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octor. You live.' said the Cyber-controller.
 
'Only just, but you know I have to stop you.'

'The Cyber-race must contin-' the Cyber-controller began but the Doctor cut in:

'Yes, yes. I know all that. You must try another way of surviving without wiping out entire species, you know.'

'Why have you returned?'

'To stop you from carrying out your plans against the Earth fleet.'

'You have no means to stop us.' observed a Cyberman.

'I have my wits.' the Doctor replied, ' I may not be able to save those poor souls you have in there,' the Doctor indicated the images of the Gamma J crew being converted into Cybermen, 'but I can stop you from taking anymore lives.' The Doctor looked about the control room, searching for one control panel that he had in mind that would help him in his plan against the Cybermen.
'You will die!' said the Cyber-controller as two Cybermen moved towards the Doctor, but he quickly moved towards the control panel he had been looking for and went about adjusting its settings. As he did so, the two Cybermen having reached him, suddenly became detached from the metallic floor of the control room and began to float uneasily above him.

The Doctor held on to the nearest thing that was securely fixed to the ground as the other Cybermen and the Cyber-controller too floated into the air. 'The gravity unit has been deactivated!' said a Cyberman, at which point the Doctor pointed his sonic screwdriver at the console before him and watched as the control panel explode, completely disabling the gravity controls.

'There, that should keep them busy,' mused the Doctor and floating away from the console, headed for the door and exit from the control room. He floated down the corridors through the space station, passing various Cybermats and Cybermen struggling to get control of their flailing limbs, all helpless in the zero gravity.

After a while, he had located the TARDIS, where he had left it and, to his surprise, outside the doors leading to the Fuel Depot. Outside the doors also were two Cybermen who were struggling for control of their limbs just like the others the Doctor had seen earlier.

'The bomb!' suddenly realisation dawned on the Doctor, 'Oh my!' He moved, floating, using his arms to guide him towards the door. The Cybermen instinctively reached out to grab the Doctor but without success. He ducked under them removed his sonic screwdriver from his pocket and using it, opened the door to the fuel depot. All the time the Cybermen tried their best to stop him, and he floated on by and through the doorway.

Once inside the Doctor took in the layout of the fuel depot and instantly recognised the alien technology. He floated down towards the bomb and began to decipher the intricate instruments that operated its controls.

Unbeknown to him, as he busied himself with the bomb, a Cyberman had floated into the room and was heading in his direction, its arms out stretched. It had observed the Doctor's movements and had copied them and with control had a means to stop the Doctor from sabotaging their plans.

The Doctor's reaction was to pull the glitter gun from his pocket but as he struggled the Cyberman moved ever closer to him. Once it had emerged from his pocket the Cyberman knocked it from his hand and it went spinning through the air back towards the door.

'Oh dear,' said the Doctor and grabbed the floating Cyberman and together they struggled for a moment until suddenly there was a blast of the fine gold filaments from the glitter gun.

         

 
          
         

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