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The Doomsday Cause

By Richard H. Wilden


EPISODE SEVEN:

The Doctor

Kerri

Phillips

Paskin

Harker

Ruscoe

Grell

Mansk

Cybermen

Interior. Phillips’ Laboratory

The Doctor: Please Phillips? I’m begging you! For anything in your life, in your mind that remains the noble Vrellan that you are don’t do this!

Phillips: Nobility? I am doing a just cause, my people. Innocent beings were wiped out by your humans- genocide and yet your Lords of all time claim it was necessary! This Doctor is the final end of my troubles, without the CyberCommander present I will have to make the decision for the Cyber race!

The Doctor: There must be something I can offer you in place of this? Anything for you to stave off this… this madness?

Phillips: There is nothing you can offer me Doctor, except your pitiful sorrows. The human race in moments will cease to be and in its place- Nova Mondas?

The Doctor: You would go that far? Let me tell you something of humanity, they are an ingenious species. They have spawned some of the greatest artists, writers, people that I have ever met. Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Hannibal I have all of the people and more and you can never claim that they are responsible for your race’s destruction.

Phillips: True, humanity has a great heritage but what of now? They commit wanton carnage, declare war on each other for the sake of not owning land, prejudices, xenophobia run their lives! They wiped out the Zilige refugees in the middle twenty-first century. Refugees from a war and your precious humans massacred them!



The Doctor: What? You must be mistaken? The Zilige are pacifists, I cannot believe that humanity could do such a thing.

Phillips: They did, your own friends on Earth Doctor dealt with them. Believed them to be invaders purely because they looked nothing like humans. Humans!

The Doctor: And you will dare commit genocide to safeguard a balance?

Phillips: Not genocide, merely giving them what they want: a future, a safe future for everyone!
Those Kontron crystals from the vortex will open up a new time field, from there reality will be split open, everything in existence as it stands will touched by the programme. Temporal shock waves will occur as a result.

The Doctor: So if anyone comes into contact with these waves becomes stuck in time, ensnared like a bee in amber?

Phillips: Quite so Doctor and soon every part of the aforementioned area will be removed from time itself and a new timeline constructed in its place!

The Doctor: Cybermen, everywhere humanity exists there will be Cybermen. Cold, heartless monsters. No joy or love or freedom just logic subjugation, a hundred thousand trillion souls screaming for mercy as their souls are plucked from their bodies becoming walking corpses following orders, spouting Cyber rhetoric!
No! Phillips, if you dare commit this act…. I will stop you!

Computer: Thirty seconds to programme launch.

Phillips: Too late Doctor. I’m giving them what they want- a future where I will be safe, where they will be safe from themselves! Their past is finally going to catch up with them! The Future is bleak, the future is dead, their future is now!

The Doctor: No! No! This is not worth it Phillips.

{The Doctor suddenly launches himself at Phillips, they grapple but the Doctor is forced back.}

Phillips: No Doctor you are wrong this time, it is worth everything!

{Flicks on the screen.}

Phillips: Why don’t you watch your friends? Watch their final moments as humans…

{On the screen Kerri is leading the others.}

The Doctor: No!

Computer: Programme launched. Impact in….

{A strange crackle emits from the orbs flooding outwards, the air sizzling as it goes.}

Kerri: This way, come on?

{As the air hits, her voice becomes hollow and metallic.}

CyberKerri: This way.

CyberRuscoe: Yes Commander.

CyberKerri: Any unwanted life forms will be collected for analysis, if resistance is met destroy on sight.

Cyberhumans: Understood.

The Doctor: Kerri! No, no not Kerri?

{They approach the lift doors.}

CyberRuscoe: Commander, scan indicates presence of two organic humanoids directly below us.

CyberKerri: Organic? They must be protected against the harshness, access the lift, they must be taken for alteration.

CyberHarker: Understood Commander.

Phillips: Something wicked this way comes!

{The lift descends holding all four within it, as the gears click and the door whirrs open.}

CyberKerri: Organics, you unprotected. You will be taken for alteration, defiance is unacceptable, surrender immediate.

The Doctor: Kerri? No, not you?

CyberRuscoe: He knows your name, he may be involved with the rebels?

CyberKerri: Agreed, take him for interrogation.

The Doctor: No, Kerri? Listen to me- it’s the Doctor! Listen to me?

Phillips: Save your breath for your last Doctor, she doesn’t know you, she never knew you!

The Doctor: No, Kerri? Listen to me? Fight it! You must fight it!

CyberHarker: What of this humanoid?

CyberKerri: He too will be taken for interrogation, take them both.

Phillips: I’m afraid I will be leaving you now, I have other places to go, people to see. Farewell Doctor I say that now but in moments I won’t remember a thing about you?

{There is a low swirl of wind as he starts to fade away.}

The Doctor: You’re wrong there Phillips, deadly wrong!

CyberKerri: Seize him!

{The Cyberhumans advance on him.}

The Doctor: You see I can take your gun and use it on them, it’s what Kerri would want!

Phillips: Take it Doctor, there is little you can do with it.

The Doctor: Little? Oh no, I can do a lot with it- you said yourself the future is dead, this is not the future, I wonder what will happen if I uses this gun on the control mechanism?

Phillips: What? No!

The Doctor: I take it from that, it would be disastrous? Let’s put that to the test!

{The Doctor fires the disrupter; the console warbles before it explodes, going faster and faster until little remains. An explosion resounds inside the chamber…. The sizzling wave hits the air.}

CyberPaskin: Commander I cannot…

{The air crackles loudly smothering everything and everyone, slowly before echoing away quickly into the ears of all as time resumes.}

The Doctor: There now, positive to negative that aberration of a timeline’s been cancelled out completely, as have your plans for a better future Phillips.

Phillips: You have killed me, killed me as easily though you’d…. My people…! Xsaskhana! Why Doctor? You defend humanity- Why?

The Doctor: Your actions may be misguided Phillips but that does excuse you from the evil you dared to commit, an eye for an eye does not work! Your people are gone, Phillips and they’ll never return, never! No matter what you do you’ll never succeed, can’t you see that?

Phillips: You are a Time Lord, I should have seen through your blurred lives, you’re as twisted as them to your own crude logic of who’s good and who’s evil! You’d lie freely as ever to win against me well then, I’ve suffered long before Doctor and this time I shall not fail!

The Doctor: Actually you will, the damage I made to those controls is irreparable, look inside the display screen, at the orbs.

Phillips: They’re still reacting, you blind fool! Without the controls the power from the focus will keep feeding the orbs, drain the generators completely!

The Doctor: Really? And then what will happen?

Phillips: What? The great Doctor does not see it? You are very blind! The pressure will build up; everything has its stability threshold and then like an infinitely more dangerous balloon- POP!

The Doctor: The orbs will shatter? But they’re charged up with temporal energy, they’ll be an explosion.

Phillips: More than that Doctor, a temporal explosion annihilating a great chunk from the vortex, kind of like these eclipses that you saw.

The Doctor: No! No, this can’t be it?

Phillips: Even better, a paradox, shame you Time Lords aren’t immune to such phenomena? Oh well, good luck Doctor!

