The Doctor Of War ³

The Doctor Falls

"Somehow you ended up in this dump. You never could drive."

"Meh. You wouldn't understand."

"Well, let's see how I do. Your Tardis got stuck. You killed a lot of people, took over the city, lived like a king until they rebelled against your cruelty. And ever since then you've been hiding out, probably in disguise, because everybody knows your stupid round face."

"Round?"

"It's a little bit."

"Shut up! Do you want to see my city, Doctor? Do you want to see what happens when you're too late to save your little friend and everybody else?"
He wheels the Doctor while Missy wheels me to the parapet to watch the columns of people being escorted by patients.

"See? This used to be just a hospital. Now it's mass production. The Cyber Foundries."

"The whole city is a machine to turn people into Cybermen. What do you think? Exciting, isn't it? Watching the Cybermen getting started."

"They always get started. They happen everywhere there's people. Mondas, Telos, Earth, Planet 14, Marinus. Like sewage and smartphones and Donald Trump, some things are just inevitable." I say.
Missy notices an aerial is pulsing out a signal.

"Doctor. Doctor, Seer, have you done something? What's happening?" Missy asks.

"People get the Cybermen
wrong. There's no evil plan, no evil genius. Just parallel evolution."

"Doctor, Seer, what have you done?'

"People plus technology minus humanity. The internet, cyberspace, Cybermen. Always read the comments, because one day they'll be an army."

"Look, they're coming. They're coming for us!"

"This doesn't make any sense!" The master exclaimed.

"Doesn't it?"

"These Cybermen are primitive. They're programmed to track human beings and convert them. They home in on human life signs only."

"You two, you should know by now. When you're winning, and we're in the room, you're missing something." I say.

"What have we missed?"

"You shouldn't have hit the Seer, Missy. She was waiting for her chance. Computer, containing the algorithm defining human life signs. We only had time to change one detail. A single number. One to a two. One heart to two hearts. She expanded the definition of humanity. Took 'em a while to update the net, but here we go. Welcome to the menu." The doctor explained.
Cybermen are stomping up the stairs to the now floodlit roof.

"Now they think that we count as humans, and they're going to fix that in a hurry!" Missy sonicks the doors shut. The Master sonicks a Cyberman that has come up the fire escape and sets its chest unit on fire.

"There must be other ways up here. We can't cover them all." Master says.

"You can't fight a whole city. You know the stories. There's only ever been one way to stop that many Cybermen. Us!"
The Master sonicks another Cyberman then goes to the Doctor and me.

"Then do it. Stop them!"

"Begging for your life already? That's a new record."

"I'm not begging you. I'd rather die than beg you."

"Lucky day, then."

"I can do this. They're not difficult. They're Cybermen."

"Knock yourself out." I say. Missy pirouettes and KO's the Master with her parasol.