Doctor Whooves: Savior of the Universe - Series 1

by veeSheep

Episode 8

The troops at the Centurion Alliance base in Hiskus were preparing for the battle with the Cybermen, ships came flying in with ammunition, soldiers were getting their guns and the cold planet’s sun was setting.

“Alright, we will go through the battle plan again, really quick,” The Doctor began, “Thirteen soldiers per gate keeping the Cybermen busy while I run to their ship and try to rescue Chrome in time,” He said.

“All soldiers, to your positions!” Silver Bullet ordered, all of the armored ponies rushed to Gates A, B, C and D and The Doctor stayed there, with a small radio and the intercom microphone both on a table, “What are you doing, Doctor?” Silver asked.

“I thought the troops would want some music to get them motivated,” The Doctor said.

The Cybermen arrived at the base, and a song started playing on the radio.

The music ran through the intercom and everyone outside could hear it, there were laser beams, rockets and Cybermen flying around the snow, Windy was nearly cornered by one of them but a point blank shot to the chest took it down immediately.

Silver Bullet got a golden blaster and walked outside, gunning down Cybermen around himself along with the other soldiers. One of the soldiers fired a rocket and hit a Cyberman dead on, taking two around it as well.

While the battle raged on, The Doctor was running to the Cyberman ship, which was a kilometer away from the Alliance’s base. He ran and ran, The Doctor eventually reached the ship and there were few to no Cybermen in it.

“I guess most of them are at the base, fighting,” The Doctor said, but he heard an odd electric buzzing sound upstairs. He climbed up and found the conversion floor of the ship, with a single Cyberman laying on one of the operating tables.

“Doc… Tor…” The Cyberman said.

“What is it that you want with me?” The Doctor asked.

“Is… It you… Doctor?” The Cyberman called again.

“Yes, but what do-” The Doctor look at the floor and saw dried blood and light gray/white hair. The same color as Chrome Green’s mane.

“Doctor…” The Cyberman continuously called for him, but The Doctor remained silent, “What happened?” It asked.

“What happened?” The Doctor said, “I was too late…”

“Are you here to help me?” The Cyberman asked.

“I don’t like saying this, no matter what, but,” The Doctor said, “I can’t help you, Chrome,” He added. He refrained from crying, instead staring at the converted Chrome before walking away, as his trip there was pointless.

“I am… Scared…” Chrome said.

“What?” The Doctor turned back and asked, trotting back over to Chrome.

“I am cold… and scared… Doctor,” Chrome said.

“Nonsense, Cybermen aren’t supposed to feel anything, emotions, cold, heat, pain, nothing,” The Doctor said, he scanned Cyber-Chrome and found something mildly surprising, “Everything in here is connected, that means that you can control yourself and feel, unlike the normal Cybermen,”

“How… How could I be of use?” Chrome asked.

The Doctor used a green slime on the floor to paint Cyber-Chrome’s face and body, making her stand out, “You’re gonna go out there and help the Centurion Alliance, like you always have,” He confidently said, he then pulled the charger cords from Chrome and got her on her feet again.

“Affirmative, Doctor,” Chrome marched outside, picking up her pace and running towards the battlefield, shooting the enemy Cybermen she saw. Back at the base, soldiers saw Cyber-Chrome approaching quickly, thinking it was a more advanced Cyberman, they took aim.

“Don’t shoot that one!” Windy said, she placed her binoculars up the a soldier’s eyes and they saw that Cyber-Chrome had green paint saying ‘B Wolf’ on her side, “Bad Wolf, that one is on our side, surely The Doctor painted that,” Blade observed. Her suspicion was proved correct when the green-painted Cyberman began to shoot its brethren, destroying them all on the spot. Back at the Cybermen’s ship, The Doctor was found out and taken into a prison cell.

“When my friend can get back here, you will regret this!” The Doctor said.

“Resorting to meaningless threats, are we, Doctor?” A different looking Cyberman said, its face plate and other parts of its armor were a shiny black instead of silver and a blue light emanated from its head, where a mane would be on a normal pony.

“I presume you’re the Cyber-Commander or whatever titles you give each other currently,” The Doctor said.

“Your assumption is correct,” The Cyber-Commander replied, “I presume you freed your friend, ‘Chrome Green’, or, Unit 214,” It continued.

“I Thought your shtick was that only your leaders were unique in any way, but you’re telling each other apart by numbers?” The Doctor questioned, “Each one having a number is pretty unique to me,” He added, taunting the Commander.

The Cyber-Commander stayed silent for a second and spoke up, “You shall remain silenced, or your time to become a Cyberman will come sooner, Doctor,” It said.

“So you plan on turning me into one of you? Good luck, first fatal incision, I regenerate and mess up your process until I can’t do it anymore,” The Doctor said.

“Repeating, remain silenced or you shall be assimilated sooner,” The Cyber-Commander said.

“Why do you bother with all of this? What lifeless hack would want to see a dull world ruled by killer cyborgs?” The Doctor began, “I know of the phrase ‘some men just want to watch the world burn’, but this isn’t burning it, this is worse, it’s taking away part of what makes the universe into what it is,” He said, “The universe is like an unorganized bookshelf, one moment you’re in a world of fantasy and wonder, the next, you could be facing monstrous Daleks, or the Slitheen, and the next you could be going deep underground to fend off a creature feared by all, the Devil himself,” He continued.