The Doctor: You can’t go now?

Phillips: Begging for help or is this another one of your colourful threats?

The Doctor: Neither, I’m simply saying that you can’t warp away, the concentration of temporal particles will be friction, vicious friction and those pockets in the vortex will just keep getting bigger and bigger unless we can stop it?

Phillips: We? This is your problem Doctor not mine, I’ll simply warp backwards, find a shelter of some sort? Karr Tem sounds like a good place?

The Doctor: I’m afraid the effect will keep sucking all in. The vortex will collapse completely and everything will be sucked in it. So there’s no use running Phillips, we’re at ground zero now and we need to trigger the fail-safe!

Phillips: Fail-safe?

The Doctor: The last orb, you only have four there. Why else was Mansk and Grell brought here? They were the couriers for it… wait a moment? Upstairs I had that orb on me, must have got swapped around when the effect hit? The Orb’s in Paskin’s care!

Phillips: In that case, you best radio him in? But of course you don’t know where those Cybermen are?

The Doctor: I’ll use the intercom and as for yourself I want you to cut the cable to the generators, I suspect that’s maintenance hatch you’re doing best to cover up with those shoes?

Phillips: Yes but how do you suggest I cut them? Use brute force?

The Doctor: Here, take this.

{He fishes about in his coat and passes it to Phillips.}

Phillips: Sonic screwdriver? A bit outdated?

The Doctor: As will we all unless you make an effort? I’m going to try and raise the others and no tricks, remember that I’ve still got this gun of yours!

CUT TO:
Exterior. Corridor.

{Kerri’s party has arrived at the service shaft to Phillips’ Laboratory. No one is around!}

Kerri: Is this the place?

Paskin: Yes, but there’s no cover. And none of those Cyberman things too!

Dr. Harker: Well lets get down to the lab before they do spot us?

Paskin: Right! Come on, the lift should be ready?

{He walks across to the shaft.}

Paskin: Great! Just great?

Kerri: What is it now?

Paskin: It’s the blasted locking code! It’s been shut down!

Dr. Harker: Let me see? It’s easily fixed just key in a new code.

Paskin: No you stupid woman, the whole thing has been shut down! That’s why the light isn’t showing.

Ruscoe: They must have shut it down from down there! But why?

Kerri: You mean to say we’re stuck up here?

Dr. Harker: Certainly. Your Doctor friend has sold us off to these Cybermen!

Kerri: How dare you! Let me tell you something Doctor whatever your name is? The Doctor has struggled time and time again to help people like us and not abandon them when things get tough!

Ruscoe: But we can’t stay out here in direct view, the Cybermen could be anywhere!

Paskin: Agreed but where is there that we can go to? The place is crawling with these robot things.

Dr Harker: Our quarters?
Ruscoe: Certainly not. Don’t underestimate them. They could peel through those doors as if they were paper!

Paskin: And they’re relentless too, don’t forget that!

Kerri: Look there must be somewhere that they can’t get to besides down there even a ventilation shaft of some sort would do?

Dr. Harker: There’s the generator shaft. They wouldn’t search there or couldn’t.

Paskin: Yes the doors are thicker to prevent radiation leaks.

Kerri: Where is this place?

Dr. Harker: Not far from here the only trouble is can we get there before the Cybermen get us.

Kerri: We’ll have to chance it! Look, we’ll follow in a crocodile, Paskin since you’ve got the gun you go first, Doctor you second and me and Ruscoe bringing up the rear!

Ruscoe: But that one gun won’t be enough, I mean conventional weapons don’t seem to have much of an effect unless…

Paskin: Unless we get too close and even so we have to have a lucky shot!

Kerri: Well luck is better than nothing no lets go!

Paskin: Wait! Corridor’s clear.

{Hurriedly they scamper off. Until they come to a stop!}

Dr. Harker: What is the hold up?

Paskin: Ssh! Kerri we’ve got trouble!

Kerri: What is it?

Paskin: Look there!

{Two Cybermen are around the corner examining a strange object shaped like a round vacuum with a letter on top.}

Ruscoe: Well?

Kerri: Two of them up the other end!

Dr. Harker: Great! What do we do now?

Kerri: Is there another way round?

Paskin: No, this is the only way through.

Ruscoe: Great! So what now?

Kerri: I’m thinking. What would the Doctor do?

Dr. Harker: Leave us in the lurch most likely.

{Kerri snarls at Dr. Harker.}

Paskin: Listen ladies we’ve got no time for this?

Ruscoe: Allow me to see? Hmm?

Kerri: Anything Prof?

Ruscoe: What are they looking at? That thing with the letter on top?

Paskin: Letter?

Kerri: It could only be from the Doctor. Something to help us, just typical the enemy had to get it first!

Ruscoe: Can you make out what they’re saying?

Paskin: Everybody quiet! Listen?

{Down the end of the corridor they can hear the Cybermen.}

1st Cyberman: No contact from any group. Contact with the Cyber Commander has been severed.

2nd Cyberman: Initiate message to Control, inform them that we require reinforcements.

1st Cyberman: Understood.

2nd Cyberman: This device is an electric battery cell modified by other sources. Used to project high voltage discharges: A weapon.

1st Cyberman: Cyber control reports that three groups will arrive soon.

2nd Cyberman: We will continue the search.
{Back amongst the group.}

Ruscoe: They’re sending for reinforcements! That’s all we need!

Paskin: Well if we clobber those two somehow we’ve got run of the base again, we can build up some sort of barricade?

Ruscoe: But the Cybermen?

Paskin: Ruscoe those two are the only Cybermen still alive here, when they’re out of the way…

Dr. Harker: But how do you intend to stop those two with only one sub-machine gun?

Paskin: And only half a clip.

Kerri: That weapon, if we got it away from them, then we could…?

Paskin: But we’ll need a good diversion! Something that’s not just going to pop out of the air.

{And as if on cue!}

The Doctor {Voiced through a radio speaker}: Hello? Over here?

Paskin: What the hell was that?

Kerri: Doctor!

Dr. Harker: He’s madder than I thought?

The Doctor VO: Come on over here old chaps? I’m over here!

1st Cyberman: What was that?

2nd Cyberman: Humanoid sound patterns. Here!

The Doctor VO: Come on it’s me- the Doctor, I’m over here and causing trouble!

2nd Cyberman: Over there. Resistance Denied.

The Doctor: You can’t catch me!

{The two Cybermen lurch off, their heavy footsteps clanging on the metal floor.}

Kerri: Come on, before they get back!

{She scurries across the floor and scoops up the letter.}

Paskin: Well?

The Doctor VO: Hello again? Sorry about that, I needed your help?

Paskin: Help? Where are you?

The Doctor VO: In Phillips’ laboratory. Um I wonder if you might be able to help me Mister Paskin?

Kerri: Doctor? Are you all right?

The Doctor VO: Perfectly Kerri, there’s going to be more trouble on the way so you best get the others back to the TARDIS.

Paskin: Tardis?

Kerri: It’s okay, we’ll be safe there?

