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     "Why can't we just travel back to before they got here and stop them when they arrive? How'd they even get here in the first place?" I ask.

     "Them coming here is a fixed point. We can't stop their arrival. But we can stop them from killing anyone else. Let's go! Allons-y!" the Doctor exclaims.

     "What does that even mean?"

     "Allons-y means Let's go in French! I think I used that phrase a lot two faces ago. Now, come on!" he says. We run out of the TARDIS and into the office building. The Doctor quickly shows the officer the psychic paper, and we run up the stairs. "Clara, where was Mr. Brown's office?"

     I tell him it's right down the hall, so we proceed to run. We stop in front of the door. "What do we do now?"

     Suddenly, we hear a man screaming inside the room. The Doctor kicks open the door, and marches up to the desk. He slams the palm of his hand onto the desk. "Stop this. Right. Now!" he growls.

     A Cyberman comes out of the storage room behind the office. "What is this? Who is the intruder?"

     The Doctor says, "You can stop searching for the Doctor right now, because you've found him!"

     "Where is he? Tell us or you will be deleted."

     "You're looking at him! I am the Doctor. And you will delete people no more!" the Doctor demands.

     "You are right we delete people no more but you are not people. We deleted you before and we will delete you again. Prepare to die."

     The Doctor whips out his sonic screwdriver, and points it at the Cyberman. He presses the trigger, and there's a second of buzzing before the Cyberman is deactivated. I follow him to the storage room. We find five Cybermen putting a poor man's brain into a CyberSuit. The Doctor deactivates three Cybermen quickly, and asks, "Where is your ship?"

One of them replies, "Who are you? You will be deleted."

"Who am I? Who do you think?" He sonics and deactivates the fourth Cyberman. "Tell me where your ship is!"

"Scanner indicates that you are the thirteenth Doctor. Therefore you must be eliminated." The Cyberman aims his blaster at the Doctor, but the Doctor deactivates it.

"Let's go find that ship ourselves, Clara." We march back to the TARDIS, and go to the scanner.

    The Doctor types in a few commands, and the screen zooms out of Earth so it shows space. A silver metal spaceship lies behind the moon. "That's the Cybership, isn't it, Doctor?"

   "Yes, it is. And we need to get up there before they send more scouts to kill more people. Let's go!" He locks on to the Cybership, pulls some levers, and the TARDIS takes off.

The TARDIS parks, and the Doctor and I step out. We're immediately greeted by a dozen Cybermen, all pointing their arm blasters at us. I then hear the shrillest, most highest sound ever, and all the Cybermen's heads explode. The Doctor puts away his sonic screwdriver, and he and I run past the small army.

     I look back as I close the door to the room, and see that a fire's been started by the sparking head of a Cyberman. I run to the Doctor. "We need to get rid of this ship soon or we'll all be roasted--literally roasted!"

"Oh, when I get through with them, I doubt they'll mess with Earth again in the next century," my friend growls.

"I bet," I say, trying to match the Doctor's long strides. Eventually, we arrive what the Doctor claims is the control room. He sonics the door, thus unlocking it. He kicks it open, and we march in.

"Listen up, Metalheads! You will send no more of your scouts to mine and my companion's planet! You will leave immediately, or you will have to fight me yourself!" To prove his point, he explodes the pilot's head.

A Cyberman looks at us. "You are the Doctor. You will not destroy us. You will show mercy. Records indicate that the Doctor shows mercy."

"Mercy?!" the Doctor cries. "You've been invading Earth and killing innocent people for centuries and you expect me to show you mercy?

The Cyberman nods. "That is correct. Records indicate you will show mercy."

The Doctor marches over to the control board. "I'll show you mercy!" he snarls. He rips out the self-destruct button, and holds up his sonic screwdriver. It buzzes, and the TARDIS appears in front of the Control Room entrance. "Clara, get in that box right now," he demands.

I shake my head. "No. I'll stand with you."

The Doctor shakes his head. "Fine. But as soon as you hear that alarm, you go." He turns to the enemy. "Now! You will witness my mercy!" The Doctor plunges his sonic screwdriver into the hole where the button was. He presses the trigger on the screwdriver, and the wires in the hole spark. The whole ship is suddenly lit up with red lights and the sound of a blaring alarm. "Clara, go! The ship's about to blasted out of existence! Go!"

I sprint to the TARDIS, and leap inside. The Doctor follows me, and slams the door closed. He flips down some levers, then proceeds to press a button. The TARDIS rocks as the Cybership explodes all around us.

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