Parallel: From Another World [1] (The Parallel Series) ✓

Rise of the Cyberman - Two

"They were, until they had all their humanity taken away. That's a living brain jammed inside a cybernetic body, with a heart of steel. All emotions removed."

"Why no emotions?" She questioned.

"Because it hurts." He said as if it hurt to say those three words.

"The one thing that made them people" Rita mumbled looking sadly at the Cybermen.

"I demand to know, Lumic. These people, who were they?" The president sounded like this had happened before. Had it happened before? Probably.

"We have been upgraded." It spoke in the annoying robot like voice. Rita had forgotten how annoying it sounded to listen to one of them.

"Into what?" The Doctor asked. The Cyberman looked over in his direction and replied. "The next level of mankind. We are Human point two. Every citizen will receive a free upgrade. You will become like us." It told them.

The president looked at the Cybermen as if it had suddenly clicked. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry for what's been done to you, but listen to me. This experiment ends tonight."

"Upgrading is compulsory." It replied Rita could see that the Doctor was thinking. A plan? Prehaps.

"And if I refuse?" He asked.

"Don't." The Doctor warned him.

"What if I refuse?" The president askes again ignoring the Doctors warning. He wasn't going to listen all the Doctor was to him was just a waiter at the party nothing else. So why would he listen?

"I'm telling you, don't." He said firmly trying to get the president to somewhat listen to him.

"What happens if I refuse?" The president pressed on.

"Then you are not compatible."

"Don't question him." Rita said she couldn't just stand there and watch someone else die because she didn't do anything, she couldn't so she told him not to whether he wouls listen or not was his own decision to make. But at least she tried.

"What happens then?" Rita sadly looked at the president who was confused.

"You will be deleted." The most deadly four words known when facing the Cybermen. It placed it's hand on to the presidents shoulder a little closer to his neck and electricity pulsed though him. He cried out in pain before slumping to the floor. The Doctor grabbed Rita and Rose behind him then ran.

"Window!" Rita shouted spotting the broken window with a 'safe' path towards it. Rose jumped though first carful not to cut herself on the glass still attached to it. Rita then jumped though as well then finally the Doctor. He grabbed the girls again and continued to run.

"There's nothing we can do." He told Rose more than Rita knowing that she already knew that.

"My mum's in there!" Rose protected running back to the house. Rita grabbed her and pulled her back. Tears in the blondes eyes.

"She is not your mother!" He shouted grabbing Rose again. "Come on!" They started to run heading for the lawn. Rita skidded to a stop jerking the Doctor back.

"There is Cybermen coming!" She shouted just before a row of Cybermen could be heard stomping in the distance towards them.
The Doctor pulled them woth him to run around the side of the house heading to the back.

"Quick! Quick!" Rose psaw Pete and pulled him with her. He followed the three to the back of the house.

"Pete, is there a way out?" The Doctor asked frantically looking around.

"The side gates." He replied then asked at not the best of times: "Who are you? How do you know so much?"

"You wouldn't believe it in a million years." He told him as more Cybermen started to cut them off forcing them to run to the front of the house. Two shapes of humans then ran across the lawn holding guns.

"Who's that?" Rose asked.

"Get behind me!" The man Rita knew as Rickey who looked like Mickey shouted pointing a gun at the Cybermen and started to fire his gun. The bullets had no effect amd just bounced of the bodys as they continued to move forward.

"Rose-" Rita was about to tell her that it wasn't Mickey however she got cut off by the blonde.

"Oh my God, look at you." She gasped hugging Ricky who didn't look at all happy and quite disgusted actually. "I thought I'd never see you again!" She cried out, however, showing no tears.

Ricky pushed her away. "Yeah. No offence, sweetheart, but who the hell are you?" Rose's face fell at his words shock and disbelief thinking that he was probably joking.

Rita then noticed Mickey running in the distance towards the group. "Rose!" He skidded to a stop beside her. "That's not me. That's like the other one." He looked at Ricky.

"Oh, as if things weren't bad enough, there's two Mickey's." Rita slapped the Doctor slightly as if to say 'not the time' he looked over to her and whined a little rubbing his shoulder where She had hit him she rolled her eyes thinking that it wasn't a hard slap.

"It's Ricky." Ricky told the Doctor his face a fixed frown and his voice angry.

"But there's more of them." Mickey warned the group.

"We're surrounded."

"Put the guns down." The Doctor ordered. Bullets won't stop them." Jake started shooting ignoring his order. The Doctor shouted at him while pulling the gun away. "No! Stop shooting, now. We surrender! Hands up." They all followed raising there hands. The Doctor slowly returned to his place before beside the brunette and just behind Rose. "There's no need to damage us. We're good stock. We volunteer for the upgrade program. Take us to be processed." He clearly told the Cybermen what they wamted to hear however it wasn't enough.

"You are rogue elements." It stated. The Doctors eyes widened and anger filled inside.

"But we surrender."

"You are incompatible."

"But this is a surrender." He shouted at the Cybermen.

"You will be deleted." One of the Cybermen stated they started to slowly walk forward the circle closing on the group.

"But we're surrendering!" The Doctor shouted as loud as he could trying to get the Cybermen to listen and take them. "Listen to me, we surrender!"

"You are inferior. Man will be reborn as Cyberman, but you will perish under maximum deletion." They then held out their hands ready to kill the group. The Cybermen then began to chant: "Delete. Delete. Delete!"