The Doctor VO: Yes. Mister Paskin, that orb you took off me, where is it?

Paskin: Orb?

The Doctor VO: The one you thought was a bomb. The one you confiscated off me.

Paskin: Oh that, it’s in the debriefing room, was it important?

The Doctor VO: Very, look I’ll unlock the service lift for you all, you’ll be safe in the TARDIS! Got to go now, things are getting restless.

Kerri: Doctor? Doctor?

Ruscoe: This ship of yours, is it far?

Kerri: Just outside. It’s okay, we can get in and keep them out, it’s well defended!

Paskin: Okay then, the quickest way there is this way! Let’s hope that Doctor friend of yours can keep the Cybermen at bay?

CUT TO:
Interior. Phillips’ Laboratory.

{The Doctor is working at a console, while Phillips carries on meekly.}

The Doctor: This way! Come on, you can’t catch me!

Phillips: Enjoying himself Doctor?

The Doctor: Yes these silly Cybermen, I’ve got only going down a one-way only route and another going round in circles.

Phillips: How amusing Doctor, must you pamper over those pathetic primitives of yours?

The Doctor: They’re my friends Phillips. You know friends, people you like?

Phillips: People? They are the scourge of this universe! Yet you still defend these xenophobic creatures from their rightful destiny?

The Doctor: Rightful destiny? The Cybermen have no claim to humanity, how well you know?

Phillips: You forget Doctor, I have seen that future, you can’t stop it from happening, either way the human race is doomed! I merely nudged progress on a bit?

The Doctor: Nudged? You foolish man Phillips; do you honestly think the Cybermen would leave your world alone? Humanoids, all life can be adapted to their cause, even Vrellans!

Phillips: You underestimate my people, we are immune. With our technology we could annihilate them completely, that way your precious galaxy and all innocent bystanders will be saved. Everyone will have been saved.

The Doctor: Except humanity.

Phillips: A small price to pay Doctor.

The Doctor: Small price? Do you ever consider the benefits that humanity has contributed to existence? Shakespeare for example was a great man; a legacy carried far from Earth to many civilised worlds across countless galaxies- one man made that famous came from a race you so hate.

Phillips: Exactly- one man and now this generation has very little to show of its right to exist, no Davincis or Edisons to show from it, instead all they do is war at other races. The Krells were attacked by humanity; their spawning grounds were under attack by a terraforming industry- a human corporation that crushed that generation into the dirt!
These scientists were constructing weapons to annihilate that innocent race of non-humanoids!

The Doctor: That may be true but it does not excuse you from you were proposing? I don’t want to argue Phillips we’re in enough trouble without us bickering away!


Phillips: Then what do you suggest we do?

The Doctor: I have a plan. That effect in there is sucking in and pushing out temporal particles, if you directed its waves towards the debriefing room I might get a chance to recover the orb? And here lies the tricky bit: I’m going to place my life in your hands Phillips, foolish as it is but it’s the only way!

Phillips: Honestly Doctor you do jabber on. This regenerative form is more irritating than your last. Do get to the point!

The Doctor: Fine. I want you to open the temporal shield so I can enter the power core; which I hope will transport me the debriefing room’s position where I can obtain the orb and bring it back into the core and end this premature apocalypse.

Phillips: You make it sound so simple Doctor. But I know well enough it won’t be. You’ll be crossing a chasm of destruction on only a piece of twine!

The Doctor: Well Phillips, I believe it is very strong twine and hopefully with a great deal of practise and balance I’ll just pop in across the time bridge and be out of there tickedy-boo!

Phillips: I wish I had your optimism? If you could just type in the time co-ordinates here then we can get this show on the road! But in return Doctor you must help me?

The Doctor: In any way possible as long as it isn’t involving humanity’s destruction?

Phillips: When that shield is deactivated, the time distortion, will age the console to dust, now you’ll need a way to reverse the sequence and return you safely.

The Doctor: Oh. Well in that case you could erect a small shield around this console, large enough to hold you until I get back!
{He crosses over to the other console and types after a bit he stops.}
Now my sonic screwdriver? Screwdriver?

Phillips: Here it is Doctor.

The Doctor: Thank you, just open the inspection hatch, cross those wires and feed that cable into this end.

Phillips: Thank you Doctor I think I can manage it now?

The Doctor: You better have Phillips or this machine will end up as a pile of ash and then you’ll be a stone’s throw from following it!

There now, the co-ordinates are set, Kerri and the others have gone to the TARDIS so they’ll be safe there.

Phillips: What about the Cybermen? Surely you haven’t forgotten that will return? That they never give up.

The Doctor: I think it’s best that I cross that bridge when we come to it! Now don’t you get any ideas of firing that disrupter of yours at me, the moment I get in. They’ll be a tremendous release of certain energies one; which could destroy us all if you fire that thing.

Phillips: The thought had never crossed my mind Doctor?

The Doctor: There’s no point lying Phillips I know you well.

Phillips: And I you Doctor.

{There is dull but strong hum.}

Phillips: There now, one miniature temporal shield for one, good luck Doctor, you’ll need it!

The Doctor: Wow best wishes from you?

Phillips: Not quite Doctor, merely a warning that there are two converging time lines in the centre of that storm. Two possibilities fighting for certainty- the real world you know and the other. Now if you unite the orbs while the other time line exists than farewell humanity forever!

The Doctor: Well I shall be careful but not as much as you Phillips, you’ll be affected as well.

Phillips: Will I? My people are like a sieve and time is running water, I will survive no matter what happens but you will be a nothing! An anomaly in the wrong dimension, keep that in mind Doctor?

{The doors slide open, immediately the room is filled with howls of the wind.}

The Doctor: We shall see then Phillips through the looking glass I go!

Phillips: The shielding is holding Doctor. You have nine minutes to make your choice!

{The Doctor is faintly audible.}

The Doctor: Nine minutes? Good Grief! Well one step for a time lord but one giant leap into time itself!

{He vanishes into the inferno leaving Phillips alone.}

Phillips: Eight minutes forty-two seconds left Doctor. What’s this strange marking? Ah, the divergent time line, now I wonder if it will work? What can grossly inefficient human technology do to aid me?

CUT TO:
Exterior. Arcadia.

{There are many quick hums as four hums- skimmers come to a halt and four groups of Cybermen disembark.}

Cyberleader: All contact with the Cyber force dispatched to this station has been lost. The Doctor is within this complex. Enter it and bring him to me.

Cybermen: Leader.

Cyberleader: Group seventeen secure that object, it is the Doctor’s TARDIS.

Cyberman: What of any remaining resistance?

Cyberleader: All humanoids must be captured for Cyber alteration, if they continue to resist you will kill them.

Cyberman: Understood.

CUT TO:
Interior. Corridor, lift access port.

Paskin: No trace of Cybermen, this area is clear.

Ruscoe: And look, the lift still works too!

Kerri: Then what are we waiting for?

Paskin: Whoa! Better let me go first.

Dr. Harker: Look would you lot stop arguing and get a move on!

Ruscoe: I hate to say it but she’s right! I’ll feel a lot safer in this… what did you call it?

Kerri: TARDIS.

