You are incompatible."

"But this is a surrender!"

"You will be deleted."

"But we're surrendering!" shouted The Doctor, franticly, "Listen to me, we surrender!"

"You are inferior," said the Cyberman, "Man will be reborn as Cybermen but you will perish under maximum deletion." The Cyberman raised his arms and started to reach toward The Doctor, "Delete. Delete. Delete!"

To Be Continued…