Ascension of the Cybermen

*Ascencion of the Cybermen* is the eleventh episode of the fifty-seventh season of Doctor Who.

## Sypnosis

The Fifteenth Doctor, alone and separated from the TARDIS, with just the physic paper, must work her way up from nothing to defeat the Cybermen in their final form, while the Master undoes her progress right behind her..

## Plot

Inside the luxurious interior of the Fifteenth Doctor's Tardis, while flying through the vortex, she hears the landing sound of another TARDIS, but it's not seen. Suddenly, a syringe injects into the back of her head, and she suddenly falls unconscious as The Master has drugged her. She is thrown from the TARDIS, which the master zips out of existence. The Police Box exterior falls after her. She ends up in Summer 2021, in a muddy river. She attempts to get back into the TARDIS, realizing it is gone. She climbs up the hill unto a mansion, finding a home. She knocked on the front door. A younger girl in a towel and slippers (with a spa facemask) answered the door, while a dog ran outside. "Are you looking for my grandfather?" she asked. The Doctor, curious, was lead to the library by Lauren Loomis. Inside was a very old and ill ninety-nine year old Samuel Loomis, confined to a mobile armchair. He was not sure this was the Doctor, and had to be convinced that this was the same Doctor as the Eighth Doctor he had met years ago. Eventually, he was convinced. The Doctor and him chatted before she left. She then walked among the hills where she took a pomegranate from a plant. After this, she used all of her smarts to convince a companion of a random timelord to let her in, saying she had regenerated. She then took the TARDIS to hers, and walked between them to hers/The Master's. The Master explained his plan, that the cybermen and him would cyber-convert everyone but him, and then, in secret, he would kill the remaining cybermen. The Doctor then was nearly crushed between both TARDISes when the Master took control of them, and squished her neck between them, but ultimately she fell out of the vortex into the Cyber-Ship Axilotell 455-BadWolf\_Style3. She lands in a mechanical clockwork-steampunk hallway, with cogs as the floor, walls and windows in a circular pattern, with only a small grate walkway across. She manages to get into a set of hallways. Alice Mitchell, a sixteen year old who was captured from her home and taken on to the Cyber-Ship, stumbled in sight of the Doctor. They asked who each-other were, before The Doctor realized this was the first victim of the Cyber-Converting Purge, and was supposed to be dead ten minutes ago.. The Doctor helped her around the corridors until another woman fell into the ship. One of the cybermen saw this woman. The cyberman was golden with blue eyes, and had the seal of Rassilion above their heads. They wore long red robes and golden boots. The cyberman took the woman away as she screamed. Alice and the Doctor followed far behind and watched as the woman's head was drilled through, pulling her brain out. Alice and The Fifteenth Doctor would be able to hide in a vent while several cybermen attempted to get in. There, Alice and The Doctor would have a long conversation that makes you wish Alice stayed for AT LEAST three episodes. Suddenly, more individuals are pulled into the ship and cyber-converted, with smoke steaming into the vent. Alice grabs one of the cybermen's boots, pulling it off and electrocuting and breaking the cyberman. However, another cyberman, apparently named "Cyber-Emily" crawled through the vent after them, and grabbed Alice's shoe. She managed to kick "Cyber-Emily" away, losing a shoe but not her life, and then jumping down into another room where The Master is located, trying to change a computer setting to self-destruct in two days, when every human should be cyber-converted. The Doctor's TARDIS is nearby, but guarded by The Master. The Doctor tells Alice to stay quiet, but she asks politely 'Sorry to bother you sir, but could you come with me and The Doctor? We're here to help!'. The Master immediately duct taped Alice's mouth shut and tied her ankles and wrists together with ropes WHILE FIGHTING THE DOCTOR, tying the ropes to coat hooks in the wall. He then shouted 'CYBERMEN! TWO NEW SCHMUDTS TO CYBER-CONVERT!'. Six Cybermen including "Cyber-Emily" ran down the staircase, attacking The Master and The Doctor. The Doctor would manage to stop all of them with her Sonic Screwdriver, which she quickly grabbed from her TARDIS, but loses to The Master, who throws the Doctor against a wall, knocking her out. Alice is untied and the duct tape is taken off her mouth, however, is tortured by The Master as he scrapes a knife against her throat, bangs a mallet against her head, and tickles her foot with a feather. She is then grabbed and thrown onto a conveyor into the "*Swelching, boiling, twisting agonizing death*" of being cyber-converted. The conveyor would boil Alice alive until she had shrank about two inches smaller, then the cyberman suit was pushed into her body, stuck together with nails and staples. Soon after, The Doctor came round, witnessing the sight of her companion now a cyberman. The Doctor, in a fit of rage, grabbed her sonic screwdriver out of The Master's TARDIS, and dueling him with his sonic screwdriver. Sparks fly, and eventually, The Doctor manages to kick The Master into a set of wires, which electrocutes him slightly. The Master delayed his regeneration to keep fighting the Fifteenth Doctor until Cyber-Alice would grab The Master by the neck and strangle him. Then, Cyber-Alice told The Doctor to run as she broke open the window, sucking out all the cybermen and exploding the ship. However, The Master managed to climb into The Doctor's TARDIS. It then took off as he hid on the lower floor. The Doctor would grab a knife and attack The Master, slashing him with it. When asked how she knew he was there, The Doctor replied "*Well I'm not a dumbass!*" they then have a duel with knives and fight. Eventually, The Master, bloodied and screaming, asks for mercy. With a remark '*You had no mercy for my friend when she was screaming for some!*', The Doctor would kick The Master out of the TARDIS, knocking him into the vortex, spiraling through time until he lands, possibly regenerating. After The Master was finally dealt with, The Doctor returned to Loomis' house. She found Loomis was in a bed, nearing death, in a backroom in the basement. They had a brief exchange of words, where Loomis would say "*Still round the corner, there may wait a new road or a secret gate. And if Time Travel is possible...where are the tourists from the future? Doctor, tell me...what is your name? And don't do the whole Joan-John Smith thing. Your actual name.*" The Doctor whispered something to Loomis. Before leaving, The Doctor said that she was going to visit Laurie Strode again. Loomis told the doctor goodbye - "This is a painful goodbye...because you know you'll never say Hello again. Goodbye Doctor." The Doctor manages to come back to the TARDIS without The Master attacking. The episode ends with The Doctor walking into the TARDIS, saying '*Alright ole girl, time to visit a Strode...*'