Paskin: What is this thing anyway?

Kerri: It’s a Tardis, a space ship with well space and defences.

Ruscoe: Sounds better than the generating plant all ready.

Dr. Harker: Will someone open the lift?

{There is a ‘ping’ and the doors slide open.}

Paskin: Here we go, next stop freedom!

{Just then comes huge metallic footsteps.}

Cyberman: Resistance Denied!

{The Cyberman fires and blast hits close by.
Then more footsteps follow.}

Cybermen: Resistance Denied!

{They speak in unison.}

Ruscoe: More Cybermen! There must be about a dozen of them?

Dr. Harker: Where did they come from?

Paskin: These are those reinforcements and here they come. Press the lift button!

Kerri: I can’t reach it!

Dr. Harker: Someone better because they’re getting closer!

Cybermen: You will remain still. Resistance Denied!

Ruscoe: Wait a moment, I’ve got it.

{There is another Ping as the doors shut. The motors start up.
Beneath them there is a crash followed by a twisting of metal. The Cyberman’s voice echoes deeply throughout the lift shaft.}

Cybermen: Resistance Denied!

Paskin: That was close!

Kerri: Too close! But if they’re into the base aren’t we safe enough here?

Ruscoe: But what if they’re up there as well?

Paskin: Then we’re toast!

{The motors suddenly grind to a halt.}

Dr. Harker: Well we’ve arrived.

Ruscoe: Let’s just hope the place is clear of Cybermen right?

Paskin: And if they are let me go first! I might get off a few good shots?

Kerri: Remember, crocodile movement.

{The doors slide open.}

Dr. Harker: Well? I can’t see anything back here?

Ruscoe: We’re in luck. No Cybermen!

Paskin: So far, so where’s this space ship of yours Kerri?

Kerri: Over there, see the large blue box.

Ruscoe: That’s your Tardis?

Kerri: It might not look much but it’s better than any other conventional ship.

Dr. Harker: Why are we standing around? Come on let’s get in before those Cybermen do?

Ruscoe: Yes. Do you see anything?

Paskin: Not much with this dust blowing up!

{Kerri leads them over to the TARDIS.}

Dr. Harker: This is it? You’re joking surely girl? This thing belongs in an ancient museum!

Kerri: Wait till you check out inside.

Ruscoe: We’re all going in there but we won’t fit?

Kerri: Wait and see! But first could one of you give me a bunk up?

Dr. Harker: What for?

Kerri: The key or rather the spare key it’s on the roof in a cubby-hole.

Ruscoe: But there’s no need, look!

Kerri: What? The key, it’s still there! Doctor, you can’t have left it there all this time?

Paskin: Then it’s open?

Kerri: Sure, sure come on in!

{She opens the door and enters the TARDIS.}

CUT TO:
{Immediately there is the steady hum of the TARDIS console room.}

Interior. Console Room.

Kerri: Welcome to the TARDIS.

Ruscoe: Wow, it’s… it’s amazing?

Paskin: Incredible! How is all this possible?

Kerri: I don’t know how it really works but the Doctor says….

Dr. Harker: Dimensionally transindental. It’s a theory of course no real proof that it could actually work.

Paskin: Work? Look around you Doctor Harker it’s bigger on the inside than the outside!

Ruscoe: These books, some of them are originals but they’re…

Kerri: The Doctor’s, he’s always reading them.

Ruscoe: But these books are hundreds of years old!

Kerri: Well he’s a slow reader.

Paskin: These controls, Kerri… um, which activate the weapons?

Kerri: Weapons? The Tardis doesn’t have weapons.

Dr. Harker: You mean we’re defenceless? Great! We’re sitting ducks in here.

Kerri: Just relax will you? At least we’re in here and they’re out there!

Cyberleader: Surrender immediate!

Ruscoe: How did they get in?

Kerri: They must have used the key? Outside now!

{They rush to the door but more Cybermen meet them.}

Cybermen: Resistance Denied! You will surrender.

Dr. Harker: We’re trapped!

Ruscoe: Stupid woman you have to state the obvious don’t you?

Cyberleader: You will remain still.

Paskin: Like hell I will? Kerri get down!

Kerri: No Paskin don’t do it?

{He tries to fire but can’t!}

Paskin: You can’t be jammed? Please?

Cyberleader: That one is hostile towards us, Kill him.

Paskin: No, please don’t jam? Work! Work!

{He scurries over to the bookshelf and tries to climb it but falls off scattering books everywhere!
The Cyberman tries to fire but can’t.}

Cyberman: My weapon is ineffective.

Cyberleader: Destroy him.

Paskin: No, please, please? Help?

{The Cybermen advance, their metallic footsteps echoing all around.
The Cyberman brings his arm down- there is a sickening crack then silence!}

Dr. Harker: Paskin! You murderers!

Cyberleader: Restrain this female.

Dr. Harker: You monster! You monster! You’ve killed Paskin! You monster!

Cyberleader: You are the Doctor.

Ruscoe: No, I am not the Doctor but I know of you. Your race should be dead.

Cyberleader: We have been in hibernation on Telos during the Vogan conflict now we possess the TARDIS. We have time travel now.

Kerri: Oh yeah. Not while the Doctor’s on the case!

Cyberleader: Where is the Doctor?

Kerri: Far from here, silver face!

Cyberleader: He will return, when he does we shall possess the Doctor and the TARDIS, with these we shall obtain full control of time.

CUT TO:
Exterior. A few miles from the Arcadia.

{Grell and Mansk are still trapped in a time loop.}

Grell: Verry W…e…ll …Retr..eat!

Mansk: Grell… what… is… happening?

Grell: This… is… the… Doctor’s… work! Where… is… he?

Mansk: Unknown…. Messiah… Shall I run a scanbeforethe effect… comes… aroundagain!

Grell: Proceed!

{The scan hums with power just as the Doctor appears:}

The Doctor: Seven minutes, twelve seconds according to this watch better move quickly! Hang on, this isn’t the debriefing room?

{He creeps up slowly on them then his shoes crunch on a rock and instantly they whirl around.}

Grell: Doctor… you… are… here!

The Doctor: Evidently Grell. Experiencing some technical problems?

Grell: You… have… done…this… to…us!

The Doctor: No, not really blame the mad scientist at the helm. This is a mistake and the normal service will resume shortly as will you I suspect?

Grell: You won’thaveto worry… about… thatanymoredoctor…. Mansk… Kill him…!

{There is a blaze of light and time for them is back to the loop.}

Mansk: We must leave Grell!

Grell: Very well, retreat!

Cyberman: Resistance Denied, you will be like us.

The Doctor: Not today thank you, ah hah, see those flashes of light? Time distortions, just the thing to put me back on track.

Grell: You… cannot… leave… us!

The Doctor: Not to worry old chap because after this you won’t remember a thing!
Sorry to wave and dash but I am in a hurry, some other time perhaps?
Ta! Ta!

{The inferno appears and swallows him up.}

CUT TO:
Interior. De-briefing room.

{The Doctor appears through a crackle of energy into the silent room.}

The Doctor: Hmm? Dark, quiet and definitely silent. I seem to be in the right room but is it the right time line?

