So they do, and so it's done. All however, wonder just why Inquirer
has a particular twinkle in her eye. The situation was hardly humorous,
considering the combined firepower of all the Cybermen would surely knock
Sigin from the skies well before the noble dragon could reach the TARDIS
or destroy all the Cybermen. See, while magic was nice, technological weaponry
had range on it in cases like this (as well as being faster....since you
can squeeze a trigger faster than throw a spell.....
".....and the Cybermen Leader keeps saying 'Excellent' a lot?"
the female AI/Golem smiled, pulling out various odd components from her
cloak .
"Er....yes," Dr. Who says, looking at Inquirer oddly, "That and sharing
his races rather rude behavior of taking others and turning them into fellow
Cybermen. Sort of like the Borg of Star Trek."
All not of Dr. Who's group of adventurers look at each other in askance,
not having been graced (in their universe) with seeing the rebirth of Star
Trek OR being born in a Star Trek universe.... (the Original Series was
the ONLY series of Star Trek).
"So I guess that a little sniping isn't out of order or out of line,"
the AI smiles. The deal with not being able to deal with the Master in
a matter that wouldn't leave him at their back had rubbed her the wrong
way back in the Capital.
Here was an enemy who weren't even of enough social standing for a trail
by justice. It was a "shoot on sight" deal with Cybermen.
Nobody objected in that vein.
"Good hunting?" the Brigadier says as Inquirer pulls up the hood of
her cloak and disappears.
The Brig looks over at Dr. Who and then shakes his head.
"You always did have the talent in getting me into the most odd situations,"
he says yet again as he had said to the second Doctor......
"And we have come across a TARDIS and readings indicate they are occupied,"
a Cyberman Lieutenant says to the Leader behind a rock, "In accordance
with standing orders we are attempting to force entry. We shall then enter
into the time pod and extract the occupants so to ascertain the reason
why we were brought here."
"Excellent!" the Leader says before beginning to give amplifying orders....only
to be interrupted by a laugh.
A blast of plasma takes the head of his Lieutenant clean off and another
severs the head of the Leader.
That was the last of the Cybermen except for a small band left back
at the TARDIS itself who were attempting to ascertain just WHAT had happened
to the other Cybermen that Inquirer had sniped from long range with her
plasma rifle quiet effectively (she'd been doing this for over 20 years...ever
since being "born").
"Dude," Inquirer says softly (while making a quasi-fist with litle finger
and thumb held out to the sides), shaking her head before calling the others
with a standard issue "radio" that was tuned to work with E'ysha's combadge
that she kept for old times sake in a pocket.
After Sigin flames the remaining Cybermen (and healing the hurts a few
stray bolts cause him), the others gather in front of the TARDIS.....
Tegan and the others exit the ship, all looking rather stunned
at what they'd witnessed on the scanner. The Doctors had seen their other
selves outside and the strangers had said that the.....dragon....was a
fellow Champion (?) so it was okay. So they'd opened up the door to meet
the neighbors.....
"Oh rabbits," Tegan mutters.
-
 Inquirer
bites back any smart-ass comments about that little one and watches the
fun......
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