## Crew

* Showrunner - Chris Chibnall, Thomas Brock

* Writer - Thomas Brock

* Director - Jack Poster

* Producer - Nicholas Briggs

* TBA

## Cast

* Fifteenth Doctor - Rakhee Thakrar

* The Master - Mark Gatiss

* Alice Mitchell - Isabella Crovetti and Ella Anderson in the director's cut.

* Samuel Loomis - Malcom McDowell

* Lauren Loomis - Sophia Lillis

* Taylor Loomis - Millicent Simmonds

* Cybermen - Nicholas Briggs

* Random Companion of Unnamed Time Lord - Tosin Cole

* "Cyber-Emily" - Nicholas Briggs, Emily Shuman

* Unnamed Woman - Sandra Bullock

* Various Civilians and Cyber-Civilians - Various actors and actresses, Nicholas Briggs

## Story notes

* The episode has a smooth transition from the "cold opening" into the title sequence, with the scene going through the eye-pod of a Cyber-helmet.

* Alice Mitchell is a gender swap of Adam Mitchell, an original Eleventh Doctor companion who was scrapped.
* The next part of the episode, The Timeless Child, was worse than this episode.

### Production errors

* One clip of Rakhee Thakrar showed her calling in-character Isabelle by her out-of-character name. This was because, while she was on the conveyor, she was in some amount of danger with sparks flying close to her.
* When the Fourteenth Doctor falls to earth, she has lost a shoe. However just several shots later it is magically back.
* One deepfake Donald Pleasance over Malcom McDowell was left in and the image is terrifying

## Ascension of the Cybermen

### Featuring

The Master
Samuel Loomis

Lauren Loomis

Taylor Loomis

### Main Setting

Refugee planetCybercarrierPlanet of the Boundary, aftermath of the Cyber-Wars