{As he walks he bumps into something, spilling something glass cracks.}

The Doctor: Typical, how can I look for something if it’s hiding away in the dark?
Hello what’s this on the wall? Flat and hard and vaguely smooth. Possibly either an alarm bell or a light switch?

{He flicks it on and immediately there is a hum of static from above him.}

The Doctor: There now. Much better…? Oh dear this doesn’t look right. No sign of damage in the walls, no heavy set footprints in the ground and aside for work here there’s no evidence that Cybermen came through here? Oh dear. Then does that mean that the orb will be here too?
{He starts to look about the room quickly before walking to a drawer and pulling through it.}

The Doctor: Might as well have a look though? Plastic plates in perfect English, no single mistakes or a sign of human charms like typos or dyslexia? Oh how I hate their world.

{He pulls through cupboards rooting about amongst any things.}

The Doctor: Spare plastic plates, recording devices, computing accessories by the look of it but no such luck. Now then- if I were a computerised human being where would I place an unknown object within this room?

{Just then the door slides open and in walks…}

The Doctor: Oh. Hello again? My you still do look like Kerri you know? The plastic skin arrangement of your face is uncanny, shame about your hair and eyes?

CyberKerri: You were present within the lower level laboratory section, yet you are here now. Explain?

The Doctor: Ah, now that definitely is something I can do. I came here to search for something, something of mine that was taken. Confiscated by Paskin.

CyberKerri: You are a registered insurrectionist organic. You must come with me for alteration and then interrogation.

The Doctor: No thank you Kerri, I’d rather have my ball back if that’s all right with you? Hello, what’s this on your chest unit? Looks like some sort of container?

CyberKerri: You will come with me, defiance will not be tolerated.

The Doctor: Oh very well, I can hardly argue with you Kerri. My, my your race has lost so much. Humanity is a far cry from your mind I imagine? What horrors have been unleashed on your world?

CyberKerri: You must become like us. We serve the Core, the Core of knowledge. When you become like us you will see that our way is necessary.

The Doctor: I see? So it’s like that is it? Well thank you but no, instead I think I’ll take the runner up prize?

{He pulls open the container and extracts the orb but CyberKerri grabs him!}

The Doctor: Thank you. My, my Kerri your arms are strong and what clear eyes you have as well, I imagine those are camera lenses I’m seeing, no improvement on good old fashioned sight.

CyberKerri: You will comply. Resistance is unacceptable!

The Doctor: True but it’s also very practical, you see in about a few minutes time we’re all be destroyed and although we could continue for hours on Cybernetic philosophy but the truth is, is that you have gained nothing. Everything that makes life worth living is lost on you including illogical actions like resisting you and not anticipating that I might do this?

{WHACK! He knocks her back to the floor.}

The Doctor: Forgive me Kerri, I said that I would never hit a woman but you’re no longer the Kerri I remember! Ta! Ta!

CyberKerri: All guard units to communications suite. Organic intruder must be apprehended!

The Doctor: Hmm? Must I? Oh well perhaps we can discuss this later? Goodbye Kerri.

{He cries as he passes through the fold in space.}

CyberKerri: Guard units, hostile organic has vacated the communications area via an unknown phenomena, am pursuing!

{She too passes through the hole, crackling as it goes.}

CUT TO:
Interior Phillips’ Laboratory.

{Phillips is working feverishly at the controls, frowning as he works, he hits the console in anger.}

Phillips: Come on you stupid machine? Work! All I want you to do is focus on the other time line. Draw it to me; bring it to me on a plate!

{He coughs hard as he types.}

Computer: Temporal shielding power systems falling to seventy percent.

Phillips: What? Where did that excessive thirty percent go to? Ah, yes you’re using that energy to bring the time line to me! If only the Doctor would hurry up then it might actually work?

Computer: Temporal shielding power systems falling to forty-nine percent success and continuing, power being diverted to focussing system.

Phillips: No, not yet? I must have more time? He has three minutes and ten seconds left. What is he doing?

Computer: Temporal shielding has entered danger area: Now standing at thirty-two percent and falling.

{Just then there is a strange explosion / implosion cueing several klaxons to sound out.}

Phillips: No! I need you here now Doctor, not in an hour’s time but now! Come on Doctor?

Computer: Power shielding now at critical and falling. Advise immediate evacuation of research laboratory?

{There is another strange explosion/ implosion.}

Computer: Alert! Temporal shielding now fully deactivated.

{The hum wavers and then ceases.
Just then there is a flash of light and the Doctor emerges.}

The Doctor: Well I’ve got it here so no more worries… Good grief! What happened in here?
{The doors slide open.}
Phillips? I have the orb here. I need your help to re-direct the focusing point.

Phillips: About time to Doctor, Oh no the time line is going? The rate of temporal energy is increasing a large temporal release is expected. Time’s up Doctor!

The Doctor: Oh no you don’t? I’ve lived too long to see the annihilation of so many good people in such a short time? Here, I have the orb here in my pocket. Oh no, it seems to be stuck?


{A figure suddenly appears through the rift, whirling round on him.}

CyberKerri: You will come with me, you explain the anomaly to the Core. We will be better, will be supreme.

The Doctor: Oh no, not you again? Phillips, could you spare me a hand? Phillips?

Phillips: Fascinating, that Cyber-creature represents the alternative time line, now if I can get the orb free in time then humanity will be finished?

The Doctor: Phillips, get her arms off my chest, I think she’s trying to crush my ribs?

Phillips: Of course Doctor, I’ll relieve you of this orb. Farewell humanity!

{He rustles about as the Doctor struggles.}

The Doctor: No Phillips, don’t do it? Phillips?

Phillips: Ah, there is it! The shining oyster surrounds us all and here lies the pearl. Farewell humanity and roll on Cyberanity!

CyberKerri: Resistance to us is unacceptable! Surrender.

{Suddenly from behind him comes an unearthly howling that resounds throughout the room, lightning crackles around!}

The Doctor: Oh no! Not like this? A time eclipse on my doorstep!

Phillips stands on the threshold, the orb in his hands.

Phillips: I can feel it being drawn to the others Doctor. At last Vrella will be returned to me and there is precious little that you can do to stop me. Kill him slowly!

CyberKerri: Query? Who are you to command me?

Phillips: I am your new master and he is your new enemy, I am offering you the future and here it goes, humanity’s end is now and my supreme triumph over humanity has finally come!

The Doctor: You heard him, he wants to command your race, questions your Core leader?

CyberKerri: You question Core? You will be like us. Your biological patterns are different but you will be used.

{She releases the Doctor and advances on Phillips.}

Phillips: Hey? What are you doing…? Aah! Let me go! Let me?

{There is a twisted of cloth and bone and Phillips yelps loud in pain and the two of them struggle hard!}

CyberKerri: You will surrender.

The Doctor: The orb, rolling away… Can I reach it? Lungs still hurt. Come on?

Phillips: No…. Doctor! You will not stop…. Me!

