*Outside the lift*
The lift arrives and the Doctor and I get out first.
"Okay, you two, welcome to a new time zone. Not knowing the differential, I don't know how much time has passed here. Right, we need to find out more about this ship." I say.
"On it.'"
"No. Missy, you do it. Nardole, you come with us."
"But I'm the computer guy. That's always me."
"Sorry, she's cleverer."
"She's more evil."
"Same thing." Missy says.
"It really isn't."
"Oh, it is a little bit. A little bit the same."
"Anyway."
"Yes, thank you."
"Nardole!' I yell. Nardole follows the Doctor and me out of sight. Razor peeks round the corner of a large unit on castor wheels at Missy working the computer console.
"Hello."
"Hello, ordinary person. Please maintain a minimum separation of three feet. I'm really trying not to kill anyone today, but it would be tremendously helpful if your major arteries were out of reach."
Razor laughs. "I have been so looking forward to meeting you."
"Right. I'm very happy for you."
"I was watching you on the screen. It took me a while to work out who you were."
---
The Doctor, Nardole and I enter carefully through a rear door. I sonic the main light on, Nardole turns and gasps at the sight of the patients, once again slumped against the walls. The operating table is devoid of instruments now.
"Ah! Oh, there's always a scary thing with you two, isn't there?"
"Are you only getting that now?" I reply.
---
"Oh, this is super interesting. I assumed this ship was from Earth, full of squishable little humans, but it's not from Earth at all, is it?"
"You don't remember me, do you?"
Missy is looking at an image of a planet with continents exactly like Earth, which the computer says is the point of origin.
"Looks like an Earth-like planet, but not Earth itself. Very Earth-like. If planets had twins"
"You don't remember being here before, do you?" Razor asks.
"I've never been here before. Will you please stop wittering on or I'll have to splat your brains for finger paint."
"Oh, you have been here before. You really can trust me on that."
"Planet, planet. Which, which planet?"
---
Nardole is working on the computer.
"There's a lot of genetics, bio-engineering. There's a lot of stuff about something called Exodus. Operation Exodus."
Another door swings open to reveal a pair of silver boots. The Doctor and I move to look at it. Further up the body, lights flicker in a plastic box. It starts to move forward, rather awkwardly.
---
Missy gets a planetary ID on the screen.
"Look at that. This ship is from Mondas."
---
The silver figure stomps forward.
"It's a Cyberman. A Mondasian Cyberman!" I exclaim.
---
"Doctor! Seer!"
"Doctor! Ooo, Doctor! Seer!" Razor exclaims in a high pitched voice.
Razor points a gun at Missy.
"Okay, listen to me. I may be about to take that silly little gun away from you"
"They'll never forgive you, you know, they'll never set you free. Not when they discovers what you did to their little friend."
"I haven't done anything to their silly little friend."
"Oh, but I'm afraid you did. But a long time ago." Razor says.
---
"You're brand new, fresh out the factory. You're not ready for a fight yet."
"He does looks a little bit ready."
"Bill Potts. Do you know where she is? Where is Bill Potts?" I ask.
"Doc-tor Se-er." The Cyberman says.
"You know us?"
"You are Doc-tor and the Se-er."
---
"Am I supposed to know what you're talking about? Would it help you focus if I extracted some of your vital organs and made a lovely soup?"
"You would never be so self-destructive."
"So what?"
"But then again, neither would I."
He tosses the gun aside.
---
The Doctor and I back away as the Cyberman advances.
"Listen. We mean you no harm. We're just passing through. We're looking for Bill Potts, friend of mine." I say.
'Bill Potts."
"Yes, Bill Potts. You're a Cyberman. You're part of a neural net. Can you find her?" The doctor asks.
---
"I love disguises. Do you still like disguises? Of course, they are rather necessary when you happen to be someone's former Prime Minister."
He pulls off the mask to reveal - Harold Saxon!
---
"Accessing."
"Get back from it."
"Bill Potts. Locating Bill Potts. I am Bill Potts." The doctor and I look at the Cyberman In shock.
*Outside the lift*
"Hello, Missy. I'm the Master, and I'm very worried about my future. Give us a kiss."
---
"Bill? Bill, talk to us. What have they done to you?"
"Operation Exodus, whatever that is."
"Oh, wrong name, for a start." Missy walks in.
She goes and stands by Cyber-Bill's right shoulder.
"I waited."
"This is not an exodus, is it? More of a beginning really, isn't it?"
"I waited."
"In fact, do you know what I'd call it? I'd call it a genesis." I look at him in pure shock.
He stands by Cyber-Bill's left shoulder.
"Brother" I whisper and he smiles at me.
"You've met the ex?"
"Specifically, the Genesis of the Cybermen." Cyber-Bill reaches for the Doctor and me.
"I waited for you." A tear falls behind the blank round lens of the Cyberman helmet, which then leaks out to form the Cybus Cyberman eyepiece design.
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The Doctor Of War ³
قصص الهواةThe Seer wife of the doctor, Has been with him through the beginning of time, they have lost more, they have seen things, but through it all they stuck together.