“What is your point?” The Cyber-Commander asked.

“My point is that anyone who tries to take over the universe, for better or worse, has to see what it has to offer, they must have a taste of everything and think ‘Do I truly want to change what God or some other force put in place for all to see or explore?’ and only after you think long and hard about this should you make your move,” The Doctor finished his speech, “But who am I to say anything, I never tried taking over the universe, I’m just some crazy colt in a box…”

“Indeed you are, Doctor,” The Cyber-Commander said.

“But just because I never tried taking the universe for myself, doesn’t mean I don’t have the right to care for it and keep it safe and sound from things like you, Cybermen, the ne’er-do-wells that inhabit the dark corners of the galaxy, who spend their lives waiting for a good day to destroy another innocent civilization because you have a big army and you’re a self-entitled prick,” The Doctor ranted on.

“Cease your insults at once or you shall be deleted,” A regular Cyberman beside the Commander said.

“Why should I? Did I hurt your bossy wossy’s feewings, eh?” The Doctor refused to stop taunting them.

“Commander, permission to delete The Doctor?” The Cyberman asked.

“Granted,” The Cyber-Commander responded.

“Like I said, torture and ‘delete’ me all you want, I have plenty of regenerations to go, how long do you have until your army is whittled down to just the few that are on this ship? Sure, you can make more, but they have one of you on their side, and she is wrecking the shop like there’s no tomorrow,” The Doctor switched on a monitor with his sonic screwdriver and it showed the point of view of Cyber-Chrome, destroying the army of Cybermen.

The Cyber-Commander and his minions remained silent at that point, unable to argue with The Doctor.

“Backed you guys into a corner, didn’t I? You keep fighting, you’ll lose at some point, if you give up, the universe will look at you and laugh at the army that thought they were so important but couldn’t even defeat a few dozen horseys,” The Doctor taunted them.

“Release the Doctor…” The Cyber-Commander ordered.

“…Affirmative, Commander,” The regular Cyberman obliged, it opened the gate to his cell and The Doctor left, heading to the captain’s quarters at the top of the ship.

Meanwhile, at the Alliance’s base, the ponies and Cyber-Chrome were winning the fight, destroyed Cybermen lined the battlefield and many others tried retreating, the soldiers and Silver celebrated their victory.

“We did it!” Windy yelled out, “The sun’ll rise any minute now,” She added.

“We must thank you, Bad Wolf, for helping us be victorious,” Silver Bullet thanked Cyber-Chrome.

“Do not thank me, thank The Doctor,” She said in her monotone voice, “He found me in the base, it was too late, but he convinced me to fight on your side,” Chrome said.

“Wait…”

“Chrome? Is that you in this Cyberman armor?” Silver said.

“Chrome Green is dead, but I shall live on for her,” Cyber-Chrome replied, “Now I must go, The Doctor may need me,” She said, Chrome, or ‘Bad Wolf’, then ran off to the Cyberman ship as the sun slowly rose up in the horizon.

At the captain’s quarters, The Doctor found an office or study-like room, ‘A Cyberman wouldn’t use a formal little office, I imagined a metallic throne of evil of something like that’ The Doctor thought. He flipped a panel on the desk and a small red switch appeared.

“So this is the self-destruct or on and off button for the Cybermen…” He hesitated to flick it to ‘OFF’, and the reason quickly showed up in front of him, Chrome.

“You found the switch, did you not?” Cyber-Chrome asked.

“Yes, but I don’t know if I should turn it off, you’re my friend, I wouldn’t want to kill you like this…” The Doctor said.

“Do you think I wanted to live forever? If it was up to me, I would have died long ago,” Chrome tried convincing The Doctor to do it.

“I won’t, you could protect this planet,” The Doctor said, slowly letting out the tears he held back before, “If you’re gonna die some day, the last thing I want is to be the one responsible for it,” He said.

“Just press the switch, I will be happier this way,” Chrome continued to convince him, “You will lose me, but the Cybermen will all be gone,” She claimed.

“Are you sure this is what you want? To die because your crazy friend pressed a switch?” The Doctor said, sobbing.

“Yes, just do it,” Chrome replied.

“What if there are things you did not do and never will do? Won’t you regret this decision?” The Doctor was breaking down into tears by this point, he insisted on keeping Chrome alive. But he gave in, he pressed it and every Cyberman on Hiskus was turned off, permanently.

“Thank you, Doctor…” Chrome said, “I… Am… Free…” She said as her armor fell on the ground, lifeless. The voice of the Cyber-Commander played in the speakers of the ship.

“You won the battle, Doctor,” It said, “But at what cost?”

“Exactly… At what cost?” The Doctor asked himself. He left the ship and returned to the base to say his goodbyes and leave this frozen planet once and for all. The Doctor entered the TARDIS and laid his head on the console, devastated due to everything that had happened, “Don’t think I don’t see you there… Just go away, why won’t you?” The Doctor said to a ghostly white version of himself that was staring at him from the corner of the room, “After all, isn’t running all you’re really good at doing, Doctor?” He taunted the figure, who then disappeared into the air as the TARDIS took off to Ponyville.