The Doctor: I’m afraid I have, here goes nothing? Eclipse if you have hands, catch this!
{He throws the orb into the room and it is captured by the inferno!
Roars, large animal-like, howling with the wind!}

Phillips: Fool Doctor while she exists here the Cyberanity will still continue! I have won!

The Doctor: Not so fast, I took this toy of yours in the scuffle and how do you trigger it? Ah yes, here’s the control. Goodbye Phillips.

Phillips: No Doctor, No!

{He triggers the gun and Phillips and the CyberKerri vanish in a stream of dust.}

The Doctor: Now to get down before there’s an almighty…

{Bang! A huge explosion rocks the building and the planet!}

{Hundreds of enormous explosions rock the room and planet.}
CUT TO:

Exterior. Surface- Outside Arcadia.

{A Cyber-patrol continues its examination of the area thoroughly.}

Cyberman: No further humanoids have been detected within the research station.

2nd Cyberman: Division Sixteen reports capture of remaing humanoids within the Doctor’s craft. The Doctor remains free.

{There is a heavy rumble growing increasingly loud every second.}

Cyberman: What is that sound?

2nd Cyberman: I am adjusting scans to determine this. Scans indicate unknown energy emission increasing in size.

Cyberman: Its current location?
2nd Cyberman: The Research station. Energy emission increasing greatly, correction. Energy emission moving beyond limits of research station, energy identified as temporal. Impact estimated in….

{The Cybermen howl and rasp as the vast roaring echo shrieks over them blotting them out in a blast of energy!}

SHOCK CUT TO:
Interior. TARDIS.

{The explosion rocks the TARDIS.}

Cyberleader: What was that? You will answer!

Kerri: I don’t know?

Cyberleader: You are the Doctor’s companion, you gained entry to the TARDIS. You understand this.

Kerri: I know bits and pieces but not all, only the Doctor does.

Cyberleader: You will answer me or you will be damaged like the other humanoid.

Kerri: I’ll see what I can do? If you’ll allow me to use the console unhindered?
Thank you. Oh dear, some of the instruments are flashing? What would the Doctor do? Oh yes the scanner control.

{The scanner comes to life.}

Ruscoe: My God! That looks like the planet’s burning?

Dr. Harker: The surface, it’s breaking up! That’s not possible?

Cyberleader: What of our main base? You will show me the freighter now!

Kerri: Give me the co-ordinates?

Cyberleader: Co-ordinates seven, seven, nine, four.

Kerri: There, so there’s your ship or what’s left of it.

Ruscoe: So much for your Cybermen ha! Burning up with the rest of the atmosphere!

Cyberleader: We possess the TARDIS now, our mission here is over we will return to Telos as soon as the Doctor returns.

Dr. Harker: But if he doesn’t? What then? You pathetic tin soldiers have accomplished nothing!

Cyberleader: We possess the TARDIS.

Kerri: But no one to pilot it!

Cyberleader: You will learn.

Kerri: I can’t and neither can they! It’s impossible!

Cyberleader: You two are scientists from the research base?

Dr. Harker: Yes and neither I nor Ruscoe here could ever pilot this contraption.

Cyberleader: Then you are ineffective. Kill them.

Kerri: Wait! Perhaps I could pilot it?

Cyberleader: If you attempt to deceive us then you will be destroyed.

Kerri: Uh Oh! Hold on there’s going to be another…!

{An even greater explosion rocks the ship!}

Ruscoe: I don’t know how much more I can take of this?

Dr. Harker: The fires on the screen, I think they’re getting brighter?
Ruscoe: I do believe you’re right. Don’t look at them, turn away.

{The light grows in intensity then there is a strange gurgling sound followed by the sound of whispering: many familiar sounding.}

Mansk: Now we head for that science base!

Dr. Harker: Where is that archetypal fool Ruscoe?

Sorcha: Feeding through first nutrient flow now.

Ruscoe: It’s only me my babies!

Barclay: Who is that? Sorcha, is that you?

The Doctor: An Octarian, reduced to primordial sludge. Very nasty!

Paskin: Hands up!

CyberKerri: You will comply. Resistance is unacceptable!

The Doctor: No but would you kill me?

Co-ordinator: Activate the control signal.

{Then time slows down.}

Kerri: Hold… on… to… something?

Ruscoe: Oh… no… not… this… again.

Cyberleader: You… will… remain… still!

Kerri: I… think it’s… stopping? … hold… on!

{There is a sudden whoosh! As time returns to normal, and everything else subsides!}

Ruscoe: Oh my head! Is everyone all right?

Dr. Harker: Ruscoe you’re standing on my leg!

Ruscoe: Oh sorry.

Cyberleader: Do not move! You will remain still.

Ruscoe: Hey look at the scanner screen!

Kerri: It looks clear. No sign of mountains, rocks or anything? It’s completely flat out there!

Dr. Harker: Are you sure it’s the same planet?

Ruscoe: Look at the Arcadia! It’s still standing.

Dr. Harker: But barely? Could anyone have survived it?

Kerri: He’s got to? He’s just got to?

CUT TO:
Interior. Laboratory.

{The room is barely standing; there are large jagged holes where debris has fallen.
A figure stands up caked in dust.}

The Doctor: Oh no! More dirt on this coat, really this is too much! But at least Doctor you’re alive. Well now talk about bringing the house down. These instruments are barely working I’m surprised they’re all still intact?
The effect must have run farther than I expected but at least my theory worked in the nick of time counter-balancing the orbs’ destructive power and rendering the time line effect useless.
Ooh it is nippy, I better collect my coat and get out of here before this place collapses!

{There is a shambling struggle and a ragged old figure scrambles to his feet.}

Phillips: Doctor, I live!

The Doctor: I almost expected you were gone, caught in the blast like that and yet you survived?

Phillips: I almost died Doctor but I have survived worse things, in time the damage I have sustained will be healed but as for you Doctor, the pain will be excruciating!

The Doctor: Painful, oh it will be, especially if this place falls down on us. It might collapse any moment on us?

Phillips: Then let it Doctor, we will both survive such an incident, the pain for me will be brief but for you, only the beginning!

The Doctor: No thank you I’ve only just gotten use to this new body now put that gun of yours away, there’s been enough killing all ready!

Phillips: Oh indeed there has. But I haven’t even started yet? I would have succeeded? I held the power of creation in my hands and you wrested it from me!

The Doctor: You never had that power Phillips, to allow it to fall into the hands of someone as crazed, as yourself would be a folly in itself! Accept the future Phillips: Vrella is dead and it won’t be coming back!

Phillips: You think I would believe your word? You, the defender of humanity? What do you know of my crusade? You only see it as a perversion against humanity well then, what if my people wiped the humans from existence. You would fight. Admit it? You would fight to restore them!

The Doctor: Yes. Yes Phillips I would but I would never attempt something as pointless as this? If they’re gone I would learn to live without them.

Phillips: Not me though, I do not give up. They will be returned to me, as will you to the Cyber cause! With you out of the picture it will be so much more easier for me, now move!

The Doctor: Temper, temper Phillips? We don’t want your ancient body forming splitting under pressure?

Phillips: Move!

