The Doctor sighed and rubbed his eyes in frustration.
“I suppose you’re right, Tsutomu was it? Let’s return to the captain to try and figure it out.”
And so they did. Kirk and his crew did their best in trying to figure out the situations but there were no new leads for them to follow. So they set up the group in the cargo room where they housed the TARDIS. Kirk promised that after they had reached the space station for repairs they’d contact Starfleet at large to try and help them.
Time in space was hard to figure out but it certainly felt like almost a day passed by resting and navigating the Enterprise. Some of the group even found a bowling alley on one of the decks.
The Doctor felt best to not let anyone travel too far into the TARDIS. There were too many winding corridors and passages making it very easy to get lost inside.
Wherever the group was they’d soon hear an alarm blaring through the Enterprise followed by Kirk’s words.
All of our guests…report to the bridge.
The bridge area didn’t seem like much as they entered, some later than others. After all it wasn’t like Kirk had shared where it was after all. As they stepped in the Captain got out of his chair and faced them.
“Thank you all for coming. We seemed to have stumbled into yet another situation.” Kirk motioned them to follow to what seemed to be the only woman on the bridge at the moment.
“Uhura, play that message one more time.”
“Right away, captain.” A few button presses later and a recording started playing. It sounded like a woman on the other end.
“Please any ship in the vicinity! We are being attacked! Please they’ve already broken through our defenses-” A sound of a crash in the background as the woman screams in fear.
“No get back! Get ba-!” The transmission ended there.
“We picked up the transmission not too long ago. The distress signal is very close and we can not let this go with out investigating. I understand we promised all of you to reach the station but-” The Doctor stopped him from continuing.
“I think I speak for everyone here when I say rescuing these people take precedence.”
Kirk nodded.
“We’ll be there in just a moment. Keep it steady.”
As the ship escaped warp they’d stand face to with the planet, and something else.
A massive spaceship.
“Oh no…” The Doctor looked in shock at the screen.
“I know that ship! That’s a Cyber-carrier!”
“Cyber-what?” Kirk asked surprised.
“Cyber-carrier! That’s a ship of the Cybermen! Nasty piece of work, they are natives to my world, which begs the question how they are here?”
“That’s something we are going to have to figure out. Mr. Spock! Status planet side?”
“I detect no humanoid life signs on the planet, captain. That ship however houses a large number of humanoids…but the life signs are dwindling in rapid succession.”
“
Cyberconvertion…” The Doctor murmured.
“They are making more of them. We need to get on that ship this minute. The longer we stay here more lives will be lost!”
“Spock?” Kirk asked the Vulcan again.
“Can we beam instantly unto the ship?”
Spock nodded. “While seemingly technologically advanced they don’t have any protection towards a teleportation beam. Nor does it seem they have detected us just yet.”
“Then we will have the element of surprise on our side. Uhura, inform security to meet us at the transporter room. Spock and our guests willing to help, follow me.”
Stepping inside they’d be met by a man in a red shirt with a Scottish accent.
“Ready to go, Scotty?”
“Aye, captain. Seems like the transporter will have its worked cut out for it!”
Kirk nodded as he walked up to the platform with some red shirts and Spock
. “Beam us over first to this location and everyone else follow us.” And so the group was transported over to this Cyber-carrier.
As everyone had materialized they found themselves in a cargo area of some sort. The ship felt sterile and cold but they didn’t seem to have tripped any alarms just yet. Kirk and his crew had pulled out their phasers.
“Set phasers on their highest setting. If what the Doctor told us then I believe these beings are not to be reasoned with.”
“You’re quite right about that,” The Doctor remarked.
“The only thing the Cybermen care about is cyber-convert any living being into soulless drones just like they are. Do not try to engage. We’re here to recue those that we can and get out of here however…it is weird how they are still orbiting the planet. If they already had everyone they would’ve just left.” Seemed like there was more to this then anyone knew.
