The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

Among the Scrap Pt. 3

With knowledge that Cybermen came to HV67 and somehow obliterated by someone with some type of weapon that cut them down like nothing, the fact that the same person responsible destroyed evidence of their presence, and now Theodore and Lila worked to resolve another issue, the missing colonists.

Wracking his brain as they're searching for the missing colonists, Theodore couldn't comprehend that Cybermen went far as to allow non-Cybermen to remain without annihilating or converting, didn't make any sense, that he reached out to Al.

Al's miffed about this revelation, that he noted that in Medi's history, there hadn't been a point in time where Cybermen were lenient in that fashion.

At most, they enslaved Medi for their own use against the Daleks, but that was for war reasons, they couldn't risk destroying the needed knowledge Medi carried with him against the Daleks.

For them to spare a colony, it just didn't make sense, and the only explanation that Al came up with's that whoever the Cybermen were after was more important to them than colonists, hell, even the Doctor, and that alone's raising alarms for Al.

Cybermen like to claim they upgraded away their emotions, but there's something wrong when even the coldest of steel is afraid of something, so much, they're willing to overlook potential subjects.

Whoever this was, the Cybermen must've tracked them to the colony, captured the colonists to find them, and they got the drop on the Cybermen.

"I don't know anyone who could cut up Cybermen like this," Al's baffled, to the point that Theodore believed him, and when he relayed this information to Lila, she wondered aloud that they're dealing with the T-1000 or King Arthur! Both!

Al couldn't come up with an answer, saying there's no chance anything from Medi's past could've done this and none of the findings they found indicate it belonged to an encounter from another Doctor.

Unique, strange, disturbing, roped into one answer.

Al doesn't think the missing colonists went with whoever killed the Cybermen, highly doubtful the culprit put forth the effort to kidnap over thirty colonists, but Al isn't ruling out that the culprit killed them.

No one to tell all, no evidence suggesting they're even here, a phantom, here, gone another, wherever they went after leaving, hard to tell, as Al couldn't even find a digital signature from the glider that came in.

No sign-ins, digital documents, whoever this was, knew exactly how to cover their tracks, that Al cautioned Theodore that he and Lila needed to temper their expectations on finding the colonists alive.

Heeding his warnings, the two set off to find the colonists or what remained of them, trying to search through areas that the culprit might've stowed them away in, and they went through the usual suspects.

No secret passageways behind the bathroom mirrors, hidden doors, anything like that, the encampment modular, that everything had a place, and there wasn't room for that sort of configuration, or need.

In the silence, they scoured, retracting their steps from the partial footages that remained on the cameras, showing the colonists lined up, and this continued while Al scoured for anything that the culprit might've left behind without realizing.

"Nada," Lila crossed her arms disappointedly as her end turned up nothing, not even a blood spot, there simply wasn't any sign of the colonists in the section of the encampment they're in, and Theodore didn't find anything in his search, either.

None of the colonists looked hurt in the limited footage they had, but Theodore couldn't rule out that the Cybermen might've destroyed them after the corral and they didn't find who they're looking for, but at the same time, it's getting stranger.