{He ushers the Doctor onward roughly.}

Slowly they trudge away to the lift.

Phillips: Get inside the lift Doctor!

The Doctor: Oh, can’t I have a tour first?

Phillips: Move!

{The lift’s motors hum and it moves up the shaft.}

The Doctor: You really think they’re still alive? They would have been destroyed, swallowed up by the time waves!

Phillips: Mutter all you want Doctor if in that case I might as well drop you off on Telos myself!

{The lift stops and doors slide open. Immediately the winds meet them, blowing gently.}

Phillips: Amazing! The only things to survive in all this harshness were a few walls and your TARDIS sticking out like a blot on the landscape!

The Doctor: The old girl’s strong enough Phillips.

Phillips: Well, we’ll soon find that out. Now move Doctor!

The Doctor: No need to push I was going there anyway.

{Together they traipse across the hot dusty floor.}

The Doctor: And here we are.

Phillips: Only you Doctor could be so pathetic to leave the key still in the lock!

The Doctor: What? Oh really! I must forgotten when I went out to get Grell and Mansk? Anyway it’s open I’ll take the key.

Phillips: I’ll take that Doctor.

The Doctor: Here you go. Shall I go first?

Phillips: But of course you will!

{They both enter the TARDIS.}

CUT TO:
Interior. TARDIS.

The Doctor: I’m back old girl!

Kerri: Doctor you’re alive!

The Doctor: I very much hope so unlike my captor, when he emerges from the darkness. Hello Kerri, feeling well?

Kerri: You’re alive. I thought you were caught up in that explosion?

The Doctor: No need to worry about that. Ah and I see we have guests aboard Dr. Harker and Professor Ruscoe, welcome to the TARDIS, sorry that it’s a mess and all but it will need a thorough tidy up soon.

Kerri: Doctor, there’s a slight problem! We’re not alone.

The Doctor: Yes thank you Kerri, I can see…What, who’s that in the shadows?
Cyberleader: You are the Doctor!

The Doctor: Oh really! Cybermen in the console room what will the neighbours say?

Cyberleader: You are Doctor?

The Doctor: Guilty as charged.

Cyberleader: You will pilot us to Telos, you will explain the secrets of time travel to us. We will gain control over time. The Cyber Race will succeed.

The Doctor: And we’ll all live happily ever after? No Cyberleader, we are going nowhere!

{Phillips suddenly appears from the shadows.}

Phillips: On the contrary Doctor, you will pilot this craft to Telos or I will kill your friend Miss Kerri!

The Doctor: I’m afraid that won’t work Phillips, we are not alone here.

Phillips: I can seen that Doctor, I’m not blind! I assume that you are the leader?

Cyberleader: Who is this?

Phillips: My name is Phillips and I bring you here, the Doctor, him to do with as you please!

{Meanwhile Kerri interjects with the Doctor.}

Kerri: The walking bag of bones is Phillips? What happened to him?

The Doctor: Accelerated degeneration, he was caught in the time waves, since he’s a Vrellan, he’ll regenerate himself back.

Kerri: Regenerate? I thought only Time Lords did that?

The Doctor: No, a few races can but with Phillips, his regeneration will only be his wounds, he’ll still remain the dangerous, misguided man and he’s trying to bargain with the Cybermen, wrong move. If you will excuse me a moment Kerri?
Ah, gentlemen perhaps I can sort out your problem?

Phillips: Don’t interfere Doctor, you done enough damage to me all ready! You will do my bidding or I will kill you here and now!

The Doctor: Wrong I’m afraid. You can’t kill me and no we are not going to Telos either.

Cyberleader: You will Doctor or I shall destroy your companions.

The Doctor: With what? Your weapons won’t work in here, Phillips, Cyberleader this TARDIS has a temporal grace option. No guns of any description can function in this internal dimension. The moment you stepped in the disrupter was useless, so please stop waggling it in my face Phillips?
However… I can see a body that looks like Paskin?

Ruscoe: They killed him Doctor, he was trying to save Kerri.

The Doctor: That was hardly called for!

Cyberleader: He was attacking us. He was dealt with.

The Doctor: Always the answer with you isn’t it?

Phillips: It is their way Doctor, a perfect way of life and you will do as they say or they will kill your friend I can just stand here and watch.

The Doctor: Yes that could happen but I won’t allow it? So I think the best option is that we proceed directly to Telos and collect two hundred pounds in the process?
{He begins activating the controls.}
Co-ordinates locked. Dematerialising.

{The TARDIS dematerialises.}

Cyberleader: Time to arrival on Telos Doctor?

The Doctor: Soon enough. If I could talk to the others?

Cyberleader: You will remain here Doctor.

The Doctor: I will? Oh yes of course I will, you don’t want me therefore to converse with the prisoners but remain here at these controls, where I could say open the doors while we’re in flight and vent the doors? I could and would!

Cyberleader: Move away from there Doctor, you will join the others. Failure to comply will mean the immediate termination of the humans!

The Doctor: Certainly Cyberleader, just press this first and there we go all ready to re-appear on Telos.

Phillips: I wouldn’t try anything Doctor? These creatures are so ruthlessly efficient, one wrong move Doctor, just one! Remember that.

The Doctor: Yes thank you for being so considerate Phillips. You do realise that by handing me over you’ll serve no further use; they could kill you easily.

Phillips: Do not fear for my sake Doctor, I am a Vrellan, I am immune to such things.

The Doctor: Really? And how much damage can that body of yours take? You’re half-dead, a ravaged corpse, one strike from and you’ll crumble. I suggest that you remember that?

{He walks to the others.}

The Doctor: Hello there, now how are we all?

Dr. Harker: Are you mad? We’re under close supervision by extinct creatures who will order our termination unless you work with them. How do you think we feel?

The Doctor: Well now….? Has anyone got an idea?

Kerri: Doctor, you must be joking? You haven’t got a plan?

The Doctor: Well not currently Kerri but something is starting to form. I sort of removed the temporal grace option?

Ruscoe: This machine Doctor, would it be of any use to you?

The Doctor: Ah, the re-voltammeter I wired up earlier. Yes, this will definitely work a treat!

Kerri: Re-voltammeter?

The Doctor: Yes, you see a voltammeter creates and harnesses static electricity, now all I did was switch a few wires, increase the voltage so that the power stored within becomes dangerously high and then releases it!

Ruscoe: Ah, so it will spark then?

The Doctor: Oh much more than a spark Ruscoe but you’re on the right track. Now when I get into position I want to all to drop to the floor, you’ll be well out of its range there.

Dr. Harker: You do realise that you’re gambling with our lives?

Kerri: Don’t argue with him, he knows what he’s doing.

{The Doctor motions them to move, turning on the machine.}

The Doctor: Kerri, when I give you the signal press the nearest blue switch!

Kerri: Okay Doctor, just be careful?

{He pushes the machine along the floor bumping into Phillips as he goes.}

Phillips: What are you doing now Doctor?

The Doctor: Just giving the floor a quick clean? I mean if I’m going to receive the Cyber Controller and all his dignitaries I might as well do it with a clean floor. They notice everything that’s the trouble with them! Do you want me to polish your shoes? No… then please move?

Phillips: What are you up to?

The Doctor: Wouldn’t you like to know? Excuse me? Would you lot mind moving out of the way, please?

{Passing through the motionless Cybermen, who refuse to budge but then heavy footsteps echo behind him.}

Cyberleader: You will cease this action immediately Doctor!

The Doctor: Just a spot of cleaning Cyberleader, nothing to get your circuits in a twist?

Cyberleader: You will cease!

The Doctor: Oh, very well. Now I need a diversion? Er Leader, I think we’re almost about to land?

Cyberleader: Show me Doctor.

The Doctor: Now Kerri!

{As Kerri presses the switch, the machine’s hum starts to increase in pitch drastically.}

Cyberleader: Destroy that instrument!

Cyberman: Yes leader.

The Doctor: I wouldn’t do that if I were you?

Cyberman: Leader I am detecting extensive electrica…. !!!!!!

{The Cyberman rasps and howls as sparks crackle across its body before it slumps to the ground.}

Cyberleader: Deception. Kill the humans!

Cybermen: Yes leader….!!!

{The machine lashes out, bolts of electricity catching at them all, howling and rasping they all come crashing down to the ground hard.}

Kerri: Doctor, a bit of help here?

Cyberleader: Surrender immediate Doctor or I will terminate the female!

The Doctor: Of course Cyberleader my actions were absolutely shocking, I should have thought twice before attempting something like that?

Phillips: Now that the temporal grace is off, you will take us Telos Doctor!

The Doctor: Phillips, we’ve all ready arrived at our destination. And here we are!

{The TARDIS doors open. Immediately there is a ferocious howling as wind whirls through catching at everyone!}

Cyberleader: That is not Telos.

Phillips: No, it is the time vortex, kill her! Time for you to join her Doctor!

The Doctor: No Phillips, good grief, a cybermat on your foot!

Phillips: What? Where?

The Doctor: Gotcha! And the vortex can have you as well, now get your hands off my console!

{The smacks Phillips grip from the console, he tumble backwards screaming into nothingness.}

The Doctor: One down, one to go!

Dr. Harker: What’s going on?

Ruscoe: He’s opened the outer doors because of the pressure difference we’ll be sucked out! Get hold of these struts Helen?

Cyberleader: You will die with us Doctor!

The Doctor: I don’t think so Cyberleader? You should have killed me when you had the chance. I believe destiny awaits the Cyber race? And where you’re going you won’t need this? Kerri get that support strut. The tide is turning Cyberleader and time for you has run out!

Cyberleader: You will be like us. Superior. Resistance Deni….

{The wind rushes through pulling him and other Cybermen out into the vortex, they batter and clang as they scrape across the floor and away.
The Doctor is faintly audible.}

The Doctor: Out with old and… now here’s the tricky bit? Hold on while I try to close the doors? Can I? The pull seems very strong…

The Doctor: Now closing… the doors.

{He presses the controls and the doors close leaving the careful TARDIS hum.}

Ruscoe: Can we let go now?

The Doctor: Yes. I believe it’s safe now. We can all relax.

Kerri: What did you do?

The Doctor: I materialised in the centre of the vortex, the Cybermen will now be in little pieces I imagine- the destiny has dealt its hand. And we can all breathe deep.

{He sighs greatly.}

Dr. Harker: It’s over then? Finally over no more problems.

The Doctor: There are always problems in the universe and someone to sort them out too. I think we better get away from here before I’m accused of littering?

Kerri: Doctor, what do we do now?

The Doctor: Pop on the kettle and have some Earl Grey and some lovely fruit cake.

Kerri: No I mean about our guests?

The Doctor: Of course and what guests too! Professor Emil Ruscoe and Dr. Helen Harker- the equalivant of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein. Oh we will talk of great stories! Go ahead make yourself comfortable, oh dear Professor been in the wars? Not to worry though the TARDIS nanites will fix your hand good as new
.
Ruscoe: Nan…ites? I’m sorry Doctor I don’t quite understand?

The Doctor: Oh you will Professor, you will. Would you make the tea Kerri?

Kerri: Okay. Doctor, what happened to Phillips?

The Doctor: Out there in the vortex somewhere?

Kerri: You mean he’s dead?

The Doctor: Good lord no! His people and mine are resistant to the effects of time it’s how we travel through it. He’s alive out there, just about, bumping around the vortex eventually he’ll end up somewhere, I hope it’s far out of the way though.

Kerri: You and me both Doctor, you weren’t hypnotised by him!

The Doctor: Quite. Now it’s three lumps for me in the best china.

Kerri: But I was about to take a break…but all right Doctor.

The Doctor: In the best china with the fruitcake, the best are in the flowery tins, you’ll find them in the third cupboard to the right or was it the left? Best check them both.

Kerri: Yes Doctor.

The Doctor: Mind how you go Kerri.

Kerri: Yes Doctor!

The Doctor: And hurry up about it too, we’re getting peckish!

Kerri: Yes Doctor. No Doctor. Three bags full Doctor!

The Doctor: Lumps Kerri, not bags. What is the matter with her?

Dr. Harker: Really, you need me to tell you, after what she’s been through the least you could do is make the tea yourself? Huh!

The Doctor: Oh you want me to do it?

Dr. Harker: Sit down man! I’ll go give Kerri a hand, you stupid ungentleman!

{She marches off.}

The Doctor: Stupid ungentleman? Is there such a word or am I really out of touch with the worlds? What’s up with her?

Ruscoe: Women. Completely different species.

The Doctor: I see your point. I’ve always had problems too in the past.

Ruscoe: They probably expected you as the host to get the food? Where are we going Doctor? The Earth Empire will need a full report.

The Doctor: I sure they will Professor however in light of you being here I’m a keen admirer on your work. Um… tell me though, how did you come up with the theory of nano technology?

Ruscoe: It’s a long story Doctor, I don’t think you really want to hear it?

The Doctor: Don’t want to hear it? From the grand master of nano technology himself! I would have to be mad! We’re in the TARDIS; we’ve got all the time in the worlds.

Ruscoe: Well it all started about seven years ago when I was working at the university, I believe that I held a unique concept that could…

CUT TO:
Exterior. Clearing.

{Grell and Mansk have recovered.}

Grell: Well?

Mansk: Scan indicates no life forms present.

Grell: Try it on large scale then.

Mansk: I told you no life forms present… anywhere! We are alone.

Grell: And the orb has gone?

Mansk: The Doctor took it. I can’t read any time trail at all?

Grell: Great! Feed in new co-ordinates and transform. I feel so ashamed to be in this weak, pathetic form!

{They scream into wolves howling!
In a slobbering voice.}

Mansk: I can’t. The device won’t function.

Grell: What?

Mansk: The particle generator is missing. It’s no longer in its casing?

{Grell snarls with anger!}

Grell: Doctor! Stranded here but we shall have vengeance!

{They both howl loud!}

CUT TO:
Exterior. TARDIS.

{The TARDIS grates along as it flies through the vortex disappearing into the distance.}

CUT TO: THE CREDITS.